Political oversight is a powerful measure to urge the entire Party to uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.
Since 2025, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, along with discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels, have thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on Party building and on the Party's self-revolution. They have continuously promoted the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision, and encouraged the entire Party to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," firm up the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds," thus forming a favorable situation of concerted efforts to implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee.
Political oversight follows wherever the Party Central Committee's major decisions and plans go.
A thousand sails race across the vast sea, and a new journey begins with the surging tide. On December 18, 2025, the Hainan Free Trade Port officially launched the island-wide customs closure. After the closure, the entire island of Hainan will implement a liberalization and facilitation policy system characterized by "openness at the first line, control at the second line, and freedom within the island".
The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee with a view to comprehensively deepening reform and opening up in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned, deployed, and promoted the project, and issued a series of important instructions and directives.
In 2025, at a crucial juncture in the full-scale implementation of the island-wide customs closure, the Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision launched the "Year of Supervision and Guarantee for Customs Closure Operations" campaign. How were the free trade port policies being implemented by enterprises? Was the construction of customs closure operation projects proceeding smoothly? Disciplinary inspection and supervision organs at all levels in Hainan Province strengthened full-process tracking and online supervision through the "One-Network Supervision" platform. From identifying problems and initiating cases to rectification progress and completion, every step was "exposed" on the platform, enabling the resolution of a series of difficulties and obstacles affecting the construction of the free trade port.
Wherever the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee go, political oversight follows. Over the past year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, along with discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels, have consistently regarded the implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions as their primary political responsibility. They have focused on the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments regarding further comprehensively deepening reforms and successfully concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan, strengthening oversight and inspection to ensure their effective implementation.
Innovation is the primary driving force. Focusing on promoting the integrated development of technological and industrial innovation, the Suzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in Jiangsu Province closely monitors key aspects such as project review, fund utilization, and成果转化 (technology transfer), embedding supervision and following up on key processes.
Ecological and environmental protection is a matter of paramount importance to the nation. The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province has been urging relevant departments to clarify responsibilities, identify problems, and close loopholes by issuing disciplinary and supervisory recommendations and issuing warnings.
Rows of new buildings stand side by side, elderly people sit idly in the community square to bask in the warmth, and the poverty alleviation workshops are busy and orderly... This is Wuan Jincheng in Wuning County, the largest ecological resettlement area in Jiangxi Province.
2025 marks the final year of the transition period between consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation achievements and effectively connecting rural revitalization in my country. The Wuning County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision continues to strengthen political oversight, rigorously investigating and punishing misconduct and corruption that infringe upon the interests of the masses in the field of comprehensive rural revitalization, promoting the improvement of dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanisms to prevent a return to poverty, and contributing to the creation of a picture of strong agriculture, beautiful countryside, and prosperous farmers.
Upholding integrity and pursuing innovation to continuously improve the accuracy and effectiveness of supervision.
Tiegang Village in Jindou Town, Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, was once little known, but has now become a "Shangri-La" that urban dwellers yearn for. This transformation stems from Guangdong Province's ongoing "High-Quality Development Project for Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Towns and Tens of Thousands of Villages."
In November 2025, during his inspection tour of Guangdong, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must improve the institutional mechanisms for coordinated regional development and integrated urban-rural development, and gradually address the shortcoming that the development gap between urban and rural areas is still relatively large. Your 'High-Quality Development Project for 100 Counties, 1,000 Towns and 10,000 Villages' has brought about new changes in the appearance of towns and villages, and we must continue to implement it."
Looking back on the past year, the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has thoroughly studied and implemented the Party Central Committee's decisions and plans on coordinated urban and rural development, and strengthened political oversight based on its functions and responsibilities. Faced with the large number of projects and substantial funding involved in the "High-Quality Development Project of 100 Counties, 1000 Towns, and 10,000 Villages," the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued key work guidelines, clarifying 22 key areas of supervision in six aspects, including industrial development and rural living environment improvement. Various localities further refined their lists and focused their efforts precisely on specific areas—the Boluo County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in Huizhou City promoted the improvement of the environment along the Huan Nan Kun Shan-Luofu Mountain route, and the Gaozhou City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision helped solve the difficulties in preserving and processing lychees… Under the protection of supervision, the rural landscape has quietly been renewed.
Political oversight must not only focus on key areas but also employ appropriate methods. Since 2025, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, along with discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels, have deeply grasped the worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, effectively utilizing the stances, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, upholding principles while innovating, actively exploring new avenues, and continuously improving the accuracy and effectiveness of oversight.
That year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission assisted the Party Central Committee in formulating measures for discipline inspection and supervision organs to carry out political supervision. Discipline inspection and supervision commissions in Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Henan, and other places issued work guidelines based on their local conditions.
In response to the implementation of major cross-regional and cross-departmental strategies, discipline inspection and supervision organs have focused on improving the collaborative supervision mechanism. Focusing on the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, in May 2025, the discipline inspection and supervision organs of four cities and four districts in southern Sichuan and western Chongqing jointly released a list of key collaborative development matters, clarifying 11 key tasks in three aspects: joint supervision and promotion of the implementation of major strategies, joint training and development of the workforce, and joint investigation and governance of centralized rectification.
Case handling is the most powerful form of supervision. The discipline inspection and supervision organs of Fuyang City, Anhui Province, bear in mind the paramount importance of food security, adhering to a political perspective and investigating from a political standpoint. They strictly enforce political discipline and rules, rigorously investigating violations such as cadres improperly interfering in relevant projects and misappropriating project funds. Furthermore, they insist on using cases to promote governance, urging relevant departments to formulate practical documents for the construction of high-standard farmland, thus helping to ensure the effective construction, management, and utilization of high-standard farmland.
With sustained effort, we must integrate political oversight into daily operations and make it a regular practice.
"The rectification work has been quite solid, but we need to make further efforts to consolidate the results and draw inferences from one instance." In the summer of 2025, the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision dispatched an inspection team to supervise and inspect the work related to optimizing the business environment in Yangquan City, and at the same time, to conduct a "look back" on the rectification of the problems reported by the inspection team in 2024.
Since 2023, the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has organized political oversight of the optimization of the business environment for three consecutive years. In 2025, the oversight will focus more on extending from individual case investigations to the rectification of similar cases, while also extending its reach to the grassroots level, focusing on the urgent needs and concerns of micro and small enterprises and individual businesses, so as to safeguard the iterative upgrading of the business environment through continuous and in-depth oversight.
The key to effective supervision lies in sustained effort to achieve long-term, routine, and effective results. Over the past year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, along with discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels, have consistently integrated supervision into the formulation and implementation of major development strategies, important policies and measures, and key projects and tasks, and have regularly conducted "look-back" reviews of implementation to ensure comprehensive, precise, and high-quality implementation.
Inspections are a strategic institutional arrangement for intra-party supervision, a sharp sword for governing the Party and a powerful tool for governing the country. In 2025, in accordance with the arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Leading Group for Inspection Work organized two rounds of inspections, achieving high-quality full coverage of inspections of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, and simultaneously upgrading the level of inspections of Kunming City and conducting joint inspections of 15 sub-provincial cities.
In that year, the Party committees of 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps inspected a total of 2,663 Party organizations; 186 central government agencies conducted internal inspections of 31,000 Party organizations; and cities and counties across the country conducted inspections of 111,000 village Party organizations.
Inspections should not only identify problems but also promote their resolution. This year, efforts were made to explore and conduct assessments of inspection rectification, and to carry out "look-back" reviews of the rectification progress of centrally administered enterprises; the mechanism for reporting inspection findings was improved, and accountability for rectification was strengthened… "We have continuously improved mechanisms, solidified responsibilities, promoted collaborative efforts among relevant entities, strengthened inspection rectification and the application of results, and the effectiveness of promoting reform and governance through inspections has been continuously enhanced," said a relevant official from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
2026 marks the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Disciplinary inspection and supervision organs at all levels will firmly grasp their political role, fulfill their duties and responsibilities, and use high-quality political oversight to ensure that the entire Party thinks and works in unison, guaranteeing that Chinese-style modernization always moves in the right direction.
