Comprehensively Enforcing Strict Party Self-Governance 

During an inspection tour in Jiangsu Province in December, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping first raised the new demand for "strict Party self-governance in all respects". This elevated the Party's management and self-governance to an unprecedented level of importance. The key to managing affairs well in China is the Party – having the Party manage itself well and discipline itself strictly. This is urgently needed if the Party is to resolve significant internal issues, and it has issued a call for action which must obeyed. Strong Party leadership is central to this task; being thorough is fundamental; strictness is key, and discipline is crucial. 

"In all respects" means management and discipline should be imposed on the whole Party, on its 80 million members and on its four million organizations; this should encompass all aspects of Party development, all sectors and all departments, and the focus should be on the "critical minority". 

"Strict" means genuine, bold and sustained management and discipline. "Self-governance of the Party" means that the entire Party, from the Central Committee to Party committees at the provincial, municipal and county levels, from central Party organizations and groups in national government agencies to branches at grassroots levels, must assume their primary responsibilities; Party secretaries must treat Party development as their duty; Party discipline commissions at all levels must be responsible for supervision, be sure to impose discipline, and hold people accountable. 

This should be approached from six angles: strict ideology, strict Party management, strict discipline enforcement, strict oversight of officials, strict working practices, strict action against corruption, and strict institutional development. Strict self-governance in all respects should be implemented in ideological and organizational work, in the development of work practices, in anti-corruption work and in institutional development. Most basic of all, Party organizations at all levels and all Party members and officials must abide by the Party's guidelines on internal political conduct and its various rules. Having strict Party self-governance in all respects requires closely integrating ideological Party-building with institutional Party governance; it requires an all-round tightening of institutional constraints and a greater use of institutional oversight over the Party, over authority, and over officials. 

Making strict Party self-governance part of the Four-pronged Strategy was an essential choice for decision made by the Party in order to deal with changes both within itself and in the world under the new historical conditions.

全面從嚴治黨

2014年12月，習近平總書記在江蘇考察時，提出了“全面從嚴治黨”的新要求，把管黨治黨提到前所未有的新高度。辦好中國的事情，關鍵在黨，關鍵在黨要管黨、從嚴治黨。全面從嚴治黨是解決黨內存在的突出問題的迫切需要，是我們黨立下的軍令狀。全面從嚴治黨，核心是加強黨的領導，基礎在全面，關鍵在嚴，要害在治。“全面”就是管全黨、治全黨，面向八千多萬黨員、四百多萬個黨組織，覆蓋黨的建設各個領域、各個方面、各個部門，重點是抓住“關鍵少數”。“從嚴”就是真管真嚴、敢管敢嚴、長管長嚴。“治黨”就是從黨中央到省市縣黨委，從中央部委、國家機關部門黨組（黨委）到基層黨支部，都要肩負起主體責任，黨委書記要把抓好黨建當作分內之事、必須擔當的職責；各級紀委要擔負起監督責任，勇于執紀問責。要著重從思想從嚴、管黨從嚴、執紀從嚴、治吏從嚴、作風從嚴、反腐從嚴六個方面入手，把全面從嚴治黨落實到思想建設、組織建設、作風建設、反腐倡廉建設、制度建設等各個方面。從嚴治黨最根本的就是使全黨各級組織和全體黨員、干部按照黨內政治生活準則和黨的各項規定辦事。全面從嚴治黨，要堅持思想建黨和制度治黨緊密結合，全方位扎緊制度籠子，更多用制度治黨、管權、治吏。把全面從嚴治黨納入“四個全面”戰略布局，是新的歷史條件下我們黨應對世情國情黨情變化的必然選擇。