General Guidelines for Party Building for a New Era

As socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era, the CPC needs to build a new image and adopt a new approach. The report to the 19th CPC National Congress laid out general guidelines for Party building for a new era, calling for:

? upholding and strengthening the Party’s leadership role, and ensuring effective governance within the Party and effective enforcement of Party discipline;

? strengthening the Party’s long-term governance capacity, and preserving its forward-looking vision and its purity;

? raising political awareness, and reaffirming the Party’s ideals, convictions, and purpose;

? tapping into the enthusiasm and innovative potential among the Party’s rank and file;

? pursuing an integrated approach to raising political awareness, strengthening the Party’s theoretical basis, improving its organizational structures, promoting ethical standards, enforcing discipline, and enhancing institution building; and

? combating corruption as part of the effort to improve Party building, so as to build a Marxist governing party with a vibrant organizational culture, a party that is always ready to answer the call of the times, enjoys the support of the people, has the courage to reform itself, and is able to withstand all tests.

新時代黨的建設總要求

中國特色社會主義進入新時代，中國共產(chǎn)黨一定要有新氣象新作為。中國共產(chǎn)黨團結帶領人民進行偉大斗爭、推進偉大事業(yè)、實現(xiàn)偉大夢想，必須毫不動搖堅持和完善黨的領導，毫不動搖把黨建設得更加堅強有力。中共十九大報告提出新時代黨的建設總要求，即，堅持和加強黨的全面領導，堅持黨要管黨、全面從嚴治黨，以加強黨的長期執(zhí)政能力建設、先進性和純潔性建設為主線，以黨的政治建設為統(tǒng)領，以堅定理想信念宗旨為根基，以調動全黨積極性、主動性、創(chuàng)造性為著力點，全面推進黨的政治建設、思想建設、組織建設、作風建設、紀律建設，把制度建設貫穿其中，深入推進反腐敗斗爭，不斷提高黨的建設質量，把黨建設成為始終走在時代前列、人民衷心擁護、勇于自我革命、經(jīng)得起各種風浪考驗、朝氣蓬勃的馬克思主義執(zhí)政黨。這個總要求明確了新時代黨的建設的根本原則、指導方針、鮮明主線、基本途徑、總體布局、戰(zhàn)略任務、根本目標，提出了黨的建設的一系列新思想新論斷新舉措，開辟了馬克思主義黨建理論的新境界，是堅定不移推進全面從嚴治黨的行動綱領和基本遵循。