十二、全面提高党的建设科学化水平

XII. Making Party Building More Scientific in All Respects

我们党担负着团结带领人民全面建成小康社会、推进社会主义现代化、实现中华民族伟大复兴的重任。党坚强有力，党同人民保持血肉联系，国家就繁荣稳定，人民就幸福安康。形势的发展、事业的开拓、人民的期待，都要求我们以改革创新精神全面推进党的建设新的伟大工程，全面提高党的建设科学化水平。

Rallying and leading the people in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, in advancing socialist modernization and in achieving the great renewal of the Chinese nation is an important mission for our Party. When the Party maintains its strength and close ties with the people, China enjoys prosperity and stability and the Chinese people live in peace and happiness. Facing the new developments, the progress in our cause and the expectation the people have of us, we should comprehensively carry out the great new undertaking of Party building in an innovative reform-driven manner and make Party building more scientific in all respects.

全党必须牢记，只有植根人民、造福人民，党才能始终立于不败之地；只有居安思危、勇于进取，党才能始终走在时代前列。新形势下，党面临的执政考验、改革开放考验、市场经济考验、外部环境考验是长期的、复杂的、严峻的，精神懈怠危险、能力不足危险、脱离群众危险、消极腐败危险更加尖锐地摆在全党面前。不断提高党的领导水平和执政水平、提高拒腐防变和抵御风险能力，是党巩固执政地位、实现执政使命必须解决好的重大课题。全党要增强紧迫感和责任感，牢牢把握加强党的执政能力建设、先进性和纯洁性建设这条主线，坚持解放思想、改革创新，坚持党要管党、从严治党，全面加强党的思想建设、组织建设、作风建设、反腐倡廉建设、制度建设，增强自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高能力，建设学习型、服务型、创新型的马克思主义执政党，确保党始终成为中国特色社会主义事业的坚强领导核心。

The whole Party must bear in mind that only by taking root among the people and delivering benefits to them can the Party remain invincible, and that only by being on guard against adversity in times of peace and forging boldly ahead can the Party remain in the forefront of the times. Under new conditions, the Party faces complicated and severe long-term tests in exercising governance, carrying out reform and opening up and developing the market economy as well as tests from the external environment. And the whole Party is confronted with increasingly grave dangers of lacking in drive, incompetence, being out of touch with the people, corruption and other misconduct. We should steadily improve the Party's art of leadership and governance; and increase its ability to resist corruption, prevent degeneration and ward off risks - this is a major issue the Party must solve in order to consolidate its position as the governing party and carry out its mission of governance. All Party members must heighten their sense of urgency and sense of responsibility and focus on strengthening the Party's governance capacity, advanced nature and purity. We should continue to free up our minds and carry out reform and innovation, and uphold the principle that the Party should supervise its own conduct and run itself with strict discipline. We should make all-around efforts to strengthen the Party theoretically and organizationally and improve its conduct. We should become better able to fight corruption, uphold Party integrity and improve Party rules and regulations. We should enhance our capacity for self-purity, self-improvement, self-development and self-innovation and build the Party into an innovative, service-oriented and learning Marxist governing party. By taking these steps, we can ensure that the Party is always the firm leadership core guiding the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

（一）坚定理想信念，坚守共产党人精神追求。对马克思主义的信仰，对社会主义和共产主义的信念，是共产党人的政治灵魂，是共产党人经受住任何考验的精神支柱。要抓好思想理论建设这个根本，学习马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、中国特色社会主义理论体系，深入学习实践科学发展观，推进学习型党组织创建，教育引导党员、干部矢志不渝为中国特色社会主义共同理想而奋斗。抓好党性教育这个核心，学习党的历史，深刻认识党的两个历史问题决议总结的经验教训，弘扬党的优良传统和作风，教育引导党员、干部牢固树立正确的世界观、权力观、事业观，坚定政治立场，明辨大是大非。抓好道德建设这个基础，教育引导党员、干部模范践行社会主义荣辱观，讲党性、重品行、作表率，做社会主义道德的示范者、诚信风尚的引领者、公平正义的维护者，以实际行动彰显共产党人的人格力量。

1. Be firm in our ideal and conviction and remain true to the faith of Communists

Communists' faith in Marxism, socialism and communism is their political soul and sustains them in all tests. We should give high priority to developing the Party's theory, which is essential for Party building. We should study Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and the system of theories of socialism with Chinese characteristics and intensively study and apply the Scientific Outlook on Development. We should build learning Party organizations, educate Party members and officials in our shared ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics and encourage them to unremittingly pursue this ideal. We should intensify education in the Party spirit, which is at the core of Party building, study Party history, and gain a full understanding of the experience and lessons reviewed in the Party's two resolutions on certain questions in its history. We should carry forward the Party's fine traditions and conduct and make its members and officials develop a firm and correct worldview and a firm and correct attitude toward power and career, take a committed political stand and become better able to tell right from wrong on major issues of principle. We should raise the moral standards of Party members, which are the foundation of Party building, encourage Party members and officials to become role models in practicing socialist views on honor and disgrace, and urge them to observe the Party spirit and ethical standards and set good examples for the public. We should encourage Party members and officials to become paragons of socialist ethics, lead in fostering a social trend of honesty and integrity, uphold fairness and justice, and thus demonstrate with concrete actions the moral integrity of Communists.

（二）坚持以人为本、执政为民，始终保持党同人民群众的血肉联系。为人民服务是党的根本宗旨，以人为本、执政为民是检验党一切执政活动的最高标准。任何时候都要把人民利益放在第一位，始终与人民心连心、同呼吸、共命运，始终依靠人民推动历史前进。围绕保持党的先进性和纯洁性，在全党深入开展以为民务实清廉为主要内容的党的群众路线教育实践活动，着力解决人民群众反映强烈的突出问题，提高做好新形势下群众工作的能力。完善党员干部直接联系群众制度。坚持问政于民、问需于民、问计于民，从人民伟大实践中汲取智慧和力量。坚持实干富民、实干兴邦，敢于开拓，勇于担当，多干让人民满意的好事实事。坚持艰苦奋斗、勤俭节约，下决心改进文风会风，着力整治庸懒散奢等不良风气，坚决克服形式主义、官僚主义，以优良党风凝聚党心民心、带动政风民风。支持工会、共青团、妇联等人民团体充分发挥桥梁纽带作用，更好反映群众呼声，维护群众合法权益。

2. Put people first, exercise governance for the people and always maintain close ties with them

Serving the people is the fundamental purpose of the Party, and putting people first and exercising governance for the people is the ultimate yardstick for judging all the Party's performance in this regard. At all times we must put the people's interests above everything else, be of one mind with the people, share a common destiny with them, and rely on them to propel history forward. To maintain the Party's advanced nature and purity, we should carry out intensive activities throughout the Party to study and practice its mass line, with the focus on the need to serve the people and to be down-to-earth, honest and upright in conduct. We should solve pressing problems of keen concern to the people, and raise our ability to do people-related work well under new conditions. We should improve the system for Party members and officials to maintain direct contact with the people. We should consult the people on governance, learn about their needs, seek their advice, and draw wisdom and strength from their great practices. We should endeavor to bring prosperity to the people and promote national renewal, be eager to blaze new trails and live up to our responsibility, and deliver more concrete services to the satisfaction of the people. We should always work hard and practice economy. We should make determined efforts to improve the style of writing and the conduct of meetings, and reject undesirable practices such as mediocrity, laziness, laxity and extravagance, the practice of just going through formalities, and bureaucratism. We should use the Party's fine conduct to enhance Party cohesiveness, win popular support and improve the conduct of the government and the general public. We should support people's organizations such as trade unions, the Chinese Communist Youth League and women's federations in fully playing their roles as bridges linking the Party and government with the people, voicing public concern and protecting people's legitimate rights and interests.

（三）积极发展党内民主，增强党的创造活力。党内民主是党的生命。要坚持民主集中制，健全党内民主制度体系，以党内民主带动人民民主。保障党员主体地位，健全党员民主权利保障制度，开展批评和自我批评，营造党内民主平等的同志关系、民主讨论的政治氛围、民主监督的制度环境，落实党员知情权、参与权、选举权、监督权。完善党的代表大会制度，提高工人、农民代表比例，落实和完善党的代表大会代表任期制，试行乡镇党代会年会制，深化县（市、区）党代会常任制试点，实行党代会代表提案制。完善党内选举制度，规范差额提名、差额选举，形成充分体现选举人意志的程序和环境。强化全委会决策和监督作用，完善常委会议事规则和决策程序，完善地方党委讨论决定重大问题和任用重要干部票决制。扩大党内基层民主，完善党员定期评议基层党组织领导班子等制度，推行党员旁听基层党委会议、党代会代表列席同级党委有关会议等做法，增强党内生活原则性和透明度。

3. Vigorously promote intra-Party democracy and enhance the Party's creative vitality

Intra-Party democracy is the life of the Party. We should adhere to democratic centralism, improve institutions for intra-Party democracy, and promote people's democracy with intra-Party democracy. We should uphold the principal position of Party members, better protect their democratic rights, and conduct criticism and self-criticism. We should foster comradely relations based on equality and democratic principles, a political atmosphere that encourages democratic discussion, and an institutional environment for democratic oversight. We should ensure that Party members have the right to stay informed of, participate in and oversee Party affairs, as well as the right to vote. We should improve the system of Party congresses, raise the proportion of delegates from among workers and farmers to them, implement and improve the tenure system for delegates to Party congresses, experiment with a system of annual sessions of the Party congresses at the town and township level, proceed with trials of the system of Party congresses with a fixed term in selected counties and county-level cities and districts, and introduce the system for delegates to Party congresses to submit proposals. We should improve the system of intra-Party election, and standards governing multi-candidate nomination and election, and create procedures and a climate that fully embody the will of voters. We should strengthen the decision-making and oversight role of plenary sessions of Party committees and improve procedural rules and decision-making procedures of their standing committees. We should also improve the system for local Party committees to make decisions on major issues and appoint key officials by ballot. We should expand intra-Party democracy at the community level, improve the system for Party members to assess the performance of leading bodies of community-level Party organizations on a regular basis, make arrangements for Party members to sit in on meetings of community-level Party committees and for delegates to Party congresses to attend relevant meetings of Party committees at the same levels, both in non-voting capacity, and thus conduct intra-Party activities in strict accordance with these principles and make them more transparent.

（四）深化干部人事制度改革，建设高素质执政骨干队伍。坚持和发展中国特色社会主义，关键在于建设一支政治坚定、能力过硬、作风优良、奋发有为的执政骨干队伍。要坚持党管干部原则，坚持五湖四海、任人唯贤，坚持德才兼备、以德为先，坚持注重实绩、群众公认，深化干部人事制度改革，使各方面优秀干部充分涌现、各尽其能、才尽其用。全面准确贯彻民主、公开、竞争、择优方针，扩大干部工作民主，提高民主质量，完善竞争性选拔干部方式，提高选人用人公信度，不让老实人吃亏，不让投机钻营者得利。完善干部考核评价机制，促进领导干部树立正确政绩观。健全干部管理体制，从严管理监督干部，加强党政正职、关键岗位干部培养选拔，完善公务员制度。优化领导班子配备和干部队伍结构，注重从基层一线培养选拔干部，拓宽社会优秀人才进入党政干部队伍渠道。推进国有企业和事业单位人事制度改革。加强和改进干部教育培训，提高干部素质和能力。加大培养选拔优秀年轻干部力度，重视培养选拔女干部和少数民族干部，鼓励年轻干部到基层和艰苦地区锻炼成长。全面做好离退休干部工作。

4. Deepen reform of the system for the management of officials and personnel and build a contingent of competent key officials for governance

To uphold and build socialism with Chinese characteristics, it is imperative to build a contingent of key officials for governance who are firm in political conviction, competent and energetic and have fine conduct. We should adhere to the principle of the Party supervising the performance of officials. We should appoint officials on their merits without regard to their origins, select officials on the basis of both their moral integrity and their professional competence with priority given to the former, and promote officials who are outstanding in performance and enjoy popular support. We should deepen reform of the system for the management of officials and personnel so that officials with outstanding performance in all fields will come to the fore in large numbers, and we should tap their potential to the full and put their talent to best use. We should fully and strictly implement the principle of selecting officials in a democratic, open, competitive and merits-based way, make the management of them more democratic, enhance democracy, improve the way of selecting officials through competition, increase public trust in the selection and appointment of officials and ensure that honest people are not disadvantaged and schemers do not have their way. We should improve the system for assessing the performance of officials and require leading officials to view their performance for what it is. We should improve the system for the management of officials, conduct strict supervision over them, strengthen training and selection of officials as heads of Party and government bodies or for other key positions, and improve the public servant system. We should improve the composition of leading bodies and the mix of the ranks of officials, give high priority to training and selecting officials from among those working on the frontline or in local communities, and widen the channel for outstanding individuals from society at large to become Party and government officials. We should reform the personnel management system in state-owned enterprises and public institutions. We should strengthen and improve education and training of officials to enhance their competence. We should make greater efforts to train and select outstanding young officials, attach importance to training and selecting officials from among women and ethnic minorities, and encourage young officials to work and gain experience in local communities and in hardship areas. We should provide full services for retired officials.

（五）坚持党管人才原则，把各方面优秀人才集聚到党和国家事业中来。广开进贤之路，广纳天下英才，是保证党和人民事业发展的根本之举。要尊重劳动、尊重知识、尊重人才、尊重创造，加快确立人才优先发展战略布局，造就规模宏大、素质优良的人才队伍，推动我国由人才大国迈向人才强国。统筹推进各类人才队伍建设，实施重大人才工程，加大创新创业人才培养支持力度，重视实用人才培养，引导人才向科研生产一线流动。充分开发利用国内国际人才资源，积极引进和用好海外人才。加快人才发展体制机制改革和政策创新，建立国家荣誉制度，形成激发人才创造活力、具有国际竞争力的人才制度优势，开创人人皆可成才、人人尽展其才的生动局面。

5. Adhere to the principle of the Party exercising leadership over personnel management and attract outstanding individuals from all over for the cause of the Party and country

Widening channels to attract talent is important for advancing the cause of the Party and people. We should respect work, knowledge, talent and creation, pursue at a faster pace the strategy of training competent personnel as a priority to build a large contingent of such personnel, and turn China from a country with large human resources into one with a large pool of competent professionals. We should coordinate the training of all types of personnel, implement major projects for training and attracting high-caliber personnel, give more support to the training of innovative and entrepreneurial personnel, prioritize the training of people with practical skills, and encourage the flow of talents to the frontlines of research and production. We should fully develop and utilize human resources both at home and abroad, and actively attract high-caliber personnel from overseas and turn them to good use. We should accelerate reform of institutions and mechanisms for talent development, adopt innovative policies for this purpose and establish a national system of honors. We should form an internationally competitive personnel system that is capable of firing the creativity and talent of people, and thus foster a dynamic environment in which everyone can fully tap their potential and put their talent to best use.

（六）创新基层党建工作，夯实党执政的组织基础。党的基层组织是团结带领群众贯彻党的理论和路线方针政策、落实党的任务的战斗堡垒。要落实党建工作责任制，强化农村、城市社区党组织建设，加大非公有制经济组织、社会组织党建工作力度，全面推进各领域基层党建工作，扩大党组织和党的工作覆盖面，充分发挥推动发展、服务群众、凝聚人心、促进和谐的作用，以党的基层组织建设带动其他各类基层组织建设。健全党的基层组织体系，加强基层党组织带头人队伍建设，加强城乡基层党建资源整合，建立稳定的经费保障制度。以服务群众、做群众工作为主要任务，加强基层服务型党组织建设。以增强党性、提高素质为重点，加强和改进党员队伍教育管理，健全党员立足岗位创先争优长效机制，推动广大党员发挥先锋模范作用。严格党内组织生活，健全党员党性定期分析、民主评议等制度。改进对流动党员的教育、管理、服务。提高发展党员质量，重视从青年工人、农民、知识分子中发展党员。健全党员能进能出机制，优化党员队伍结构。

6. Promote community-level Party building in an innovative way and consolidate the organizational foundation for the exercise of governance by the Party

Community-level Party organizations play a key role in rallying and leading the people in implementing the Party's theories, line, principles and policies and in carrying out its tasks. We should implement the system of responsibility for Party building, strengthen Party organizations in both rural and urban communities, step up efforts to establish and strengthen Party organizations in non-public economic entities and social organizations, and carry out community-level Party building in all areas. We should expand the coverage of Party organizations and Party work, fully leverage the role of community-level Party organizations in enhancing development, serving the people, rallying public support and promoting harmony, and ensure that efforts to strengthen community-level Party organizations also spur the development of all other community-level organizations. We should improve the network of community-level Party organizations, enhance the competence of their leaders, further integrate Party building resources in urban and rural areas, and ensure sufficient funding for community-level Party organizations. We should make community-level Party organizations more service-oriented, with serving the people and engaging in people-related work being their main tasks. We should strengthen and improve education and management of Party members, with a focus on enhancing their Party spirit and raising their overall quality, improve the permanent mechanism for encouraging them to excel in their work, and encourage them to be vanguards and role models. We should ensure that Party members participate in Party activities regularly, and improve regular review of Party members' Party spirit and democratic evaluation of their performance. We should improve education and management of Party members among the floating population and provide better services for them. We should recruit better qualified people into the Party, and give high priority to recruiting new members from among young workers, farmers and intellectuals. We should perfect the mechanism for recruiting and disqualifying Party members so as to improve the composition of Party membership.

（七）坚定不移反对腐败，永葆共产党人清正廉洁的政治本色。反对腐败、建设廉洁政治，是党一贯坚持的鲜明政治立场，是人民关注的重大政治问题。这个问题解决不好，就会对党造成致命伤害，甚至亡党亡国。反腐倡廉必须常抓不懈，拒腐防变必须警钟长鸣。要坚持中国特色反腐倡廉道路，坚持标本兼治、综合治理、惩防并举、注重预防方针，全面推进惩治和预防腐败体系建设，做到干部清正、政府清廉、政治清明。加强反腐倡廉教育和廉政文化建设。各级领导干部特别是高级干部必须自觉遵守廉政准则，严格执行领导干部重大事项报告制度，既严于律己，又加强对亲属和身边工作人员的教育和约束，决不允许搞特权。严格规范权力行使，加强对领导干部特别是主要领导干部行使权力的监督。深化重点领域和关键环节改革，健全反腐败法律制度，防控廉政风险，防止利益冲突，更加科学有效地防治腐败。加强反腐败国际合作。严格执行党风廉政建设责任制。健全纪检监察体制，完善派驻机构统一管理，更好发挥巡视制度监督作用。始终保持惩治腐败高压态势，坚决查处大案要案，着力解决发生在群众身边的腐败问题。不管涉及什么人，不论权力大小、职位高低，只要触犯党纪国法，都要严惩不贷。

7. Unswervingly combat corruption and preserve Communists' political character of integrity

Combating corruption and promoting political integrity, which is a major political issue of great concern to the people, is a clear-cut and long-term political commitment of the Party. If we fail to handle this issue well, it could prove fatal to the Party, and even cause the collapse of the Party and the fall of the state. We must thus make unremitting efforts to combat corruption, promote integrity and stay vigilant against degeneration. We should keep to the Chinese-style path of combating corruption and promoting integrity. We should persist in combating corruption in an integrated way, addressing both its symptoms and root causes, and combining punishment and prevention, with emphasis on the latter. We should advance in an all-around way the establishment of a system of combating corruption through both punishment and prevention and see to it that officials are honest, the government is clean, and political integrity is upheld. We should strengthen education about combating corruption and promoting clean government and improve the culture of clean government. Leading officials at all levels, especially high-ranking officials, must readily observe the code of conduct on clean governance and report all important facts concerned. They should both exercise strict self-discipline and strengthen education and supervision over their family and staff; and they should never seek any privilege. We should ensure that strict procedures are followed in the exercise of power, and tighten oversight over the exercise of power by leading officials, especially principal leading officials. We should deepen reform of key areas and crucial links, improve the system of anti-corruption laws, prevent and manage risks to clean government, avoid conflict of interests, prevent and fight corruption more effectively and in a more scientific way, and increase international anti-corruption cooperation. We should rigorously implement the system of accountability for improving Party conduct and upholding integrity. We should improve the system of discipline supervision and inspection, improve the unified management of representative offices of Party commissions for discipline inspection, and enable discipline inspectors to better play their role of supervision. We must maintain a tough position in cracking down on corruption at all times, conduct thorough investigations into major corruption cases and work hard to resolve problems of corruption that directly affect the people. All those who violate Party discipline and state laws, whoever they are and whatever power or official positions they have, must be brought to justice without mercy.

（八）严明党的纪律，自觉维护党的集中统一。党的集中统一是党的力量所在，是实现经济社会发展、民族团结进步、国家长治久安的根本保证。党面临的形势越复杂，肩负的任务越艰巨，就越要加强党的纪律建设，越要维护党的集中统一。各级党组织和广大党员、干部特别是主要领导干部一定要自觉遵守党章，自觉按照党的组织原则和党内政治生活准则办事，任何人都不能凌驾于组织之上。要坚决维护中央权威，在思想上政治上行动上同党中央保持高度一致，坚决贯彻党的理论和路线方针政策，保证中央政令畅通，决不允许“上有政策、下有对策”，决不允许有令不行、有禁不止。加强监督检查，严肃党的纪律特别是政治纪律，对违反纪律的行为必须认真处理，切实做到纪律面前人人平等、遵守纪律没有特权、执行纪律没有例外，形成全党上下步调一致、奋发进取的强大力量。

8. Strictly enforce Party discipline and willingly uphold centralized leadership of the Party

Centralized leadership of the Party is the source of its strength and a fundamental guarantee for China's economic and social development, ethnic unity and progress, and enduring peace and stability. The more complexities the Party faces and the more arduous the tasks it undertakes, the more imperative it is for the Party to strengthen its discipline and uphold centralized leadership. Party organizations at all levels and all Party members and officials, especially principal leading officials, must willingly abide by the Party Constitution as well as its organizational principles and guiding principles for its political activities; and no one is allowed to place oneself above the Party organization. All Party organizations and members must resolutely uphold the authority of the Central Committee and maintain a high degree of unity with it theoretically, politically and in action. We must faithfully implement the Party's theories, line, principles and policies and ensure that the decisions of the Central Committee are carried out effectively; and we will never allow anyone to take countermeasures against them or disregard them. We will strengthen oversight and inspection, strictly enforce Party discipline, political discipline in particular, and take stern actions against violations of Party discipline. We must ensure that all are equal before discipline, that nobody has the privilege of not observing it and that no exception should be made in its enforcement. This will enable the whole Party from leadership to the ranks to advance in unison as a great force.