Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 28th
Constitution of the Communist Party of China
(The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China partially revised, adopted on October 24, 2017)
general principles
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the vanguard of the working class in China, the people of Chinese and the Chinese nation, the leading core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause, representing the development requirements of China’s advanced productive forces, the direction of China’s advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in China. The highest ideal and ultimate goal of the party is to realize communism.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) took Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development and the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought as his guide to action.
Marxism–Leninism has revealed the law of the historical development of human society, and its basic principle is correct and has great vitality. The highest ideal of communism pursued by the Communist Party of China (CPC) people can only be realized on the basis of full development and high development of socialist society. The development and perfection of the socialist system is a long historical process. Adhering to the basic principles of Marxism–Leninism and taking the road suitable for China’s national conditions voluntarily chosen by the people of China, China’s socialist cause will surely win the final victory.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, combined Marxism–Leninism’s basic principles with the concrete practice of the China Revolution and founded Mao Zedong Thought. Mao Zedong Thought is the application and development of Marxism–Leninism in China, the correct theoretical principle and experience summary of China’s revolution and construction that has been proved by practice, and the crystallization of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s collective wisdom. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. After a long-term revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, he won the victory of the new-democratic revolution and established People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the people’s democratic dictatorship. After the founding of New China, the socialist transformation was successfully carried out, the transition from new democracy to socialism was completed, the basic socialist system was established, and the socialist economy, politics and culture were developed.
Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the main representative, have summed up the positive and negative experiences since the founding of New China, emancipated their minds, sought truth from facts, realized the shift of the work center of the whole party to economic construction, implemented reform and opening up, opened up a new era of socialist development, gradually formed the line, principles and policies for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics, clarified the basic problems of building socialism, consolidating and developing socialism in China, and founded Deng Xiaoping Theory. Deng Xiaoping Theory is the product of the combination of Marxism–Leninism’s basic principles with the practice of contemporary China and the characteristics of the times. It is the inheritance and development of Mao Zedong Thought under the new historical conditions, the new stage of the development of Marxism in China, the Marxism of contemporary China, and the crystallization of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s collective wisdom, which guides the continuous progress of China’s socialist modernization.
Since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the main representative, have deepened their understanding of what socialism is, how to build socialism, what kind of party to build and how to build the party, accumulated new valuable experience in managing the party and the country, and formed Theory of Three Represents. Theory of Three Represents is the inheritance and development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, which reflects the new requirements of the development and changes of the contemporary world and China for the work of the party and the state. It is a powerful theoretical weapon to strengthen and improve party building and promote the self-improvement and development of socialism in China. It is the crystallization of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s collective wisdom and the guiding ideology that the party must adhere to for a long time. Always achieving "Theory of Three Represents" is the foundation of our party, the foundation of its governance and the source of its strength.
Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with Comrade Hu Jintao as the main representative, have adhered to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, deeply understood and answered major questions such as what kind of development and how to achieve it under the new situation, and formed a people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development Scientific Outlook on Development. Scientific Outlook on Development is a scientific theory that is in the same strain as Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents and keeps pace with the times. It is a concentrated expression of Marxist world outlook and methodology on development, a major achievement of China Marxism, a crystallization of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s collective wisdom, and a guiding ideology that must be adhered to for a long time in developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with the Supreme Leader as the main representative, have followed the development of the times, systematically answered the important issue of what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and how to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era from the combination of theory and practice, and founded the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is the inheritance and development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, the latest achievement of Marxism in China, the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, and an action guide for the whole party and the people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which must be adhered to and continuously developed for a long time. Under the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people of all ethnic groups in China, took charge of great struggles, great projects, great undertakings and great dreams, and pushed Socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era.
The fundamental reasons for all the achievements and progress we have made since the reform and opening up can be summed up as follows: opening up the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, forming the system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics theory, establishing the system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture. All comrades in the Party should cherish, persist in and constantly develop this road, this theoretical system, this system and this culture that the Party has worked hard to create, hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence, implement the Party’s basic theory, basic line and general plan, and realize "two hundred years" for the three historical tasks of promoting modernization, reunifying the motherland, safeguarding world peace and promoting common development.
Our country is in and will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time. This is an insurmountable historical stage of building socialist modernization in China, which was originally economically and culturally backward, and it will take hundreds of years. China’s socialist construction must proceed from China’s national conditions and take the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. At the present stage, the main contradiction in our society is the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development. Due to domestic factors and international influence, class struggle still exists for a long time in a certain range, and may intensify under certain conditions, but it is no longer the main contradiction. The fundamental task of China’s socialist construction is to further emancipate, develop and gradually realize socialist modernization, and to this end, reform the relations of production and the aspects and links in the superstructure that are not suitable for the development of productive forces. We must adhere to and improve the basic economic system with public ownership as the mainstay and various forms of ownership developing together, and the distribution system with distribution according to work as the mainstay and multiple modes of distribution coexisting, encourage some regions and some people to get rich first, gradually eliminate poverty and achieve common prosperity, continuously meet the people’s growing needs for a better life and promote their all-round development on the basis of production development and social wealth growth. Development is the top priority of our party in governing and rejuvenating the country. We must adhere to the people-centered development concept and the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. All work should be conducive to developing the productive forces of socialist society, enhancing the comprehensive national strength of socialist countries,It is conducive to improving people’s living standards. As the general starting point and test standard, we should respect labor, knowledge, talents and creation, so that development is for the people, development depends on the people and development results are shared by the people. Entering the new century, China has entered a new development stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating socialist modernization. We must promote economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction in an all-round way in accordance with the "five in one" overall layout and "four comprehensive" strategic layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause, and coordinate and promote the building of a well-off society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively govern the country according to law and strictly manage the party in an all-round way. In the new century and era, the strategic goal of economic and social development is to build a well-off society in an all-round way by the centenary of the founding of the party; By the centenary of the founding of New China, we will have built a socialist modernization power in an all-round way.
The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s basic line in the primary stage of socialism is: leading and uniting the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, focusing on economic construction, adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles, persisting in reform and opening up, self-reliance and hard work, and striving to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power.
In leading the socialist cause, the Communist Party of China (CPC) must persist in taking economic construction as the center, and all other work is subordinate to and serves this center. We should implement the strategies of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents, innovation-driven development, rural revitalization, regional coordinated development, sustainable development and integration of defense and civilian technologies development, give full play to the role of science and technology as the primary productive force, and give full play to the role of innovation as the primary driving force for development, and rely on scientific and technological progress to improve the quality of workers and promote the higher quality, more efficient, fairer and more sustainable development of the national economy.
Adhering to the socialist road, the people’s democratic dictatorship, the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and Marxism–Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought are the foundation of our country. In the whole process of socialist modernization, we must adhere to the four cardinal principles and oppose bourgeois liberalization.
Persisting in reform and opening up is our road to becoming a strong country. Only through reform and opening up can we develop China, socialism and Marxism. It is necessary to comprehensively deepen reform, improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. It is necessary to fundamentally reform the economic system that restricts the development of productive forces and adhere to and improve the socialist market economic system; In line with this, it is necessary to reform the political system and other fields. We should adhere to the basic national policy of opening to the outside world and absorb and learn from all the achievements of civilization created by human society. Reform and opening up should be bold in exploration and pioneering, improve the scientific nature of reform decision-making, pay more attention to the systematicness, integrity and coordination of reform, and create a new path in practice.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people to develop the socialist market economy. Unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy and unswervingly encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy. Give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better play the role of the government, and establish a sound macro-control system. Coordinate urban and rural development, regional development, economic and social development, harmonious development between man and nature, domestic development and opening up, adjust economic structure, change economic development mode, and promote supply-side structural reform. Promote the synchronous development of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, build a new socialist countryside, take the road of new industrialization with China characteristics, and build an innovative country and a world science and technology power.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people in developing socialist democracy. Adhere to the organic unity of the party’s leadership, the people being the masters of the country and governing the country according to law, take the road of political development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, expand socialist democracy, build a legal system in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, build a socialist country ruled by law, consolidate the people’s democratic dictatorship and build a socialist political civilization. Adhere to and improve the system of people’s congresses, the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), the system of regional ethnic autonomy and the system of grassroots mass autonomy. We will develop more extensive, full and sound people’s democracy, promote the extensive, multi-layered and institutionalized development of deliberative democracy, and effectively protect the people’s rights to manage state affairs and social affairs, and manage economic and cultural undertakings. Respect and protect human rights. Broadly open the way, establish and improve the systems and procedures of democratic election, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision. Improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the implementation of laws, and realize the rule of law in all state work.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) leads the people to develop advanced socialist culture. Building socialist spiritual civilization, combining the rule of law with the rule of virtue, improving the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation, providing strong ideological guarantee, spiritual motivation and intellectual support for reform, opening up and socialist modernization, and building a socialist cultural power. Strengthen the construction of the socialist core value system, adhere to the guiding ideology of Marxism, establish the common ideal of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, carry forward the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, cultivate and practice the socialist core values, advocate the socialist concept of honor and disgrace, enhance national self-esteem, self-confidence and self-improvement, resist the erosion of decadent ideas of capitalism and feudalism, sweep away all kinds of social ugly phenomena, and strive to make our people become people with ideals, morality, culture and discipline. We should educate party member on the lofty ideals of communism. Vigorously develop education, science and culture, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, inherit revolutionary culture, develop advanced socialist culture and improve the soft power of national culture. Firmly grasp the leadership of ideological work, constantly consolidate the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field, and consolidate the common ideological foundation of the United struggle of the whole party and the people of the whole country.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) leads the people to build a harmonious socialist society. In accordance with the general requirements of democracy and the rule of law, fairness and justice, honesty and friendship, vitality, stability and order, and the principle of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, we will focus on safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood, solve the most concerned, direct and realistic interests of the people, make more and more development achievements benefit all the people fairly, continuously enhance the people’s sense of gain, and strive to form a situation in which all the people do their best and live in harmony. Strengthen and innovate social governance. Strictly distinguish and correctly handle two different kinds of contradictions, namely, the contradiction between ourselves and the enemy and the contradictions among the people. Strengthen the comprehensive management of social security, resolutely crack down on all kinds of criminal activities and criminals that endanger national security and interests, social stability and economic development, and maintain long-term social stability. Adhere to the overall concept of national security and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) leads the people in building socialist ecological civilization. Establish the concept of ecological civilization of respecting nature, conforming to nature and protecting nature, enhance Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s consciousness, adhere to the basic national policy of saving resources and protecting the environment, adhere to the policy of giving priority to saving, giving priority to protection and restoring nature, and adhere to the civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology. Efforts will be made to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, implement the strictest ecological environment protection system, form a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production mode and lifestyle of resource conservation and environmental protection, create a good production and living environment for the people, and realize the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) adheres to the absolute leadership of the People’s Liberation Army and other people’s armed forces, implements the supreme leader’s idea of strengthening the army, strengthens the construction of the People’s Liberation Army, persists in building the army politically, reforming and strengthening the army, developing the army through science and technology, and managing the army according to law, and builds a people’s army that listens to the party’s command, can win battles, and has a good style of work, so as to effectively ensure that the People’s Liberation Army effectively performs its mission and tasks in the new era and give full play to its role in consolidating national defense, defending the motherland and participating in socialist modernization.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) maintains and develops socialist ethnic relations of equality, solidarity, mutual assistance and harmony, actively cultivates and selects ethnic minority cadres, helps ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas to develop their economic, cultural and social undertakings, casts a solid sense of the Chinese nation community, and realizes the common unity, struggle and prosperity of all ethnic groups. We will fully implement the party’s basic principles for religious work and unite religious believers to make contributions to economic and social development.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) unites with the workers, peasants and intellectuals of all ethnic groups in China, with the patriotic forces of all democratic parties, personages without party affiliation and all ethnic groups, and further develops and expands the broadest patriotic United front composed of all socialist workers, builders of socialist cause, patriots who support socialism, patriots who support the reunification of the motherland and patriots who are committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Constantly strengthen the unity of the people of the whole country, including compatriots in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province and overseas Chinese. In accordance with the principle of "one country, two systems", we will promote the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao and accomplish the great cause of the reunification of the motherland.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) adheres to an independent foreign policy of peace, a path of peaceful development, an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, co-ordinates the overall situation at home and abroad, actively develops foreign relations, and strives for a favorable international environment for China’s reform, opening up and modernization. In international affairs, we should adhere to the correct concept of justice and interests, safeguard China’s independence and sovereignty, oppose hegemonism and power politics, safeguard world peace, promote human progress, promote the building of a community of human destiny, and promote the building of a harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity. On the basis of the five principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence, we will develop China’s relations with other countries in the world. Constantly develop China’s good-neighborly and friendly relations with neighboring countries and strengthen unity and cooperation with developing countries. Follow the principle of mutual cooperation, joint construction and sharing, and promote the construction of the "Belt and Road". In accordance with the principles of independence, complete equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, we will develop our Party’s relations with communist party and other political parties.
In order to lead the people of all ethnic groups in China to achieve the goal of "two hundred years" and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the Communist Party of China (CPC) must closely focus on the party’s basic line, insist on the party’s management of the party, strengthen the party’s long-term ruling ability, advancement and purity, comprehensively promote the new great project of party building with the spirit of reform and innovation, and comprehensively promote the party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction and discipline under the guidance of the party’s political construction. Insist on building the party for the public and governing for the people, carry forward the party’s fine tradition and style of work, constantly improve the party’s leadership and ruling level, improve its ability to resist corruption, change and risks, constantly enhance its ability of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement, constantly strengthen its class foundation and expand its mass base, constantly improve its creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, and build a learning, service-oriented and innovative Marxist ruling party, so that our party will always Party building must resolutely realize the following five basic requirements:
First, adhere to the party’s basic line. The whole party should use Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development, the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought and the Party’s basic line to unify their thinking and actions, and unswervingly stick to it for a long time. We must unify reform and opening up with the Four Cardinal Principles, fully implement the Party’s basic line, oppose all "left" and right erroneous tendencies, and be wary of the right, but mainly prevent "left". Strengthen the construction of leading bodies at all levels, train and select good cadres needed by the party and the people, train and bring up millions of successors to the socialist cause, and ensure the implementation of the party’s basic theory, line and general plan organizationally.
Second, persist in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times and being pragmatic. The party’s ideological line is to proceed from reality, integrate theory with practice, seek truth from facts, test truth and develop truth in practice. The whole Party must adhere to this ideological line, actively explore, boldly experiment, blaze new trails, creatively carry out work, constantly study new situations, sum up new experiences, solve new problems, enrich and develop Marxism in practice, and promote Marxism in China.
Third, persist in serving the people wholeheartedly. Apart from the interests of the working class and the overwhelming majority of the people, the Party has no special interests of its own. At all times, the Party puts the interests of the masses first, shares weal and woe with the masses, maintains the closest ties, insists that power is used by the people, affection is tied to the people, and benefits are sought for the people, and does not allow any party member to be divorced from the masses and be above them. The greatest political advantage of our party is to keep close contact with the masses, and the greatest danger after the party is in power is to be divorced from the masses. The party’s style of work and the relationship between the party and the people are issues that affect the life and death of the party. The Party implements the mass line in its own work, doing everything for the masses, relying on the masses, coming from the masses and going to the masses, and turning the Party’s correct ideas into the conscious actions of the masses.
Fourth, adhere to democratic centralism. Democratic centralism is a combination of centralism on the basis of democracy and democracy under the guidance of centralism. It is not only the party’s fundamental organizational principle, but also the application of the mass line in the party’s life. We must give full play to inner-party democracy, respect party member’s dominant position, safeguard party member’s democratic rights, and give full play to the enthusiasm and creativity of party organizations at all levels and party member. We must implement correct centralization, firmly establish political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness and conformity consciousness, firmly safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core, ensure the unity and unity of the whole party and the unity of actions, and ensure the rapid and effective implementation of the party’s decisions. Strengthen and standardize the political life within the party, enhance the political nature, times, principles and militancy of the political life within the party, develop a positive and healthy political culture within the party, and create a good political ecology with a clean atmosphere. The Party correctly carries out criticism and self-criticism in its own political life, struggles ideologically on the issue of principle, upholds the truth and corrects mistakes. Strive to create a political situation that is both centralized and democratic, disciplined and free, with a unified will and a happy and lively individual.
Fifth, adhere to the strict management of the party. Strictly administering the party in an all-round way is always on the road. Under the new situation, the test of governance, reform and opening up, market economy and external environment faced by the party is long-term, complex and severe, and the danger of mental slack, lack of ability, separation from the masses and negative corruption is more acute in front of the whole party. Strict standards and strict measures should run through the whole process and all aspects of managing the party. Adhere to the rule of the party, treat both the symptoms and the root causes, persist in putting discipline ahead, strengthen organizational discipline, and everyone is equal before the party’s discipline. Strengthen the main responsibility and supervision responsibility of managing the party, strengthen the supervision of the party’s leading organs and leading cadres in party member, especially leading cadres, and constantly improve the inner-party supervision system. We will further promote the building of a clean and honest party style and the fight against corruption, punish corruption with a zero-tolerance attitude, and build an effective mechanism that does not dare to rot, cannot rot, and does not want to rot.
The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. Party, government, military and civilian studies, east, west, north and south, the party is the leader of everything. The Party should adapt to the requirements of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, adhere to scientific, democratic and legal governance, and strengthen and improve its leadership. The party must play a leading role in various organizations at the same level in accordance with the principle of overall situation and coordination of all parties. The Party must concentrate on leading economic construction, organize and coordinate all forces, make concerted efforts, carry out work around economic construction and promote all-round economic and social development. The Party must implement democratic and scientific decision-making, formulate and implement correct lines, principles and policies, do a good job in Party organization and publicity and education, and give full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of all party member. The Party must act within the scope of the Constitution and laws. The party must ensure that the state’s legislative, judicial, administrative and supervisory organs, economic and cultural organizations and people’s organizations work actively, independently and responsibly, and in a coordinated manner. The party must strengthen its leadership over trade unions, communist youth leagues, women’s federations and other mass organizations, so that they can maintain and enhance their political, advanced and mass nature and give full play to their roles. The Party must adapt to the development and changes of the situation, improve the leadership system, improve the leadership style and enhance its ruling ability. Communist party member must work closely with the non-party masses and work together to build Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The first chapter party member
Article 1 China workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals and advanced elements of other social strata who have reached the age of 18, recognize the Party’s program and articles of association, and are willing to join an organization of the Party, actively work in it, implement the Party’s resolutions and pay party dues on time, may apply to join the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Article 2 members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a pioneer fighter with communist consciousness of the working class in China.
Members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) must serve the people wholeheartedly, at the expense of everything, and strive for the realization of communism all his life.
Members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will always be an ordinary member of the working people. Except for personal interests and work authority within the scope of laws and policies, all Communist party member shall not seek any personal interests and privileges.
Article 3 party member must fulfill the following obligations:
(a) seriously study Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development, the supreme leader of the new era Socialism with Chinese characteristics thought, study the party’s line, principles, policies and resolutions, study the party’s basic knowledge, study science, culture, law and business knowledge, and strive to improve the ability to serve the people.
(2) Implement the Party’s basic line, principles and policies, take the lead in reform, opening up and socialist modernization, drive the masses to work hard for economic development and social progress, and play a vanguard and exemplary role in production, work, study and social life.
(three) adhere to the interests of the party and the people above all else, personal interests subordinate to the interests of the party and the people, suffering first, enjoying later, self-denial, and making more contributions.
(4) Consciously abide by the party’s discipline, first of all, the party’s political discipline and rules, abide by the laws and regulations of the state, strictly observe the secrets of the Conservative Party and the state, implement the party’s decisions, obey the organization and distribution, and actively complete the party’s tasks.
(5) Maintain the unity and unity of the Party, be loyal and honest to the Party, match words with deeds, resolutely oppose all factional organizations and clique activities, and oppose double-dealing and all intrigues.
(6) Effectively carry out criticism and self-criticism, dare to expose and correct words and deeds that violate the Party’s principles and shortcomings and mistakes in work, and resolutely fight against negative corruption.
(7) Keep close contact with the masses, publicize the Party’s ideas to the masses, consult with the masses when something happens, reflect the opinions and demands of the masses to the Party in a timely manner, and safeguard the legitimate interests of the masses.
(8) Carry forward the new socialist fashion, take the lead in practicing socialist core values and socialist concept of honor and disgrace, advocate communist morality, carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, and stand up and fight bravely at all difficult and dangerous times in order to protect the interests of the country and the people.
Article 4 party member enjoys the following rights:
(1) Attend relevant meetings of the Party, read relevant documents of the Party, and receive Party education and training.
(2) To participate in discussions on the policies of the Party at Party meetings and in Party newspapers and periodicals.
(3) To put forward suggestions and initiatives on the work of the Party.
(4) Criticizing any Party organization and any party member at Party meetings, exposing and exposing to the Party the fact that any Party organization and any party member violated the law and discipline responsibly, demanding that party member, who violated the law and discipline, be punished and that incompetent cadres be removed or replaced.
(five) to exercise the right to vote and vote, and to be elected.
(6) I have the right to take part in and defend party member when the Party organization discusses and decides to punish him or make an appraisal, and other party member can testify and defend him.
(7) If you have different opinions on the party’s resolutions and policies, you can declare reservations on the premise of resolutely implementing them, and you can put your own opinions to the party’s higher-level organizations and even the Central Committee.
(8) To make requests, appeals and accusations to the Party’s higher-level organizations and even to the Central Committee, and ask the relevant organizations to give responsible answers.
Party organizations at any level up to the Central Committee have no right to deprive party member of the above rights.
Article 5 To develop party member, we must put political standards in the first place and stick to the principle of individual absorption through Party branches.
Those who apply to join the Party should fill in the application form for joining the Party, and have two official party member as references. They must be approved by the branch meeting and the higher party organization, and they can become the official party member after the preparatory inspection.
Introducers should carefully understand the applicant’s thought, quality, experience and work performance, explain to him the party’s program and articles of association, explain party member’s conditions, obligations and rights, and make a responsible report to the party organization.
Party branch committees should pay attention to soliciting the opinions of relevant people inside and outside the Party and conduct strict examination on those who apply to join the Party, and then submit them to the Party branch meeting for discussion.
Before approving the applicant to join the Party, the Party organizations at higher levels should send people to talk with him, make a further understanding and help him to improve his understanding of the Party.
Under special circumstances, the Central Committee of the Party and the committees of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may directly accept party member.
Article 6 To prepare for party member, party flag must be sworn in as a Party member. The oath is as follows: I volunteer to join the Communist Party of China (CPC), support the party’s program, abide by the party’s constitution, fulfill the obligations of party members, implement the party’s decisions, strictly observe the party’s discipline, keep the secrets of the Conservative Party, be loyal to the party, work actively, fight for communism for life, and be ready to sacrifice everything for the party and the people at any time, and never betray the party.
Article 7 The preparation period for preparing party member is one year. Party organizations should seriously educate and inspect the preparations for party member.
The obligation to prepare party member is the same as that of formal party member. The right to prepare for party member is the same as that of formal party member, except that it has no right to vote, vote and stand for election.
When the preparatory period for party member expires, the Party branch shall discuss in time whether he can become a formal party member. Seriously fulfill the obligations of party members, with the conditions of party member, it should be turned into a formal party member on schedule; Need to continue investigation and education, can extend the preparatory period, but not more than one year; Those who fail to fulfill their obligations as Party members and do not meet the requirements of party member shall be disqualified from preparing for party member. Preparing party member to become a formal party member, or extending the preparatory period, or canceling the qualification of preparing party member, should be discussed and approved by the branch meeting and approved by the higher party organizations.
The preparatory period for preparing party member is counted from the date when the Party branch meeting approved him to prepare for party member. Party member’s party age is counted from the date when the preparatory period expires and he becomes a formal party member.
Article 8 Every party member, regardless of his position, must join a branch, group or other specific organization of the Party, participate in the organizational life of the Party, and accept the supervision of the masses inside and outside the Party. Party member leading cadres must also participate in democratic life meetings of Party committees and leading groups. There is no special party member who does not participate in the party’s organizational life and does not accept the supervision of the masses inside and outside the party.
Article 9 party member has the freedom to quit the Party. Party member asked to quit the party, it should be announced by the branch meeting after discussion, and reported to the higher party organizations for the record.
Party member lacks revolutionary will, fails to fulfill his obligations as a party member, and does not meet the conditions of party member. The Party branch should educate him and ask him to make corrections within a time limit; If he has not changed after education, he should be advised to quit the party. To persuade party member to quit the Party, it should be discussed and decided by the branch meeting and reported to the higher party organization for approval. If party member, who has been advised to quit the Party, insists on not quitting, he shall be submitted to the Party branch meeting for discussion and decided to remove him from the Party, and reported to the higher party organization for approval.
If party member fails to participate in the Party’s organizational life for six consecutive months without justifiable reasons, or fails to pay membership dues, or fails to do the work assigned by the Party, he is considered to have left the Party by himself. The Party branch meeting shall decide to remove such party member from the list and report it to the higher party organization for approval.
Chapter II Organizational System of the Party
Article 10 The Party is a unified whole organized according to its own program and articles of association and democratic centralism. The basic principles of the party’s democratic centralism are:
(1) Individuals in party member are subordinate to Party organizations, the minority to the majority, lower organizations to higher organizations, and all organizations in the Party and all party member to the Party’s National Congress and the Central Committee.
(2) The leading organs of the Party at all levels, except their representative organs and leading groups in non-party organizations, are all elected.
(3) The highest leading organ of the Party is the National Congress of the Party and its Central Committee. The local leading organs of the Party at all levels are the local Party congresses at all levels and their committees. Party committees at all levels are responsible and report their work to the congresses at the same level.
(4) The Party’s higher-level organizations should always listen to the opinions of lower-level organizations and the masses in party member, and solve their problems in a timely manner. The party’s lower organizations should not only ask for instructions and report their work to the higher organizations, but also independently and responsibly solve problems within their own responsibilities. The superior and subordinate organizations should exchange information, support and supervise each other. Party organizations at all levels should make Party affairs public according to regulations, so that party member can have more understanding and participation in Party affairs.
(5) Party committees at all levels implement the system of combining collective leadership with individual responsibility. All major issues should be discussed collectively and decided by the Party Committee in accordance with the principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation and meeting decision. Committee members should earnestly perform their duties according to the collective decision and division of labor.
(6) The Party prohibits any form of personal worship. It is necessary to ensure that the activities of party leaders are under the supervision of the party and the people, and at the same time safeguard the prestige of all leaders who represent the interests of the party and the people.
Article 11 The election of deputies and committees to Party congresses at all levels should reflect the will of the electors. The election was held by secret ballot. The list of candidates should be fully discussed by party organizations and voters. The formal election can be directly conducted by the difference election method in which the number of candidates is more than the number of candidates to be elected. You can also use the method of differential election to conduct pre-selection, produce a list of candidates, and then conduct formal elections. Voters have the right to know about the candidates, to ask for a change of candidates, not to choose any candidate and to choose others. No organization or individual may in any way force voters to vote or not to vote for someone.
If the election of local Party congresses and grass-roots congresses violates party constitution, the Party committee at the next higher level shall, after investigation and verification, make a decision that the election is invalid and take corresponding measures, report it to the Party committee at the next higher level for examination and approval, and formally announce its implementation.
Deputies to the Party’s congresses at all levels shall practise a term system.
Article 12 The Party’s central and local committees at all levels shall convene meetings of representatives when necessary to discuss and decide on major issues that need to be resolved in time. The number of deputies to the conference and the method for their formation shall be decided by the committee that convened the conference.
Article 13 The establishment of a new party organization or the dissolution of the original party organization must be decided by the party organization at a higher level.
When the local party congresses at various levels and grass-roots congresses are not in session, the party organizations at higher levels may mobilize or assign the responsible persons of the party organizations at lower levels when they think it necessary.
The party’s central and local committees at all levels may send representative organs.
Article 14 The Central Committee of the Party and the committees of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall implement a patrol system, and within a term of office, the party organizations of the localities, departments, enterprises and institutions under their management shall be fully covered.
Party groups (party committees) of relevant ministries and commissions of the central government and state organs and departments carry out inspections according to the needs of their work.
The party’s municipal (prefecture, league) and county (city, district, flag) committees establish inspection systems.
Article 15 When making decisions on important issues related to subordinate organizations, the leading organs of the Party at all levels should, under normal circumstances, seek the opinions of subordinate organizations. It is necessary to ensure that subordinate organizations can exercise their functions and powers normally. If there are no special circumstances, the leading organs at higher levels should not interfere with any problems that should be handled by lower-level organizations.
Sixteenth major national policy issues, only the CPC Central Committee has the right to make decisions, and party organizations in various departments and localities can make suggestions to the Central Committee, but they are not allowed to make decisions and express their opinions to the outside world without authorization.
The lower party organizations must resolutely implement the decisions of the higher party organizations. If the subordinate organization thinks that the decision of the superior organization is not in line with the actual situation of the region and department, it can request changes; If the superior organization insists on the original decision, the subordinate organization must implement it, and shall not publicly express different opinions, but has the right to report to the organization at the next higher level.
Newspapers and other propaganda tools organized by the Party at all levels must publicize the Party’s line, principles, policies and resolutions.
Article 17 Party organizations must implement the principle that the minority is subordinate to the majority when discussing and deciding issues. Decide on important issues and vote on them. We should seriously consider the different opinions of a few people. If there is a dispute on an important issue, and the number of the two sides is close, except in case of emergency, the decision should be postponed, further investigation and study should be carried out, and opinions should be exchanged, and the vote should be held next time; Under special circumstances, the dispute can also be reported to the superior organization for a ruling.
Party member personally expressed important opinions on behalf of the Party organization, and if it is beyond the scope of the party organization’s existing decisions, it must be submitted to the party organization where it is located for discussion and decision, or ask for instructions from the higher party organization. No party member, regardless of his position, can personally decide major issues; In case of emergency, when a decision must be made by an individual, it should be reported to the party organization quickly afterwards. No leader is allowed to practice personal arbitrariness and put individuals above organizations.
Article 18 The Party’s central, local and grass-roots organizations must attach importance to Party building, often discuss and check the Party’s propaganda work, education work, organization work, discipline inspection work, mass work and United front work, and pay attention to studying the ideological and political situation inside and outside the Party.
Chapter III Central Organization of the Party
Article 19 The National Congress of the Party is held every five years and convened by the Central Committee. The National Congress may be held in advance if the Central Committee deems it necessary, or if more than one third of provincial organizations request it; If there are no extraordinary circumstances, it shall not be postponed.
The number of deputies to the National Congress and the method of election shall be decided by the Central Committee.
Article 20 The functions and powers of the Party’s National Congress are:
(1) To hear and examine the report of the Central Committee;
(2) Examining the report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection;
(3) To discuss and decide on major issues of the Party;
(4) amending the party’s articles of association;
(5) Electing the Central Committee;
(6) Electing the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Article 21 The functions and powers of the Party’s National Congress are: to discuss and decide on major issues; Adjust and co-elect some members of the Central Committee and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The amount of adjustment and co-election of Central Committee members and alternate Central Committee members shall not exceed one-fifth of the total number of Central Committee members and alternate Central Committee members elected by the Party’s National Congress.
Article 22 The term of office of the Central Committee of the Party is five years. If the National Congress is held in advance or postponed, its term of office will change accordingly. Members and alternate members of the Central Committee must have a Party standing of five years or more. The number of members and alternate members of the Central Committee shall be determined by the National Congress. Vacancies on the Central Committee shall be filled by its alternate members in the order of the number of votes by which they were elected.
The plenary session of the Central Committee is convened by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and held at least once a year. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee reports his work to the plenary session of the Central Committee and accepts supervision.
When the National Congress is not in session, the Central Committee implements the resolutions of the National Congress, leads all the work of the Party and represents the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Article 23 the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party shall be elected by the plenary session of the Central Committee. The general secretary of the Central Committee must be elected from the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee and its Standing Committee exercise the functions and powers of the Central Committee when the plenary session of the Central Committee is not in session.
The Central Secretariat is the office of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and its Standing Committee; Members were nominated by Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and adopted by the plenary session of the Central Committee.
The General Secretary of the Central Committee is responsible for convening meetings in Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party and Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and presiding over the work of the Central Secretariat.
The composition of the Party’s the Central Military Commission (CMC) is decided by the Central Committee, and the Central Military Commission (CMC) implements the chairman responsibility system.
The central leading bodies and leaders produced by each Central Committee will continue to preside over the party’s regular work during the next session of the National Congress until the next Central Committee produces new central leading bodies and leaders.
Article 24 Party organizations of the China People’s Liberation Army shall work according to the instructions of the Central Committee. The Central Military Commission (CMC) is responsible for the Party’s work and political work in the army, and stipulates the Party’s organizational system and institutions in the army.
Chapter IV Local Organization of the Party
Article 25 The Party’s congresses of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities divided into districts and autonomous prefectures, and counties (flags), autonomous counties, cities not divided into districts and municipal districts are held every five years.
Local Party congresses at all levels are convened by Party committees at the same level. Under special circumstances, it may be held in advance or postponed with the approval of the next higher committee.
The number of deputies to the Party’s local congresses at various levels and the method of election shall be decided by the Party committee at the same level and reported to the Party committee at the next higher level for approval.
Article 26 The functions and powers of local party congresses at various levels are:
(a) to listen to and review the report of the Committee at the same level;
(two) review the report of the Commission for Discipline Inspection at the same level;
(three) to discuss major issues within the scope of the region and make resolutions;
(4) Electing Party committees at the same level and Party discipline inspection committees at the same level.
Article 27 The term of office of Party committees in provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities divided into districts and autonomous prefectures is five years. Members and alternate members of these committees must have been party members for more than five years.
Party committees in counties (banners), autonomous counties, cities not divided into districts and municipal districts are elected for a term of five years. The members and alternate members of these committees must have been party members for more than three years.
If the local party congresses at all levels are held in advance or postponed, the term of office of the committees elected by them will change accordingly.
The number of members and alternate members of local Party committees at all levels shall be decided by the committees at the next higher level. Vacancies among members of local Party committees at all levels shall be filled by alternate members according to the number of votes.
Plenary meetings of local Party committees at all levels are held at least twice a year.
When the Congress is not in session, the local Party committees at all levels carry out the instructions of the Party organizations at higher levels and the resolutions of the Congress at the same level, lead local work, and report their work to the Party committees at higher levels on a regular basis.
Twenty-eighth plenary sessions of local party committees at all levels elect their standing committees, secretaries and deputy secretaries, and report them to the party committees at higher levels for approval. The standing committees of local party committees at all levels exercise the functions and powers of the Committee when the plenary session of the Committee is not in session; During the meeting of the next Congress, he will continue to preside over the regular work until the new Standing Committee is formed.
The standing committees of local party committees at all levels regularly report their work to the plenary session of the Committee and accept supervision.
Article 29 The Party’s regional committees and organizations equivalent to regional committees are representative organs dispatched by the Party’s provincial and autonomous regional committees in several counties, autonomous counties and cities. It leads the work in this area under the authorization of the provincial and autonomous region committees.
Chapter V Grassroots Organizations of the Party
Thirtieth enterprises, rural areas, government agencies, schools, scientific research institutes, street communities, social organizations, companies of the People’s Liberation Army and other grass-roots units, where there are more than three official party member, should establish grass-roots organizations of the party.
According to the needs of work and the number of people in party member, the Party’s grass-roots organizations set up the Party’s grass-roots committees, general branch committees and branch committees with the approval of the higher-level party organizations. Grassroots committees are elected by general party membership meeting or the Congress, while general branch committees and branch committees are elected by general party membership meeting. Candidates for membership should be widely consulted by party member and the masses.
Article 31 The term of office of the Party’s grass-roots committees, general branch committees and branch committees is three to five years. The secretaries and deputy secretaries of grass-roots committees, general branch committees and branch committees, after being elected, shall be reported to the higher party organizations for approval.
Article 32 The Party’s grass-roots organizations are the fighting bastion of the Party among social grass-roots organizations, and the basis of all the Party’s work and combat effectiveness. Its basic tasks are:
(a) to publicize and implement the party’s line, principles and policies, publicize and implement the resolutions of the CPC Central Committee, the higher-level organizations and the organization, give full play to party member’s vanguard and exemplary role, actively strive for excellence, unite and organize cadres and the masses inside and outside the party, and strive to complete the tasks undertaken by the unit.
(2) Organize party member to seriously study Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development and Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, promote the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one doing" study and education, learn the party’s line, principles, policies and resolutions, learn the party’s basic knowledge, and learn scientific, cultural, legal and professional knowledge.
(3) Educate, manage, supervise and serve party member, improve the quality of party member, strengthen ideals and beliefs, strengthen party spirit, strictly organize the life of the party, carry out criticism and self-criticism, maintain and enforce the party’s discipline, supervise party member to earnestly fulfill its obligations, and ensure that party member’s rights are not infringed. Strengthen and improve the management of mobile party member.
(four) close contact with the masses, often understand the criticism and opinions of the masses on the work of party member and the party, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the masses, and do a good job in the ideological and political work of the masses.
(5) Give full play to the enthusiasm and creativity of party member and the masses, discover, cultivate and recommend outstanding talents among them, and encourage and support them to contribute their talents in reform, opening up and socialist modernization.
(6) Educate and train activists who want to join the Party, do a good job in the regular development of party member, and attach importance to the development of party member in the front line of production and work and among young people.
(seven) to supervise party member cadres and any other staff to strictly abide by the laws and regulations of the state, strictly abide by the financial and economic regulations and personnel system of the state, and shall not encroach on the interests of the state, the collective and the masses.
(8) Educate party member and the masses to consciously resist unhealthy tendencies and resolutely fight against all kinds of violations of discipline and law.
Thirty-third street, township and town party committees and village and community party organizations, leading the local work and grass-roots social governance, support and ensure that administrative organizations, economic organizations and mass autonomous organizations fully exercise their functions and powers.
Party committees (party groups) of state-owned enterprises play a leading role, take the direction, manage the overall situation and ensure the implementation, and discuss and decide major issues of enterprises in accordance with regulations. Grass-roots Party organizations in state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises carry out their work around the production and operation of enterprises. Ensure and supervise the implementation of the principles and policies of the party and the state in this enterprise; Support the shareholders’ meeting, the board of directors, the board of supervisors and the manager (factory director) to exercise their functions and powers according to law; Rely on the masses of workers and support the work of the workers’ congress wholeheartedly; Participate in the decision-making of major issues of enterprises; Strengthen the self-construction of party organizations and lead ideological and political work, spiritual civilization construction and trade unions, the Communist Youth League and other group organizations.
Grass-roots organizations of the Party in non-public economic organizations implement the Party’s principles and policies, guide and supervise enterprises to abide by national laws and regulations, lead trade unions, the Communist Youth League and other mass organizations, unite and unite the masses of workers, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of all parties, and promote the healthy development of enterprises.
Grass-roots Party organizations in social organizations publicize and implement the Party’s line, principles and policies, lead trade unions, the Communist Youth League and other mass organizations, educate and manage party member, lead in serving the masses, and promote career development.
Grass-roots organizations of the Party in institutions that implement the responsibility system of administrative leaders play the role of fighting bastion. Grass-roots organizations of the Party in institutions that implement the responsibility system for administrative leaders under the leadership of the Party Committee discuss and make decisions on major issues, and at the same time ensure that administrative leaders fully exercise their functions and powers.
Party organizations at all levels and grass-roots organizations of the Party in state organs assist the administrative leaders to complete their tasks and improve their work, educate, manage and supervise every party member, including the administrative leaders, and do not lead the business work of their own units.
Article 34 The Party branch is the basic organization of the Party, and is responsible for directly educating party member, managing party member, supervising party member, organizing, publicizing, rallying and serving the masses.
Chapter VI Party cadres
Thirty-fifth party cadres are the backbone of the party’s cause and the public servants of the people, and they should be loyal and clean. The Party selects cadres according to the principle of having both ability and political integrity and putting morality first, adheres to all corners of the country, appoints people on their merits, puts career first, is fair and upright, opposes cronyism, and strives to realize the revolutionization, youthfulness, knowledge and specialization of cadres.
The Party attaches great importance to education, training, selection, assessment and supervision of cadres, especially the training and selection of outstanding young cadres. Actively promote the reform of the cadre system.
The party attaches importance to training and selecting female cadres and minority cadres.
Article 36 Leading cadres at all levels of the Party must have firm convictions, serve the people, be diligent and pragmatic, dare to take responsibility, be honest and clean, and perform the obligations of party member as stipulated in Article 3 of the Articles of Association in an exemplary manner, and must meet the following basic conditions:
(1) Having the level of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development required to perform their duties, taking the lead in implementing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, trying to analyze and solve practical problems with Marxist standpoints, viewpoints and methods, persisting in stressing study, politics and righteousness, and being able to stand the test of various storms.
(2) Having the lofty ideal of communism and the firm belief of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, resolutely implementing the Party’s basic line, principles and policies, determined to reform and open up, devoted to the cause of modernization, working hard in socialist construction, establishing a correct outlook on political achievements, and making achievements that can stand the test of practice, people and history.
(3) Persisting in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, pioneering and innovating, and earnestly investigating and studying, we can combine the Party’s principles and policies with the reality of our region and department, carry out our work effectively, tell the truth, do practical things and seek practical results.
(four) have a strong sense of revolutionary dedication and political responsibility, practical experience, organizational ability, cultural level and professional knowledge.
(5) correctly exercise the rights entrusted by the people, adhere to principles, act in accordance with the law, be honest and upright, be diligent for the people, set an example, be hard-working and simple, keep close contact with the masses, adhere to the party’s mass line, consciously accept the criticism and supervision of the party and the masses, strengthen moral cultivation, stress party spirit, pay attention to conduct, set an example, be self-respecting, introspective, self-vigilant, and self-motivated, and oppose formalism and bureaucracy.
(6) Adhere to and safeguard the party’s democratic centralism, have a democratic style of work, have an overall concept, and be good at uniting comrades, including those who have different opinions.
Thirty-seventh party member cadres should be good at working with non-party cadres, respect them, and learn from their strengths with an open mind.
Party organizations at all levels should be good at discovering and recommending non-Party cadres with real talents and practical knowledge to take leadership positions, ensuring that they have the right to hold positions and give full play to their roles.
Article 38 The leading cadres at all levels of the Party, whether democratically elected or appointed by leading organs, are not lifelong and can be changed or dismissed.
Cadres whose age and health are not suitable for continuing to work shall retire in accordance with the provisions of the state.
Chapter VII Party Discipline
Article 39 Party discipline is a code of conduct that Party organizations at all levels and all party member must abide by, and it is a guarantee for safeguarding the unity and unity of the Party and accomplishing its tasks. Party organizations must strictly enforce and maintain Party discipline, and Communist party member must consciously accept the constraints of Party discipline.
Article 40 Party discipline mainly includes political discipline, organizational discipline, honesty discipline, mass discipline, work discipline and life discipline.
Insist on learning from the past and saving lives, be strict in discipline, investigate violations, grasp early and small, and prevent delays, and give criticism and education until disciplinary action according to the nature and seriousness of mistakes. Using the "four forms" of supervision and discipline, "blushing and sweating" has become the norm, and disciplinary action and organizational adjustment have become important means to manage the party. party member, who has seriously violated discipline and criminal law, must be expelled from the party.
It is strictly forbidden to treat party member in violation of the laws of party constitution and the state, and it is strictly forbidden to take revenge and falsely accuse and frame up. Organizations or individuals who violate these regulations must be investigated by the party’s discipline and national laws.
Article 41 There are five kinds of disciplinary actions against party member: warning, severe warning, revocation of post in the Party, probation in the Party and expulsion from the Party.
The longest probation period is no more than two years. Party member has no right to vote, to vote and to stand for election during the probation period. If party member has indeed corrected his mistakes after staying in the party for inspection, he shall restore his right to party member; Those who persist in correcting their mistakes should be expelled from the party.
Expelling from the party is the highest punishment within the party. Party organizations at all levels should comprehensively study relevant materials and opinions and adopt a very cautious attitude when deciding or approving the expulsion of party member from Party membership.
Forty-second disciplinary action against party member must be discussed and decided by the party branch meeting and reported to the party’s grassroots Committee for approval; If the issues involved are more important or complicated, or party member is dismissed from the Party, it should be reported to the Party’s Disciplinary Inspection Committee at or above the county level for examination and approval according to different situations. Under special circumstances, Party committees and discipline inspection committees at or above the county level have the right to directly decide to give disciplinary action to party member.
Members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the Party shall be given warnings and severe warnings, which shall be reviewed by the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and reported to the Party Central Committee for approval. Warning and severe warning should be given to members and alternate members of local party committees at all levels, which should be approved by the discipline inspection Committee at the next higher level and reported to the party Committee at the same level for the record.
For members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the Party and local committees at all levels, the punishment of dismissal from the Party, probation in the Party or expulsion from the Party must be decided by a majority of more than two-thirds of the plenary meetings of the Committee to which I belong. When the plenary session is not in session, the Standing Committee of the the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and local committees at all levels may make a decision on handling the matter, which will be ratified when the plenary session of the Committee is convened. The above-mentioned sanctions against members and alternate members of local committees at all levels must be considered by the Standing Committee of the higher-level Commission for Discipline Inspection, which shall report to the Party Committee at the same level for approval.
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee decided to expel members and alternate members of the Central Committee who seriously violated the criminal law; Members and alternate members of local committees at various levels who seriously violate the criminal law shall be expelled from the Party membership by the Standing Committee of the Committee at the same level.
Article 43 When making a disciplinary decision against party member, the Party organization shall seek truth from facts. The facts and materials on which the punishment decision is based and the punishment decision must meet with me and listen to my explanation and defense. If I am not satisfied with the punishment decision, I can lodge a complaint, and the relevant party organizations must be responsible for handling it or transmitting it quickly, and shall not withhold it. Those who really insist on wrong opinions and unreasonable demands should be criticized and educated.
Article 44 Party organizations must be held accountable if they neglect their duties in maintaining party discipline.
For party organizations that seriously violate party discipline and cannot be corrected by themselves, the party committee at the next higher level shall, after checking and verifying, make a decision on reorganization or dissolution according to the seriousness of the circumstances, and report it to the party committee at the next higher level for examination and approval, and formally announce its implementation.
Chapter VIII Party’s Discipline Inspection Organs
Article 45 The Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection conducts its work under the leadership of the Party’s Central Committee. The party’s local discipline inspection committees at all levels and grass-roots discipline inspection committees work under the dual leadership of the party committees at the same level and the discipline inspection committees at higher levels. The Party’s Disciplinary Inspection Committee at a higher level strengthens its leadership over the Disciplinary Inspection Committee at a lower level.
The term of office of the Party’s disciplinary inspection committees at all levels is the same as that of the Party committees at the same level.
The plenary session of the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection elects the Standing Committee and the secretary and deputy secretary, and reports them to the Party’s Central Committee for approval. The party’s local disciplinary inspection committees at all levels elect their standing committees, secretaries and deputy secretaries, which are adopted by the party committees at the same level and reported to the party committees at higher levels for approval. Whether the Party’s grass-roots committee should set up a disciplinary inspection committee or a disciplinary inspection committee shall be decided by the Party organization at the next higher level according to the specific situation. The Party’s general branch committee and branch committee shall have discipline inspection members.
The party’s central and local discipline inspection committees have fully stationed the party’s discipline inspection team to the party and state organs at the same level. The head of the discipline inspection team attended the relevant meetings organized by the leading party in the department. Their work must be supported by the leading organizations of the Party in this organ.
Article 46 The Party’s disciplinary inspection committees at all levels are specialized organs for inner-party supervision. Their main tasks are: to safeguard the Party’s constitution and other inner-party laws and regulations, to check the implementation of the Party’s line, principles, policies and resolutions, and to assist the Party’s committees in promoting the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party, strengthening the party style construction and organizing and coordinating anti-corruption work.
The party’s disciplinary inspection committees at all levels are responsible for supervision, discipline and accountability. They should always educate party member about discipline and make decisions on safeguarding party discipline; Supervise the party organizations and leading cadres in party member to perform their duties and exercise their powers, accept and dispose of reports from the people in party member, and carry out conversation reminders, interviews and letters; To examine and deal with important or complicated cases in which Party organizations and party member violate the Party’s articles of association and other internal laws and regulations, and decide or cancel the punishment of party member in these cases; Accountability or suggestions for accountability; Accepting complaints and complaints from party member; Safeguard the rights of party member.
Disciplinary inspection committees at all levels should report the problems and results of handling particularly important or complicated cases to the party committees at the same level. The party’s local discipline inspection committees at all levels and the grass-roots discipline inspection committees should report to the higher-level discipline inspection committees at the same time.
Disciplinary inspection committees at all levels may conduct preliminary verification when they find that members of the Party committees at the same level have violated the Party’s discipline. If it is necessary to put on record for inspection, they shall report to the Party committees at the same level and to the disciplinary inspection committees at the next higher level. Those involving the Standing Committee members shall be reported to the Commission for Discipline Inspection at the next higher level for preliminary verification, and those requiring review shall be reported to the Party Committee at the same level for approval.
Article 47 The superior commission for discipline inspection has the right to inspect the work of the subordinate commission for discipline inspection and to approve and change the decisions made by the subordinate commission for discipline inspection on cases. If the decision of the lower disciplinary inspection committee to be changed has been approved by the party committee at the same level, such change must be approved by the party committee at the next higher level.
If the party’s local disciplinary inspection committees at all levels and the grassroots disciplinary inspection committees have different opinions on the decision of the party committees at the same level to handle cases, they may request the disciplinary inspection committees at the next higher level to review them; If it is found that the Party committee at the same level or its members have violated the Party’s discipline, when the Party committee at the same level fails to solve it or give it a correct solution, it has the right to lodge a complaint with the superior Commission for Discipline Inspection and ask for assistance in handling it.
Chapter IX Party Group
Article 48 Party groups may be established in the leading organs of central and local state organs, people’s organizations, economic organizations, cultural organizations and other non-party organizations. The party group plays a leading role. The task of the party group is mainly to implement the party’s line, principles and policies; Strengthen leadership over party building in this unit and fulfill the responsibility of strictly administering the party in an all-round way; Discuss and decide on major issues of the unit; Do a good job in cadre management; Discuss and decide on important matters such as the establishment, adjustment and development of party member and the punishment of party member in grass-roots party organizations; Unite non-party cadres and the masses to complete the tasks assigned by the party and the state; Work of Party organizations of leading organs and directly affiliated units.
Forty-ninth members of the party group shall be decided by the party organization that approved the establishment of the party group. The party group shall have a secretary and, if necessary, a deputy secretary.
The party group must obey the leadership of the party organization that approved its establishment.
Article 50 State departments that exercise centralized and unified leadership over subordinate units may establish party committees, and the methods of formation, powers and tasks of party committees shall be formulated separately by the Central Committee.
Chapter X Relationship between the Party and the Communist Youth League
Article 51 The Communist Youth League of China is a group organization of advanced youth led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), a school for young people to learn Socialism with Chinese characteristics and communism in practice, and an assistant and reserve army of the Party. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League is under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. The local organizations of the Communist Youth League at all levels are led by the Party committees at the same level, and at the same time by the Communist Youth League organizations at higher levels.
Article 52 Party committees at all levels should strengthen their leadership over the Communist Youth League and pay attention to the selection and training of its cadres. The Party should resolutely support the Communist Youth League to work in a lively and creative way according to the characteristics and needs of the vast number of young people, and give full play to the role of the regiment as a commando and a bridge to connect with the vast number of young people.
The secretaries of the Communist Youth League committees at or below the county level and the Communist Youth League committees of enterprises and institutions are from party member and may attend the meetings of the Party committees and standing committees at the same level as nonvoting delegates.
