【持之以恒推进全面从严治党】以优良作风厚植党的执政根基

CCTV.com news (Xinwen Lianbo): General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that the Party's conduct is its image, affects whether it gains or loses public support, and concerns the Party's very survival. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made formulating and implementing the central Party leadership's eight-point decision its starting point and breakthrough, tackling the “Four Forms of Misconduct” with the persistence of driving nails. Party and government conduct has taken on a fresh look, social conduct and public customs have continued to improve, and an ethos of integrity and uprightness has spread across China, bringing together firm confidence and tremendous strength to keep advancing the great cause of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation.

It is currently the peak season for gathering seafood along the shore. In Xiapu County, Fujian Province, villagers in Yacheng Town once risked crossing an expressway to reach Huyu Island to gather seafood because their traditional route had been cut off, creating serious safety hazards. During their work under the “Four Approaches to Bringing Work to the Grassroots,” local Party members and officials placed this issue on their list for on-site handling. They formed a special team involving transport, traffic management and other departments to conduct in-depth research, and ultimately launched a dedicated “seafood-gathering bus” service, resolving the villagers' difficulty in traveling safely.

Xi Jinping's thinking on Party building explicitly calls for making improvements in conduct a regular and long-term undertaking. In the course of working at the grassroots and on the front lines, Party members and officials have increasingly recognized that people never judge conduct by how thick documents are or how loudly slogans are shouted. Instead, they judge whether someone listens to their concerns, takes responsibility for their difficulties and handles their affairs, and whether every matter is addressed and receives a response.

Since the beginning of the new era, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made formulating and implementing the central Party leadership's eight-point decision its starting point and breakthrough. It has resolved the questions of what to focus on and how to improve conduct under new circumstances, opening a new chapter in which Chinese Communists in the new era reject unhealthy practices and promote integrity. The eight-point decision has become a set of firm rules and strict requirements that remain effective over the long term.

Once the eight-point decision was put in place, the entire endeavor to improve conduct gained momentum.

Since the beginning of the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led by example and set a standard from the top, making more than a hundred domestic inspection and research visits and traveling throughout the country. Always among the people, he has sought to understand actual conditions and emphasized practical results, setting an example for the whole Party in valuing research, conducting it in depth and doing it well.

Since the beginning of the new era, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has insisted on resolving whatever problems arise and concentrating corrective action on the most prominent problems. Focusing on correcting the “Four Forms of Misconduct,” it has taken action against pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance. From curbing “waste at the dining table,” stopping “corruption on wheels” and addressing “unhealthy practices in private clubs” to correcting “political achievement projects” and “vanity projects,” it has tackled the prominent problem of grassroots governance having too few resources for too many responsibilities, likened to “a small horse pulling a large cart.” It has addressed pointless formalities to reduce burdens on the grassroots, tackling mountains of paperwork and seas of meetings, assessments by multiple authorities, excessive demands for documentary records, and plentiful declarations with poor implementation. It has encouraged officials to shift from emphasizing paperwork and records to emphasizing practical results, holding firm at each critical juncture and strengthening foundations through regular, long-term efforts. In doing so, it has halted some unhealthy practices that had long persisted and corrected some deeply entrenched problems that had remained unresolved for years.

Conduct is linked to public support, and public support concerns the foundations of governance. As General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out, when the Party's conduct is upright, the people feel at ease, and the Party and the people can share both good times and hardship.

Since the beginning of the new era, 1.644 million cases involving the “Four Forms of Misconduct” have been investigated and handled nationwide, and 1.499 million people have been disciplined. A 2025 National Bureau of Statistics survey showed that 95.5% of respondents acknowledged the results of implementing the spirit of the central Party leadership's eight-point decision, and 92.2% were satisfied with the improvement in social conduct brought about by changes in Party and government conduct. Practicing economy and opposing waste have taken root among the public, while a social atmosphere that values integrity, frugality, civility and rationality continues to develop, bringing about coordinated improvements in Party and government conduct, social conduct and public customs.

Changes in Party and government conduct have given officials the confidence to act, fostered clean and straightforward working practices, and won public approval.

Today, more and more grassroots officials are leaving their offices and drawing closer to the people, devoting more energy to promoting development, improving people's livelihoods and guarding against risks. They are taking responsibility and acting on the front lines of rural revitalization, grassroots governance and major projects, continuously strengthening the modernization of the grassroots governance system and its capacity, and forging closer ties between the Party and the public and between officials and the people.

Improving conduct is always an ongoing endeavor; it is never finished.

During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the difficult areas of reform, the main fronts of development and the places where people face pressing difficulties will all test officials' conduct. Party members and officials at all levels are rallying support and strength through fine conduct, ensuring that the CPC Central Committee's decisions and plans are implemented fully and effectively, and providing Chinese modernization with the broadest, most reliable and firmest public foundation and source of strength.

This is the record of conduct that Chinese Communists in the new era have delivered.