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3. Continuously improve the political ability of Party organizations and Party members and cadres at all levels

The strength of the party comes from the organization and from the vast number of party members and cadres. The key to putting the party’s political building in the first place and strengthening the party’s political building lies in improving the political ability of party organizations at all levels and party-member cadres. On the basis of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly requiring the whole party to strengthen its political leadership skills, Comrade Xi Jinping also specially advised that senior party cadres should pay attention to improving their political ability and match their political ability with their leadership responsibilities.

Constantly strengthening the political nature of party organizations at all levels is an important way to improve the political ability of party organizations. Political attributes are the fundamental attributes of party organizations, and political attributes must be highlighted from the party Central Committee to local party committees, from grassroots party organizations at all levels to party groups in various localities and departments, and from party discipline inspection commissions at all levels to party work organs. All Party members should strengthen the Party’s consciousness and organizational concept, and all Party organizations and all Party members must firmly establish a sense of playing chess, work in unison under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and form the overall joint force of the Party’s organizational system. Giving play to the political functions of state organs, mass organizations, and state-owned enterprises and institutions is an inevitable requirement for enhancing the party’s political ability. First of all, state organs are essentially political organs, and it is their duty to speak clearly about politics. State organs should always adhere to the implementation of economic and social management activities in accordance with the law under the leadership of the party, and actively and proactively implement the party’s leadership propositions and major policy decisions and arrangements.

It is necessary to improve the political position, set the political orientation, pay attention to political results, consider political influence, resolutely prevent and correct erroneous understandings and practices that separate and oppose politics and business, and ensure that politics and business are integrated and highly unified. Second, mass organizations are political organizations under the leadership of the Party, and they must actively play their political role. It is necessary to conscientiously perform political duties, give full play to the role of the bridge and link linking the masses of the people, increase the intensity of political mobilization, political guidance, and political education, and better undertake the political task of guiding the masses to listen to and follow the party. Deepen the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making and deployment on the reform of the masses, and earnestly enhance the political, advanced, and mass nature of the masses. Third, strengthen the political orientation of state-owned enterprises and institutions. State-owned enterprises and institutions are an important force to rely on for the party to govern and rejuvenate the country, and they must always adhere to the party’s leadership, conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the party central committee on promoting the reform and development of state-owned enterprises and institutions, earnestly strengthen the party building work of the units, give full play to the important role of party organizations, and ensure that their units adhere to the correct political direction and achieve good political results.

Improving the political skills of party members and cadres is the key to enhancing the party’s political ability. Party-member cadres are the backbone of the party’s ruling and rejuvenating the country, and they must earnestly improve their ability to grasp the direction, the overall trend, and the overall situation, and their ability to distinguish between right and wrong in politics, maintain political concentration, control the political situation, and prevent political risks through strengthening political ability training and political practice experience. Efforts should be made to enhance political awareness and political standing, take a clear-cut attitude in the face of major issues of right and wrong, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in terms of political stance, political direction, political principle, and political road. He is good at studying and judging the situation and analyzing problems politically, consciously thinking about problems and doing work under the overall situation of the work of the party and the state, and doing everything to obey the overall situation and serve the overall situation. Enhance awareness of danger and risk, take the initiative to shoulder the political responsibility of daring to struggle, dare to shoulder, and dare to be responsible, consciously plunge into the tests of various struggles, improve political skills in practical work and concrete actions, enhance political sensitivity and political discernment, strengthen resolutely resist behaviors that violate political discipline and endanger political security, be “fighters” who have the courage to struggle, and do not be “gentlemen” who cherish feathers.