Chapter 70 Party building research report sent directly to the Politburo

Party spirit education has made Zhen Xiaoying a reputation, but she feels that it is a characteristic and advantage of the Communist Party of China to attach importance to ideological construction. Although ideological education is very important, education is not a panacea.To build a modern Marxist political party full of vitality, stability and order, it is also necessary to establish a set of scientific systems to ensure the party's advanced nature from the institutional mechanism.Therefore, while studying the party's ideological construction, Zhen Xiaoying also attached great importance to the research on the party's system construction.After Deng Xiaoping delivered an important speech on "Reform of the Party and State Leadership System" at the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on August 18, 1980, she began to study the party's system construction.She systematically studied the history and current situation of the party's system construction, experience and lessons, presided over the compilation and printing of "Selected Documents of the Communist Party of China Laws and Regulations" with more than 200,000 words, researched and collected the systems and laws of some foreign political parties, and took the lead in the national party school The party's system construction project was opened.

In 1988, she gave a lecture on "Theory and Practice of the Party's System Construction Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee" and participated in the compilation of "The New Road to the Party's System Construction", which aroused the attention of students and the society. Zhen Xiaoying believes that the Communist Party of China started system construction as soon as it was established, and formulated many systems. However, before the Third Plenary Session, it had never formed a complete system construction theory. Intra-Party institutional systems that complement each other.Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the Party Central Committee has put an end to chaos, and on the basis of summarizing historical experience, it has first focused on the construction of the fundamental system of the Party.For example, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee adopted "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party", which summed up the lessons of the "Cultural Revolution" and strengthened the construction of a new system, bringing Party building into a new history both theoretically and practically. stage.

In her view, the Third Plenary Session and the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee created a good start for the party building work in the new era. However, the theory and practice of party building must continue to be pushed forward according to the requirements of the new situation and new tasks. .Therefore, she boldly put forward some new ideas for party building work. She proposed to straighten out the relationship between the party and the government, advocated the separation of the party and the government and formed a system; she believed that the improvement of the party's collective leadership system and democracy must start from the central government.It is recommended to implement a system in which members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee report their work to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to the Central Committee so that the Central Committee can better play its role in collective decision-making.She also suggested establishing the working rules and life meeting system of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, members of the Politburo Standing Committee, and the Secretariat of the Central Committee, so as to institutionalize collective leadership and so on.In addition, she also put forward suggestions on the reform of the cadre management system, the improvement of the inner-party election system, and the protection of the democratic rights of party members.

In 1987, she published the article "Efforts to Enhance the Democratic Consciousness of Party Members" in "Theoretical Trends", and pointed out that "improving the party's democratic centralism and developing inner-party democracy have become a very urgent problem. The key to solving this problem is to The reform of the political system is mainly to reform the party's leadership system. Only by establishing and perfecting a system that conforms to the principle of democratic centralism can we effectively guarantee and develop inner-party democracy." In 1989, she published an article titled "Supervision of Party Leaders" in "Party Construction Wenhui", with the intention of summarizing the lessons of the "Cultural Revolution", improving the system and mechanism, and preventing the recurrence of the "Cultural Revolution" institutionally. , sparked heated discussions among readers on this issue.

She proved from the lessons of the former Soviet Union that "unsupervised and restricted power is a dangerous power" point of view.She said that capitalist countries implement a multi-party system, and the ruling party is supervised through the opposition party, or a multi-party coalition is used to govern, and the parties in coalition also supervise each other.my country's national conditions are different from those of the West, and we cannot copy other countries' multi-party systems.However, improving the supervision system within the party and perfecting the supervision and restriction of party leaders are of great significance for realizing the democratization and scientific decision-making of the party's top leadership and maintaining the party's fairness and integrity.

She proposed to study the supervisory system envisaged by Lenin and demanded to be implemented, that is, the central committee elected by the party's national congress and the central supervisory committee parallel to it.The Central Supervisory Committee can supervise the members of the Central Committee and the Politburo.When there are differences of opinion between the above two committees, a joint meeting of the two committees is held to resolve them, or the party's National Congress makes a decision.She believes that the main content of the supervision of the party's leaders should include three aspects: politics, economy, and morality, and proposes that "supervision not only has an error prevention and correction mechanism like 'preservatives' and 'disinfectants', but also has a 'elimination of evil'." At the same time, it also has the function of setting an example, which has the effect of "promoting goodness".

In the article "Promoting People's Democracy with Inner-Party Democracy", Professor Zhen Xiaoying specifically proposed channels for democratic supervision: first, inner-party supervision.Strengthen the supervision of Party members over Party organizations, the National Committee over the Standing Committee, the Party's lower organizations over higher-level organizations, among members of the Party committee's leadership team, and over Party members, cadres, and Party organizations under the Party's discipline inspection organs, so as to ensure that the Party's Leading cadres exercise their power in accordance with the law.The second is public supervision.While further improving the system of people's congresses at all levels, actively promote the openness of administrative affairs, factory affairs, village affairs, leading cadres' performance and honesty, social publicity, democratic appraisal, inquiry hearings and other democratic forms, and strengthen the decision-making process and power exercise. supervision.The third is legal supervision.The people's congresses at all levels have the supreme power to supervise the implementation of the Constitution and laws. Party organizations at all levels and all party members must operate within the scope of the Constitution and laws, and consciously accept the supervision of the people's congresses; at the same time, they must give full play to The supervisory role of judicial organs and functional departments such as administrative supervision and auditing.The fourth is to strengthen the supervision of the democratic parties.In accordance with the policy of "long-term coexistence, mutual supervision, utter sincerity, and sharing weal and woe", we will strengthen cooperation with various democratic parties and consciously accept their supervision.The fifth is supervision by public opinion.Through effective public opinion supervision, ensure that party members and party organizations at all levels always listen to the voices of the people, observe their sentiments, and know their opinions.

People in theoretic circles said that Zhen Xiaoying's courageous proposal to supervise the party leaders in the late 1980s was indeed a rare and precious ideological breakthrough. Professor Zhen Xiaoying is not a person who just sits and talks. She attaches great importance to investigation and research, and pays special attention to new situations and new problems in party building.Since the 1990s, especially after the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, she has been to many provinces and cities to do research.In preparation for the convening of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Party Schools across the country launched a large-scale survey on party building issues.She participated in the research on the issue of community party building and the reform and improvement of the party's leadership. She published the article "Community Party Building is Promising" in the "Realistic" magazine, summarizing and expounding the new development of Shanghai community party building on party building theory and practice.

As the leader of the research team, she led the grassroots research team to study the party building issues of non-public enterprises and the supervision of the top leaders of the party.On the basis of the research, the "Research Report on the Party Construction of Non-public Enterprises" written by her was awarded the first prize of the National Party School Party Construction Research Award.During the investigation in Zhejiang Province, she found that 39 leaders of 70 counties and cities in Zhejiang Province were punished within 5 years, of which 27 were punished for economic problems and 10 were punished for non-economic problems , and two more exempted from punishment.The findings of this investigation shocked them.This shows that there are still many loopholes in the party's supervision system for the top leaders of the party and government, which needs to be strengthened and improved urgently.

The investigation report "Thoughts on the Supervision of the Top Leaders of the Party and Government" written by Gao Xinmin of the investigation team deeply analyzed the reasons why the top leaders repeatedly had problems, summed up the experience of strengthening the supervision of top leaders in Zhejiang, and put forward ideas for improving the supervision of top leaders .This research report was also awarded the National Party School Party Construction Research Excellence Award.These two research reports were selected into the investigation report collection compiled by the Central Party School and submitted to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.The Central Organization Department, the Central Propaganda Department and other departments have given high praise to this investigation report.