The number of provincial standing committee members is 1 1 to 13, and the number of city and county members is 9 to 1 1 person; The local committee of the Party has 1 secretary and 2 deputy secretaries, and the full-time deputy secretaries mainly assist the secretaries in party building. Establish a new mechanism for the "secretary's special meeting" on major issues submitted to the Standing Committee meeting for discussion ... This is clearly stipulated in the "Regulations on the Work of Local Committees of China Producers Party" issued today.
Expert evaluation and regulations highlight the problem orientation, comprehensively sort out the outstanding problems existing in the work practice of local party committees, and can effectively solve the institutional obstacles that affect the leading role of local party committees.
The original regulations can't adapt to the new situation.
The local party Committee system is an important organizational system for our party to govern the country. Whether local party committees are strong or not and play a good leadership role is related to the improvement of the party's ruling ability and leadership level and to the development of the party and the country.
1in April, 1996, the central government issued the "Regulations on the Work of Local Committees of China Production Party (for Trial Implementation)", which played an important role in strengthening and improving the leadership of local party committees. "However, with the continuous development of the cause of the party and the state, the original regulations can no longer fully meet the requirements of the new situation and new tasks." Qiang Shigong, a professor at Peking University Law School, said that, for example, the organizational structure and membership of local party committees are not clearly defined, the provisions on decision-making and supervision of the plenary session and the responsibilities of the Standing Committee are not clear enough, the provisions on party building work are not prominent enough, the provisions on deliberation and decision-making are not perfect enough, and the provisions on supervision and accountability are not comprehensive enough.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has attached great importance to comprehensively and strictly administering the Party, institutionally administering the Party and governing the country according to law, and put forward many new requirements for improving the working system of local party committees. Implementation plan of important reform measures of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee (20 14? 2020) Implementation Plan for Important Measures of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee (20 15? In 2020) Five-year Plan for the Formulation of Inner-Party Regulations of the Central Committee (20 13? 20 17) and other explicit requirements to revise the work regulations of local party committees. According to the central deployment, the General Office of the Central Committee, together with the Central Organization Department and other departments, undertakes the revision of the Regulations. The draft "Regulations" was deliberated and adopted by the CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) Conference and the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Conference, and was promulgated and implemented in the form of a central document on February 25th, 20 15.
After the revision, the regulations were changed from 7 chapters and 40 articles to 7 chapters and 33 articles. Focus on establishing rules and regulations for local party committees to carry out their work, stipulate what is really needed and what can be done, and enhance pertinence and operability.
Highlight the political responsibility of strictly administering the party.
The regulations highlight the political responsibility of local party committees to strictly manage the party in an all-round way, and emphasize that local party committees must adhere to the party's management of the party and strictly manage the party, maintain a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee in ideological and political actions, and resolutely safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee.
The regulations also stipulate that local party committees must conscientiously perform the main responsibility of strictly administering the party in an all-round way, the secretary must perform the duty of grasping the first person responsible for party building, the full-time deputy secretary's duty is mainly to assist the secretary in grasping the party building work, and other members of the Standing Committee perform the duties of comprehensively administering the party strictly in their respective fields.
Xie Chuntao, director of the Party History Department of the Central Party School, explained that before the leadership reform of local party committees, local party committees were generally equipped with three or four deputy secretaries. Since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee, local party committees at all levels have implemented the division of labor of the Standing Committee and greatly reduced the number of deputy secretaries in accordance with the requirements of the Central Committee on the reform of the leadership system. Most local party committees implement the "one positive and two deputy secretaries" model, that is, one party secretary and two deputy secretaries, one of whom holds a government post and the other is a full-time deputy secretary.
However, in practice, some ethnic autonomous areas still retain three or four deputy secretaries because of their work needs. Accordingly, the "Regulations" specify the number of deputy secretaries according to the central spirit and local actual needs, and stipulate that it is two deputy secretaries. If it is necessary to appropriately increase the number of deputy secretaries in individual ethnic autonomous areas, it should be decided by the CPC Central Committee or approved by the provincial party committees in accordance with the spirit of the Central Committee.
Due to the lack of clear regulations on the duties of full-time deputy secretaries who do not hold government positions, practices vary from place to place in practice. In order to further clarify the position of responsibilities, the regulations clarify the post responsibilities of full-time deputy secretaries in the chapter of "Responsibilities", that is, they mainly assist the secretaries to grasp the party building work, and at the same time coordinate and be responsible for other work as needed.
Standardize the allocation of local party Committee members
The original regulations did not clearly stipulate the distribution of local party Committee members and alternate members. "In practice, every time before the change of local party committees, the central government issued a document requesting the staffing of provincial party committees, and the provincial party committees stipulated the staffing of party committees at the city and county levels according to the spirit of the central government. After each change, the staffing is often inconsistent and the equipment in various regions is not uniform. " Xie Chuntao said.
In addition, some local Party committee members and alternate members have unreasonable staffing structures, especially in party member, where the overall function is not strong.
Accordingly, in the new chapter of "Organization and Members", the regulations make unified provisions on the distribution of members and alternate members of local party committees in light of local conditions. The regulations focus on ensuring that local party committees have a reasonable composition and strong overall functions, and stipulate that members and alternate members should be representative and meet the requirements of party age, age, gender and specialty.
In order to ensure the representativeness of local Party committee members and the relative stability of their composition, the regulations have made specific provisions on the candidate structure of members and alternate members, that is, in addition to the members of the leading bodies of the Party committees, they should generally include members of the leading bodies of the governments at the same level, principals of NPC Standing Committees, CPPCC, courts and procuratorates at the same level, principals of party committees and relevant government departments at the same level, principals of trade unions, the Communist Youth League and women's federations at the same level, and principals of party committees and governments at the next lower level, as appropriate.
Create an automatic termination system for resignation
Experts said that the establishment of an automatic termination system for the resignation of party Committee members and alternate members is a highlight of the innovation of the regulations.
In practice, some Party Committee members and alternate members are not suitable to continue to serve as members and alternate members because of reasons such as being transferred from their local areas, resigning from public office, and retiring. Due to the lack of exit mechanism, these people still continue to serve as members and alternate members, with limited role; Some Party Committee members and alternate members have died, lost their nationality, been investigated for criminal responsibility, suspended from the Party membership and punished by staying in the Party for observation, but their qualifications remain and there is no automatic termination procedure.
At the same time, due to the limitation of the number of members and alternate members, leading cadres newly exchanged or promoted to important positions cannot join the team of members and alternate members, which affects the overall structure and function of local party committees.
Accordingly, the regulations stipulate that it is not suitable to continue to serve as a member or alternate member of the Party Committee due to reasons such as being transferred from the local area, resigning from public office, and retiring. , should be submitted to the local committee of the party where he belongs to resign or be dismissed as a member or alternate member of the party committee. If a member dies, loses his nationality, is investigated for criminal responsibility, is suspended from the party membership or is punished by staying in the party for observation, the duties of the member and alternate member will automatically terminate. The resignation, dismissal or automatic termination of members and alternate members shall be reported to the Party committee at the next higher level for the record. When it is really necessary, the Party committee at a higher level may appoint or remove members and alternate members of the Party committee at a lower level.
Unified determination of "key minority" places.
The original regulations did not clearly stipulate the staffing of the members of the Standing Committee of local party committees. In practice, the requirements for each change are often inconsistent, resulting in inconsistent staffing in various regions.
Considering that the Standing Committee is the core decision-making level of the Party's local committees at all levels, and the members of the Standing Committee are the "key minority" where local party committees play a leading role, it is necessary to make unified provisions on the allocation of members of the Standing Committee of local party committees.
Accordingly, the regulations, in combination with the previous requirements and the actual staffing of the standing committees of local party committees, clarify the staffing principles of the standing committees, and stipulate that the staffing of the standing committees shall be decided by the higher-level party committees according to the needs of their work and in accordance with the principles conducive to implementing democratic centralism and improving the level of deliberation and decision-making. At the same time, the number of members of the Standing Committee is specified, that is, provincial level 1 1 3, city and county level 9-1 1. In some places, if it is necessary to increase or decrease the number of members, it should be decided by the CPC Central Committee or approved by the provincial party committees in accordance with the spirit of the Central Committee.
Qiang Shigong said that unifying the number of county-level posts and the number of municipal posts into nine, which is 1 1, is conducive to reflecting the characteristics of county-level party committees facing the masses directly and the arduous task of reform, development and stability, and is also in line with the actual allocation of leadership posts of county-level party committees.
Establish the mechanism of "secretary's special meeting"
In view of the different practices in the brewing process of submitting major issues to the Standing Committee meeting for deliberation after the cancellation of the secretary's office meeting, the regulations have established a new brewing mechanism for the "secretary's special meeting" on the basis of summing up some local practical experiences.
The regulations also improve the decision-making procedures of local party committees, propose to improve the decision-making consultation mechanism of local party committees, and clarify that major decisions of local party committees should generally put forward plans on the basis of investigation and study, fully listen to opinions from all sides, conduct risk assessment and legal compliance review, and be discussed and decided by the plenary meeting or the Standing Committee meeting.
The regulations emphasize that local party committees should adhere to democratic centralism, implement a system of collective leadership and individual division of responsibilities, and require members of the Standing Committee to care for and support work that does not fall within their responsibilities, strengthen research, and actively put forward opinions and suggestions.
In view of the unclear boundary between the decision-making supervision of the plenary session and the responsibilities of the Standing Committee in practice, it is easy for the Standing Committee to make decisions instead of the plenary session, thus weakening the role of the plenary session. The regulations highlight the decision-making and supervision role of the plenary session, refine the scope of decision-making matters of the plenary session and the Standing Committee, and especially clarify nine major issues that must be discussed and decided by the plenary session. At the same time, the supervision function of the plenary session has been strengthened, such as asking the plenary session to listen to and consider the work report or special work report of the Standing Committee.