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　　 Paying attention to ideological party building is the basic principle and requirement of Marxist party building, and it is also a valuable experience and an important magic weapon for the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s continuous development and growth in 1995. It is also the distinctive feature and primary task of managing the party since the 18th CPC National Congress. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his "1 July" speech, "Only when you are sober in theory can you be firm in politics. A firm ideal and belief must be based on a profound understanding of Marxism and a profound grasp of historical laws. " Under the new situation of profound changes in the current international and domestic environment and the party’s own situation, the key to putting ideological party building in a more prominent position and increasing the intensity of ideological party building is to push the party’s ideological and theoretical construction to a new height.

　　 First, ideological party building is the basic principle and fundamental follow-up of Marxist party building.

　　 Although Marx and Engels did not explicitly put forward the proposition of "ideological party building" when they founded the proletarian political party, they made a lot of positive attempts to build the party ideologically. The world’s first proletarian political party organization founded under the guidance of Marx and Engels — — The Communist League attaches great importance to strengthening party building from two aspects: theoretical criticism and theoretical innovation. On the one hand, Marx and Engels attached great importance to improving the ideological level of the League members with the theory of scientific socialism. By criticizing the erroneous theories in the workers’ movement, such as Waitring’s utopian communism and proudhon’s petty-bourgeois reformism, they eliminated the erroneous ideas within the party and improved party member’s ideological and theoretical level. On the other hand, they repeatedly emphasized the necessity of theoretical innovation, and clearly pointed out that their theory is a developing theory, a guide to scientific methods and actions, not a doctrine and a dogma that must be memorized and mechanically repeated.

　　 Lenin further enriched this thought of Marx and Engels, and thought that revolutionary theory was the premise of revolutionary action, emphasizing that "two things will not be spontaneous": first, scientific theory will not be spontaneously produced among workers, and second, workers will not spontaneously form socialist consciousness in their minds. This kind of consciousness needs effective propaganda, education and external indoctrination of workers by proletarian political parties who master Marxist theory.

　　 The Communist Party of China (CPC) inherited and developed the basic ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin on ideological party building, which not only paid attention to theoretical armed forces, but also was good at theoretical innovation, and formed an ideological and theoretical construction mode combining theoretical innovation with theoretical armed forces. Theoretical innovation is mainly to promote the development and perfection of theory in depth. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s greatest innovation is to combine the basic principles of Marxism with China’s revolution, construction and reform practice, and put forward two scientific propositions: "China Marxism" and "Socialism with Chinese characteristics". The most significant theoretical innovation is the theoretical system of Mao Zedong Thought and Socialism with Chinese characteristics. These thoughts and theories have achieved two leaps in the China of Marxism from germination, formation to development, and from exploration, practice to perfection. Armed theory is the timely and effective study, education, publicity and dissemination of theory and its latest innovation achievements, and thus guides practice. Theoretical innovation is the premise and theoretical arming is the requirement. Every step forward in theoretical innovation and every step forward in theoretical arming, the party’s cause will move forward.

　　 Second, ideological party building is a valuable experience and an important magic weapon for the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1995.

　　 In the 95 years since its founding, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has always put ideological and theoretical construction in the first place, paid attention to ideological party building, and constantly improved the Marxist level of the whole party. This is a basic experience for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to strengthen its own construction as a Marxist political party, and it is also an important magic weapon for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to constantly glow with strong charisma, cohesion and combat effectiveness from weak to strong, from naive to mature, and from victory to victory.

　　 From the development course of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ideological party building, it has experienced the initial stage of the party building, the initial exploration in Jinggangshan period, the establishment of the principle of Gutian Conference (the ninth party congress of the Red Fourth Army), the good start of Yan ‘an rectification, the innovation and perfection in Xibaipo period, the continuous exploration and tortuous development after the founding of New China, and the re-establishment and rich expansion since the reform and opening up. During the period of democratic revolution, the first generation of central leading collective with Mao Zedong as the core creatively applied the Marxist theory of party building to the construction practice of the Communist Party of China (CPC), put forward the principle of "focusing on building the party ideologically", and successfully built "a Bolshevized the Communist Party of China (CPC) with nationwide, broad masses and completely consolidated ideologically and politically". After the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China (CPC) insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific reality and characteristics of the times, constantly promoted the China, modernization and popularization of Marxism, and made continuous innovations in theory. And pay attention to arming the whole party and educating cadres with these theoretical achievements, which has played an important role in unifying the thinking of the whole party and rallying the strength of the whole party, and has given the development of the cause of the party and the state a solid theoretical foundation, a correct direction of progress and a strong spiritual motivation.

　　 Judging from the practical mechanism of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Thought’s party building, our party has formed a set of learning, education, training and publicity mechanisms, which have become a major feature and advantage of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ideological and theoretical construction. As early as the New Culture Movement, Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong publicized Marxism by running newspapers, periodicals and writing articles. After the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Mao Zedong served as the acting minister of the Kuomintang Propaganda Department during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and was responsible for propaganda and ideological work. Zhou Enlai served as the director of the political department of Huangpu Military Academy, responsible for the ideological and political education of the revolutionary army, and accumulated a lot of learning, education, training, propaganda methods and experience. In addition to normal study and publicity, every time the Party introduces major theoretical innovations, it must be followed by concentrated study, including the Yan ‘an Rectification Movement to study Marxism–Leninism and Mao Zedong’s works throughout the Party from 1942 to 1945. After the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has carried out many rectification movements that have carried out ideological party building throughout, and maintained the advanced nature and combat effectiveness of the Communist Party of China (CPC) after he took office. Since the reform and opening up, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has continuously enriched, developed and innovated the practical mechanism of ideological party building, and successively carried out the Party consolidation movement from 1983 to 1987, the "three stresses" study and education activities from 1998 to 2000, the education activities to maintain the advanced nature of Communist party member from 2005 to 2006, and the in-depth implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development education practice activities from 2008 to 2010. Since the 18th CPC National Congress,Our party has also carried out the party’s mass line education practice activities, "three strictness and three realities" special education activities and "two studies and one doing" learning activities and other centralized education activities within the party. In order to ensure the effective development of centralized learning and education activities, our party has established a perfect institutionalized learning system, including the collective learning system of the Politburo, the central group learning system of leading bodies of party and government organs at all levels throughout the country, and the systematic learning and training systems of party schools, universities and administrative colleges at all levels.

　　 Judging from the great achievements of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s thought in building the Party, the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ideological and theoretical construction is in harmony with the achievements of China’s revolution, construction and reform, and resonates with the historical process of saving the country, rejuvenating the country, strengthening the country and rejuvenating the country. Under the guidance of Marxist theory of party building, and in the great practice of leading China’s revolution, construction and reform, the Communist Party of China (CPC) unified the thinking of the whole party, maintained the party’s vitality, advanced nature and combat effectiveness, successfully completed the new democratic revolution and socialist revolution, and successfully opened up and is carrying out a new great cause of reform and opening up.

　　 Third, ideological party building is the fundamental premise and primary task of strengthening party building under the new situation.

　　 Under the new historical conditions, profound changes have taken place in the world, national conditions, party conditions and people’s feelings, which put forward new and higher requirements for party building, especially ideological and theoretical construction. To strengthen and improve Party building, promote the new great project of scientific Party building, and solve the problems within the Party that do not meet the new situation, new tasks and new requirements, and do not conform to the nature and purpose of the Party, it is urgent to further strengthen ideological Party building and vigorously strengthen the ideological and theoretical construction of the Party.

　　 First, strengthen the theoretical arm, unify the whole party with the innovative achievements of Marxism and its China, build consensus, and fundamentally maintain a high degree of ideological and political consistency of the whole party. Armed with Marxist stand, viewpoint and method, guiding practice, arming the whole party with the latest achievements of Marxism in China, improving the Marxist level of the whole party and consolidating the ideological foundation of party unity and unity are the fundamental requirements of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ideological party building. Since the founding of the Party, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has always adhered to the guidance of Marxism and its theoretical achievements in China as a powerful ideological weapon to change the future and destiny of the Chinese nation. In recent years, under the new situation of economic globalization, political multipolarization and ideological diversification, some wrong and backward ideology and culture have infiltrated into the Party in large quantities, and hostile forces have used various channels and means to vigorously promote western ideology and values, which has made the contradictions and struggles in the ideological and cultural fields more complicated and fierce, and also brought unprecedented severe challenges and tests to the Party’s ideological construction. Under this situation, only by persisting in arming all party member cadres with the theoretical system of Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought and Socialism with Chinese characteristics, supplementing the "calcium" of ideals and beliefs, and adhering to the spiritual pursuit of communist party people, can we effectively enhance Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical self-confidence, road self-confidence, institutional self-confidence and cultural self-confidence, maintain the advanced nature and purity of communist party people, continuously enhance the party’s cohesion and appeal, and enhance the party’s ruling ability and leadership level.

　　 The second is to better integrate Marxism with China’s national conditions and the development of the times, and constantly promote theoretical innovation. At present, it is necessary to better study, understand and practice the spirit of the series of important speeches by the Supreme Leader General Secretary for party member and the cadres and the masses. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized in his "1 July" speech that Marxism is not a doctrine, but a method. What it provides is not a ready-made dogma, but a starting point for further research and a method for such research. To guide practice and action with Marxism, we must combine the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific reality and characteristics of the times, with the interests and spiritual pursuits of the broad masses of people, observe and judge the international and domestic situations by using Marxist positions, viewpoints and methods, analyze and solve problems in practice, and constantly innovate and develop Marxism according to new practical requirements. Since its establishment, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has attached great importance to combining the basic principles of Marxism with the reality of China and the development of the times, and in this combination, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development have emerged. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, based on the overall situation of governing the country and the development of contemporary China, our party has further deepened its understanding of the laws governing communist party, socialist construction and the development of human society, and formed "two hundred-year goals" and "four comprehensive strategic layouts".A series of new strategies, new ideas and new concepts, such as the Five Development Concepts, have provided theoretical guidance and action guidance for comprehensively deepening reform and accelerating socialist modernization under the new historical conditions. At present, we should base ourselves on the reality of China’s development, highlight the orientation of problem consciousness, rely on practice and take the spirit of the series of speeches by the Supreme Leader General Secretary as the guide, focus on studying and solving major theoretical and practical problems that are closely concerned by the party and the people and are related to reform, development and stability, and strive to solve a series of outstanding contradictions facing China’s development.

　　 Third, pay attention to the organic combination of positive publicity and guidance and public opinion struggle. In the practice of China’s revolution, construction and reform, positive publicity and education and public opinion struggle cooperated with each other, which played a positive role in the ideological and theoretical construction of our party. Under the new situation, positive propaganda is faced with the problem of how to innovate propaganda methods and update communication means, and the struggle of public opinion is also faced with the task of how to oppose western cultural hegemony and deal with the impact of various wrong thoughts. Therefore, on the one hand, we should actively adapt to the changes of public opinion environment, media pattern and communication mode, respect the laws of ideological and theoretical publicity and education, innovate the methods and means of ideological and political education, continuously enhance the party’s cohesion and appeal in the ideological field, and enhance the party’s leadership level and ability in ideological work; On the other hand, it is necessary to carry out the public opinion struggle in a rational, favorable and restrained manner. At present, the international and domestic situation is complicated, various ideological trends in the ideological and theoretical fields are unprecedentedly active, and the public opinion ecology is extremely changeable. Influential social thoughts such as neo-liberalism, universal values, constitutional democracy, historical nihilism, democratic socialism, etc., which have appeared in China in recent years, are all trying to compete with Marxism for the dominant position of ideology. To this end, we must rationally analyze and criticize all kinds of erroneous ideological trends in a targeted manner. In particular, we must clearly criticize the leaders of the open opposition parties and the ideological trends and speeches of the socialist system, take a neutral lead in pluralism, diversity and variety, and take the direction, unify our thinking and build consensus to the maximum extent, and consolidate the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field.Consolidate the common ideological foundation of the United struggle of the whole party and the people of the whole country.

　　 Fourth, pay attention to the close combination of ideological party building and institutional party management. Paying attention to the combination of ideological party building and institutional party management is a valuable experience for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to strengthen its own construction and maintain its vitality and advanced nature, and it is also an important conclusion drawn by the Party from its long-term ruling practice. In party building, ideological and theoretical construction is fundamental, which provides direction guarantee for other party building (including system building). Managing the Party by system is another fine tradition of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s own construction. In the past 95 years, our Party has continuously established and improved the Party’s institutional system with party constitution as the foundation and democratic centralism as the core, which has provided a strong institutional guarantee for strengthening other Party constructions, including ideological and theoretical construction. Since the reform and opening up, the pace of the party’s ideological and theoretical construction has been accelerated, and the party’s institutionalized level has also been continuously improved. Ideological party building solves party member’s rational understanding, value pursuit and ideals and beliefs, and institutional party management solves governance rules, behavioral norms, supervision and accountability. Ideological party building needs to be guaranteed by a complete system, and institutional party management needs the guidance of correct ideas. The two promote each other, complement each other and complement each other. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the summary meeting of the party’s mass line education practice activities: "Now, an obvious problem is to despise ideological and political work, thinking that everything will be fine with the system and rules." "It is this simplification and one-sidedness that makes some systems that could have been implemented fail to be implemented, and some problems that could have been avoided continue to occur." In view of this,Our party clearly requires strengthening ideological and theoretical construction in the close combination of ideological party building and institutional party management, and emphasizes that "ideological education should be carried out in combination with the implementation of institutional regulations." It is necessary to make the process of strengthening the system to govern the party a process of strengthening the ideological party building, and also to make the process of strengthening the ideological party building a process of strengthening the system to govern the party. " This is a new idea and requirement to effectively promote the ideological and theoretical construction of the party and accelerate the ideological party building under the new situation.

　　 (Author: Institute of Marxism, China Academy of Social Sciences)