Drafts on practices of Party reviewed

The sixth plenary session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee will be held in Beijing from Oct 24 to 27, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee announced on Tuesday.

Members of the Political Bureau heard reports at a meeting on Tuesday on the drafting of two documents to be submitted to the plenum for deliberation. They deal with updating the norms of political practices within the Party and revising an intra-Party supervision regulation, according to the announcement.

The meeting was presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

History shows that as a Marxist party, the CPC must be politically conscious and adopt a serious and meticulous approach to intra-Party political life, it said.

"To strengthen and standardize intra-Party political life, the Party Constitution must be followed, and the CPC's political, ideological, organizational and mass lines must be upheld," the statement said.

Efforts should be made to enhance the Party's capability to purify, improve and renovate itself, to resist corruption and risk, and to prevent itself from degeneration, it said.

Amid its efforts to strengthen and standardize Party political life, the statement said, the CPC should aim to improve its art of leadership and governance, safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee, ensure Party unity and maintain its advanced nature and purity.

The task for exercising intra-Party supervision is to ensure that the Party Constitution, regulations and discipline are enforced effectively, to maintain the Party unity and solidarity, and to primarily resolve problems of Party leadership enervation and slackness in Party governance and discipline observation, it said.

The supervision is expected to ensure that Party organizations perform their duties, all the members play exemplary roles and leading officials of the Party are loyal, free of corruption and able to assume their responsibilities.

Intra-Party supervision should be exercised via democratic centralism, tightening of top-down organizational supervision, improvements to democratic supervision from the bottom to the top, and letting peers supervise one another.

"There are no restricted areas or exceptions in intra-Party supervision," it said.