Chairperson Jiang Jianguo, vice minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee:

Ladies, gentlemen and friends from the media, good afternoon! Welcome to the press conference held by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee on the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing from Oct. 24 to 27. The meeting approved two documents on the discipline of the Party. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping delivered two important speeches. The communique released yesterday concentrated on the important achievements of this plenary session. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, our Party has successively held the third, fourth and fifth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and made plans for comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively implementing the rule of law and comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society. The plenary session of this time had a special study of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. This is a strategic decision with an overall design made by the CPC Central Committee with a view to the strategic layout of the "Four Comprehensives." This is the gradual carrying out and further pushing forward of the CPC Central Committee's governance policy. This is the need to deepen the comprehensive strengthening of the Party discipline. This is the need of our Party to carry out a great struggle, to advance a great project, to accomplish a great task and to achieve a great goal. The plenary session has drawn world-wide attention. In order to help domestic and foreign media have a better understanding of the spirit of the plenary session, today we have invited officials from the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee to elaborate on the plenary session, interpret "Norms of Political Life Within the Party under the New Situation" and "Regulation on Supervision Within the Communist Party of China" and answer your questions. The officials attending today's press conference include Wu Yuliang, deputy chief of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Qi Yu, vice minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Huang Kunming, executive vice minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee. Now, Mr. Huang Kunming will give us an introduction and overview of the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and the main arrangement for the study and publicity of the spirit of the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee.

Huang Kunming, executive vice minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee:

Good afternoon! The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is of tremendous and far-reaching significance to our Party and country. The guiding principle and major achievement of the session have been specified in concentrated form in the communique. I will mainly introduce the following aspects. First, General Secretary Xi Jinping addressed the session. The speech has reviewed and summed up the work of the Party and the government since the fifth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, scientifically analyzed the development of the international situation, China’s conditions and Party conditions, profoundly interpreted the significance of being strict with discipline, a series of major theories and practical problems on building, invigorating, governing and running the Party, discussed such major issues as regulating the political life within the Party and enhancing the Party supervision within the Party under new circumstances, set clear demands for the Party’s and the country’s various tasks and proposed a series of creative new thoughts, ideas and assertions. All of these represent a scientific guide and program of actions for creating a new method for being strict with discipline in an all-round way and improving undertakings of our Party and country. Second, the session deliberated and adopted two documents regarding the discipline of the Party, including the Norms and the Regulation. Third, a resolution on convening the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress was deliberated and passed at the sixth plenary session. The 19th CPC National Congress will be held in Beijing during the second half of 2017. To study, implement and disseminate the guiding principle of the sixth plenary session is the important political task of the whole Party and nation at present and in the coming period, and the Party Central Committee issued a special opinion concerning the arrangement of the task. Taking the concerns of international community and media into account, we will introduce the spirit of the sixth plenary session in a complete, accurate, pointed way, to allow the international community to understand China and the Chinese Communist Party in a more overall and deeper way. So much for my remarks for now. Thank you all.

Jiang Jianguo:

Thanks for your introduction, Executive Vice Minister Huang Kunming. Now let’s give the floor to Vice Minister Qi Yu to talk about the Norms as well as the details and progress of the Party organization and its team building efforts.

Qi Yu, vice minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee:

Nice to meet you. The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee has just passed the Norms. My introduction will focus on this document.

The plenum sets a new standard because, firstly, it’s necessary for completing the "Four Comprehensives" strategy. Coordinating and promoting the "Four Comprehensives" strategy is a new governance guideline decided by the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as its core. The 3rd, 4th and 5th plenary meetings of the 18th CPC Central Committee have already discussed comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively ruling by law and comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society. The 6th plenum addressed the topic of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party by formulating the Norms and the Regulation. Thus, the each of the "Four Comprehensives" strategy has been researched and deployed during a previous plenum, which is the CPC’s holistic design.

The second is the demand to deepen comprehensively strictly governing the Party. The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, on the basis of in-depth summarization of the actual practices of comprehensively strictly governing the Party since the 18th CPC National Congress, carefully analyzed the new conditions and new issues regarding the construction of the Party in the new situation, and accordingly made new institutional arrangements for strengthening and standardizing the political life within the Party.

The third is the demand for solving prominent conflicts and problems existing in the Party. In the long-term, the condition of the Party's political life has remained sound in general, although some conflicts and problems have surfaced in recently. As for dealing with these issues, the Party has taken a series of new measures since the 18th CPC National Congress, which have led to noticeable improvements in the Party's political ecosystem. To consolidate the positive trend of comprehensively strictly governing the Party, effectively suppressing the rebound and relapse of problems already solved in the past, and preventing new conflicts and problems from emerging and spreading, we must adhere to the unity of constructing the Party based on ideological principles and governing the Party with institutional regulations, perfect standards and consolidate the system.

To formulate the Norms is to carry forward the CPC’s fine traditions and valuable experience and to implement the new concepts, philosophies and strategies put forward by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core. The Norms follows the Party Constitution as its fundamental basis and formulates systematic standards for the political life within the Party under new circumstances. The Norms is composed of three parts with 12 chapters.

The first part is the preface. It explains the vital roles and historical experience of the political life within the Party, existing problems, circumstances and tasks the Party faces and the importance and immediacy of strengthening and regulating the political life within the Party under new circumstances. It also puts forward the goals and requirements of strengthening and regulating the political life within the Party.

The second part is the main body. It puts forward 12 aspects regarding the specific requirements and detailed provisions of strengthening and regulating the political life within the Party, including holding firm to ideals and beliefs, sticking to the CPC’s basic guidelines, upholding the authority of the CPC Central Committee, straightening out political disciplines, keeping in close touch with the people, sticking to the principle of democratic centralism, developing intra-Party democracy and safeguarding Party members’ rights, adhering to correct guidance in appointing talent, strengthening the CPC’s organizational system, practicing criticism and self-criticism, strengthening control over and supervision of the exercise of power and upholding political cleanness and integrity.

The third part is the conclusion. It is mainly about strengthening the Party’s leadership and supervision and high-level officials taking the lead in setting examples to make sure every task is implemented. The Norms puts forward over 160 new major ideas and measures. The promulgation of the Norms is an important milestone in the history of Party building and will surely exert far-reaching influence on the accomplishment of the CPC’s governance missions and goals. I will stop here. Thank you!

Jiang Jianguo:

Thank you, Mr. Qi Yu. Next, we invite Mr. Wu Yuliang, deputy secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, to introduce the Regulation and relevant work about the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, discipline construction and strengthening supervision within the Party.

Wu Yuliang, deputy secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection:

Good afternoon. I’d like to give a brief introduction to the amendment of the Regulation. First, I’d like to talk about the background for the amendment. Leadership by the Party is the essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To successfully handle China’s affairs lies in the party, supervision within the Party and the strict governance of the Party.

Over the years, the CPC Central Committee has attached great importance to supervision within the Party and made remarkable achievements through successful measures. However, we have also noticed that some new problems have emerged, which are exemplified in a weakening Party leadership, lack of Party construction and loose governance of the Party in some localities and departments. Some Party members and officials have a faint awareness of the Party. There are problems of poor organization and lax discipline. The Party discipline is not strictly implemented.

After the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has insisted on rectifying Party conduct, strictly enforcing political discipline and rules by addressing both the root cause and symptoms, making persistent efforts to fight formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance, preventing the spread of corruption and resolutely building a system that ensures officials dare not, will not and cannot be corrupt. Through those efforts, the political ecosystem inside the Party has been improved. The measures have won extensive support from the whole Party and all of society. To ensure comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, we must address the problems at the root: negligence of main responsibility and insufficient supervision within the Party. We should make strengthening supervision within the Party a fundamental project of high significance with regards to Party construction, and give a full play to the political advantages of the Party.

General Secretary Xi Jinping made clear requirements on improving the supervision system within the Party at the fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He clarified the nature, position, effect, mechanisms and measures of supervision within the Party, setting the direction for the revision of the Regulation. In consideration of all factors, the CPC Central Committee decided to include the revision of the Regulation into the major issues of the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee.

Next, I’d like to brief you on the Regulation’s major contents. The revision of the Regulation abided by the Party Constitution, and comprehensively implemented the principles of a series of important speeches made by General Secretary Xi Jinping. An intra-Party supervision system was built with the focus on theories, thoughts and mechanisms. Mechanisms were designed with the focus on power, responsibility and the assumption of responsibilities.

First, we stuck to the Party’s leadership and underlined the assumption of responsibilities. Leadership work involves education, management and supervision. When taking the leadership, we must also take up the responsibility of maintaining supervision. We need to ensure that those who are in power also bear responsibilities; those who bear responsibilities conscientiously fulfill their responsibilities; those who use power are under strict supervision; and those who fail to fulfill their responsibilities are held accountable.

Second, we focused on solving problems. We didn’t crave big achievements, but tried to solve problems confronting us and make the solutions more practical.

Third, we insisted that trust is not a substitute of supervision. We stressed that there is no no-go area and no exception in intra-Party supervision. We also focused on leading officials, who are few in number but play a crucial role. The Party’s leading organs and leading officials, especially major leading officials, are the major targets of supervision.

Fourth, we stuck to democratic centralism. We strengthened the downward organization structure and supervision methods, improved the upward democratic supervision, allowed mutual supervision at the same level, insisted on the integration of intra-Party supervision and external supervision, regulated the interaction of intra-Party supervision and other supervision methods, and formed synergy between law-based governance and rule-based Party discipline.

Fifth, we strived for pragmatic and efficient approaches, focusing on their necessity and feasibility. Based on the experiences from previous practices, we devised practical solutions.

The Regulation consists of eight chapters and 47 articles, which can be divided into three sections.

The first chapter "General Principles," including nine articles, is the first section. It mainly clarifies the aim and foundations of the Regulation, explains the guiding thoughts, the fundamental principles, the work, targets, methods of supervision and a series of important issues, including the strengthening of self-supervision and the building of the supervision system within the Party.

The 27 articles from Chapter Two to Chapter Five constitute the second section, which is the major part of the Regulation. The four chapters respectively stipulate rules on the responsibilities and relevant mechanisms concerning the four supervision subjects - the Party’s central organs, Party committees (leading Party groups), discipline inspection organs and the Party’s grassroots organizations and Party members. The supervision system within the Party has been set up, featuring the unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the comprehensive supervision of Party committees (leading Party groups), the special supervision of discipline inspection organs, the work-related supervision of the functional departments of Party committees, the routine supervision of grassroots organizations, and the democratic supervision of Party members. In particular, one chapter is devoted specially to the supervision of the Party’s central organs. This is a major change to the previous Regulation, indicating the CPC Central Committee’s determination to set an example for organs at lower levels.

The third section includes the last three chapters, including the supplementary provisions. The 11 articles address the integration, improvement and guarantee of intra-Party supervision and external supervision.

People’s Daily:

Mr. Qi, you mentioned the CPC formulated the Norms of Political Life Within the Party in 1980. I wonder how that is related to the newly issued document. What are the major changes? Thank you.

Qi Yu:

The CPC formulated a set of norms on intra-Party political life in 1980, which was the first time it introduced such norms to manage intra-Party political life and was thus ground-breaking. The main principles and rules in the 1980 version are still applicable today. But as the 1980 version was formulated in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, it addressed the historical conditions and major conflicts at that time. 36 years later, many problems at that time have become outdated, while some problems emerging at that time have grown more conspicuous. Besides, many new problems have cropped up since then. Meanwhile, the CPC has made great achievements and accumulated new experiences in recent years; this is especially true as the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has strengthened Party discipline since the 18th CPC National Congress and made remarkable achievements and gained rich experience in managing the Party; therefore it’s necessary to introduce new norms. The new document this time has reaffirmed the major principles, rules and requirements in the 1980 version, while also coming up with a series of new ideas, measures and norms. For instance, the new document emphasizes that sticking to Party leadership means first and foremost sticking to the central, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee; major policies that affect the Party and the state are only subject to the deliberation and interpretation of the Party; intra-Party networking for one’s personal gains, cultivating personal power and forming interest groups are forbidden; Party leaders, especially senior leaders, should pay attention to the ethics within their families and manage their family members and their associates; and the system which requires leading officials to report relevant personal matters should be strictly implemented. In all, the new document inherits and builds on the legacies of the old one, and Party members should obey them at present and in future. Thank you.

Wen Wei Po:

We have noticed that the communique released after the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee has, for the first time, put forward the term "the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core." Could you explain the background and consideration for putting forward this term?

Huang Kunming:

This is a very important question. The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee pointed out that a leading core is vital to a country and a political party. This is the valuable experience of our Party, and also a profound experience. To ensure that our Party is a strong and powerful Marxist ruling Party, and is a strong leading force in the great socialist cause with Chinese characteristics, we must have a core.

Making clear the core position of General Secretary Xi Jinping is where the fundamental interests of our Party and state lie. It is the fundamental guarantee for the adherence to and strengthening of the CPC leadership. It is also an urgent need to develop the great socialist cause with Chinese characteristics.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led the entire Party, the entire PLA and the people from all ethnic groups across the nation to create a new stage for the development of Chinese socialism as well as the Party. The progress achieved so far, regarding the stability of reform and development, internal politics, diplomacy and national defense, and the governing of the Party, the country and the military, is of practical and historical significance, enabling the Party and the country to move forward into the future.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has won the heartfelt support from the entire Party, the entire PLA and the people from all ethnic groups across the nation as well as high praise from the international community. As a matter of fact, he is already the core of the CPC Central Committee and the core of the entire Party.

General Secretary Xi Jinping becoming the core of the Party is the consensus of all Party members. While contributing their opinions on the sixth plenary session documents, the central and local government departments and the army all expressed their hope that the meeting should define Xi Jinping as the core of the Party and the CPC Central Committee. At the recently closed meeting, CPC Central Committee members agreed to establish Xi as the core of the CPC Central Committee.

They agreed that the experience since the 18th CPC National Congress has fully proved the core position of Xi, and that he deserves to have the trust of the Party and people to put him at that position. Clarifying Xi’s core status has a profound and significant meaning, not only for safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee, and the unity and centralized leadership of the Party; but also for the entire country to keep solidarity, seize opportunities, and face challenges, while moving forward to build a stable and prosperous future. Thank you.

Nigeria TV:

In Nigeria, some of our anti-corruption efforts have not really been successful, which has a negative impact and influence over our economic development. Therefore, I wish to ask about China's experience of anti-corruption, since we know that China has been fairly successful in its anti-corruption campaign with cases involving high-level officials. As for my second question, regarding China's future anti-corruption plans, will the private sector be included? I asked this because as we know, the private sector isn't in the government's current anti-corruption plans.

Wu Yuliang:

You raised two questions. For the sake of convenience, I am answering your second question first.

As per the requirement of comprehensively governing the nation according to law, our supervision will cover all public officials who exercise public power. This is about what you mentioned just now – how we deal with corruption in non-government sectors. Any public official will be punishable by law if he/she violates the law through corruption.

As for your first question, I interpret it that you were asking about how corruption will affect economic development. In this regard, the facts from years of our anti-corruption campaign have proved that anti-corruption promotes economic development. I am aware of a reversed saying that anti-corruption campaign may negatively influence economic development. But in fact, not a single country relies on corruption to develop its economy. Even though there may be such cases, their economic development cannot have been sustainable.

Sustainable economic development follows its own internal rules, but it cannot be made possible without a benign external environment. For example, we need to foster a decent environment for investment, establish a fair and just market order and strictly investigate and deal with power-for-money deals. Economic development has to be safeguarded by anti-corruption. Thank you.

CCTV:

The current documentary "Long March" has presented us with the splendid and world-acclaimed undertakings of Party members from older generations who achieved victory through their undaunted and unremitting beliefs. We have also become aware of the communique issued at the plenary session asking the Party members to consolidate their beliefs, which has become the top-end requirement when developing the political life within the Party. My question is: what significance can beliefs and faith bring to the Long March today?

Huang Kunming:

During the 80th anniversary commemorating the victory of the Long March, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, pointed out that the Long March was a great expedition of beliefs and faith. The victory of the Long March is actually an achievement of idealism and faithfulness.

The Norms passed at the plenary session stipulates in its first provision that they’ll fortify the beliefs and faith of the entire Party. To accentuate beliefs as the superior issue, the plenum is dedicated to stressing the beliefs of Marxism, socialism and communism as their lifetime guidelines and consolidating the confidence of China’s roads, theories, systems and culture with the country’s socialist characteristics. A strong belief will never be an empty slogan or an impractical goal; on the contrary, it has a solid foundation of scientific theories that can be reflected from the performance of every single job, and from the endeavor of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and achieving a moderately prosperous society in all respects. In the final analysis, it can be concluded by the Party’s continuous efforts and progress based on their early beliefs, stressed by the General Secretary Xi. Thank you.

Phoenix TV:

My question is for Mr. Wu. Recently, an eight-episode TV documentary named "Always on the Road" has been shown on state television. The documentary uncovered a number of notorious fallen officials and the details of their corruption, with some of them repenting on camera. The documentary has attracted great attention of the public. We are wondering how you see this?

Wu Yuliang:

The wide attention shows public support. First, it shows that comprehensively strictly governing the Party has won the hearts of both the people and the Party members. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has added comprehensively strictly governing the Party into the "Four Comprehensives" strategy, so as to prevent corruption from spreading. The material of the documentary is from the practice since the 18th CPC National Congress. Receiving public praise means winning the hearts of the people and the Party members.

Second, as the documentary’s name says, the CPC is always on the road. The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee which concluded yesterday sets a new strategic deployment for comprehensively strictly governing the Party, and approves the Norms and the Regulation, which shows the CPC’s steadfast determination for comprehensively strictly governing the Party. As long as we can insist in comprehensively strictly governing the Party, promote the anti-corruption campaign and build a clean and honest administration, realizing the Two Centenary Goals and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be fundamentally guaranteed. Thank you.

Macao Daily:

My question is for the leader of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. You just mentioned that the Norms approved at the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward a series of new measures and new opinions. How will they be implemented? Thank you.

Qi Yu:

There are more than 160 new stipulations and measures in the Norms. Generally speaking, they are detailed and highly feasible, so there will be no major difficulties in implementing them. As for the specifics of implementation, from the practical perspective, I think we should integrate education, supervision, investigation and punishment, and accountability.

Education refers to carrying out publication and education campaigns to make the contents of the Norms known and understood by all Party members and officials as quickly as possible. We should take the study and implementation of the Norms as an important part of the campaign of studying the Party Constitution, studying and implementation the important speeches made by General Secretary Xi Jinping and becoming a qualified Party member. Through regular and targeted education campaigns, we will help all Party members and officials learn the Norms by heart and observe them in their everyday life.

Supervision includes two aspects. On one hand, the Party should keep learning what its officials are thinking and doing, to strengthen routine warnings, supervision and inspection and strengthen regular critique and instruction of its members. On the other hand, Party members, members of the leadership, and supervisors and subordinates should constantly remind each other to observe the Norms, and exercise supervision over each other. When there is a need, the rule offenders should be criticized and their wrong doings rectified. This is also crucial to the implementation of the Norms. As for serious violations of the Norms, as soon as a case is discovered, it should be investigated, and the responsible persons should be punished. Zero tolerance will be given, so as to deter others from following suit.

Accountability means that Party organs and their main leaders must be held accountable if they fail to maintain effective governance and remain indifferent towards activities that violate the Norms. Party organs should be held accountable if they fail to fulfill their main duties at work and fail to exercise supervision.

Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore):

We learnt that the theme of the sixth plenary session is strict governance of the Party and I want to ask questions on anti-corruption. My first question is about "tigers." I noticed that many "tigers" who fell from grace recently were sentenced to death with reprieve or life in prison, which made the public believe that "corrupt officials can live" is an "unspoken rule." Therefore, I want to ask, in the future, will corrupt officials be exempted from the death sentence however big their corruption is? As for my second question, after four years since the anti-corruption campaign started, some public opinions hold that we are doing a selective anti-corruption meant to target political opponents. I'd like to know how the Chinese authorities will respond to this concern.

Wu Yuliang:

I am answering your second question first. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, we have been upholding the principle of finding every single case of corruption and rectifying every single case of graft whenever we discover one. We beat "tigers" together with "flies," "uproot rotten trees," "treat ill trees" and "protect the forest." As for "uprooting rotten trees," we certainly should start with the one that has decayed the most. If this amounts to selection, I would call it an approach to work.

But your question may carry another implication. In the past, people criticized us, saying we didn't fight against corruption; but when we stepped up our anti-corruption effort, they said that our campaign had selective targets. I would say that their allegation had ulterior motives.

The CPC is a party that wholeheartedly seeks the interests of and benefits for the people, and its anti-corruption campaign is entirely for the public interest, because corrupt officials damage the interest of the country and the people, which is completely contradictory to the nature and purposes of the Party. If we do not punish corrupt officials, we will irritate the 1.3 billion Chinese people. This is a most simple math regarding politics.

As for your first question, I mentioned just now that the disciplinary inspection organs are mainly there to supervise discipline and hold those violators accountable. The Party discipline is not the same as, but is stricter than, the laws, and the Party's disciplinary inspection organs only carry out investigations on cases involving disciplinary violations based on the Party Constitution and the discipline punishment regulations. For those cases that violate the laws, the inspection organs, after imposing disciplinary punishments, will transfer the suspects to law enforcement bodies. The legal penalty for these suspects of corruption will be decided by judicial bodies. Thank you.

NBC TV Network:

Here is my question. The U.S. presidential election is approaching its end, and the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was closed yesterday. Could you please explain to us in which aspects China’s leadership system is more suitable for China’s conditions than America’s electoral system? My second question is: Was there any decision made on personnel arrangements at the sixth plenary session?

Qi Yu:

Let me start from your first question. There is an old Chinese saying which General Secretary Xi Jinping has said on several occasions. "To know whether a pair of shoes is a good fit for your feet, you have to put them on." A country must adapt its chosen political system and development path to its own national conditions, history and culture. China has adopted the socialist political system under the leadership of the CPC, which is the choice of history and the people. Over the past 60 years, the New China has achieved universally acknowledged achievements and accomplished miracles in the social developmental history of mankind. Socialism has shown its vigor in the vast land of China. The leadership of the CPC has obtained wide support and recognition from the people. The leadership of the CPC has become the fundamental feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is the best evidence that the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics suits China’s national conditions.

Let me answer your second question. As the comrade from the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee said just now, the main agenda of the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is as follows: the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee reports its work to the CPC Central Committee, to study major issues about pushing forward the strict governance of the Party, to formulate the Norms, to revise the Regulation and to review and approve the resolution on holding the 19th CPC National Congress. This is all that I know. Thank you!

Xinhua News Agency:

The sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee which just closed a few moments ago has passed the Norms and the Regulation, from which we have noticed the term: "critical minority" which relates to asking our leaders to have good leadership. What’s your concern over this issue? Thanks.

Wu Yuliang:

Your question is actually the continuation of the last one that was answered by Mr. Qi. Both the Norms and the Regulation stressed that intra-Party political life and supervision should be consolidated and regulated especially among high ranking officials, which is the distinctive character of those two intra-Party rules. First, the positions of the leaders, especially those with high-ranks, decide the behavior of officials who play significant roles in pushing forward the Party and state affairs by regulated leadership and teamwork. Second, it has always been the precious legacy of our Party to let Party members of high ranks be the spearhead for good deeds. Third, we’re drawing lessons from several officials, such as, Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, and Ling Jihua, who were exposed as corrupt when they were in high ranks and investigated after the 18th CPC National Congress. They caused great loss to the Party and taught us severe lessons. Therefore, we need to closely supervise the implementation of the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the practice of the Norms and the Regulation especially among top officials. Thank you.

Il Sole 24 Ore：

My question is in a current phase like this, what can China contribute to global governance?

Huang Kunming:

Thank you for your question. We know that reform and opening was a significant move in modern China's destiny. The opening up has brought many benefits to China and the world at large.

For a long time, China has worked very hard to push forward the global governance system and make it go in a fairer and more reasonable direction.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party’s Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core has proposed many innovative global governance concepts and measures. Examples include the Belt and Road Initiative, building a new type of international relationship with a core spirit of win-win cooperation, upholding friendship and justice while pursuing shared interests, creating a community with a shared future for mankind, and etc. They have all received positive responses and wide recognition from most countries in the world.

At the G20 summit held in Hangzhou not long ago, China left a deep and profound impression as it strived to push for an innovative global governance system. President Xi Jinping proposed at the summit his vision to build an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy. The summit also reached a consensus to promote global economic growth.

These are the new contributions China has dedicated to global governance. CPC, as the ruling party of the world's biggest developing country, is willing to work with the international community and exercise a bigger role in enhancing and improving global governance. Thanks!

Jiang Jianguo:

Ladies and gentlemen, friends, the press conference has lasted more than 100 minutes. Officials of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee all gave introductions focusing on the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and answered relevant questions. I think it is very helpful. We will continue to release information about the CPC to let the public know more about the Party and the country. Thank you and see you next time.

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