Foreign political party representatives have spoken highly of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) commitment to full and rigorous self-governance, saying its experience in strengthening Party discipline, combating corruption and putting people first offers valuable lessons for socialist parties around the world.

They shared their views with CGTN on the sidelines of the 16th World Socialism Forum, held in Beijing from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Said Bakkali, a member of the Political Bureau of Morocco's Party of Progress and Socialism, said self-governance is essential to maintaining a political party's strength and integrity.

He highlighted the CPC's efforts to combat corruption within the Party, describing corruption as a disease that could "destroy the party from inside."

"So no tolerance, or zero tolerance with corruption, because corruption creates abnormal relationships between party members and outside of party members, and that can weaken the party integrity," he said.

Humphrey Moshi, director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, also commended China's sustained efforts to fight corruption, identifying them as one of the factors behind the country's social and economic progress.

Moshi noted that although a number of African countries, including Tanzania, have laws and provisions aimed at combating corruption, implementation remains a challenge.

"Without fighting corruption, it will be very difficult for Tanzania and other African countries in particular to move forward," he said, adding that African countries had much to learn from China's determination to translate anti-corruption commitments into concrete action.

Beyond fighting corruption, both Bakkali and Moshi highlighted the CPC's close ties with the people as an important aspect of its governance approach.

The leadership of the CPC have been consistent in terms of ensuring that they serve the people and the people come first, said Moshi. And in Bakkali's opinion, it's important that the CPC's self-governance maintains a close connection to the people, including normal citizens, workers and the working class.

Kaivon Kjems, international secretary of the Communist Party of Denmark, said, "People-centric development doesn't happen spontaneously." It needs a strong party that's disciplined, he added.

Taking the example that there are people, who are born within the capitalist system, coming into the Communist Party, Kjems said in those cases, it takes discipline and sincerity to shape people into capable cadres.

The CPC's commitment to self-reform also drew attention from Adam Barbato Shoufani, general secretary of the Swiss Communist Youth.

He said undertaking self-reform requires a party to acknowledge that there are problems to be addressed. "This is a very sign of courage, a very sign of bravery that is missing in a lot of parties in Europe, or was missing in a lot in parties in the history of the international communist movement," he said.

The two-day World Socialism Forum, which brought together more than 80 participants from 40 countries, including leaders of foreign communist parties, influential Marxist scholars, social activists and diplomats from foreign missions in China, came at a time when the global left-wing parties seek to play a bigger role in facilitating their countries's development.

Bakkali said the CPC is very important for communist internationalism because it is a vibrant and brilliant example of how a Marxist party can rule a country, especially a vast and populated country like China.

Noting that Morocco's Progress and Socialism Party has an 83-year history, Bakkali said the party has always maintained a very great relationship and cooperation with the CPC.

Bakkali added that Morocco's Progress and Socialism Party is learning a lot from the CPC's self-governance and efforts in terms of searching peaceful resolutions to conflicts.

"I think that the CPC is bringing innovative solutions and ideas to strengthen not only the communist socialist internationalism, but also to bring new ideas to international community, to international organizations, to find peaceful and lasting resolutions to different conflicts around the world," Bakkali said.

Echoing Bakkali, Moshi said how China, under the leadership of CPC, cooperates with other countries is impressive. Taking the example of Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which centering on the principle of sovereign equality, Moshi said China doesn't interfere with the internal affairs and respects the sovereignty of other countries, all those earn a lot of respect for the CPC and worth learning for African political parties.

Kjems and Shoufani, as representatives from European left-wing parties, both agreed there are a lot to learn from the CPC.

"The lessons are numerous, and it's hard to pinpoint just one. But the fact that it's not just talk, it's action that the CPC pushes," said Kjems. Taking China's Five-year plans as an example, Kjems said China actually carried out those plans, emphasizing that putting words into practice is what truly matters.

Shoufani noted that in Europe, the political class does not answer to the people anymore, but "it answers to the interests of profit," whereas the CPC stays dedicated to serving the people.