The Party Central Committee and the whole Party must have a core.

　　According to the Marxist theory of party building, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward an important conclusion that "a country and a political party have the core of leadership", and made it clear that the supreme leader comrade is the core of the CPC Central Committee and the whole party, and formally put forward "the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader comrade as the core". This is of great and far-reaching significance for safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee, maintaining the unity and centralization of the Party, better rallying the strength of the Party and the people to promote the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the great cause of national rejuvenation, and ensuring the prosperity and long-term stability of the Party and the country.

　　Establishing and maintaining the core of the party’s leadership is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s fine historical tradition and unique political advantage.

　　Establishing and maintaining the leadership core of proletarian political parties has always been a basic viewpoint of Marxist theory of party building. The proletarian political party is the vanguard of the proletariat, and its broad representation and huge team are incomparable to any other political party; Its historical mission of leading the people to overthrow bourgeois rule, establish proletarian dictatorship and build socialism is unmatched by any other political party. Therefore, proletarian political parties must have a high degree of unity of will, a high degree of ideological unity and a high degree of action. To achieve such unity and consistency, we must form and establish the core of the party’s leadership and safeguard its authority.

　　Lenin established the Soviet communist party according to Marxism, and enriched and developed the Marxist theory of party building in the practice of leading the party building and the party’s struggle. Lenin particularly emphasized the high degree of unity of the party’s will and iron discipline. Furthermore, he also emphasized the decisive role of outstanding party leaders in achieving a high degree of unity of will, and pointed out: "It is a long-term and difficult thing to train a group of experienced and prestigious party leaders. But can’t do this, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the proletariat ‘ Unity of will ’ It can only be empty talk. "

　　The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a party established according to Marxism–Leninism’s theory. During more than 90 years’ development, it has formed a fine historical tradition and unique political advantage in establishing and maintaining the core of the party’s leadership. For more than 90 years, our party has been able to unite and lead the people to continue their struggle and achieve great achievements in revolution, construction and reform; The reason why the party itself has grown from small to large, from weak to strong, has become the largest ruling party in the world today; The most important reason why the party and its cause can overcome countless difficulties and challenges and remain invincible for a long time lies in this fine historical tradition and unique political advantage.

　　Establishing the core of the party’s leadership is an urgent need to promote the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and a fundamental guarantee to uphold and strengthen the party’s leadership.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has reiterated the goal of "two hundred years" put forward by our party, and made a profound and vivid exposition on the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation by the people of China in modern times. In today’s China, except the Communist Party of China (CPC), no other political force can become the leading force in the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the great cause of national rejuvenation. The people can only rely on the Communist Party of China (CPC) to hold the "steering wheel" and lead them to climb the hill and cross the hurdle, heading for the established grand goal.

　　At present, China has entered the decisive stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way, with more and more difficulties and challenges and more unpredictable factors. Internationally, in the profound adjustment of the world structure and the increasingly fierce competition, the western forces have kept on containing China. At home, with the comprehensive deepening of reform and comprehensive development, some deep-seated contradictions have become more apparent, and new situations and problems have emerged one after another. Now, we should not only comprehensively and solidly implement all the strategic measures that have been formulated to ensure the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way in 2020, but also plan and put forward the development strategy of moving towards the third strategic goal after 2020, that is, basically realizing modernization by 2050. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause and national rejuvenation have reached a critical historical node, so it is more urgent for our party to establish and maintain its own leadership core, to define an ideological and political "backbone" and to have a strong political determination.

　　To uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must uphold and strengthen the leadership of the Party, and establishing and maintaining the core of the leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for upholding and strengthening the leadership of the Party. For a period of time, some localities and departments have weakened the party’s leadership and lacked the main responsibility of party building. Some party member and cadres have a weak concept of the party, and their organizations and disciplines are lax. Some party organizations and party member and cadres do not strictly abide by party constitution, and ignore political discipline and organizational principles. In particular, a very small number of people have inflated their political ambitions and engaged in political conspiracy activities such as cronyism and cliques. These problems have seriously undermined the party’s unity and centralization, and also seriously affected the party’s construction in all aspects. Today, the establishment of the party’s leadership core is to better solve these problems, better promote the party’s construction in all aspects, and ensure that our party will always be a strong Marxist ruling party and a strong leading force in the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

　　The core position of the Supreme Leader General Secretary is formed in the new great struggle practice.

　　The core position of the Supreme Leader General Secretary in the CPC Central Committee and the whole Party was formed in the practice of upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s new great struggle. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has led the whole party and people of all ethnic groups to work together and made a series of achievements of great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance in reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and the management of the party, country and army. China’s socialist modernization has formed a "five-in-one" overall layout of economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction, and the work of the party and the state has formed a "four-in-one" strategic layout of building a well-off society in an all-round way, deepening reform in an all-round way, governing the country according to law in an all-round way and strictly administering the party in an all-round way. Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee made overall arrangements for comprehensively deepening reform, promoted the rise of a new wave of reform, and put forward and implemented a series of effective reform measures in various fields such as politics, economy, culture, military affairs, and diplomacy, making full efforts for reform and development. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee made the first special decision in the history of the Party to strengthen the construction of the rule of law, clearly put forward the basic strategy of governing the country according to law, and provided a strong legal guarantee for building a well-off society in an all-round way. The Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a comprehensive strategic plan for the decisive stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way, adhered to the people-centered development idea, and clearly put forward five new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing.It provides a new important follow-up for promoting sustained and healthy economic and social development and building a well-off society in an all-round way.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has taken the lead in setting an example, firmly promoted the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party, adhered to the close combination of ideological party building and institutional party management, concentrated put in order’s party style, severely punished corruption, and purified the political ecology within the Party, which showed a new atmosphere in the political life within the Party and won the hearts and minds of the Party. Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and on the basis of comprehensively promoting Party building, the Party’s work style and clean government building and the anti-corruption struggle have been continuously carried out in depth, effectively curbing the "four winds" and the spread of corruption, and seriously investigating and handling serious cases of Zhou Yongkang, Ling Jihua, Xu Caihou and Su Rong, and the party’s work style and political style have obviously improved. The theme of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is to strictly manage the Party in an all-round way, and the "Several Guidelines on Inner-Party Political Life under the New Situation" and the "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision in the Communist Party of China (CPC)" were deliberated and adopted, which provided strong institutional compliance and institutional guarantee for strictly managing the Party in an all-round way.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has delivered a series of important speeches, focusing on upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and put forward a series of new viewpoints, new ideas and new theories, which have become the latest achievements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system and the latest development of Marxism in contemporary China. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the fundamental reason why the cause of the Party and the state can open a new chapter is the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core and the scientific guidance of the spirit of the series of important speeches by the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader.

　　With this core, we must safeguard it. We should strengthen the "four consciousnesses", especially the core consciousness and conformity consciousness, unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core with a high degree of consciousness, more firmly safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and strive to maintain a high degree of ideological and political consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core.

　　(The author is Yang Shengqun, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former executive deputy director of the Central Literature Research Office)