'Mass line' campaign to consolidate CPC's rule

Over the past decades, China has grown to be the world's second largest economy with hundreds of millions of individuals' lives being improved.

During the period, China exempted agricultural tax, has provided free nine-year compulsory education and has established a basic medical care system that nearly covers the whole nation, all of which, among others, contribute to the solid Party-people relations.

However, not all the issues could be resolved through economic development. In the era of informatization, democratization and globalization, it becomes much more difficult for the Party to coordinate people's diversified interest.

Moreover, a slew of Party members and officials do not care about people's weal and woe, testing their relations with people.

Corruption still exists. Former railways minister Liu Zhijun stood trial in Beijing earlier this month on charges of bribery and abuse of power.

Several senior officials have been investigated, such as Liu Tienan, former deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, and Li Chuncheng, former vice-secretary of the CPC committee of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

As the Party Constitution says, the biggest political advantage of the Party lies in its close ties with the masses while the biggest potential danger for it as a governing party comes from its divorce from them.

It is high time for the CPC to launch an education campaign in which Party members are required to "watch from the mirror, groom oneself, take a bath and seek remedies," or in brief, to reflect on their own practices and correct any misbehavior.