News Analysis: China's ruling party seeks inner development via improving governance, self-supervision: Egyptian experts

The ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) seeks inner development by strengthening Party governance and intra-Party supervision as seen in the recent CPC meetings, said Egyptian experts in Asian affairs.

The CPC Central Committee convened a key meeting from Monday to Thursday in Beijing, approving new efforts to strengthen governance of the Party.

"Through the Central Committee meetings, the CPC enhances political life inside the Party and renews its liveliness and youthfulness," said Nasser Abdel-Aal, expert in Asian affairs and professor of Chinese studies at Cairo-based Ain Shams University.

The professor described the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee to set new ideas for Party governance and supervision as "a strong push" in the development of the Chinese ruling party.

The CPC has gone through tremendous changes since it introduced a document in 1980 outlining the norms of its inner political life, leading the party to highlight specific principles like maintaining closer ties with the people, self-criticism and intra-Party democracy.

"The CPC takes all necessary measures to achieve internal reform in a way that reflects on the performance of the Party and hence the government, as the Party currently focuses on implementing best governance, fighting corruption and educating its cadres," Abdel-Aal told Xinhua.

The professor continued that China is a state of institutions that never makes surprising decisions but it studies everything beforehand, stressing that the CPC Central Committee meeting is a message to the people that the Party does not only respond to their needs and demands but it is a step further.

"The meeting also reflects the persistence of China's political leadership to combat corruption. So, the CPC is a successful example that copes with the age to build a real modern state," he told Xinhua.

During the key CPC session, attendees approved a regulation on intra-Party supervision and a communique was later released stressing supervision as the fundamental guarantee for exercising power, as well as being a crucial measure for strengthening and regulating political life.

"Such meetings are very important, as they represent self-revision inside the Party and leads to correcting the mistakes if any," said Ahmed Wali, an Egyptian former assistant foreign minister.

The communique also called on all CPC members to "closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core."

The session also touched upon several issues crucial to standardizing political life, stating that intra-Party democracy is fundamental to positive and healthy political life.

"The CPC enjoys a kind of internal partisan democracy as it is not an inflexible party. Inner discipline is behind the CPC success yet it does not stand as an obstacle in front of the government's policies but it copes with development and openness," Wali told Xinhua.

He added that the CPC is successful and progressive and it plays a key role in supervising the Chinese government's policy, which eventually led to a developmental leap in China.

The ex-diplomat continued that the CPC managed to create a kind of unity among the Chinese people, arguing "this is why the West hopes for many political parties in China to stir up problems in the giant Asian country."

For her part, Nadia Helmi, a political science professor and expert in Asian affairs, said that focusing on strengthening Party governance and intra-Party supervision in the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee represents "renaissance" and "quantum leap" in political exercise in the Party.

"This is the sixth session for the committee to discuss this issue, which shows the deep vision of the Chinese leadership and its political will to adopt constant development required for political exercise to cope with the domestic and international changes," the professor told Xinhua.

Helmi said that the key CPC session also reflects the Chinese political will to continue its anti-corruption campaign not only by punishing the corrupt but blocking the ways for corruption through power or influence.

"This policy would lead to constant inner development in the Party, especially at the level of leadership, and would renew its thoughts while maintaining the historical fixed principles," Helmi told Xinhua. Endit