Study the Important Thought of General Secretary of Supreme Leader on Serious Political Life within the Party

　　Serious inner-party political life is a major issue of comprehensively administering the party strictly. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put forward a series of original and important expositions, which provided theoretical guidance and action guide for serious inner-party political life under the new situation.　　

　　Highlight the great significance of serious inner-party political life

　　Serious inner-party political life is the essential requirement of Marxist political parties and the fine tradition of our party. In September 2013, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out when attending the special democratic life meeting of the Standing Committee of Hebei Provincial Party Committee that serious political life within the party is an important magic weapon to ensure the creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness of the party and the unity and unity of the party, and it is also a fine tradition that our party has long adhered to. On October 8, 2014, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his speech at the summary meeting of the Party’s mass line education practice activities that serious political life within the Party requires many efforts, of which the most important point is "to make the whole party deeply understand the essential characteristics of Marxist political parties different from other political parties". The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a Marxist political party and a political group organized on the basis of common ideals and programs. It has a strict organizational system and a high degree of organizational discipline. This essential attribute of Marxist political party determines that it must be serious about the political life within the party in order to maintain its combat effectiveness and cohesion. Our party has always attached great importance to strict inner-party life, made unremitting explorations in different historical periods of revolution, construction and reform, and formed a series of effective practices, which is an important reason why our party can overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles from small to large and from weak to strong, and from victory to victory.

　　Serious inner-party political life is the basic project of strictly administering the party in an all-round way and a powerful guarantee for winning the great struggle. On July 1, 2016, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized in his speech at the celebration of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC): "Serious inner-party political life is the foundation for the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party. To manage the party, the party must first manage the political life within the party; To strictly manage the party, we must first start from the political life within the party. " The reason why serious inner-party political life has been raised to the height of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way is because the abnormal and serious inner-party political life has brought serious harm for a period of time, and it is also because serious inner-party political life is a melting pot to exercise party spirit and improve ideological education, a key to solving contradictions within the Party and an important magic weapon to strengthen the unity and unity of the Party. At present, our party is uniting and leading the people of the whole country in a great struggle with many new historical characteristics. The tasks it faces are extremely arduous and the challenges are very severe. Through serious inner-party political life, it will provide a strong political guarantee for strengthening the Party’s self-purification, self-perfection, self-innovation and self-improvement and ensuring that the Party will always be the strong leading core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause.　　

　　Systematically discuss the inner direction of serious inner-party political life.

　　Clearly put forward the basic norms of political life within the party. On June 28th, 2016, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader systematically expounded the basic norms of inner-party political life for the first time when he presided over the thirty-third collective study in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. This is that our party has gradually formed the basic norms of inner-party political life with the main contents of seeking truth from facts, integrating theory with practice, keeping close contact with the masses, criticizing and self-criticizing, democratic centralism and strict party discipline in long-term practice. It contains the party’s ideological line, three major styles of work, fundamental organizational system, leadership system and discipline requirements, which provide guidance for further clarifying the specific institutional norms of the party’s political life.

　　Strengthen the political life within the party, the political times and the principle of fighting. Since September 2013, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly stressed on different occasions that it is necessary to "enhance the political, principled and combative nature of inner-party life" in order to solve problems and achieve practical results. To strengthen the political requirements, we must overcome the vulgarization tendency, adhere to party constitution’s party rules and the party’s political line, and grasp the correct political direction; To strengthen the principle requirements, we must overcome the tendency of randomness, establish the bottom line thinking and strengthen the awareness of discipline and rules; In order to enhance the combativeness, we must overcome the tendency of dullness, dare to expose shortcomings and expose ugliness, move the truth and encounter difficulties, and dare to confront each other. Strengthening the times of inner-party political life was put forward by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader in his "July 1st" speech this year. On the basis of persistence and strengthening, the focus is to keep up with the pace of the times, keep close to the reality of party member, stick to outstanding issues, innovate the content and form of inner-party political life, and enhance its attraction, appeal and effectiveness.

　　The organic combination of serious inner-party political life and purifying inner-party political ecology. Purifying the inner-party political ecology is a new major proposition put forward by the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader since the 18th National Congress. The general secretary stressed that strengthening party building must create a good political environment, that is, a good political ecology. On June 28th, 2016, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee took "Seriously inner-party political life and purifying inner-party political ecology" as the theme of the 33rd collective study. In the "July 1st" speech, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put serious inner-party political life and comprehensive purification of inner-party political ecology together. The reason why they are linked together is that they interact and are inseparable. On the one hand, political life creates political ecology, and what kind of inner-party political life there is, good inner-party political ecology comes from serious inner-party political life; On the other hand, political ecology affects political life, and a good inner-party political ecology will also provide rich nourishment for the development of inner-party political life. It is an integrated innovation in the theory and practice of party building to bring serious inner-party political life and purify inner-party political ecology into the strategy of strictly administering the party in an all-round way.　　

　　Profoundly expound the key ideas of serious inner-party political life

　　Conscientiously implement democratic centralism. In June 2013, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his speech at the National Organizational Work Conference: "The most fundamental thing for serious inner-party life is to conscientiously implement the party’s democratic centralism." There are several points worth noting here: First, insufficient promotion of democracy and insufficient correct concentration exist at the same time, but relatively speaking, the former is more prominent. In the words of the General Secretary, it is "mainly because democracy is not enough, and the phenomenon of leading cadres going their own way and acting arbitrarily is more common". Therefore, it is particularly important to strengthen inner-party democracy and inner-party supervision, especially the supervision of the top leaders. The second is to strengthen the reporting system. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly emphasized the strengthening of the system of asking for instructions and reporting, because this is a major institutional advantage of the Communist Party of China (CPC), an effective working mechanism for implementing democratic centralism, and an important aspect of political life and organizational discipline within the Party. The third is to form a "six haves" political situation. In 1957, Comrade Mao Zedong put forward "a political situation with centralization and democracy, discipline and freedom, unity of will and personal ease and liveliness", which is the ideal state of earnestly implementing democratic centralism and still the pursuit goal of serious inner-party political life and purifying inner-party political ecology today.

　　Use the sharp weapon of criticism and self-criticism. Criticism and self-criticism are important contents of inner-party political life, and they are also powerful weapons for serious inner-party political life. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed the need to make full use of criticism and self-criticism, which is a sharp weapon to "solve contradictions within the party and remove all kinds of political dust and political microorganisms within the party". He pointed out that "some localities and departments have lost their tolerance and loose management of the party, and one of the important reasons is that there is not enough criticism and self-criticism in party life". To solve this problem, on the one hand, we should persistently strengthen party spirit education, and solve some party member cadres who are disturbed by selfishness, trapped by human feelings, tired by relationships and confused by interests. On the other hand, we should vigorously carry forward the ideological line of seeking truth from facts. "A thousand people’s Nuo Nuo is not as good as a scholar’s criticism", and we should persist in "not catching braids, not wearing hats, not hitting sticks and not bagging"

　　Strictly implement the system of organizational life within the party. Strict organizational life of the Party is the basic content and important guarantee for serious political life within the Party. It is necessary to promote the institutionalization, regularization and standardization of the organizational life of the Party, and earnestly implement the systems of "three meetings and one lesson", democratic life meeting and dual organizational life of leading cadres. On the one hand, adhere to the correct ideological struggle within the party. Classical Marxist writers and Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and other revolutionaries of the older generation attach great importance to strengthening ideological struggle within the Party, which is an important ideological guarantee for Marxist political parties to maintain the advanced nature and purity of the Party. Today, when the social values are diverse and complex and the ideological field is facing fierce struggle, it is particularly urgent to carry out correct ideological struggle, dare to show swords, stir up turmoil and unify thoughts within the party. On the other hand, we must reaffirm unity — Criticism — The formula of unity. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the party’s work conference on mass line education and practice activities that to hold a good democratic life meeting, party organizations at all levels should educate party member cadres to adhere to "unity — Criticism — Unity "formula. This formula is our party’s basic policy to solve inner-party contradictions formed in the rectification movement, that is, from the desire of unity, through active inner-party ideological struggle and criticism and self-criticism, to achieve stronger unity on a new basis. To implement the system of organizational life within the party, we should reaffirm and adhere to this formula and strengthen the unity and unity of the party on the basis of correct ideological struggle within the party.