1st Ld-Writethru: Xi calls for effective self-discipline campaign, Marxist values

President Xi Jinping has called for Communist Party of China (CPC) organizations at all levels to work to ensure the effectiveness of a year-long campaign to instill rules and good values in Party members.

Xi made the remarks in an instruction on the newly launched education campaign, which focuses on the study of the Party Constitution and rules, as well as the speeches made by Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

In the instruction read at a meeting held on Wednesday, Xi noted that the campaign is "a major ideological and political task" that is crucial for the "Four Comprehensives" strategy, especially in pushing strict Party management at the grassroots level.

The "Four Comprehensives" strategy refers to comprehensively completing the building of a moderately prosperous society, deepening reform, advancing the rule of law and strictly governing the CPC.

While affirming the results of past campaigns in regulating Party members and officials and correcting their shortcomings, Xi noted that ideological and political work requires long-term efforts.

"Arranging the new study campaign is a step toward expanding intra-Party education from 'a key few' to the Party members more broadly, and a switch from centralized study to study conducted more frequently," Xi said.

Xi stressed that the campaign aims to consolidate Party members' Marxist positions and ensure that the entire Party maintains a high degree of ideological and political consistency with the CPC Central Committee.

The campaign will cover every branch in the Party's network and every member, he said.

The CPC will achieve a solid foundation and sharp focus only with a strong grassroots network and competent members, he said.

The campaign will address problems and loopholes in the management of Party organizations and misconduct of members so as to set the bottom line, he said.

Grassroots Party organizations are asked to effectively organize, mobilize and educate Party members in the face of new problems.

Those that fail to exercise their duties will be overhauled and pushed to correct their problems.

It is the responsibility of chief officials at all ranks to effectively carry out the campaign, supervise its development and prevent perfunctoriness, Xi noted, highlighting those of the county level and above.

Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said at the meeting that through the campaign CPC members will enhance the "consciousnesses of the ideology, the whole, the core and the line".

The campaign will be problem-oriented and made up of regular workshops, Liu said. Endi