[News Conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | The "Decision" specifically deploys four aspects to strictly implement democratic centralism] October 30th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the morning of October 30th to introduce and interpret the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. Hu Heping, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department in charge of daily work, said that democratic centralism is the party’s fundamental organizational principle and leadership system. It plays an important role in safeguarding the party’s centralization and unity, effectively implementing the party’s central committee’s major decisions and arrangements, and standardizing the leadership team and leading cadres’ performance of their duties. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues on Persistently Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party" regards the strict implementation of democratic centralism as an important focus of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, and makes specific arrangements from four aspects. First, uphold and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. Improve the system and mechanism of the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, improve the implementation mechanism of major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting to the Party Central Committee, and promote political supervision to be concrete, precise and regular. The second is to improve the quality of intra-party democracy. Uphold and improve the intra-Party democratic system, improve the intra-Party situation reporting and situation reporting systems, and uphold intra-Party democratic and equal comradely relations. The third is to strictly implement the rules of procedure for decision-making of the leadership team. Improve the rules of procedure and decision-making procedures of the party committee (party group), strengthen the review of the compliance and legality of major decisions, and improve the supervision mechanism for major decisions, appointment and dismissal of important personnel, arrangements for major projects, and the use of large amounts of funds. The fourth is to standardize the performance of duties and powers of “top leaders”. Implement the institutional regulations to strengthen the supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team, improve the leadership team's power exercise restriction mechanism, and improve the supervision system and mechanism at the same level. (CCTV News)