Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 7th Title: Adhere to self-revolution and win the initiative in history - Study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Xinhua News Agency Commentator

"Corruption is the biggest threat faced by our party, and anti-corruption is the most thorough self-revolution." General Secretary Xi Jinping recently delivered an important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. The speech fully affirmed the new progress and new achievements of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the past year, deeply grasped the basic laws of the anti-corruption struggle with a lofty historical perspective, deeply analyzed the current situation of the anti-corruption struggle, put forward clear requirements for resolutely fighting the tough battle, protracted war, and overall war of the anti-corruption struggle, and made strategic arrangements for deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, providing important guidelines for us to deepen the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the anti-corruption struggle.

Governing the country must first govern the party, and only by prospering the party can the country be strong. 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan". In the past year, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has insisted on leading the social revolution with the Party’s self-revolution, and has consistently promoted comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, and has made new progress and results. The whole Party has a clearer understanding of the major issue of self-revolution and has a firmer action; carried out party discipline learning and education in a solid manner, and the awareness of comrades in the Party has been significantly enhanced; the Party has continuously increased its anti-corruption efforts and eradicated the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption; carried out in-depth concentrated rectification of unhealthy practices and corruption problems around the masses, and solved a large number of prominent problems that the masses strongly reflected; deepened the governance of the Party in systems and in accordance with regulations, and further improved the Party's ability to lead the anti-corruption struggle and promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.

He who conquers others is powerful, and he who conquers himself is powerful. "Only we have the courage to revolutionize ourselves can we win the historical initiative." Since the new era, facing the prominent problems of the party's style and clean government construction and the fight against corruption, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has promoted comprehensive and strict governance of the party with the strategic determination of "twisting one sword for ten years", and promoted the unprecedented anti-corruption struggle with the mission of "offending thousands of people and living up to 1.4 billion". The intensity is unprecedented and the results are obvious to all. Our Party insists on fighting corruption and eliminating corruption. We dare not, cannot, and do not want to corruption. We will advance the integration of "fighting tigers", "swatting flies" and "hunting foxes" in a multi-pronged manner. We have continuously purified the cadre team, maintained the image of the Party, consolidated the red country, won the historical initiative to ensure that the Party does not deteriorate, change color, and does not change its flavor, and won the historical initiative to unite and lead all the people to work together for the great cause of national rejuvenation.

The mountain has a ridge, but the house is firmly dominated by the beam. The reason why comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the new era has achieved historic and pioneering achievements and has produced all-round and deep-seated influence lies in the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led the whole party to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party with unprecedented determination and strength, and creatively put forward a series of original and iconic new concepts, new ideas and new strategies such as the "Nine Issues", forming General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on Party building and the important thoughts on the Party's self-revolution, and leading the whole party to find the "second answer" to break out of the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall, and guiding the century-old party to open up a new realm of self-revolution.

Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is always on the road, and the Party’s self-revolution is always on the road. On the road ahead, the "four major tests" and "four dangers" faced by the Party will exist for a long time. We must always maintain the soberness and determination of "taking the exam", always maintain the tenacity and persistence of anti-corruption forever, maintain strategic determination and high-pressure situation, and never stop at one step and never give in. We must promote the integrated process of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and unswervingly advance the anti-corruption struggle in depth. Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, strengthen our confidence, dare to fight, insist on governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, resolutely fight this tough battle, protracted war, and overall war, and provide strong guarantees for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization.