CHINA PATH
The CPC created China's recipe for success, officially called "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
It is through this model that the CPC represents the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people and puts the people first.
Reform is pushed forward thanks to decisions that reflect the broad consensus of Chinese society. Social stability is maintained. The market-government relationship, where the market plays a decisive role in resource allocation and the government better serves its duty, is capable of steering the country out of the harm of the current global economic downturn.
This path has gained wide support from the public, thanks largely to the fact that most people have found their living standards significantly improved over the past decades, said Liu Dongchao.
Liu was echoed by professor Xin who said Xi's vision of the Chinese dream has united the majority of people in China.
"The Party has inspired a spirit of striving for a better future," Xin said.
As an evidence of the success of the China path, more than 700 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the decades. In the past more than four years alone, the country has seen over 55 million shake off poverty. The Party has its eyes on the remaining 40 million people still in poverty.
By 2020, people in rural areas should no longer worry about food and clothing, they should be guaranteed with education, basic medical care and housing. Every rural resident will be elevated above the current poverty line.
"As long as we pay attention, think correctly, take effective measures and work in a down to earth way, abject poverty is absolutely conquerable," Xi said during a June tour of north China's Shanxi Province focusing on poverty.
Confident in its own path, China has no intention of promoting its model as an alternative for other peoples or countries.
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
The key to doing things well in China lies in the CPC.
The leadership has repeatedly warned that the biggest threat to the Party is corruption and the CPC must keep improving if it is to remain in power.
Since Xi Jinping took the helm as Party leader, an anti-corruption campaign has swept across the country, exposing many officials charged with abuse of power and misusing public funds. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, at least 240 senior officials and more than 1 million lower-level officials have been investigated.
Earlier this month, for the first time in history, the CPC completed inspections within a five-year administrative term, covering CPC organizations in provincial-level regions, central CPC and government organs, major state-owned enterprises, central financial institutions and universities.
Internal evaluations have proven effective in exposing problems. More than 50 percent of investigations into centrally-administered officials were as a result of information found by discipline inspectors, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
The CPC also launched a series of campaigns in recent years, including the "mass-line," an effort to build a closer official-people relationship, and "three stricts and three earnests," a political campaign that urges officials to be strict in morals, power and disciplining oneself; and be honest in decisions, business and behavior.
The CPC has never been afraid of breaking the shelters of vested interests and sweeping out obstacles hampering development, professor Zhang said.
Uncertainties ripple through the world today, calling into question the definition of governance legitimacy. In this context, the CPC century-old wisdom and practices may be increasingly relevant, he said.
