Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China on the morning of the 6th. He emphasized that since the new era, the efforts to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the fight against corruption have been unprecedented, and the results are evident. We must always maintain the tenacity and perseverance of the fight against corruption, maintain strategic determination and a high-pressure situation, and advance without pause or retreat, promoting a comprehensive approach to not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, resolutely fighting this tough, protracted, and overall battle.

Standing Committee members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Ding Xuexiang attended the meeting. Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over the meeting.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in 2024, the Party Central Committee will adhere to leading social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, consistently promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, achieving new progress and results. The entire Party has a clearer understanding and more determined action on the major issue of self-revolution; solidly carrying out Party discipline education, the awareness of compliance among Party members has significantly increased; continuously increasing efforts against corruption, eliminating the soil and conditions for corruption to thrive; deeply carrying out concentrated rectification of improper conduct and corruption issues around the masses, solving a large number of prominent issues strongly reflected by the masses; deepening institutional governance of the Party and governance according to regulations, further enhancing the Party's ability to lead the fight against corruption and promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.
Xi Jinping emphasized that corruption is the greatest threat facing our Party, and the fight against corruption is the most thorough self-revolution. Entering the new era, facing prominent issues in the Party's internal integrity and anti-corruption struggle, we insist on fighting against corruption and punishing greed, continuously purifying the cadre team, maintaining the Party's image, consolidating the red territory, winning the historical initiative to ensure that the Party does not change its quality, color, or flavor, and winning the historical initiative for the Party to unite and lead the people in the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the current situation of the fight against corruption remains severe and complex. The existing corruption has not been eliminated, and new cases continue to occur, making the task of eliminating the soil and conditions for corruption still arduous. Understanding the fight against corruption must have a historical perspective and strategic height, focusing on achieving the Party's mission and tasks. The fight against corruption must be unwavering; any hesitation, slackness, or halfway abandonment will lead to subversive mistakes. We must resolutely clarify various misunderstandings, clear the fog of thought, and further strengthen the determination and confidence in the fight against corruption.
Xi Jinping emphasized that in the new era and new journey, we must adhere to managing the Party with a reform spirit and strict standards, striving for greater results, ensuring that the deployments of the 20th National Congress and the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee are implemented, and ensuring that the Party always becomes the strong leadership core of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics, promoting the steady and far-reaching development of Chinese-style modernization.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we must promote the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision. We must be highly consistent with the Party Central Committee and ensure that words are followed by actions. In terms of thought, we must persistently strengthen the armed theory of the Party's innovation, accurately grasp the Party Central Committee's goals and deployment requirements for reform and development in this region, department, and field, ensuring unified thought and direction. Politically, we must adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, strictly enforce political discipline and political rules, and never allow the 'seven things' to happen, ensuring consistency between words and actions. In action, we must focus on the implementation of the Party Central Committee's various decision-making deployments as a key point of political supervision, working together to promote reform and high-quality development.
Xi Jinping emphasized that strengthening the Party's discipline construction is a regular task, guiding Party members and cadres to transform external regulation into self-discipline, internalizing it into daily unwitting behavioral norms. Establish a normalized and long-term discipline education mechanism, ensuring that discipline education runs through the entire cycle of cadre growth and integrates into the entire process of organizational management. Strictly enforce the Party's discipline, accurately apply the 'four forms', be pragmatic and fair, catch issues early and small, prevent minor problems from escalating, and unify strict management and supervision with encouraging responsibility, allowing cadres to innovate and work hard within the framework of compliance.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we must deeply promote the simultaneous investigation and treatment of wind and corruption. We must always adhere to zero tolerance, treating the eight central regulations as iron rules and hard constraints, seriously investigating violations of discipline and the 'four winds' issues that are hidden and mutated, urging Party members and cadres to resolutely oppose privilege thinking and phenomena, and firmly establish a correct view of power, performance, and career. We must always maintain a high-pressure situation against corruption, focusing on key issues, key areas, and key targets, deepening the investigation of bribery and corruption together, and resolutely eliminating systemic corruption risks. Enhance the effectiveness of promoting reform through cases, improve the constraints and supervision mechanisms for power allocation and operation, and enrich effective methods for preventing and controlling new and hidden corruption. We must integrate the rectification of style, discipline, and anti-corruption, severely punish the intertwined issues of wind and corruption through 'simultaneous investigation', and eliminate the common roots of wind and corruption through 'simultaneous treatment'.
Xi Jinping emphasized that we must strengthen the main responsibility and supervisory responsibility for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Party committees must take the initiative to grasp and manage, and the discipline inspection commissions must fulfill their special supervisory responsibilities well, focusing on their main responsibilities and doing their main work, with all responsible entities knowing their responsibilities, shouldering their responsibilities, and fulfilling their responsibilities. We must optimize the responsibility implementation and evaluation mechanism, accurately and scientifically hold accountable for dereliction of duty.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we must continue to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to extend to the grassroots. Party committees at all levels, especially municipal and county Party committees, must normalize the rectification of improper conduct and corruption issues around the masses as an important task, making it tangible for the people. We must deepen the reform of the grassroots supervision system and mechanism, integrating discipline inspection and supervision with grassroots inspections and coordinating with various forms of supervision. Implement a long-term mechanism for reducing the burden of formalism on the grassroots, allowing grassroots cadres to have more energy to focus on implementation.
Xi Jinping emphasized that discipline inspection and supervision agencies are an important force in promoting the Party's self-revolution, and the Party and the people have full trust and high expectations for this team. We must deepen the reform of the discipline inspection and supervision system, adhering to the combination of authorization and control of power, putting power in the cage of the system. We must focus on strengthening the standardization, legalization, and normalization of discipline inspection and supervision work, continuously improving the ability to promote integrity, discipline, and anti-corruption. We must consolidate and expand the achievements of thematic education and educational rectification, insisting that to forge iron, one must be strong oneself, strengthening strict management and supervision, and building a loyal, clean, responsible, and capable discipline inspection and supervision team.
Li Xi, while presiding over the meeting, pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech fully affirms the new progress and results of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the past year, profoundly grasping the basic laws of the fight against corruption with a high historical perspective, deeply analyzing the current situation of the fight against corruption, and putting forward clear requirements for resolutely fighting the tough, protracted, and overall battle against corruption, as well as strategic deployments for deeply promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The speech is far-sighted, profound in thought, directly addresses issues, and is thought-provoking, providing important guidance for deeply promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the fight against corruption. We must deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the 'two establishments', enhance the 'four consciousnesses', strengthen the 'four confidences', and achieve the 'two safeguards', firmly build confidence, dare to fight, earnestly fulfill the political responsibility of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, and promote the fight against corruption in depth.
Members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, secretaries of the Central Secretariat, relevant leaders of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilors, the President of the Supreme People's Court, the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, relevant leaders of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and members of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
Members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, main responsible comrades from various departments of the central and state organs, people's organizations, and relevant military units attended the meeting. The meeting was held in the form of a video conference, with sub-venues set up in each province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the central government, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and relevant military units.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing on January 6. The Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection presided over the meeting. In the afternoon of the 6th, Li Xi, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, delivered a work report titled "Deepening the Promotion of Party Conduct and Clean Government Construction and Anti-Corruption Struggles, Providing Strong Guarantee for Advancing Chinese-style Modernization with New Achievements in Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party."