[The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China convened a symposium for non-party persons, Xi Jinping presided over and delivered an important speech] The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a symposium for non-party persons in Zhongnanhai on August 21 to listen to the opinions and suggestions of the central committees of the democratic parties, leaders of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and representatives of people without party affiliation regarding the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on several major issues of perseverance in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, chaired the symposium and delivered an important speech, emphasizing that to govern the country, we must first govern the Party, and to strengthen the country, we must first strengthen the Party. The longer one is in power, the longer peace lasts, and the more complex the environment, the more important it is to enhance the awareness of danger, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and persist in promoting comprehensive and strict party governance to ensure that the Communist Party of China remains the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Wang Huning, Cai Qi and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the symposium. At the symposium, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Zheng Jianbang, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic League Ding Zhongli, Chairman of the Democratic League Central Committee Hao Mingjin, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party Cai Dafeng, Central Chairman of the Peasants and Workers' Party He Wei, Central Chairman of the Zhigong Party Jiang Zuojun, Central Chairman of the Jiusan Society Wu Weihua, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Taiwan League Su Hui, Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Gao Yunlong, and non-partisan representative Li Wei spoke successively. They expressed full agreement with the decision draft of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on several major issues on persisting in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. They agreed that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, great achievements have been made in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. It has opened up a new realm of self-revolution for the century-old party, promoted historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country, and won the historical initiative of the Party and the people to strengthen the Party and the country. Everyone also put forward opinions and suggestions on in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's party-building thoughts, strengthening the party's innovative theoretical arm, establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance, strengthening political guidance, promoting people's supervision and the party's self-revolution, optimizing the assessment and accountability mechanism, paying attention to improving the scientific literacy of cadres, strengthening restrictions and supervision on the exercise of power, telling the story of the Chinese Communist Party in the new era, and widely publicizing the great achievements of comprehensive and strict party governance. After carefully listening to everyone's speeches, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He pointed out that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China listens to the opinions of the central committees of democratic parties, leaders of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and non-party personages on important party documents and major national principles and policies, which is an important manifestation of people's democracy in the entire process, especially socialist consultative democracy. In February this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China entrusted the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee to specifically solicit opinions from non-party people on the issues of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Everyone has put forward very good opinions and suggestions in the speech just now, and we will carefully study and absorb them. On behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he expressed his gratitude to everyone. Xi Jinping emphasized that the key to running China's affairs well lies in the Communist Party of China, and the key lies in comprehensive and strict governance of the party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have unswervingly promoted comprehensive and strict governance of the party. The Communist Party of China has become stronger and stronger in the revolutionary forging. At the same time, we must realize that as the world situation, national situation, and party situation undergo profound changes, comprehensive and strict governance of the party faces many new situations and new problems. We must stand at the strategic height of maintaining the party's advanced nature and purity, consolidating the party's ruling status, and realizing the party's mission and tasks, strengthen confidence, maintain determination, and effectively govern the Chinese Communist Party well and build a strong party. Xi Jinping pointed out that to persist in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party, we must continue to work hard to solve outstanding issues within the party. We must adhere to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation, accurately grasp and analyze new changes in party conditions and new situations faced by party building, and study effective countermeasures and measures based on new realities. To solve the problems existing within the party, we must first base ourselves on the strength of the Communist Party of China and continuously realize the party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, and self-improvement; we must also rely on the support of the people, actively accept people's supervision, listen humbly to the criticism of the masses, and transform the support and support of the people into a powerful driving force for perseverance in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party. Xi Jinping emphasized that to advance the new great project of party building in the new era, we must adhere to systematic thinking, strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, and overall advancement. We must thoroughly study and implement the Party Building Thoughts of the New Era, adhere to and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, unswervingly adhere to the tone of strictness, improve the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, take the Party's political construction as the guide, and comprehensively promote the Party's construction in all aspects. It is necessary to adhere to the party spirit, work style and party discipline, improve work style, eliminate discipline and fight corruption, organically combine managing people, managing affairs, and managing power, and unify tempering party spirit, improving capabilities, and purifying the ecology. It is necessary to adhere to the above-mentioned leadership, start with strictness from leading cadres, strengthen education management supervision, and guide party members and cadres to be cautious in independence, caution in the beginning, caution in the beginning, self-respect, self-examination, self-policing, and self-motivation. Xi Jinping pointed out that China’s new political party system must be upheld, developed and improved. It is hoped that all democratic parties, federations of industry and commerce, and non-party personages will not forget the original intention of multi-party cooperation, firmly support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, continuously consolidate the common ideological and political foundation, actively provide advice and help in government affairs, perform their democratic supervision functions well, and be good advisers, helpers, and colleagues of the Communist Party of China. Yin Li, Shi Taifeng, Li Ganjie, Li Shulei, Li Hongzhong, He Lifeng, Chen Wenqing, Liu Jinguo, Wang Xiaohong, Zhang Shengmin, Wu Zhenglong, Mu Hong, and heads of relevant departments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council attended the symposium. Non-party figures attending the symposium included Shao Hong, He Baoxiang, Wang Guangqian, Qin Boyong, Zhu Yongxin, Yang Zhen, Zhang Endi, An Lijia, Wu Chen, etc. (CCTV News)