Chen Wenjun:

The last question, please.

Guangming Daily:

According to the report to the 20th CPC National Congress, the leadership of the Party is comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and must be implemented in a comprehensive, systematic and holistic manner. What are the new connotations and requirements of leadership?

Tian Peiyan:

I will take this question. This is a major political conclusion made by our Party by making a condensed summary of its historical experience and responding to the new requirements of the times.

The leadership of the Party is comprehensive, systematic and holistic. It includes political, ideological, and organizational leadership and leadership in conducting major work. It is embodied in strategic planning, top-level design, and tactical guidance and implementation. It covers all processes and fields of the cause of the Party and the country, and all aspects, including economic, political, cultural, social and ecological development, national defense and the military, national reunification, foreign affairs, and Party building. In terms of the work it involves and the fields it covers, the leadership of the Party is an indivisible, interconnected, and systemic whole, and should any field, aspect, or process be missing or weakened, it would undermine the leadership of the Party and harm the cause of the Party and the country. That said, the Party's leadership must be implemented comprehensively, systematically and holistically.

To uphold the leadership of the Party, we must improve the system of Party leadership in which the Party provides overall leadership and coordinates the efforts of all sides. We must improve the mechanism of implementing the CPC Central Committee's major decisions and plans, ensure that the whole Party is highly aligned with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in terms of political stance, direction, principle, and path, and ensure the Party's solidarity and unity.

We should step up efforts to ensure that the political responsibility for implementing the Party's leadership is fulfilled. We must leverage the leading role of Party committees (leading Party members groups) at all levels, the exemplary role of officials, the decisive role of grassroots Party organizations, and the exemplary role of Party members to form a strong synergy for implementing the Party's leadership in an all-round, multi-level and multi-dimensional manner. We should uphold law-based, democratic, and sound governance, implement democratic centralism, innovate and improve the way the Party exercises leadership, and be adept at turning the views of the Party into the will of the state through statutory procedures, placing people recommended by Party organizations in leadership positions in bodies of state power through statutory procedures, and ensuring Party leadership over the state and society through the agencies of state power, to safeguard order and efficacy of Party leadership. Thank you.

Chen Wenjun:

That's all for today's press conference. Thank you to the three delegates to the 20th CPC National Congress and friends from the media.

Translated and edited by Zhang Liying, Li Huiru, Zhu Bochen, Zhou Jing, Yan Bin, Yan Xiaoqing, Huang Shan, Mi Xingang, Wang Yanfang, Liu Jianing, He Shan, Qin Qi, Zhang Rui, Zhang Jiaqi, Liu Sitong, Ma Yujia, Yan Bin, Wang Wei, David Ball, Tom Arnsten, and Jay Birbeck. In case of any discrepancy between the English and Chinese texts, the Chinese version is deemed to prevail.