First, adhere to and improve the party's leadership system. Emphasis is placed on "adhering to the core role of the party in overall planning and coordinating all parties, adhering to the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country and governing the country according to law, reforming and improving the party's leadership and ruling style, and improving the party's leadership and ruling level."
Second, safeguard party member's dominant position and democratic rights. The Decision focuses on the implementation of party member's right to know, participate, vote and supervise, and highlights many specific measures.
Third, improve the party congress system and the inner-party election system. These two systems are the most basic forms of inner-party democracy and the most effective institutional guarantee for inner-party democracy.
Fourth, improve the inner-party democratic decision-making mechanism. Emphasize the need to give full play to the decision-making role of the National Committee on major issues, improve the rules of procedure and decision-making procedures of the Standing Committee, and improve and standardize the system in which the Standing Committee of the Party Committee regularly reports its work to the National Committee and accepts supervision; Improve the level of scientific decision-making, democratic decision-making and decision-making according to law, strengthen the decision-making consultation work of party committees, do a good job in forward-looking and countermeasure research on major issues, and improve the error correction mechanism and accountability system for decision-making mistakes.
Fifth, maintain the party's centralization and unity. This is the proper meaning of democratic centralism.