Original title: Xi Jinping delivers important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, emphasizing
Advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with higher standards and more concrete measures
To provide strong support for achieving the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period
Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang attended the meeting, which was chaired by Li Xi.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 12 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on the morning of January 12. He emphasized the need to uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with higher standards and more concrete measures, more resolutely and forcefully implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, more scientifically and effectively confine power within the cage of regulations, and more clearly and firmly advance the anti-corruption struggle, so as to provide a strong guarantee for achieving the goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Ding Xuexiang, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting. Li Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over the meeting.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in 2025, the CPC Central Committee made significant progress in deepening the building of Party conduct and integrity and the fight against corruption. Political oversight was strengthened, political inspections were deepened, and the implementation of the CPC Central Committee's major decisions and plans was effectively guaranteed; the study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the CPC Central Committee was carried out in a solid manner, promoting further improvement in the Party's work style and the establishment of a new style throughout the Party; a high-pressure stance against corruption was maintained, and the investigation and treatment of both misconduct and corruption were promoted simultaneously, deepening the rectification of misconduct and corruption problems affecting the people, and striving to eradicate the soil and conditions for corruption to breed.
Xi Jinping emphasized that implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee is a fundamental requirement for upholding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, and also an important historical experience for the continuous development and progress of the Party and the people's cause. The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a crucial period for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of Party members and cadres must enhance their sense of political responsibility and historical mission, and take concrete actions to implement the various decisions and deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. We must closely focus on implementing the new development philosophy, promoting high-quality development, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, focusing on tasks such as building a modern industrial system, developing new productive forces according to local conditions, building a unified national market, expanding high-level opening up, solidly promoting common prosperity for all the people, preventing the return to poverty on a normalized basis, resolving local government hidden debt, strengthening ecological and environmental protection, and coordinating development and security. We must strengthen specific, precise, and normalized supervision and inspection, make good use of the results of inspections, strengthen supervision of rectification, and ensure that the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are implemented effectively. All regions and departments should, in light of their actual conditions, earnestly explore effective methods and approaches for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. This year, local governments will begin their leadership reshuffles; we must promote truly loyal, reliable, consistent, and responsible good cadres.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the Party's self-revolution hinges on governing power, and putting power in a cage of regulations is a crucial task for comprehensively strengthening Party discipline in the new era. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee initiated the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation, establishing ironclad rules and strong constraints, thus promoting a significant improvement in Party conduct and government style. Putting power in a cage of regulations requires both continuously improving regulations to ensure they are comprehensive yet not cumbersome and effective, and focusing on enhancing their enforcement and strengthening their binding force. It is essential to uphold the principle that everyone is equal before laws and regulations, that there are no privileges in abiding by laws and regulations, and that there are no exceptions in enforcing laws and regulations, ensuring that regulations truly become a high-voltage line. Top leaders must take the lead in implementing the regulations. It is necessary to strengthen the publicity and education of laws and regulations, guiding Party members and cadres to understand laws and regulations, be clear about rules, and have a sense of awe. It is also necessary to further improve the transparency of Party and government affairs, allowing power to operate in the sunlight.
Xi Jinping emphasized that corruption is a stumbling block and obstacle to the development of the Party and the country, and the fight against corruption is a major struggle that we cannot afford to lose and must not lose. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has successfully forged a path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, that addresses both the symptoms and root causes of corruption in an integrated manner, making it impossible, undesirable, and unthinkable to be corrupt. We must resolutely continue on this path. Currently, the situation in the fight against corruption remains severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the breeding ground and conditions for corruption remains arduous and heavy. We must maintain a high-pressure stance without wavering, resolutely punishing corruption wherever it exists, eliminating all forms of graft, and leaving no place for corrupt elements to hide. We must grasp the new trends and characteristics of corruption, innovate methods and approaches, improve the mechanism for implementing anti-corruption responsibilities, promptly discover, accurately identify, and effectively govern all types of corruption problems, and continuously improve the penetrating power of anti-corruption efforts. We must make greater efforts in integrated advancement, strengthen the systemic concept, enhance coordination and cooperation, connect supervision from all aspects, and promote integrated governance through full-chain collaboration.
Xi Jinping pointed out that discipline inspection and supervision organs bear a heavy responsibility and a glorious mission in advancing the Party's self-revolution and comprehensively strengthening Party discipline. They must firmly safeguard the Party's unity and solidarity, and resolutely defend the Party's advanced nature and purity. They must continuously strengthen the standardization, legalization, and regularization of discipline inspection and supervision work, and constantly improve the quality and efficiency of supervision, discipline enforcement, and law enforcement. They must strive to forge a loyal, clean, responsible, and courageous discipline inspection and supervision force, adhering to the requirements of being politically sound, capable, having a strong work ethic, and being incorruptible.
Li Xi, while presiding over the meeting, pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech fully affirmed the remarkable achievements made in comprehensively strengthening Party discipline over the past year. Focusing on the crucial period of basically realizing socialist modernization, the speech made strategic deployments for advancing comprehensive and strict Party governance with higher standards and more concrete measures, providing a strong guarantee for achieving the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The speech was insightful, far-sighted, profound, and rich in content, providing fundamental guidance for further advancing comprehensive and strict Party governance and the fight against corruption. We must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," firm up the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds," earnestly fulfill the political responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, and with unwavering perseverance and dedication, resolutely advance the Party's self-revolution to a deeper level.
Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission, relevant leaders of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, state councilors, the president of the Supreme People's Court, the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, relevant leaders of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and members of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
Members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, principal officials of various departments of the central and state organs, people's organizations, and relevant military units attended the meeting. The meeting was held via video conference, with branch venues set up in all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and relevant military units.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing on January 12. The Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection presided over the meeting. On the afternoon of the 12th, Li Xi, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, delivered a work report entitled "Advancing Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance with Higher Standards and More Concrete Measures to Provide a Strong Guarantee for Achieving the Goals and Tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan Period."
