CPC carries on its fighting spirit

Various tasks

While striving for high-quality growth in the new development stage, the CPC is also tasked with various jobs including forestalling and defusing major financial risks, combating pollution and promoting green development, and frustrating attempts to split China or undermine its ethnic unity and social harmony and stability. Externally, unilateralism, protectionism and trade bullying have posed a great threat to China's developmental interests as well as the global economy and international order.

With strong awareness of risk prevention and control in mind, Xi has urged Party officials to be clear-headed about the long-term and complex nature of both domestic and international unfavorable factors, and to be well-prepared for any difficult circumstances. In the meantime, he has also underlined the need for the Party to strengthen strict self-governance to ensure its members refrain from incompetence, disengagement from the people, inaction and corruption.

Gu Hailiang, a professor of Marxist theory at Peking University, said that as part of the CPC's great struggle, self-reform within the Party aims to strengthen Party building to make it more powerful and improve its governance capacity.

Raphael Tuju, secretary-general of Kenya's ruling Jubilee Party, said, "You have to give credit to the Communist Party of China for having managed to steer the country in a disciplined and focused manner, which has enabled them to achieve what one can generally call the 'Chinese miracle'."

He added: "We have a lot to learn from the CPC. I think one of the things one can talk about is the way they keep focusing on fighting corruption."