Adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and non-party supervision is the consistent requirement of Marxist political parties and the fine tradition and political advantage of our party. The "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision in the Communist Party of China (CPC)" adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") clearly stipulates in the general provisions that inner-party supervision should be combined with supervision by the masses. This is the basic requirement put forward by the CPC Central Committee for comprehensively administering the Party strictly under the new situation. We should conscientiously study and understand the spirit of the Regulations, make great efforts to do a good job in this great article of "integration", enhance the Party’s ability of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement under the long-term ruling conditions, and ensure that the Party will always be the strong leadership core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause.
First, fully understand the significance of adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and mass supervision.
At the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "We need to implement internal supervision of the Party, and we also need supervision from the people and non-party people over our party organization and party member." Practice has proved that inner-party supervision and people’s supervision are two important forms of supervision over Party organizations and party member. Under the new situation, organically combining inner-party supervision with people’s supervision is of great significance for perfecting the supervision system for Party organizations and party member, ensuring that Party organizations fully perform their duties and play a central role, ensuring that party member plays a vanguard and exemplary role, ensuring that leading cadres of the Party are loyal and clean, and forming a good situation of upright party style, popular support and prosperous career.
(1) Adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and mass supervision is an inevitable requirement for upholding the nature and purpose of the Party. As early as 1941, Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out in his speech to the Senate in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region: "communist party is a political party that works for the interests of the nation and the people, and it has no self-interest in itself. It should be supervised by the people and should never go against the will of the people. " Our party comes from, roots in and serves the people, and has no special interests of its own except the interests of the working class and the overwhelming majority of the people. This determines that our party must always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the people, not only draw wisdom and strength from the people, but also consciously accept criticism and supervision from the people. People’s supervision is not only an important guarantee that the nature and purpose of the party will never fade, but also an important form for the people to exercise their right to be masters of their own affairs. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly pointed out: "Our party has strict organization and discipline, and the fundamental purpose of the party is to serve the people wholeheartedly, so it is only natural to accept the supervision of the organization and the people." Insisting on the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision, and letting the people participate in, supervise and judge the party’s management of the party and party building is of great significance for ensuring that the people are the masters of the country, ensuring the correct exercise of power, preventing and correcting behaviors that harm the interests of the people, and ensuring that the party always works for the public and is in power for the people.
(2) Adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision is a realistic need to solve outstanding problems within the party under the new situation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has insisted on strictly administering the Party in an all-round way, formulated and implemented a series of laws and regulations within the Party, such as improving work style and keeping close contact with the masses, deployed and carried out the Party’s mass line education and practice activities, the special education of "three strictness and three realities" and the study and education of "two studies and one doing", strictly adhered to political discipline and rules, persisted in fighting together with "tigers" and "flies", punished corruption according to law and discipline, and promoted the Party. At the same time, we are also soberly aware that some localities and units still have some outstanding problems, such as the weakening of the party’s leadership, the lack of party building, the inability to strictly manage the party in an all-round way, the weak concept of the party, the lax organization and discipline, and the loose management of the party. To solve these outstanding problems, we should give full play to the role of supervision within the party and the people. Comrade Jiang Zemin once pointed out: "Relying on the support and participation of the masses is an important experience in effectively preventing and punishing corruption." The organic combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision is conducive to eliminating the dead ends and blind spots of supervision, finding and solving outstanding problems within the party in time, further improving the party’s ruling ability and leadership level, and improving its ability to resist corruption, change and risks.
(3) Adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision is an important way to improve the supervision system for party organizations and party member. Although the inner-party supervision and the people’s supervision have their own relatively independent structures and functions, they complement and promote each other and are consistent in their fundamental nature and objectives. Party organizations and party member are among the masses of the people, who know their situation best and have the most say, and have a wide range of supervision and accurate information on their activities, which can effectively make up for the lack of inner-party supervision and help promote the in-depth development of inner-party supervision. At the same time, perfecting the inner-party supervision system is an important guarantee for the realization of people’s supervision. Only by promptly starting the inner-party supervision procedure and dealing with it severely according to the rules and regulations can the people’s supervision be effective. It can be said that inner-party supervision is self-discipline, and the external supervision of the people is heteronomy. Only by promoting the effective connection between inner-party supervision and people’s supervision can we promote the combination of self-discipline and heteronomy, build a scientific and strict supervision system, and keep the party’s advanced nature and purity forever.
Second, accurately grasp the objectives and tasks of adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision
Adhere to the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision, the key is to closely focus on the supervision of party organizations and party member, adhere to the interaction of subjects, the integration of contents, the docking of forms, and the coordination of mechanisms, effectively enhance the operability and effectiveness of supervision, and ensure the realization of the expected objectives and tasks.
(1) Actively promote the interaction between the inner-party supervision subject and the people. The "Regulations" make detailed provisions on the supervisory subjects and their duties and tasks, such as the Party’s central organization, party committees (leading groups), the Party’s discipline inspection committees, the Party’s working departments, the Party’s grass-roots organizations and party member, and build an inner-party supervision system with clear subjects and responsibilities. Maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the masses is the first requirement for adhering to the combination of inner-party supervision and mass supervision. First, Party committees (leading groups) should take the lead in implementing the Party’s mass line and closely rely on the people to strengthen and improve inner-party supervision. Party committees (party groups) bear the main responsibility in inner-party supervision, with the secretary as the first responsible person, and members of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee (party group members) and Party committee members perform their supervisory duties within the scope of their duties. Party committees (party groups) and their leading cadres should go deep into the grassroots and the masses, strengthen face-to-face exchanges with the people, and listen carefully to their suggestions, criticisms and supervision. It is necessary to innovate ways and means of contacting the masses, improve public opinion surveys, public opinion monitoring and other mechanisms, give full play to the role of new media and other information platforms, and truly listen to people’s voices, observe people’s opinions and understand people’s feelings. Second, the Party’s Commission for Discipline Inspection should keep the door open for supervision, and let the people participate in and support the work of supervision, discipline and accountability. The Party’s discipline inspection committees at all levels are the specialized organs of inner-party supervision, which perform the duties of supervision and accountability, and are responsible for strengthening the supervision and inspection of the Party organizations and leading cadres’ compliance with party constitution Party rules and regulations and the implementation of the Party’s line, principles and policies. We must persist in trusting and relying on the masses.Ask the people for advice on the issue of strictly administering the party, master as many first-hand materials as possible, and truly understand the situation and identify the problem. It is necessary to continuously improve the transparency of work, broaden the channels for people’s supervision, give play to the role of new technologies and means, and form a ubiquitous supervision network. Third, the Party’s grass-roots organizations and party member should give full play to their natural advantages in dealing with the grass-roots people, and timely understand and reflect their criticisms and suggestions. The Party’s grass-roots organizations and party member, who are among the people, have the most direct feelings about the people’s opinions and demands, and also shoulder the supervisory obligation of reflecting the people’s opinions and demands to the Party in a timely manner. We should give full play to the role of grass-roots party organizations as fighting bastions and the vanguard and exemplary role of party member, better contact with the masses, serve them and unite them, reflect their opinions and demands in a timely manner, ensure and smooth the channels of supervision by the masses, and strive to become loyal practitioners who serve the people wholeheartedly, firm executors of the party’s mass line and experts in the party’s mass work.
(2) Actively promote the content of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision. Article 5 of the "Regulations" summarizes the main contents of inner-party supervision into eight aspects, covering important areas and major issues in managing the party, which is crucial to ensure the effective implementation of party rules and regulations in party constitution. Both inner-party supervision and people’s supervision should focus on these eight aspects. For example, in the supervision of promoting the building of a clean and honest party style and anti-corruption work, we should better combine inner-party supervision with people’s supervision, closely supervise tight encirclement, turn on all-weather "searchlights", and let "invisible people" have nowhere to hide and "micro-corruption" have nothing to hide. In the supervision of implementing the spirit of the eight central regulations, strengthening work style construction, keeping close contact with the masses, and consolidating the party’s ruling foundation, we should sum up the important experience of opening the door and relying on the masses to promote work style construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, combine internal force leading with external force promoting, truly open the door to the masses, give full play to their omnipresent supervision power, find out the invisible variation "four winds", and release the positive energy of supervision by the masses. In the supervision of adhering to the party’s cadre standards, establishing a correct orientation for selecting and employing people, and implementing the provisions on the selection and appointment of cadres, it is necessary to sum up the practice of organizing departments to open the "12380" report telephone number, and further broaden the practice of finding unhealthy trends in selecting and employing people.Non-governmental channels, establish a "four-in-one" comprehensive reporting platform that integrates letters, telephones, networks and text messages, so that more people can participate in the selection and appointment of cadres and let party cadres be tested in a wider social space. In the supervision of honesty, self-discipline and fair use of power, we should combine organizational supervision with people’s supervision, strengthen supervision over the basis, process and result of power exercise, ensure that the power runs and the supervision will follow up, keep party member and cadres under the supervision of the party and the people all the time, resist the adverse effects of "human culture" and "circle culture", constantly purify the life circle and communication circle, and always maintain a clean and honest political nature.
(3) Actively promote the docking of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision. With the continuous development of inner-party democracy and people’s democracy, the forms of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision are becoming more and more diversified. The "Regulations" stipulate various forms of supervision, such as patrol inspection, intra-party talks, accountability and honesty of leading cadres, reports on personal matters, and records of intervening in major matters. The forms of people’s supervision mainly include direct complaints, reports and accusations to relevant institutions, reports and letters to relevant departments, criticism and supervision opinions through the Internet, and supervision through mass organizations and grassroots mass autonomous organizations. Adhere to the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision, we must promote the effective docking of relevant supervision forms, so as to achieve interconnection and complement each other. The first is to promote the better docking of inspections and inspections with complaints, reports and accusations from the masses. Patrol is an important way to combine inner-party supervision with people’s supervision, and it is a powerful guarantee for our party to strengthen self-supervision under the long-term ruling conditions. To give full play to the sword role of inspection, we must contact the masses in the inspected areas and units more widely and directly. Through inspections, we will broaden the channels for the people to reflect their opinions, strengthen the acceptance of clues reported by the people, implement standardized disposal and dynamic management, build a convenient communication bridge between the party and the people, and form a strong internal and external supervision force. The second is to promote the record system of leading cadres’ accountability and honesty, personal reports on related matters, and intervention in major matters to better connect with the supervision of the people. These three systems stipulated in the "Regulations" are sharp tools to strengthen the supervision of leading cadres in party member.Whether leading cadres in party member state their responsibilities and honesty in a realistic way, whether they truthfully report important personal and family situations, and whether they take advantage of their positions to illegally intervene in the selection and appointment of cadres, project construction, law enforcement and judicial activities, should be supervised and judged by the people. The relevant departments should fully listen to the opinions of the people when verifying the relevant situation. The third is to promote the better connection between supervision and discipline accountability and letters and visits. Letters and visits are an important form of people’s supervision. The party’s discipline inspection organs should attach great importance to and seriously deal with people’s complaints and reports, and find them early, report them early and dispose of them in time; The situation of leading cadres who have outstanding social reflection and poor evaluation by the people should be verified and reported in time; On the important report, we should study it collectively and deal with it seriously. At the same time, we should be good at analyzing and judging the situation of letters and visits regularly, put forward targeted disposal opinions on the typical and universal problems reflected by letters and visits, and urge the localities and departments where letters and visits are concentrated to find out the reasons and seriously rectify them. The fourth is to promote the better connection between internet supervision and various supervision methods within the party. In the Internet age, the Internet is an important platform for ordinary people to express their opinions and demands and exercise their supervisory rights. Network supervision has the advantages of openness, convenience and efficiency, and has become the most popular form of supervision among the people. We should be more tolerant and patient with suggestions, criticism and supervision on the internet, absorb constructive opinions in time, clarify vague understanding in time, resolve grievances in time, and guide and correct wrong views in time.Let the network become a new way for us to gather the demands of the masses and reflect the dynamics of public opinion, and become a new channel for carrying forward people’s democracy and accepting the supervision of the people.
(4) Actively promote the coordination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision mechanisms. In the construction of supervision system, the institutional mechanism plays an overall, fundamental and long-term role. Adhere to the combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision, we must promote the convergence and coordination of various supervision mechanisms and enhance the systematicness, integrity and synergy of supervision. First, insisting on the openness of party affairs is in step with safeguarding the people’s right to know, participate, express and supervise. Practice shows that the openness and transparency of the information of the object of supervision is the prerequisite for the people to carry out effective supervision. It is necessary to further clarify the contents, procedures and methods of making party affairs public, improve the openness and transparency of major decisions made by party organizations, the building of leading bodies, the selection and appointment of cadres, and the honesty and self-discipline of cadres, and ensure the people’s right to know, participate, express and supervise, so as to truly put the activities of party organizations and party member under the supervision of the people. The second is to adhere to the procedure of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision. Procedure is not only a restraint mechanism to prevent arbitrariness, but also an institutional guarantee to realize substantive justice. It is necessary to improve the procedures for the acceptance, verification, feedback and implementation of people’s reporting clues and supervision opinions, so that the people can feel the timeliness and fairness of the disposal process, and ensure that the people respond to everything when criticizing and supervising. Third, adhere to the combination of safeguarding the people’s right to supervision and safeguarding the relevant rights of the supervised objects. On the one hand, we should always put the protection of the people’s supervision rights in an important position, and deal with and respond to the people’s criticisms, suggestions, reports, complaints and accusations in a timely manner; It is necessary to keep the informer and informer confidential,Actively prevent and severely deal with retaliation against prosecutors; When the personal and property safety of the prosecutor and his close relatives is threatened, the relevant departments should take protective measures in time. On the other hand, it is necessary to protect the related rights of the supervised object, such as defend oneself and the right to appeal. After investigation, if the supervised object has no misconduct, it shall be clarified and renamed; Those who insult, slander or frame others in the name of supervision will be dealt with severely according to discipline; If the object of supervision refuses to accept the decision, it may lodge a complaint in accordance with the party rules of party constitution, and the relevant party organizations shall seriously review and make a conclusion.
Three, adhere to the requirements of the combination of inner-party supervision and supervision by the masses.
Promoting the organic combination of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision is an important task that needs unremitting exploration. We should thoroughly implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, start with changing ideas, improving systems, and innovating ways, and continue to exert ourselves for a long time to promote inner-party supervision and people’s supervision to complement each other.
(a) to enhance the consciousness of consciously accepting supervision, and to develop the habit of working and living under the supervision of party organizations and the masses. In practice, some leading cadres in party member have a weak concept of consciously accepting supervision, and they have a vague or even wrong understanding of supervision. They regard supervision by the masses as a "hard time" for themselves and feel "losing face" and "losing prestige". In fact, people’s criticism and supervision can help party member cadres to make fewer or even no mistakes, which is the best protection for party member cadres. Consciously accepting people’s supervision is an important yardstick to measure party member cadres’ political consciousness and ideological level. Being kind to critical voices is the real mind; Welcome others to supervise, is the real confidence; It is true wisdom to listen to advice. Leading cadres in party member should take the initiative to accept the criticism and supervision of the people, be good at drawing wisdom and strength from the people, and promote the healthy development of the cause of the party and the state while ensuring the healthy growth of individuals.
(2) Innovating supervision methods and means to promote the organic integration, accuracy and efficiency of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision. With the rise of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, especially the development of mobile Internet, Internet of Things and cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, everything experienced by human life is changing. Such an era of rapid development has never happened in human history. This not only updates our way of thinking about the world, but also provides new ways and means for supervision. Since the opening of the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it has greatly facilitated the people to supervise and report by setting up a report area, setting up a clean government message board and strengthening exchanges and interactions. Under the new situation, we should stand at the forefront of the times, deeply integrate the scientific and technological revolution with supervision innovation, and realize the organic integration, accuracy and efficiency of inner-party supervision and people’s supervision through the change of ideas, the application of science and technology and the innovation of mechanisms. Learn from some places and departments to set up a WeChat public platform around the people and open a one-click report, so that the people can supervise more conveniently and quickly, and there is nowhere to hide unhealthy practices and corruption. Vigorously promote the petition WeChat WeChat official account, the mobile phone client petition application and remote video interview, so as to facilitate people’s online complaints and evaluations, and further create an open, dynamic, transparent and convenient new mode of "sunshine petition". Establish and improve the network public opinion collection, judgment and disposal mechanism, timely follow up the important information and clues reflected by the people and the media, and continuously gather and enhance the positive energy of network supervision.Big data can reveal the internal relevance of things that people have never realized before, and it is an important starting point for promoting the transformation and upgrading of supervision work. It is necessary to sum up the experience of implementing the "data cage" plan in some places, weave a cage that restricts power with big data, make the whole process of power operation electronic and leave traces everywhere, enhance the predictability, accuracy and efficiency of supervision work, and enhance the credibility and persuasiveness of supervision results. Establish a well-informed, accurate and monitorable database, promote cross-regional and cross-departmental sharing of all kinds of supervision information, prevent and reduce the phenomenon of repeated acceptance of reporting clues, and effectively improve the efficiency of supervision.
(three) widely mobilize the people to promote the formation of a good atmosphere in which everyone wants to supervise, everyone is willing to supervise, and everyone dares to supervise. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly pointed out: "The people contain the wisdom and strength to govern the country and the party, and we must rely on the people to strictly manage the party." We should fully carry forward socialist democracy, implement the party’s mass line, create an environment that encourages and protects supervision, and stimulate the people’s sense of ownership and enthusiasm for supervision. For a long time, affected by various factors, some people have a weak sense of supervision subject, and the problems of unwilling, afraid and unwilling to supervise are more prominent, which has affected the effectiveness of supervision. We should take the opportunity of studying and implementing the "Regulations" and carry out in-depth publicity on the supervision policies and regulations of Party organizations and party member by means of media propaganda, cadre preaching and expert interpretation, so as to help the broad masses of the people understand and master the relevant supervision knowledge and enhance their supervision consciousness and ability. It is necessary to guide the people to supervise according to the law and regulations, advocate that the real name of the department reflects the facts of violation of discipline and law, and develop the habit of expressing demands and carrying out supervision on the track of the rule of law. In March 2016, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Finance jointly issued "Several Provisions on Protecting and Rewarding Informants of Duty Crimes", which is of great significance for safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of informers and encouraging people to report duty crimes according to law. It is necessary to improve the implementation of the supervision and guarantee system, strengthen the protection of supervisors, reward those who have made meritorious deeds in supervision, and investigate the responsibilities of those who have failed in supervision and guarantee according to laws and regulations.Fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of the broad masses of people in supervision.
