“Taking the forging of strong organizations and the building of a highly competent team as key priorities” not only profoundly clarifies the crucial points and focal areas for advancing the Party’s self-revolution in the new era, but also points out the direction forward for strengthening Party building and honing the cadre队伍 on the new journey.

The Party’s organizational structure and its cadres are the solid foundation and key to deepening the Party’s self-revolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the Party’s strength stems from its organization, and the Party’s comprehensive leadership and all its work must be realized through a robust organizational system. The Party’s cadres are the backbone of the Party and the state’s cause. Our Party is a political party established in accordance with Marxist principles of party building, and its organizational structure and cadres serve as crucial safeguards for the continuous victories achieved in China’s revolutionary, construction, and reform endeavors. To advance the Party’s self-revolution, a tightly-knit organizational system provides the solid backbone support. Our Party has established a rigorous organizational system encompassing central, local, and grassroots organizations. Only when Party organizations at all levels are sound and strong, seamlessly connected from top to bottom, and capable of effective implementation, can the Party’s leadership truly achieve the effect of “the body directing the arm, and the arm directing the fingers.” We must forge a strong organizational framework to ensure that the Party’s guidelines, policies, and decisions made by the Party Central Committee are implemented powerfully, effectively, and smoothly without any obstruction. The Party’s self-revolution embodies the dialectical unity of subject and object—just as the Party takes up the “surgical knife” to perform “surgery” on itself, the Party’s cadres serve as the “attending physicians.” We must build a highly competent cadre team, tempered by a spirit of daring self-revolution, to ensure that our Party possesses an inexhaustible source of powerful strength and can carry forward the great self-revolution to the very end.

Thoroughly implement the Party’s organizational line for the new era, and promote the comprehensive advancement and robustness of Party organizations at all levels. To thoroughly implement the Party’s organizational line for the new era, we must refine an organizational system that ensures seamless communication between different levels and guarantees strong execution; enhance the political and organizational functions of Party organizations; and drive the comprehensive advancement and robustness of Party organizations at all levels, thereby solidifying the organizational foundation for advancing the Party’s self-revolution. On the one hand, closely focusing on the fundamental goal of upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership and providing a strong guarantee for advancing the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must integrate the firm commitment to “two safeguards” into every aspect and stage of Party organizational development. We should educate and guide all Party members to consciously maintain high ideological, political, and behavioral alignment with the Party Central Committee, sustain strong political resolve and stay on the right path forward, and ensure that the Party Central Committee enjoys supreme authority and final decision-making power. On the other hand, we must place particular emphasis on building and perfecting the organizational system. We should strive to make central and state organs model institutions that are politically astute, disciplined, responsible, and efficient; build local Party committees into strong organizations that resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, exercise strict management, enforce effective oversight, foster unity within their leading teams, and maintain a pure and upright atmosphere; and develop grassroots Party organizations into robust fighting fortresses that effectively carry out the Party’s leadership. By ensuring that the organizational system is well-functioning and brimming with vitality, we can enable the entire Party to forge powerful synergy under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.

We must steadfastly uphold the standards for good cadres in the new era, ensuring that all Party members and cadres are loyal, clean, and capable of taking on responsibilities. We must rigorously implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, strictly guarding against political, capability, and integrity issues. We must persistently use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unify minds and forge souls, continuously enhancing the Marxist theoretical understanding and practical application abilities of Party members and cadres. We should establish the guiding principles for selecting and appointing personnel in the new era, adhering to the Party’s principle of managing cadres, upholding the combination of virtue and talent, prioritizing moral character, embracing diversity from all regions and sectors, and promoting meritocracy. We must place political criteria first, fully implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, and vigorously select and appoint cadres who firmly uphold the “Two Establishments,” resolutely practice the “Two Safeguards,” and demonstrate loyalty, integrity, responsibility, and the courage and ability to fight bravely. We must emphasize responsibility and value pragmatism, selecting and employing those “warriors” and “fighters” who dare to face difficulties head-on, as well as the “old yellow oxen” and “honest people” who are down-to-earth and unambitious. We must strengthen ideological refinement, political experience, practical training, and professional development for cadres, integrating political training throughout the entire growth cycle of cadres. We should improve the cultivation system that hones cadres on the front lines of struggle and fosters their growth in complex environments, guiding cadres to temper their willpower, accumulate struggle experience, and enhance their professional competence through real-world combat. We must adhere to the “three distinctions,” combine strict management with caring support, and refine the incentive mechanisms for cadres’ dedication and performance.