CPC Committed to Full and Rigorous Self-governance

By: Mr. XU Jian, Charge d’Affaires of Chinese Embassy in Sudan

From October 26 to 29, 2026, the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing. The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Certain Major Issues concerning Persevering with Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance, adopted at the session, makes systematic arrangements regarding how to supervise, govern, develop, and strengthen the Party on the new journey, receiving extensive attention from the international community. As Chargé d’Affaires of the Chinese Ambassy in Sudan, I have had many opportunities to exchange national governance best practices with Sudanese friends from various sectors. A widely asked question is how China has achieved rapid economic growth while maintaining long-term social stability — what is the secret behind these “two miracles”? History and reality have given a clear answer: China’s success hinges on the CPC, especially on the Party’s efforts to exercise full and rigorous self-governance.

The commitment to full and rigorous Party self-governance has its roots in the Party’s more than 100-year history of tenacious endeavor. The CPC was created for the people and has thrived because of the people. Since its founding in 1921, the CPC has grown from just over 50 members to the world’s largest governing party, with over 100 million members. In this process, the Party has always attached great importance to its self-supervision and self-governance, had the courage to uphold truth and correct errors, and grown ever stronger by relying on its own efforts and the support of the people to resolve its own problems, thus becoming the strong leadership core in the cause of the Party and the people. Since its 18th National Congress, the Party, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has made further progress in full and rigorous self-governance, a great new project of Party building in the new era. Since its founding, the Party has found two answers to the question of how to escape the historical cycle of rise and fall: the people’s oversight over government and the Party’s self-reform.

Advancing full and rigorous self-governance as an unceasing endeavor is a genuine need to deal with complicated situations and tackle unique challenges faced by a large party like the CPC. At present, momentous changes of a magnitude not seen in a century are unfolding across the world at a faster pace, while China’s development has entered a critical period as we work to reinforce the foundations and push ahead on all fronts toward basically realizing socialist modernization. The Party’s task of uniting and leading the people in promoting reform and development and in maintaining social harmony and stability has been even more formidable. The vast majority of Party members are exemplary, but the problems of defects in thinking, organization, and conduct have yet to be solved root and branch. The Party is confronted with the protracted, complicated, and daunting task of dealing with the tests in governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment, as well as the dangers of a lack of drive, incompetence, disengagement from the people, and inaction and corruption. Tackling these unique challenges that a large party like ours faces, therefore, calls for more arduous efforts. Although historical achievements have been made in advancing full and rigorous self-governance in the new era, it does not mean we can now sit back and relax. The long-term governance by the Party, and the complicated situations we face make it all the more important for us to be ever ready to protect against potential dangers and maintain strategic resolve. We must adopt higher standards and more concrete measures to resolve prominent problems so that we will be able to withstand all tests.

The commitment to full and rigorous Party self-governance is a natural choice of the Party to stay true to its founding mission and increase people’s well-being. The Party has no special interests of its own besides the interests of the working class and the greatest possible majority of the people. To strengthen Party building, we must stand firmly with the people, follow the Party’s mass line in the new era, foster and act on the correct view of performance, and exercise public power to the benefit of the people. Lifting nearly 100 million rural people out of extreme poverty and achieving fast economic growth while maintaining long-term social stability fully demonstrate the Party’s capacity in transforming effective self-governance into development outcomes. Maintaining its close bond with the people is the widest source of strength for the Party to lead the Chinese people in advancing Chinese modernization.

Strengthening the Party spirit represents a fundamental task in our efforts to ensure full and rigorous Party self-governance. The advanced nature and integrity of the Party must be ultimately reflected in the ideals and convictions, political character and real action of every Party member. We must encourage members to remain committed to strengthening ideals and convictions, forging strong loyalty to the Party, fostering a deep affection for the people, always seeking truth from facts, building moral character, and preserving honesty and integrity. Maintaining a lifelong commitment to cultivating stronger Party spirit will help us to be loyal, upright, and responsible. As the Party endeavors to supervise, govern, develop, and strengthen itself in the new era, Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building has been culminated to provide fundamental principles and a guide to action for further advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. We must build cohesion and inner strength with the Party’s new theories, nurture the Party spirit with the Party’s good traditions, and temper the Party spirit in practice. Doing so will enable us to maintain the true political character of communists.

To advance full and rigorous Party self-governance, we must unwaveringly apply strict principles. A long-term governing party is especially prone to growing complacent amid success and applause, and to allowing discipline to be weakened by personal connections or the tacit acceptance of established practices. In the new era, we have made great achievements in supervising, governing, developing, and strengthening the Party. We owe all of this to the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, which has been at the helm charting the course and demonstrated tremendous political courage and a strong sense of responsibility. Staying firmly committed to full and rigorous Party self-governance, the CPC Central Committee introduced stringent measures and made continuous efforts to tackle prominent issues. As a result, the problem of lax and weak self-supervision and self-governance has been addressed at its root. Nevertheless, applying strict principles are not a one-off effort. It is an inherent requirement for a long-term governing party to maintain its advanced nature and integrity. The conduct of the Party tells us how the support of the public will shift. If power goes unchecked, it can easily breed privilege and corruption, which will harm the interests of the people and undermine the foundations of the Party’s governance. Therefore, it is imperative to ensure strict principles, measures, and atmosphere on a long-term basis and exercise power in broad daylight and within an institutional cage. Only when the roles of hard-and-fast prohibitions and regulations are fully played, can our Party always have the people’s trust and serve as the strongest leading force in the process of Chinese modernization.

The CPC’s commitment to advancing full and rigorous self-governance is aimed at pursuing the country’s long-term development through Chinese modernization. This will also bring more stability and certainty to international cooperation. China pursues high-quality development, expands high-standard opening up, and respects other countries’ choice of development paths suited to their own conditions. China is willing to share governance experience on an equal footing, but will not export its model of development or attach any political strings. China and Sudan are traditional friends. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 67 years ago, the two countries have always given each other understanding and support on issues concerning our respective core interests. This year marks the beginning of the second decade of China-Sudan strategic partnership. Looking back on the first decade, political mutual trust, practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges have come to fruition. Entering a new decade, bilateral relations have even broader prospects. China stands ready to work with Sudan to implement the Sino-African ten partnership actions for modernization, give full play to China’s zero-tariff treatment and steadily advance practical cooperation. In this way, China will contribute its share to the restoration of peace and stability in Sudan and to its reconstruction, and development and prosperity. Together, we will write a new chapter of China-Sudan friendship and cooperation.

عن الكاتب

ادمن

تصفح كل موضعات الكاتب