Ensure that the power granted by the people is always used for the benefit of the people

-- Learning from General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on strengthening the supervision of "top leaders" and leading groups
2023-12-10 Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Magazine, No. 23, 2023 Author: Guo Miaolan

"the key point is to do a good job in the 'key minority', to manage party members and leading cadres, especially senior cadres and 'top leaders', and to manage the party without special party members and leaving any dead corners and gaps." At the second plenary session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held at the beginning of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again clearly emphasized the need to strengthen the supervision of "top leaders. This is a consistent determination and clear attitude. Since entering the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has emphasized ensuring that power is running on the right track in the process of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, and has strengthened the supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team in an all-round way, and promoted and urged "" The key minority "strictly follows the statutory authority and procedures, and uses power impartially, according to law, cleanly, and for the people.

"The more important the responsibility and the more important the position, the more we must strengthen supervision"
The "top leader" and the leadership team have special positions, important positions, and concentrated power. Strong supervision must be used to urge them to be in place and not to be in power, and to not seek personal gains.
"All comrades in the party must always bear in mind that our power is given by the party and the people and is used to do things for the party and the people". Through regular ideological education and party spirit training, the Party Central Committee has enabled leading cadres to correctly understand the sources and attributes of power. Shortly after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at the Second Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held in January 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a very profound statement, "Strengthening the restriction and supervision of the operation of power will affect The comfort of leading cadres. The problem is that the power in the hands of leading cadres is given by the party and the people. Leading cadres must of course accept the supervision of the party and the people when they use their power, whether they use it correctly or not, and whether they use it well. Those who do not want to accept supervision, those who cannot consciously accept supervision, and those who feel uncomfortable accepting the supervision of the party and the people do not have the minimum qualities to be a leading cadre." This incisive exposition fundamentally clarifies where the power comes from and where it is used, and why the power of leading cadres must be strictly supervised. The fundamental purpose of our party is to serve the people wholeheartedly, and the power in the hands of leading cadres at all levels is part of the party's ruling power. "Public power for the people, not a shred of private use". The power conferred by the party and the people is controlled by the upper and lower levels, and must not be done at will. It must always be used for the happiness of the people, and it is only natural that it should be subject to the supervision of the people.
"Absolute power leads to absolute corruption." Leading cadres should have a clear understanding of the relationship between power and corruption. Marx and Engels said: All public officials must "work under public supervision", so as to "reliably prevent people from pursuing promotion and wealth" and "pursuing their own special interests". Judging from the large number of corruption cases investigated and dealt with, power, regardless of size, may be abused as long as it is not restricted and supervised. "Top leaders" and team members are in high positions. Once they violate discipline and law, they are most likely to produce catalytic and chain reactions, and even cause regional, systematic, and collapse corruption. Therefore, to prevent corruption from the source, we must strengthen the restriction and supervision of the operation of power. General Secretary Xi Jinping urged: "only by controlling the 'key minority', especially senior cadres and major leading cadres at all levels, can we have deterrent and persuasive power to administer the party strictly in an all-round way". Since the new era, the Party Central Committee has taken a multi-pronged approach and taken multiple measures at the same time, focusing on the "key minority", focusing on urging leading cadres at all levels, especially the "top leaders" and the leadership team, to consciously accept supervision and take the lead in carrying out supervision, so as to achieve the goal and the end. From the effect, drive and promote the entire supervision system to operate more tightly and effectively.
The purpose of controlling power is to use it well, not to tie hands and feet. More prominent supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team is an effective starting point for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. "The'top leader' is the leading goose in the development of the party's cause" and the first responsible person for implementing the party Central Committee's major policies. "It is the fundamental responsibility of the'top leader' to set the direction, grasp the major issues, and seek the overall situation". Whether the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee can be effectively implemented depends on whether the understanding of the "top leader" is in place, whether the work is in place, and whether the responsibilities are in place. Therefore, strengthening the supervision of the "top leaders" is all-round supervision. It is necessary to urge them to speak politics with a clear-cut stand, take the lead in achieving the "two safeguards", take the lead in implementing the various systems of internal party supervision, and be responsible for fulfilling the responsibility of governing the party and strict self-discipline. To set a benchmark and set an example, we must not only consciously accept supervision, but also dare to act.
To strengthen supervision is to ensure that power is always on the right track. The so-called on the right track, in short, the "top leaders" and the leadership team should strengthen the rule of law thinking, act strictly within the scope of the constitution and law, exercise power in strict accordance with legal authority and procedures, and never allow any organization or individual to exceed the law. privilege. This requires leading cadres to take the lead in handling affairs in accordance with the law, take the lead in abiding by the law, maintain awe of the Constitution and the law, firmly establish the concept that the red line of the law cannot be touched and the bottom line of the law cannot be crossed, and do not exercise the power that should not be exercised by themselves in accordance with the law. Do not interfere with things that cannot be interfered with in accordance with the law, let alone substitute words, oppress the law, do not be disturbed by selfishness before the law, not trapped by human feelings, not tired by relationships, not confused by interests. "If you don't understand this rule, you are not a qualified leading cadre."

"Make all kinds of supervision more standardized, more powerful and more effective"
On January 18, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that it is necessary to improve the power supervision system and the discipline enforcement system to make various supervision more standardized, more powerful, and more effective. Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should fulfill the main responsibility of inner-party supervision and strengthen the supervision of "key minority", especially "top leaders" and leading groups. This is a new and higher requirement and a valuable summary of experience. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has strengthened top-down organizational supervision, played the role of mutual supervision at the same level and the role of discipline inspection and supervision agencies in supervising the special organs, strengthened the daily management and supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team, and effectively supervised Work together to build an all-round supervision pattern, ensure that the responsibility chain is extended step by step and compacted layer by layer, so that supervision can be powerful, it provides a strong guarantee for upholding and strengthening the party's overall leadership and deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the party.
"The supervision of the superior over the subordinate, especially the superior leader, is the most effective and effective." This requires that the party organizations at higher levels and the "top leaders" at higher levels must implement the main responsibility, deepen the "probe" of supervision to the next level, ensure that the subordinates always use power cautiously, and prevent power from being out of control, decision-making mistakes, and behavior anomie. In practice, the party constitution stipulates in the form of the party's fundamental law that "lower-level organizations obey higher-level organizations" and "lower-level organizations of the party must resolutely implement the decisions of higher-level organizations", which not only grants higher-level party organizations the authority to lead and manage, but also gives them the authority to supervise., Make its supervision of lower-level party organizations stronger and more effective than the supervision of the same level and lower-level supervision. The "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China" emphasizes that higher-level party organizations, especially their main leaders, should ask and remind the main leaders of lower-level party organizations more frequently, and correct problems in time. The "provisions on the implementation of the principal responsibility of the Party Committee (Party Group) to comprehensively and strictly administer the Party" stipulates that the secretary of the party committee (party group) shall strengthen the daily supervision of other members of the leading group and the secretary of the party committee (party group) at the next level as an important part of the implementation of the principal responsibility. The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Supervision of" Top Leaders "and Leading Groups" clearly requires that the "top leaders" at higher levels must pay attention to the "top leaders" at lower levels, and emphasizes that party committees (party groups), discipline inspection agencies, and organizational departments must strengthen the "top leaders" of lower-level party committees (party groups). "Daily supervision. By firmly grasping the important grasp of top-down supervision, a supervision work pattern of grasping level by level, managing level by level, and implementing level by level has been formed, and a solid dam has been built.
Members of the same level team have a natural advantage in supervising the "top leaders. Members of the leading group at the same level participate in collective decision-making, and have the clearest and best understanding of the "top leaders" in strictly implementing the responsibility system of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, implementing democratic centralism, and acting in strict accordance with rules and procedures. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that when we work together and find problems, we can often get twice the result with half the effort. With regard to how to solve the problem of supervision at the same level, General Secretary Xi Jinping not only stressed the significance, but also taught the method, pointing out that it is necessary to conscientiously implement democratic centralism, improve the discussion system of the leading bodies, and give full play to the role of educational management and supervision in organizational life. the key to solving the problem of supervision at the same level lies in the standing Committee. The members of the team have the most daily contact and understand the situation best. They must make good use of criticism and self-criticism weapons to enhance the consciousness of active supervision and mutual supervision; the discipline inspection committee at the same level should regularly implement the main responsibility of the members of the leadership team at the same level, especially the "top leaders". The implementation of democratic centralism, integrity and self-discipline is reported to the higher-level discipline inspection commission, which is conducive to the formation of an effective mechanism and supervision force for discovering problems and correcting deviations. The formulation of a number of party rules and regulations has also provided support for solving the problem of peer supervision. The "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China" emphasizes that members of the leadership team should promptly raise problems with the main person in charge of the team, and if necessary, they can directly report to the higher party organization. The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Supervision of the" Top Leaders "and the Leading Group" requires strengthening the mutual supervision of the members of the leading group, giving full play to the advantages of close and normalized supervision of the leading group, reminding and urging each other, and strengthening and standardizing the political life of the party. The task has been implemented to enhance the combat effectiveness of the leadership team. Supervision at the same level is not only conducive to grasping the situation, but also forms a powerful reminder and deterrent, which is conducive to helping each other to correct mistakes, and truly embodies the responsibility to oneself, to comrades, to the team, and to the party.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection is a special organ for supervision within the party and an important force for comprehensive and strict governance of the party. It must perform its duties of assistance and supervision. General Secretary Xi Jinping's request is very clear. The Commission for Discipline Inspection must strengthen the daily supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team, and correct the political deviations in the implementation of the Party Central Committee's policies and work arrangements; "The higher-level disciplinary committee must include the lower-level leaders in the focus of supervision and find clues to problems. Deal with it in time"; the discipline inspection commission at the same level regularly reports to the discipline inspection commission at the higher level on the implementation of the main responsibility, the implementation of democratic centralism, and the integrity and self-discipline of the members of the leading group at the same level, especially the "top leaders. The Commission for Discipline Inspection faithfully performs its duties and responsibilities, so that the "top leaders" always feel that the use of power is under supervision, which is conducive to urging the "top leaders" and leading groups at all levels to fulfill their responsibilities of managing the party and governing the party, strictly abide by the hard leverage of performing their duties according to law, honest and honest administration, and moral integrity, implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and set up the rules for the operation of power.
To play a variety of supervisory roles. The eyes of the masses are discerning, and the broad masses of party members, cadres and masses in their own departments and units in this region know best the style of their "top leaders" through their daily work, and have the most say. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "party organizations at all levels should set up more supervisory" probes "to put the top leaders under the supervision of party organizations, party members, and the masses". For example, party members and cadres can supervise the "top leaders" at party meetings, cadre promotion, and leading cadres reporting on their work and honesty. While highlighting internal party supervision, the Party Central Committee has comprehensively played various supervisory roles such as people's congress supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, audit supervision, accounting supervision, statistical supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision. Such as deepening audit supervision and other types of supervision through coordination, in the audit rectification to play a good "combination of fist", "to supervise the audit rectification as an important grasp of daily supervision", do not give power derailment, deviant to leave loopholes. Practice has fully proved that taking inner-party supervision as the leading factor and promoting the organic connection and mutual coordination of all kinds of supervision will help to promote supervision in the same direction, form a joint force, and greatly enhance the quality and effectiveness of supervision.

"We must tie the cage of the system tighter and tighter"
"The power of the top leaders is concentrated and subject to very little supervision, and compliance is basically self-conscious, so that no mistakes and no problems can be made?" General Secretary Xi Jinping asked a profound question and gave a solution, "We must use a rigid system to control the top leaders and ensure that they use their power correctly and cleanly". The core of improving the supervision system of the party and the state is to strengthen the restriction and supervision of power. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has focused on both the symptoms and the root causes, placed the establishment of rules and regulations in a more prominent position, further refined and improved relevant systems and regulations, and solidified effective experience and practices into laws and regulations. Continuously promote the strict supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team.
Strengthen the whole chain supervision and all-round management. Regarding the supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized comprehensive coverage on the one hand, and proposed to keep an eye on all aspects of the operation of public power, "improve the prevention mechanism for timely detection of problems and the correction mechanism for accurately correcting deviations", and control the "top leaders". On the other hand, it also attaches great importance to effective coverage, stating that it is necessary to strengthen the pertinence of the education of the "top leaders", the regular management, we should urge "top leaders" at all levels to take the lead in abiding by the party constitution, party rules and constitutional laws, conscientiously implement democratic centralism, and constantly enhance the cultivation of party spirit. "Improve the system of post avoidance, regular rotation, outgoing audit, etc., make good use of criticism and self-criticism weapons", clarify the list of supervision-related systems, help to solidify effective supervision measures, and release the signal that real management is really strict and long-term management is strict.
Adherence to democratic centralism is the core of strengthening inner-party supervision. "To implement democratic centralism, it is crucial for the top leaders to set an example." General Secretary Xi Jinping urged three tasks to be done well: First, under the above rate, it is necessary to improve and earnestly implement various specific systems of democratic centralism, and urge leading cadres at all levels, especially major leading cadres, to take the lead in implementing democratic centralism; second, Use the sharp weapons of criticism and self-criticism, and fully mobilize the supervision of superiors to subordinates, peers, and subordinates to superiors, enhance the effectiveness of supervision; the third is to clarify responsibilities, and to hold accountable teams and individuals who fail to implement democratic centralism and have major deviations and mistakes. Adhere to, improve, and implement democratic centralism, organically combine centralism on the basis of democracy with democracy under centralized guidance, and fully mobilize the supervision of superiors to subordinates, peers, and subordinates to superiors, which can enhance active supervision and mutual The consciousness of supervision creates a strong atmosphere of criticism and self-criticism to ensure that power is strictly restricted.
Tie the cage of the system tighter and tighter. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has promptly summarized the effective experience of the supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team, strengthened the top-level design of the "top leaders" and the leadership team to supervise and restrict power from the overall and strategic perspective, and clarified the reform direction and specific requirements. The continuous improvement of the supervision system has effectively ensured that power runs on the right track. The CPC Central Committee has successively formulated and implemented a series of laws and regulations, such as "some guidelines on Inner-Party political Life under the New situation", "regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China", "regulations on the implementation of the main responsibility of the Party Committee (Party Group) to comprehensively and strictly administer the Party", and "opinions on strengthening the Supervision of the" top leaders "and the leading bodies, the" four beams and eight pillars "of the party and state supervision system focusing on the supervision of" top leaders "have been gradually established and continuously improved. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China included "enhancing the effectiveness of supervision over the'top leaders' and the leadership" as an important content of improving the party's self-revolutionary system and system. These important measures further refine and concretize the relevant provisions of the party constitution and party regulations, and upgrade the effective practices in practice to institutional norms, which is conducive to urging the "top leaders" and leading groups at all levels to always follow Comrade Xi Jinping in ideological and political actions. The core Party Central Committee maintains a high degree of unity, unites and leads the broad masses of cadres and the masses to fight tenaciously, and provides a strong guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.