Xi calls for tougher Party management

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Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, called on Wednesday for tougher internal management of the CPC while delivering a work report at the opening session of the 19th Party Congress.

"Prominent problems of impurity in thinking, organization and conduct in the Party have not been solved root and branch," Xi admitted.

"We must guard against and correct with resolve the practices the people oppose and resent," Xi said, after years of cracking down on corruption and profligacy since he became China’s leader in 2012.

He said the general requirements for Party building are:

– Upholding and strengthening overall Party leadership and ensuring that the Party exercises effective self-supervision and practices strict self-governance in every respect;

– Taking strengthening the Party's long-term governance capacity and its advanced nature and purity as the main thrust; taking enhancing the Party's political building as the overarching principle; taking holding dear the Party's ideals, convictions, and purpose as the underpinning; and taking harnessing the whole Party's enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity as the focus of efforts;

– Making all-round efforts to see the Party's political building enhanced, its theory strengthened, its organizations consolidated, its conduct improved, and its discipline enforced, with institution building incorporated into every aspect of Party building;

– Stepping up efforts to combat corruption and continuing to improve the efficacy of Party building;

– Building the Party into a vibrant Marxist governing party that is always at the forefront of the times, enjoys the wholehearted support of the people, has the courage to reform itself, and is able to withstand all tests.

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