The National Conference on Organizational Work held on June 28-29, 2023, summarized General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on party building with "thirteen adherences", the first of which is "adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the party". Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has made a series of major decisions and deployments around adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and the centralized and unified leadership have been strongly guaranteed, the Party's leadership system has been continuously improved, the Party's leadership has become more scientific, the Party has become more ideologically united, politically united, and has become more coherent in its actions, and the Party has become stronger in terms of political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization, social appeal, and social mobilization, The Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization and social appeal have been significantly enhanced.

The leadership of the CPC is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In contemporary China, without the Party's comprehensive leadership, there would be no practice of socialism in China, and no pioneering and development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To adhere to and strengthen the overall leadership of the CPC, give full play to the role of the CPC as the core of leadership in overseeing the overall situation and coordinating all parties, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", firmly establish the "four confidence", and achieve the "four confidence". "The fundamental reason for the historic achievements and changes of the Party and the country in the new era is that the Party and the country have consciously maintained a high degree of ideological, political and operational consistency with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core. This year is the opening year of the implementation of the spirit of the twentieth CPC National Congress, adhere to and strengthen the overall leadership of the Party, comprehensively implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, grasp the mission and tasks of the Party in the new era of the new journey, grasp the top priority of high-quality development, complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, which is of great significance to solidly promote the modernization of the Chinese-style construction.

Adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party is the fundamental point of China's political stability, economic development, national unity and social stability. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has been flagrant and confident in adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, starting with adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party in whichever field or aspect of work. Practice tells us that adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the CPC is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job of the Party and the country, the "divine needle" for overcoming all difficulties and risks, and the fundamental point for China's political stability, economic development, national unity and social stability. The leadership of the CPC is not self-appointed, but is an inevitable part of China's historical development and the choice of the Chinese people, and practice has proved and will further prove that the choice of history and the people is entirely correct. The Party's leadership is comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and must be embodied in all aspects of economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction and national defense and army, the unification of the motherland, foreign affairs, and Party construction, etc. If any field, aspect or link is missing or weakened, it will weaken the Party's strength and harm the Party's and the country's cause.

Adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for the prosperity of the Party and the country's endeavors. The CPC is the highest political leadership. In the Party, the government, the military, the people and the academia, in the east, west, south, north and south, the Party is the leader of everything. One of the outstanding features of the superiority of China's socialist political system is the Party's central leadership role in overseeing the whole situation and coordinating all parties. The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Significant Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party's Centennial Struggle, adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, clearly states: "The Party has improved the system of Party leadership, perfected the systems of Party leadership of the National People's Congress, the Government, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the supervisory organs, the judiciary, the procuratorate, the armed forces, the people's associations, the enterprises and public institutions, the grass-roots mass self-governance organizations, and the social organizations that ensure that the Party plays a leading role in all kinds of organizations." A hundred years ago, China was poor and weak, the people suffered from calamity, and the Chinese nation was bullied by the great powers; today, the country is prosperous and strong, the people are happy and well-being, the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up, getting rich to getting strong, and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. Over the past hundred years, the practice of the CPC in leading the Chinese people in revolution, construction and reform has repeatedly proved that adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for the prosperity and development of the Party and the country's undertakings, as well as for the Party's strength, unity and unity.

[The author is a lecturer at the Marxism School of the Party School of the CPC East China Provincial Committee (Shandong Administrative College). For more Party lessons, see Party Lesson Reference].