Xi launches Party cleanup drive
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June 19, 2013, Wednesday
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A YEARLONG campaign to "clean up" undesirable work styles has been announced by China's Communist Party.
President Xi Jinping, who is also Party chief, said that formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance must go in order to ensure public support.
"The main task of the campaign focuses on building work styles," Xi, said during a tele-conference launching the campaign.
Party members should be critical and self-critical in the spirit of rectifying improper work styles, Xi said.
"Winning or losing public support is an issue that concerns the Party's survival or extinction," Xi said, stressing the importance of furthering ties with the people.
With "serving the people, being down-to-earth, upright and corruption-free" as its main content, the campaign could consolidate the Party's position as China's governing party, boost its creativity, cohesion and combat capabilities, maintain its advanced nature and purity, and win public trust and support, Xi said.
Despite the overall good relationship between the Party and the people, Xi reminded members against laxity, mediocrity, distancing themselves from the people and corruption.
These were the "four forms of decadence": formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance.
These were what people hated and complained about the most, severely damaging Party-people ties, Xi said.
The campaign would focus on Party organs and officials at or above the county level who would be required to reflect on their own practices and correct any misconduct.
Xi said the campaign should focus on self-purification, self-perfection, self-renewal and self-progression.
He also raised a metaphorical requirement for CPC members, using the phrase "watching from the mirror, grooming oneself, taking a bath and seeking remedies."
"Watching from the mirror" requires members to refer to the Party constitution as a mirror and to live up to discipline and public expectations.
"Grooming oneself" means correcting one's misconduct and projecting a good image for Party members.
"Taking a bath" requires members to keep a clean mind and behave properly.
"Seeking remedies" means educating or punishing those who engage in misconduct.
Xi said a long-term mechanism should be established to encourage Party members and officials to serve the people, be down-to-earth, upright and corruption-free as "the issue of improper work styles is prone to relapse."
The Party should take the campaign as an opportunity to introduce new rules, improve existing ones, and nullify outdated regulations, he said
President Xi Jinping, who is also Party chief, said that formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance must go in order to ensure public support.
"The main task of the campaign focuses on building work styles," Xi, said during a tele-conference launching the campaign.
Party members should be critical and self-critical in the spirit of rectifying improper work styles, Xi said.
"Winning or losing public support is an issue that concerns the Party's survival or extinction," Xi said, stressing the importance of furthering ties with the people.
With "serving the people, being down-to-earth, upright and corruption-free" as its main content, the campaign could consolidate the Party's position as China's governing party, boost its creativity, cohesion and combat capabilities, maintain its advanced nature and purity, and win public trust and support, Xi said.
Despite the overall good relationship between the Party and the people, Xi reminded members against laxity, mediocrity, distancing themselves from the people and corruption.
These were the "four forms of decadence": formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance.
These were what people hated and complained about the most, severely damaging Party-people ties, Xi said.
The campaign would focus on Party organs and officials at or above the county level who would be required to reflect on their own practices and correct any misconduct.
Xi said the campaign should focus on self-purification, self-perfection, self-renewal and self-progression.
He also raised a metaphorical requirement for CPC members, using the phrase "watching from the mirror, grooming oneself, taking a bath and seeking remedies."
"Watching from the mirror" requires members to refer to the Party constitution as a mirror and to live up to discipline and public expectations.
"Grooming oneself" means correcting one's misconduct and projecting a good image for Party members.
"Taking a bath" requires members to keep a clean mind and behave properly.
"Seeking remedies" means educating or punishing those who engage in misconduct.
Xi said a long-term mechanism should be established to encourage Party members and officials to serve the people, be down-to-earth, upright and corruption-free as "the issue of improper work styles is prone to relapse."
The Party should take the campaign as an opportunity to introduce new rules, improve existing ones, and nullify outdated regulations, he said
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