The Party Central Committee has decided to launch a study campaign throughout the Party from the conclusion of the 2025 National Two Sessions to July, focusing on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Party’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct. General Secretary Xi Jinping attached great importance to this campaign, personally planning and determining its theme, delivering key speeches, and issuing crucial instructions, which provided fundamental guidance and charted the course for its implementation.
On March 19, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee’s Leading Group Meeting on Party Building was convened, urging Party organizations at all levels across Hunan province to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements by the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping regarding the intensive study campaign on implementing the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct. The meeting is committed to adopting a comprehensive approach to strengthening Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline, integrating efforts to improve conduct, enforce discipline, and combat corruption. It called for mainly addressing prominent issues against the spirit of the eight-point decision and its implementation rules, aiming to guide Party members and officials to bolster their Party spirit, improve conduct, and unite efforts through exemplary behavior to drive entrepreneurship. The meeting stressed the need to better assume responsibilities in accelerating the realization of the “Three Hubs and Four New Missions” blueprint and composing Hunan’s chapter in Chinese-style modernization.
It wasted no time in Huaihua to respond to and implement the directives. In recent days, the entire city has actively been mobilizing, deploying and guiding Party members and officials to align both their mindset and actions with the major policy decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee and the work requirements by Hunan provincial Party committee, thereby advancing the study in a solid and orderly manner.
On March 21, the Leading Group for Party Building of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee convened a meeting, urging Party organizations at all levels in the city to deeply study and put into practice General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on strengthening Party conduct, the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving improving Party and government conduct and its implementation rules. They were instructed to earnestly follow the Party Central Committee’s decisions, Hunan Provincial Party Committee’s and Huaihua Municipal Party Committee’s work requirements, carry out the study campaigns with high standards and quality, persistently enforce the Central Committee’s eight-point decision, guide Party members and officials to temper their Party spirit and enhance ideological awareness, and enhance solidarity and drive entrepreneurship through exemplary conduct. This will provide a solid ethical foundation for achieving the “Three Hubs and Four New Missions” blueprint and deeply implementing the Strategy of “Five New Missions and Four Orientations”.
The Party Leadership Group of the Huaihua Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee convened its 11th meeting and the 12th (enlarged) meeting of its institutional Party Leadership Group, stressing the need to accurately grasp objectives and requirements to ensure high-quality learning, rigorous inspections, and effective reforms. Efforts should be made to focus on four key areas: in-depth study and discussion, accurate identification of problems, effective correction and open-door education, prioritizing public satisfaction. These measures aim to effectively turn the achievements of the study campaign into tangible outcomes that drive work execution and fuel developmental progress.
The Party Leadership Group of the Huaihua Municipal People’s Government convened a meeting to study and implement the important speeches and instructions by General Secretary Xi Jinping on deepening the study campaign for implementing the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct. In line with the requirements of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee, the meeting deliberated and deployed the Group’s study campaign, urging its members to conduct in-depth studies and discussions to transform their ideology into action through identifying problems and strengthening disciplinary education. Party members are supposed to expose themselves to supervision, ensure full support for the study campaign, address problems, and bolster the rectification for the inspection with self-revolution.Besides, Party members are to commit themselves to changing work style to improve efficiency, strengthening work style to benefit people’s livelihoods, and strictly maintaining work style to guard the bottom line, ensuring high-quality development with a good work style.
The Party Leadership Group of the CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference convened its 5th (Enlarged) Meeting in 2025, emphasizing the need to fully understand the profound significance of carrying out the study campaign to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct. It called for proactively using the implementation of eight-point regulations as an important criterion for testing political stance, orientation, principles, and path, ensuring the strict enforcement of the regulations without deviation, modification, or distortion. It is stressed in the meeting that the study is to be conducted effectively with the focus on discussions, that the study is to be conducted with problem-driven approach while identifying problems to be addressed, and that the study is to be conducted in a pragmatic way while bolstering rectification, advancing the study campaign to achieve more effective and practical outcomes.
The Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision convened a meeting for mobilization and arrangement, reviewing arrangements for the study campaign and preparing for the launching of the study campaign. By adopting a “22-article responsibility checklist” to reinforce accountability, the commission insists on integrating the study into daily routines, maintaining it as regular practice, and grounding it in concrete actions. The synergy from the government-led system, the discipline inspection group, Party branches of institutions and the temporary Party branches of the special case team, ensures sustained progress in study seminars, problem identification, centralized rectification, and open-door education initiatives. Positioning the study campaign as a foundational project to forge a politically steadfast and highly capable discipline inspection force, the commission emphasizes “integrating study, reflection, and application” and “uniting knowledge, conviction, and action”. Combined with the actual situation of discipline inspection and supervision agencies, we should focus on strengthening supervision and strictly investigate typical cases that violate the spirit of the eight central regulations and their implementation rules.
The General Office of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee convened a meeting of its office affairs committee to make arrangements for in-depth implementation of the study campaign centered around the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct. The meeting emphasized the need to elevate the political stance, to plan and arrange the work with great care, and to strengthen organizational leadership. It was underlined that it is of great significance to fully understand the importance of carrying out this study campaign. The focus should be on effectively carrying out key tasks such as study and discussion, problem identification, centralized rectification, and open-door education and others. The study, inspection, and rectification aspects of the campaign should be advanced as a whole. All tasks of the campaign should be completed with high standards and strict requirements, ensuring that it does not deviate from the intended path, lose its focus, or fall out of sync. The achievements of the study should be truly turned into practical results that promote the high-quality development of the “three services(referring to services in the areas of development, decision-making, and implementation)”.
The Organizational Department of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee held a departmental affairs meeting. At this meeting, the important speeches and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the study campaign for thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct were studied and implemented, and the study campaign of the institutions was deliberated and arranged. The meeting emphasized the need to enhance political stance and strengthen ideological awareness, ensuring integrated study and comprehension with unified implementation to concretely align both thought and action with the Party Central Committee’s decision-making and arrangements. Efforts should be made to focus on key areas to advance the campaign, ensuring the depth in study and discussion, accuracy in problem identification, vigour in centralized rectification and effectiveness in open-door education. We must strengthen accountability, clarify responsibilities, meticulously organize implementation, and dedicate all efforts to advancing the study campaign.
The Publicity Department of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee held a departmental affairs meeting to plan and arrange the work on the full implementation of the study campaign centered around the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct. The meeting emphasized the need to truly elevate political stance and gain a full understand of the significant meaning of carrying out this study campaign, to accurately grasp the objectives and requirements, to focus on the theme of the study campaign, and integrate with the characteristics of publicizing ideology and culture to advance the study, inspection, and rectification as a unified whole. The Publicity Department is committed to persistently integrating the study into daily routines and consistently promoting it through regular efforts. It is of necessity to strengthen publicity and guidance, creating a good atmosphere, where the study campaign can be carried out effectively with good results .
The United Front Work Department of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee convened a departmental affairs meeting to conduct a focused study on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches on the building of Party conduct, as well as the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct and its detailed implementation rules. Special arrangements were made to conduct the study campaign within the department, with efforts made to focus on four dimensions: in-depth study and discussions, accurate identification of problems, effective rectification of problems, and activating open-door education. It was emphasized in the meeting to strictly implement decisions and arrangements by the Central Committee and Hunan Provincial Party Committees as well as the requirements by Huaihua Municipal Party Committee, to see that the responsibilities at all levels must be fulfilled to advance the the campaign in terms of study, identification and correction, and adopt a dual-focus strategy and promote mutual enhancement, enabling the study and the United Front work to synchronize their efforts and boost each other forward. It was also underscored in the meeting to lead other Party members through Party efforts to improve the Party and government conduct among democratic parties and united front organizations.
The Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee held a committee meeting, requiring that the study campaign be combined with the implementation of major central decisions and arrangements and the work requirements by the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Huaihua Municipal Party Committee, with the implementation of the arrangements and requirements by the Political and Legal Work Conference of the Party Central Committee, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee, with the specific enhancement on work style and disciplines of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee by means of carrying out political supervision, Party building, legal improvement and governance of police, and with the in-depth promotion of the building of Party style and clean government, the fight against corruption and the pointless formalities to reduce the burden and empower the grassroots organizations, making the study and their work benefit each other.
（Translated by Yang Sigui）