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actively exploring and boldly experimenting, breaking ground and making innovations,
and working with creativity; never cease to study new situations, reflect on new
experiences, and solve new problems; and enrich and develop Marxism through practice
and advance the adaption of Marxism to the Chinese context.
3. Dedication to wholeheartedly serving the people. Besides the interests of the working
class and the broadest possible majority of the people, the Party has no special interests of
its own. It shall, at all times, give top priority to the interests of the people, share weal and
woe with them, and maintain the closest possible ties with them. It shall exercise power for
the people, demonstrate concern for them, and work in their interests, never allowing any
member to become disengaged from the people or to behave as if they are above them. The
biggest political advantage the Party has is its close ties with the people while the biggest
potential danger it faces as a governing party is becoming distanced from them. Party
conduct and the Party’s ties with the people are of paramount importance to the Party. In
its own work, the Party shall follow the mass line, seeing that everything is for the people
and everything relies on the people, exercising the principle of “from the people, to the
people,” and translating the correct ideas of the Party into the voluntary action of the
people.
4. Resolve in upholding democratic centralism. Democratic centralism combines
centralism built on the basis of democracy with democracy under centralized guidance. It is
both the Party’s fundamental organizational principle and the application of the mass line
in everyday Party activities. The Party must fully encourage intraparty democracy, respect
the principal position of its members, safeguard their democratic rights, and give play to
the initiative and creativity of Party organizations at every level and all Party members.
Correct centralism must be practiced; all Party members must keep firmly in mind the need
to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, uphold the leadership core, and
keep in alignment, and firmly uphold the authority and centralized, unified leadership of
the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, so as to ensure the solidarity,
unity, and concerted action of the whole Party and guarantee the prompt and effective
implementation of the Party’s decisions. The Party shall strengthen and regulate political
activities within itself; make intraparty political activities more politically oriented,
up-to-date, principled, and effective; cultivate a positive and healthy intraparty political
culture; and foster a sound political ecosystem featuring honesty and integrity within the
Party. In its internal political activities, the Party shall conduct correctly criticism and
self-criticism, engage in debate over matters of principle, and uphold truth and rectify
mistakes. The Party shall work hard to create a lively political situation featuring both
centralism and democracy, both discipline and freedom, and both unity of will and
personal sense of ease.

5. Firmness in exercising strict self-supervision and self-governance. Ensuring Party
self-governance is exercised fully and strictly is a journey to which there is no end. Under
the new circumstances, the tests the Party faces in governance, reform and opening up, the
market economy, and the external environment are protracted, complicated, and serious;
the dangers of a lack of drive, incompetence, disengagement from the people, and
corruption and other forms of misconduct are more pointedly confronting the whole Party.
The Party shall see that strict standards and measures are applied throughout the process
and in all aspects of its self-supervision and self-governance. The Party shall ensure

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