Based on the decision of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee, this paper talks about how to improve and strengthen the party's economic construction under the new situation.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is an important meeting held during the important strategic opportunity period when the international situation continues to undergo profound changes and China is in the further development. The plenary session heard and discussed the work report made by General Secretary Hu Jintao entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and fully affirmed the Political Bureau of the Central Committee's work since the Third Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee. The plenary session deliberated and adopted the Decision of the Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Strengthening and Improving Party Building under the New Situation (hereinafter referred to as the Decision). In his speech at the plenary session, General Secretary Hu Jintao put forward clear requirements for conscientiously implementing the spirit of the plenary session and doing all the current work well. The Decision fully implements the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, takes Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents as the guidance, thoroughly implements Scientific Outlook on Development, profoundly analyzes the new situation and new tasks faced by Party building, conscientiously summarizes the basic experience of our Party in strengthening its own construction over the past 60 years, and puts forward the overall requirements, objectives and tasks for strengthening Party building. The tasks and important measures to strengthen and improve Party building have made strategic arrangements for strengthening and improving Party building under the new situation, and are programmatic documents guiding Party building at present and in the future.

First, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee focused on the strategic considerations of party building and the drafting process of the Decision.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). What is the theme of the central plenary session held at this time is a major issue that needs to be seriously considered and comprehensively grasped from the overall situation of the work of the party and the state. The Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China studied the problems of strengthening and improving Party building under the new situation, mainly considering the following points.

First, to realize the grand blueprint drawn by the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we need to further strengthen and improve the strategic research on Party building. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China described the grand blueprint for building a well-off society in an all-round way, accelerating socialist modernization and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and clearly put forward the overall plan for strengthening and improving Party building. Since the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has made a series of decisions, done a lot of work and achieved new results. At the same time, we believe that China is in an important period of strategic opportunities for further development, and it is also in a period of prominent contradictions. In its development, it presents a series of new stage characteristics, and a series of new situations and new problems have emerged. At present, the new situation at home and abroad, the new requirements of reform, development and stability, and the new expectations of the people urgently require our party to further strengthen its own construction in the spirit of reform and innovation, improve its leadership and ruling level, further enhance its creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, and better unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to win new victories in building a well-off society in an all-round way and create a new situation in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Second, to cope with the challenges and risks of the international situation, especially the impact of the international financial crisis, and to maintain steady and rapid economic development, it is required to further strengthen and improve Party building. The world today is in a period of great development, great change and great adjustment. World multipolarization and economic globalization are developing in depth, scientific and technological progress is changing with each passing day, the world economic structure is undergoing new changes, the international power comparison is showing a new trend, the global ideological and cultural exchanges and blending are showing new characteristics, developed countries still have advantages in economic science and technology, the competition between comprehensive national strength and various forces is more intense, and unstable and uncertain factors are increasing, which brings new opportunities and challenges to China's development. In particular, the international financial crisis has seriously impacted the world economy and brought great difficulties to China's economic development. To cope with the complicated and changeable international situation and accomplish the arduous and arduous task of reform and development, it is required to further strengthen Party building, give full play to the leading core role of Party committees, the fighting bastion role of grass-roots party organizations and the vanguard and exemplary role of party member, and turn the political and organizational advantages of the Party into a powerful force to promote sound and rapid economic and social development.

Third, to consolidate and expand the achievements of studying and practicing Scientific Outlook on Development activities, we need to take further effective measures to strengthen and improve Party building. According to the deployment of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party began to carry out in-depth study and practice of Scientific Outlook on Development in three batches from last September. At present, the first batch has ended, the second batch has basically come to an end, and the third batch started in early September this year and will basically end in February next year. In the study and practice of Scientific Outlook on Development, Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party member have made great efforts to change their ideas and concepts that do not meet the requirements of scientific development, to solve outstanding problems that affect and restrict scientific development, to solve outstanding problems that are strongly reflected by the masses in the party spirit, party style and party discipline of cadres in party member, to build institutional mechanisms conducive to scientific development, and to create many new experiences and new measures to promote party building. Consolidate and expand the achievements of in-depth study and practice of Scientific Outlook on Development activities, better embody the requirements of Scientific Outlook on Development in party building, educate and guide party member cadres to enhance their consciousness and firmness in implementing Scientific Outlook on Development, promote people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable scientific development, and realize, safeguard and develop the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people.

Fourth, pay close attention to solving the outstanding problems existing in the party and demand further strengthening party building. Over the past 30 years of reform and opening-up, our party has developed and strengthened in carrying forward the past and keeping pace with the times, and has made remarkable achievements in party building. At present, the Party's leadership and ruling level, Party building and the quality of party member's team are generally in line with the historical mission shouldered by the Party. At the same time, great changes have taken place in the composition of the party's cadres, and many new situations have emerged in terms of ideology, quality and ability. Many young cadres lack strict inner-party life training and major political turmoil, and the construction of cadres needs to be strengthened urgently. More importantly, at present, there are many problems in the party that do not meet the requirements of the new situation and new tasks and do not conform to the nature and purpose of the party. The "Decision" summarizes the existing problems from six aspects: ideals and beliefs, democratic centralism, the construction of leading bodies and cadres, the construction of grassroots party organizations, the construction of work style, and the construction of anti-corruption. Although these problems are not the mainstream of the party's ranks, they have seriously weakened the party's creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, seriously damaged the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the people, and seriously affected the consolidation of the party's ruling position and the realization of its ruling mission. Our party is a big party with more than 3.7 million grass-roots organizations and more than 75 million party member, and the task of building such a big party is very arduous. Problems within the Party exist objectively, and solving these problems is a long and complicated process, which cannot be achieved overnight. However, we must face up to the existing problems and solve them as soon as possible, and we must not let them go. If the existing problems are not effectively solved, it will be difficult to implement the strategic plan made by the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and realize the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.

In short, fully implementing the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China requires our Party to better assume the responsibility of managing and strictly administering the Party, fully implement the responsibility system for party building, conduct centralized research and redeployment on some major issues of party building, and comprehensively promote the new great project of party building.

In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, every time the Party's National Congress meets, a central plenary session will be arranged to discuss Party building. 1The Second Plenary Session of the 12th CPC Central Committee held in June, 1983 deliberated and adopted the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's decision on Party consolidation; 1The Sixth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee held in March, 1990 deliberated and adopted the Decision of the Central Committee on Strengthening the Party's Contact with the People. 1The Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee held in September, 1994 deliberated and adopted the Decision of the Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Strengthening Party Building. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee held in September 2006 deliberated and adopted the Decision of the Central Committee on Strengthening and Improving the Party's Work Style. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee held in September, 2004 deliberated and adopted the Decision of the Central Committee on Strengthening the Construction of the Party's Ruling Ability. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has made overall arrangements for comprehensively promoting the new great project of Party building, and it is necessary to convene a plenary session of the Central Committee to make arrangements for implementation.

The decision of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee was drafted under the leadership of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau (PSC). In March this year, General Secretary Hu Jintao delivered an important speech at the first plenary meeting of the document drafting group, profoundly expounded the importance and urgency of strengthening and improving Party building under the new situation, put forward problems that need to be deeply considered and studied in the process of document drafting, put forward requirements for the drafting work, and pointed out the direction. The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held several meetings to discuss and consider the draft decision, and put forward many guiding opinions and important amendments. In the process of its formation, the "Decision" adhered to the mass line, fully promoted democracy, extensively concentrated the wisdom of the whole party, and constantly condensed the knowledge of the whole party, which reflected the requirements of scientific and democratic decision-making. At the beginning of the drafting of the document, the central government issued a notice to solicit opinions from various regions and departments on the Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and organized 18 central departments and units to carry out special investigations, resulting in 25 special investigation reports. At the same time, the document drafting team went to 12 province to conduct special investigation, and widely listened to the opinions and suggestions of local cadres at all levels, grassroots party member and experts and scholars. In the process of drafting the document, opinions and suggestions from all sides were fully studied and absorbed. After the "Decision" draft was formed, the Central Committee once again sent the "Decision" draft to the whole party for extensive comments. According to statistics, the number of people seeking opinions is ***2995. General Secretary Hu Jintao personally presided over a forum to listen to the opinions of leaders of the central committees of democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and personages without party affiliation. The CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to the opinions of all parties and requires the drafting group to study and absorb them one by one, and enrich, revise and improve the final draft. The important viewpoints and main measures put forward in the decision adopted by the plenary session come from the exploration and practice of party organizations at all levels, from the brainstorming of the whole party, and from opinions from all sides, which have a solid practical foundation and mass foundation.

Second, the basic experience of strengthening our party's self-construction since it came to power throughout the country.

Marked by the founding of New China, our Party has changed from leading the people in their struggle for national political power to leading the people in mastering national political power and realizing the transition from new democracy to socialism. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our party began to change from the ruling party leading national construction under the conditions of external blockade and planned economy to the ruling party leading national construction under the conditions of opening to the outside world and implementing socialist market economy. Both history and reality show that party building after our party is in power is much more complicated than when it is not in power, and it is also much more complicated under the conditions of opening to the outside world and socialist market economy than under the conditions of closed and semi-closed and planned economy. Over the past 60 years, our party has made in-depth exploration and practice on what kind of party to build and how to build it under the conditions of long-term governance, reform and opening up and the development of socialist market economy. The course it has gone through is magnificent and unusual, and the accumulated experience is very rich. It is very necessary and important to systematically summarize the successful experience of Party building in the past 60 years, and constantly enrich and develop it in combination with new practices to improve the level of Party building work under the new situation. Based on this consideration, the "Decision" summarizes the basic experience of strengthening self-construction since our party came to power from six aspects.

(a) adhere to the ideological and theoretical construction in the first place, improve the Marxist level of the whole party. This experience reflects the importance of ideological and theoretical construction for our ruling party with more than 75 million party member, and reveals the political advantages of our party in attaching importance to ideological construction and being good at using Marxist theory to build and revitalize the party. Looking back at history, it is precisely because of this political advantage that we can build a united, disciplined, brave and capable vanguard of the working class in the old China society, where the proletariat is small, farmers and other petty bourgeoisie account for the vast majority of the population and the economy and culture are very backward. After being in power all over the country, our Party persisted in combining the basic principles of Marxism with the specific reality and characteristics of the times in China, constantly promoted the China, modernization and popularization of Marxism, constantly innovated in practice, and made new achievements in theory, especially in the great practice of reform and opening up, and formed a theoretical system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics including Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development. Over the past 60 years, our Party has persisted in taking the study and application of Marxist theory as the central content of cadre education in party member, paying attention to the combination of regular education and timely centralized education in party member, and constantly improving the Marxist theoretical level of the whole Party. Especially when the Party and the country are at a turning point in history, the career development is at a new starting point, great difficulties are encountered on the way forward, the world socialist movement is in turmoil, and hostile forces at home and abroad take the opportunity to create ideological confusion, our party pays more attention to arming party member and educating cadres with scientific theories, which plays an important role in unifying the party's thinking and rallying the party's strength. The practice of 60 years has proved that if we persist in taking ideological and theoretical construction as the fundamental construction, keeping pace with the times as the party's guiding ideology, and arming the whole party with developing Marxism, the development of the cause of the party and the state will have a solid theoretical foundation, a correct direction of progress and a strong spiritual motivation, and we will be able to constantly open up new situations.

(2) Insist on closely integrating the great project of Party building with the great cause led by the Party, and ensure that the Party will always be the strong leadership core of the socialist cause. This experience embodies the fundamental guiding principle that party building must obey the historical task of serving the party, and reveals the close relationship, mutual promotion and complementary interaction between the great project of party building and the great cause led by the party. The Communist Party of China (CPC)'s leadership is the most fundamental political and organizational guarantee for promoting revolution, construction and reform, and Party building is an important magic weapon for the continuous victory of the great cause led by the Party. Over the past 60 years, our party has persisted in making good use of this magic weapon, and has always combined the transformation of the objective world with the transformation of the subjective world, not only promoting party building closely around the great cause led by the party, but also promoting the great cause by strengthening and improving party building. In the early days of the founding of New China, our party closely combined with the central task of democratic reform and restoring the national economy to strengthen its own construction, further enhancing the combat effectiveness of party organizations; On the other hand, relying on the strong leadership of the party and the strong support of the people, our party consolidated the new people's political power, quickly restored and developed the economy, and completed the transition from new democracy to socialism. After the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (1956), our party led the people to explore the road of socialist construction suited to China's national conditions, during which successes and setbacks alternated, and right and wrong intertwined. Generally speaking, China's achievements in socialist construction are enormous. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our party made a historic decision to shift the work center of the party and the state to economic construction and implement reform and opening up, and strengthened and improved party building closely around the basic line of "one center and two basic points", which not only initiated and continuously promoted the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, but also initiated and continuously promoted the new great project of party building. 60 years' practice has proved that party building must follow the party's political line, focus on the party's central task, especially develop the party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, strengthen towards the overall goal of party building, and strive to improve the party's creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness. If we grasp this article, the party's construction will be fundamental, the party will win the heartfelt support of the people, and the country's development will advance in the right direction.

(3) Adhere to the construction of ruling ability and advanced nature as the main line to ensure that the Party is always at the forefront of the times. This experience embodies the leading role of the construction of ruling ability and advanced nature in the new great project of party building, and reveals the historical truth that improving the party's ruling ability and maintaining and developing the party's advanced nature are related to the life and death of the Marxist ruling party. In the past 20 years, some big parties and old parties in the world have lost their ruling status, especially some Marxist ruling parties. The painful lesson shows that the ruling position of a political party is not innate, nor is it once and for all. Having in the past does not mean having now, and having now does not mean having forever; The progress of a political party cannot be achieved overnight, nor is it static. Being advanced in the past does not mean being advanced now, and being advanced now does not mean being advanced forever. The class foundation of China * * production party is the working class, the ideological foundation is Marxism, the fundamental purpose is to serve the people wholeheartedly, the goal and lofty ideal are to build Socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize * * * productism, and the fundamental leadership system and organizational system are democratic centralism. These main aspects reflect the advanced nature of our party as a Marxist political party. Over the past 60 years, our Party has carried out these fundamental requirements in all its ruling activities, which is reflected in the actions of the Party organization and party member in ruling on behalf of and relying on the people, thus maintaining and developing the Party's advanced nature. This is the fundamental reason why our party has made remarkable ruling achievements. The practice of 60 years has proved that the test of governance, reform and opening up, market economy and external environment faced by our party under the new historical conditions is long-term, complex and severe; To withstand these tests and undertake the great mission entrusted by the people and history, the Party must earnestly strengthen the construction of its ruling ability and advanced nature, constantly improve its ruling ability and its ability to resist corruption and prevent degeneration, and realize scientific, democratic and legal governance. If we persist in doing so, our Party will always be a strong leading core in the historical process of developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(4) Insist on building the Party for the public and governing for the people, and maintain the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people. This experience reflects that building the party for the public and governing for the people is the fundamental political requirement that our party must always practice, and reveals the important thought of historical materialism that the people are the source of our party's strength and the foundation of governance. It is the historical necessity and the people's choice for our party to be in power in China. The party has been in power all over the country for 60 years. Despite such twists and turns, the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly has never changed. Since the reform and opening up, our party has adhered to the Marxist fundamental viewpoint that the people are the creators of history, adhered to the people-oriented principle, adhered to the party's mass line, gave full play to the people's initiative spirit, and guided all the people to devote themselves enthusiastically to building a bright future of the motherland and their own happy lives. This has not only won the support and support of the people, but also won a powerful driving force for unremitting struggle for the interests of the people, so that our party has drawn infinite wisdom from the people to win victory. 60 years of practice has proved that the foundation of the party lies in the people, the blood of the party lies in the people, the strength of the party lies in the people, and the success or failure of the party lies in the people. As a tried and tested Marxist political party, the China Productive Party's greatest political advantage is to keep close contact with the masses, and the greatest danger after the party takes office is to be divorced from the masses. If the party is divorced from the masses, it will lose the support of the masses, fundamentally lose its advanced nature and eventually lose its ruling qualification. To strengthen and improve Party building under the new situation, the most important and fundamental thing is to adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and always take the realization, maintenance and development of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the starting point and the end result of all the Party's work, organize and mobilize all Party comrades to rely on the people closely, unswervingly strive for the fundamental interests of the people of China and the Chinese nation, and make power serve, love and benefit the people. As long as we unswervingly adhere to this fundamental political stance and always implement and embody this political stance in all the theories and practices of the Party, our Party will be able to gain an inexhaustible source of strength and remain invincible.

(5) Persist in reform and innovation and enhance the vitality of the Party. This experience embodies our party's way of governing the country, which is brave in innovation, never rigid and never stagnant, and reveals the fundamental mystery that our party has always maintained its true colors as a Marxist political party, never divorced from the masses and full of vitality. Reform and innovation are the only way to liberate and develop productive forces, and also the only way to enhance the creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness of the party. Over the past 60 years, especially since the reform and opening up, our party has closely combined the new historical conditions and new historical tasks, persisted in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, constantly studied the new situations and new problems faced by party building, and constantly promoted the practical innovation, theoretical innovation and institutional innovation of party building, so that party building can constantly adapt to the development requirements of the party's cause. From creating and constantly promoting the new great project of party building to establishing the overall layout of "five in one" party building: ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction, system construction, anti-corruption construction; From proposing and continuously promoting the construction of the party's ruling ability to proposing and continuously promoting the construction of the party's advanced nature; From measures to expand inner-party democracy, such as differential elections and open party affairs, to establishing a scientific, democratic and legal ruling concept; From the abolition of life tenure in leadership positions to the reform of cadre and personnel system such as open selection, competition for posts, democratic recommendation and democratic evaluation of cadres, Party building has achieved a series of innovative achievements in theory and practice. The practice of 60 years has proved that adhering to the Party's ideological line, examining ourselves with the requirements of the development of the times and improving and perfecting ourselves with the spirit of reform and innovation are the decisive factors for our Party to maintain its advanced nature and enhance its creativity. There is no end to the development of the cause of the party and the state, and there is no end to the reform and innovation of party building. To strengthen and improve Party building under the new situation, we should not only adhere to the basic principles of Marxism, but also write a new theoretical chapter, inherit the revolutionary tradition, create fresh experience, be good at solving difficult problems in Party building by means of reform, be good at exploring ways to improve the Party's ruling ability and maintain and develop the Party's advanced nature with innovative ideas, and strive to continuously achieve new development in theory and innovate in practice. In particular, it is necessary to innovate the Party's leadership system and working mechanism, establish and improve an institutional system based on party constitution and centered on democratic centralism, and effectively improve the scientific, institutionalized and standardized level of Party building.

(6) Insist that the Party should manage the Party and improve the level of managing the Party. This experience reflects our party's fundamental policy of managing the party and reveals that only by strictly administering the party can we maintain and develop the regular understanding of the party's advanced nature under the new historical conditions. It is our party's consistent requirement and fine tradition that the party should govern the party, which is determined by the nature of the party, its position in national and social life and its historical mission. In the early days of the founding of New China, in order to consolidate the political power and develop the economy, a large-scale rectification movement was launched throughout the Party from May 65438 to May 0950, which overcame the ideas of bureaucracy, pride in credit and "the revolution is over" in the party and government organs. Party consolidation from 195 1 to 1954 taught party member how to produce party member under the ruling situation, and cleaned up the impure elements and negative backward elements in party member's ranks. The Eighth National Congress of our Party put forward the requirements of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way from strengthening ideological education, perfecting the system and strengthening supervision. Since the reform and opening up, in the face of profound changes in the ruling conditions and social environment, our party has taken the party's management of the party and strict management of the party as the fundamental policy of party building and conscientiously implemented it. From 1983, it took three and a half years to rectify the party's style and organization. Since then, the party spirit and style education with "stressing study, politics and healthy atmosphere" as the main content has been carried out among the party and government leading bodies and leading cadres at or above the county level. Theory of Three Represents's theoretical study and education activities have been carried out in rural areas all over the country, and the educational activities of maintaining the advanced nature of Communist party member with the practice of Theory of Three Represents Theory as the main content have been carried out in the whole party. At present, the whole party is studying and practicing deeply. These measures of strictly administering the party have played a very important role in upholding the party's leadership and strengthening party building. 60 years of practice has proved that governing the country must first govern the party, and the party must be strict. To adhere to the comprehensive and strict administration of the party, we must act in strict accordance with party constitution and the party's systems and regulations; We must strictly demand, educate, manage and supervise party member, especially leading cadres; We must stress party spirit and principles in inner-party life, promote healthy trends and oppose unhealthy practices; We must strictly enforce the party's discipline and insist that everyone is equal before discipline. In particular, it is necessary to strengthen the building of a clean and honest party style, persistently carry out the anti-corruption struggle, resolutely correct unhealthy trends that harm the interests of the masses, constantly solve their own problems, and always maintain the advanced nature and purity of the Party.

On the whole, the six basic experiences summarized in the Decision reflect our party's rich practice of strengthening its own construction after taking power in the whole country, condense the painstaking efforts of several generations of producers in China, and embody and deepen our understanding of the ruling law of producers, the law of socialist construction and the law of human social development. They are extremely valuable assets of our party, which must be paid more attention to and cherished, and must be used to strengthen and improve party building under the new situation. Being good at summing up experience is a scientific leadership method for our party to carry forward achievements, correct mistakes and improve itself, and it is also a fine tradition of the party. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China summed up the basic experience of our party in leading the people to build Socialism with Chinese characteristics's "Ten Persistences", the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China summed up the six main experiences of our party in power in the past 50 years, and the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China summed up the valuable experience of "Ten Combinations" in the past 30 years of reform and opening up. These experiences have played and will continue to play an important guiding role in continuously improving the leadership level and ruling ability of our party. We believe that if we fully grasp and apply the six basic experiences summarized in the Decision and constantly enrich and develop them in practice, Party building will be raised to a new level.