Why has General Secretary Xi Jinping elevated “Strict Discipline of the Party” to the highest level of national importance? Why is the unprecedented anti-corruption campaign so relentless? Answers relate to a more basic question: How has the Party, China’s ruling party, the Communist Party of China, the CPC, led China to its remarkable development and modernization? How has the Party adapted to changing conditions, kept up with the times? What can we learn from the Party’s history, its triumphs and tragedies? What is it about the Party’s past that it must now be rejuvenated? But can it assistant perpetually ruling Party? Is self-establish credible checks and balances? Is transparency the Party’s foe or friend? What challenges does the Party face? What does the Party consider its greatest dangers? And what are its enduring ideals, it’s visions for the future? What is the significance of “Xi’s renewal of the Party”?

General Secretary Xi’s determination to root-out corruption - caging “tigers” and swatting “flies”, and cutting the wasteful and detested perks of officialdom - is altering how Party officials in government, and Party executives in state-owned enterprises, work and even think. In addition to building clean government, Xi’s anti-corruption enforcement is said to enhance political stability and unity by eliminating disruptive factors and improves the efficient allocation of resources by attenuating suboptimal transactions enacted for illicit, personal gain. The CPC, The Party, is a work in process. For the world to understand the China, it must understand why the Party asserts that its continuing political leadership is optimum for China’s development.

One key is the Party’s adaptability, stressing experimentation and testing of new policies. Yet for the CPC to continue to earn its ruling status, it has a higher obligation to enhance standards of living and personal well-being, which includes rule of law, transparency in government, public oversight, institutionalize checks and balances, increasing democracy, various freedoms, and human rights. The CPC claims a historic mission. The significance of “Xi’s renewal of the Party” will be the endurance of the Party. That’s Closer To China.