Strict Governance over the Party and the Military

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Xi Jinping has made major policy moves to enforce stricter discipline within the Party and the military. The key to building unbreakable discipline within the military lies in stricter discipline within the Party. Stronger and better disciplined Party organizations within the military ensure effective implementation of measures to strengthen discipline across military units.  

For its part the military has expressed unequivocal support for General Secretary Xi Jinping's core leadership role within the Central Committee and the Party as a whole, for the Central Committee's authority and centralized and unified leadership, and for the CMC chairperson responsibility system. It is committed to implementing the guidelines for strengthening the Party and its political awareness activities, and enforcing strict discipline across all areas and all steps of its endeavors. 

The Party's absolute leadership over the military is to be respected to ensure its absolute loyalty, purity, and reliability. It is critical to keep alive its ethical tradition and promote political ethics, and pursue reform in ideological education, personnel management, organizational structures, and discipline enforcement. It is also critical to ensure cohesion among military personnel by raising political awareness, and build troops with ironclad faith, conviction, discipline, and commitment. To this end, strengthening the Party organizations is a must, so that they are better able to achieve innovative results and mobilize efforts around the Party's objectives. A sound promotion system is indispensable. Promotion standards should include loyalty to the Party, military expertise, leadership capability, performance records, and moral integrity. Ethical rules must be enforced to fight corruption and other irregularities, and eradicate any cells of corruption. Law-based governance will be pursued with a focus on effective implementation of rules and regulations. Strong measures will be taken to correct misconducts such as negligence or dereliction of duty. A fundamental change in military governance is expected. 

The CMC convened a conference in August 2018, emphasizing the need to strengthen the Party and its leadership role in the military in the new era. An overall push to strengthen discipline within the Party and the military ensures the creation of a new ecosystem in the military that helps the modernization process and provides firm political and legal assurance for the Party to build a strong military. 

堅持全面從嚴治黨、全面從嚴治軍

中國共產黨第十八次全國代表大會以來，習近平作出堅持全面從嚴治黨、全面從嚴治軍的重大決策部署，推動管黨治黨、建軍治軍從寬松軟走向嚴緊硬。從嚴治軍關鍵是從嚴治黨，從軍隊黨的建設抓起，以從嚴治黨的實際成效促進從嚴治軍方針的貫徹落實。

人民軍隊堅決維護習近平總書記黨中央的核心、全黨的核心地位，堅決維護黨中央權威和集中統一領導，貫徹軍委主席負責制，落實新時代黨的建設總要求，加強黨的政治建設，把全面從嚴要求貫徹到軍隊建設各方面和全過程。堅持黨對人民軍隊的絕對領導，確保絕對忠誠、絕對純潔、絕對可靠；堅持以整風精神推進政治整訓，著力整頓思想、整頓用人、整頓組織、整頓紀律，重振軍隊政治綱紀、純正軍隊政治生態；堅持以理論武裝凝心聚魂，鍛造具有鐵一般信仰、鐵一般信念、鐵一般紀律、鐵一般擔當的過硬部隊；堅持把黨組織搞堅強，增強各級組織創造力、凝聚力、戰斗力；堅持貫徹軍隊好干部標準，培養選拔對黨忠誠、善謀打仗、敢于擔當、實績突出、清正廉潔的好干部；堅持正風肅紀、反腐懲惡，鏟除不正之風和腐敗滋生土壤。突出依法治軍從嚴治軍，狠抓條令條例和規章制度貫徹落實，下大氣力治松、治散、治虛、治軟，推動治軍方式根本性轉變。2018年8月，中央軍委黨的建設會議召開，強調全面加強新時代軍隊黨的領導和黨的建設工作。通過大力推動全面從嚴治黨、全面從嚴治軍，軍隊政治生態煥然一新，正規化建設取得明顯進步，為強軍事業提供了堅強政治保證和法治保障。