The value connotation and practical direction of "never forget the original intention and keep in mind the mission"
Recently, Xigang Road Street in Haigang District, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, carried out party building education activities. The picture shows a party member studying party history and knowledge. Photo by Cao Jianxiong/Guangming Image
At the theme education work conference on "staying true to our original aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind", General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, profoundly elaborating on the significant significance, target requirements, and key measures of carrying out theme education. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the original aspiration and mission of the Communist Party of China, and the fundamental driving force that inspires generations of Chinese Communists to move forward and fight bravely. Remembering our original aspiration and mission is an eternal task in strengthening Party building, and it is also the prerequisite and foundation for our Party to carry forward the great struggle, great project, great cause, and great dream and create new brilliance.
Why is it important to "never forget the original intention and keep in mind the mission"
An important guarantee for achieving the "Two Centenary Goals" and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the Chinese Dream. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China focused on the new era, new mission, and new journey, and made new top-level designs for promoting China's socialist modernization construction in the new era. It proposed a strategic arrangement of building a socialist modernized strong country in two steps by the middle of this century, enriching the connotation of the Party's second centenary goal and reflecting the unity of the improvement of China's development quantity and the qualitative leap. At present, we are at the historical intersection of the "Two Centenary Goals". This is a time when "a ship's journey becomes more urgent, and a person's journey becomes steeper halfway up the mountain road. It is a time when the more we advance, the more difficult it becomes, the more dangerous it becomes, and if we do not advance, we will fall behind and must advance. To never forget our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind is to let history illuminate the future, accumulate the great power of the ancient times surging thousands of miles and thousands of valleys flowing back, always hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and in the new journey of "catching up with the exam", not take the "old path" or "evil path", earnestly practice the new development concept, correctly handle the relationship between reform, development and stability, seize the promising historical opportunity period in accordance with the historical trend, make further progress, and bravely advance towards the great goals established by our party.
The driving force behind the deepening of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The key to running China's affairs well lies in the Party, which must manage the Party and comprehensively govern the Party strictly. The construction of the Party has gone through an extraordinary process from the "Great Project" to the "New Great Project", witnessing the history of the CPC in building the Party through ideology, governing the Party through systems and strengthening the Party through theory, and interpreting the gene, connotation, character and spirit of the growth of a big party with more than 90 million party members and more than 4.6 million party organizations. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must have greater determination and courage to strengthen the Party's own construction, ensure that the Party always stays at the forefront of the times in the historical process of profound changes in the world situation, always becomes the backbone of the Chinese people in the historical process of responding to various risks and tests at home and abroad, and always becomes a strong leadership core in the historical process of developing socialism with Chinese characteristics." The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the general requirements for Party building in the new era, clarified the goals, tasks, and overall layout of Party building, and pointed out the direction for promoting the deepening of comprehensive strict governance of the Party in the new era. To never forget our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind, we must inherit and carry forward the fine traditions and style of the Party, keep pace with the times, strengthen theoretical armed forces, stimulate the vitality and vigor of the Party, continuously improve the quality of Party building, and fundamentally solve prominent problems such as impure ideology, impure organization, and impure style within the Party through the forging and tempering of the principle of "forging iron must be hard on our own". We must build the Party into a Marxist ruling party that always leads the times, is sincerely supported by the people, is brave in self revolution, can withstand various storms and tests, and is full of vitality.
The objective need to cope with the unprecedented changes in a century. In the trend of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win situations, the deepening of world multipolarity, economic globalization, cultural diversity, and social informatization has become the trend to build a community with a shared future for mankind. However, phenomena such as hegemonism and power politics, extremism and terrorism, unilateralism and trade conservatism continue to emerge, and uncertain and unstable factors have significantly increased. The international community is facing governance deficits, trust deficits, peace deficits, and development deficits that urgently need to be resolved. A new round of major development, transformation, and adjustment is on the way. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "The world is currently experiencing unprecedented changes. The speed of rise of emerging market countries and developing countries is unprecedented, the metabolism and fierce competition brought about by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation are unprecedented, and the global governance system and international situation are incompatible and asymmetrical." To not forget our original intention and mission is to look far ahead, with a strategic global perspective and a broad historical vision, soberly grasp the world development trend and major events that profoundly affect the direction and process of human history, continuously enhance our ability to properly respond to various risks and challenges, overcome all difficulties and obstacles on the road ahead with unwavering will and selfless courage, assess the situation, seize the opportunity, and move forward, To provide Chinese wisdom and solutions for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
2. The method requirement of "not forgetting the original intention and keeping in mind the mission"
Firmly establish political direction through the lens of history. The political direction is the top priority for the survival and development of the Party, which is related to the Party's future destiny and the success or failure of its cause. In the history of the Party, every concentrated education within the Party has put effort into promoting theoretical armament, strengthening political beliefs, unifying thoughts, consolidating consensus, and leading the direction, so that our Party has maintained consistency in ideology, politics, and action on the basis of universal Marxist education, and continuously pushed forward the Party's construction and cause. Never forget our original aspiration, keep our mission firmly in mind, focus on the happiness of the people and the great cause of rejuvenation, define the lofty political ideals and pursuits of the Party, require us to always remember that "the people's longing for a better life is our goal of struggle", take the realization, maintenance, and development of the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the starting point and foothold of all work, maintain a spirit of striving and taking on responsibilities, overcome all difficulties and obstacles on the path of progress with unwavering will and selfless courage, continuously enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security of the people, and continuously promote the development of the Party's cause.
Maintain strategic determination in overcoming difficulties. In the face of new contradictions in the new era, how to coordinate the overall situation of international and domestic affairs, promote the overall layout of the "Five in One" strategy, coordinate the promotion of the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, and fight the three major battles of preventing and resolving major risks, precision poverty alleviation, and pollution prevention and control, eliminate the unhealthy practices and corruption within the Party, and create a healthy political ecology, is a major issue we face. We should not forget our original aspiration, keep our mission in mind, base ourselves on reality, focus on the future, and take the Party's cause into account in building the Party. We have declared the Party's realm and vision, and required the whole Party to conscientiously implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, and fight resolutely against all issues that affect the progressiveness of the Party and weaken the purity of the Party. We should not only see the problems in development, but also see the confidence, resilience and potential in development. We should enhance political and development commitment from a strategic height, and pursue strategic initiatives with strategic commitment, perseverance, and long-term contributions.
Be brave in exploring and innovating in promoting development. Development is the top priority for the Party to govern and revitalize the country, and innovation is a powerful driving force for promoting development. In the great journey of leading revolution, construction and reform, the CPC is a model of innovation. Entering a new era and promoting new development, it is necessary to carefully summarize the historical experience of the Party's exploration and innovation, and adhere to and carry forward the Party's innovative spirit. We must not forget our original intention and keep our mission firmly in mind, achieve the goal of "gaining from theoretical learning, being baptized in ideological and political education, daring to take responsibility for work and entrepreneurship, serving the people and solving problems, and setting an example of integrity and honesty". This requires us to improve our ability to apply the Party's innovative theories to guide practice, promote work, serve the people, resist corruption and risks. To achieve these goals, innovation is the driving force and condition, which means that the great project needs to create a new situation, the party member team needs to elevate to a new level, economic development needs to create new formats, serving the masses needs to strive for new achievements, and the positive atmosphere and clean records need to shine with a new atmosphere.
3. The practical path of "never forgetting the original intention and keeping in mind the mission"
Strengthen the theory of armed. Theoretical maturity is the foundation of political firmness. Do not forget your initiative mind and keeping in mind the mission, the key is to unremittingly arm the mind, guide practice and promote work with Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen ideals and beliefs in the overall promotion of great struggles, great projects, great undertakings and great dreams, build a solid foundation of faith, supplement the calcium of spirit, and stabilize the rudder of thought. Constantly enhance the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence" and achieve ", always maintain the party's advanced nature and purity, and enhance the party's influence, cohesion, and combat effectiveness. Firm ideals and beliefs in learning, thinking, practicing and understanding. It is necessary to conscientiously study the basic spirit, basic content, and basic requirements of Xi Jinping's thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, deeply grasp the positions, viewpoints, and methods contained therein, and truly feel its truth persuasion, value appeal, emotional cohesion, and action leadership. In improving the theoretical level and ideological awareness of Marxism, tighten the "master switch" of world outlook, outlook on life, and values ". Guiding practice in the combination of learning and application. It is necessary to integrate learning and education, investigation and research, inspection of problems, and implementation of rectification and reform, and strive to apply what you have learned, promote learning, and learn and use each other, and reflect the effect of learning in solving the practical problems of the people. Seek practical results in innovative approaches. It is necessary to give full play to the leading role of the "key minority", adhere to comprehensive systematic learning, in-depth thinking and practical learning, systematically integrate revolutionary traditional education, situation and policy education, advanced typical education and warning education resources, make use of modern scientific and technological means such as new media and big data, intensify publicity, create a strong atmosphere of keeping the original intention and undertaking the mission, and enhance the pertinence, effectiveness and appeal of learning and education.
Adhere to the problem orientation. Carrying out the theme education of "not forgetting the original intention and keeping in mind the mission" is not only the result of adhering to the problem orientation, but also the starting point to enhance the problem awareness. If we do not forget our original intention and keep our mission in mind, we must run through the problem consciousness and take the discovery and solution of problems as the starting point and foothold. Find problems with high standards. It is necessary to compare Xi Jinping's thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, compare the party constitution and party regulations, compare the new expectations of the people, compare the advanced models and examples around you, find out the problems accurately, put yourself in place, and seriously rectify the outstanding problems and contradictions that the masses have strongly reflected, so that the masses can see changes and results. Find problems with new requirements. We must clearly understand the new contradictions in the new era, focus on the new normal of economic development in the needs of the times and practical development, establish a new development concept, correctly coordinate and handle various interest relationships and contradictions at a new starting point, and promote transformation and upgrading to achieve new breakthroughs. New progress has been made in reform, development and stability, and new realms have been opened up in governance. Find problems with bottom line thinking. It is necessary to use the Constitution, laws, party rules and party discipline as the ruler, clearly list the "negative list", determine the bottom line and red line that party organizations and party members cannot touch, keep sober and conscious at all times, and effectively prevent "running and dripping".
Improve governance skills. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "to lead a socialist country with over 1.3 billion people, our party must not only be politically strong, but also have high capabilities. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward new requirements for enhancing learning ability, political leadership ability, reform and innovation ability, scientific development ability, governance ability according to law, mass work ability, implementation ability, and risk management ability, clarifying the various qualities and abilities that our party should possess for long-term governance. Not forgetting our original aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind means practicing our internal strengths, filling in our weaknesses, improving our governance capabilities, comprehensively promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. In the face of the turbulent international situation and arduous tasks of reform, development, and stability, we need to have both proactive measures to prevent risks and high-level strategies to respond to and resolve risk challenges; We must not only engage in a prepared battle to prevent and resist risks, but also in a strategic proactive battle to turn danger into opportunity. Improve abilities through learning. Continuously learn new concepts, knowledge, and methods, avoid falling into the dilemma of being lost due to lack of knowledge, blind due to ignorance, and confused due to ignorance, focus on enhancing work skills, and improve the level of solving practical problems. Promote the trend of learning, use learning to supplement calcium and forge the soul, cultivate first-class qualities, persist in learning, learning, and learning again, persist in practice, practice, and practice again. Strengthen practical training. Let party members and cadres gain experience and improvement on the front line of reform, development and stability, think, coordinate and layout the construction of the party and the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the unprecedented great changes, expand the new realm of governance with a broad vision, and enable party members and cadres to dare to use wisdom to solve contradictions and be good at winning the hearts of the people with governance effectiveness.
Practice the mass line. The mass line of the Party is the lifeline and fundamental work line of the Party, and it is the winning weapon for the Party and the country to achieve historic changes and leaps. Practicing the mass line, adhering to the people-centered approach, sharing the same breath, destiny, and heart with the people, always wanting and working together with the people, is the core essence and concrete manifestation of not forgetting our original aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind. It is the confidence and strength of our party to forge new brilliance. To seek benefits for the people based on the fine traditions of the Party. Promote the excellent work style of closely connecting with the masses, go deep into the grassroots and the masses, think about what the masses think and worry about what the people are worried about, do good things and solve problems for the masses in a practical way, so that the masses have more, more direct and practical feelings of gain, happiness and security, and fully stimulate the creative power hidden in the people. To deepen reform and opening up and gather people's wisdom. The reform and opening up was a revolution that greatly changed the face of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people. We will steadfastly deepen reform comprehensively, dare to tackle stubborn and chronic problems, break through the barriers of entrenched interests, fully tap into the wisdom of the masses, and gather the powerful force that originates from the source. We will surely push forward all undertakings, carry out reforms to the end, and continue to write a new chapter in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Authors: Kang Zhenhai and Li Jianxiu, respectively Secretary of the Party Group and President of the Hebei Academy of Social Sciences, and Researcher at the Hebei Academy of Social Sciences; both are special researchers at the Hebei Research Center for the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics)
Information source: Guangming Daily
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