People's Daily:

Currently, China is comprehensively promoting the running of the country by law and ruling the Party strictly. The central government leaders have vowed to carry out discipline more strictly than they do law, and separate discipline from law. Mr. Xiao, what do you think of the difference between Party discipline and national law?

Xiao Pei:

The third point of our communiqué illustrates a simple truth that discipline and law should be separate, and discipline should be stricter than and prior to law. I read a review on the film "Mr. Six" on a magazine this morning. In the film, Mr. Six reported corruption to the CCDI and claimed that I didn't call the police, I reported the misconduct to the authority. It's clear that people are aware that discipline and law are different. Reporting to the CCDI is in accordance with discipline, while calling the police is in line with the law. When promoting running the country by law, we need to rule the Party based on discipline. There is an old saying in China, "As a country has its state laws, a family also needs family rules."

Running the country by law means that law is the bottom line, while ruling the Party by discipline means that discipline is the bottom line. Separating discipline from law and making the former stricter than the latter means that any discipline violation, no matter whether light or serious, will be punished and actions will be taken to avoid violation before they emerge as Party members are encouraged to carry out criticism and self-criticism in order to meet the requirements of the CPC central committee and rule the Party seriously and strictly. Thank you!

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