The Press Center for the Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China hosted a news conference on June 28 on the duties of various Party organs.

Since the 2014 launch of the Sky Net anti-corruption operation, 9,165 fugitives, including 2,408 Party members and government staff members, have been brought back from 120 countries and regions, and 21.74 billion yuan ($3.37 billion) in embezzled funds has been recovered, a senior disciplinary official with the Communist Party of China said on June 28.

Additionally, 60 of the 100 most-wanted fugitives, who were the subject of Interpol Red Notices, have been brought back to China, Xiao Pei, deputy head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC and the National Commission of Supervision, said at a news conference in Beijing.

According to Xiao, between December 2012 and May this year, disciplinary inspection and supervisory bodies investigated 392 officials at or above the provincial or ministerial level and 22,000 at the bureau level.

About 170,000 officials at the county level and 616,000 at the township level also were investigated during this period, Xiao said.

During the same period, anti-corruption bodies nationwide dealt with 626,500 violations of the eight-point regulation on improving Party and government conduct and engaging in bureaucratism, formalism and hedonism or extravagant practices.

Xiao also said the achievements made in governing the Party in the new era have provided strong political guidance and guaranteed the realization of the Party's first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

A survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics at the end of last year found that 95.8 percent of people are confident in the enforcement of strict Party governance and the curbing of corruption, a 16.5 percent increase over the 2012 survey.

The Communist Party of China's continuous efforts to unite and mobilize all forces to join the mission of making the Chinese people live better and happier lives has proved to be effective, a spokesman for the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee said on June 28.

"United front work has made the Communist Party of China politically advanced in uniting people and power. It has proved to be key in expanding the CPC's support … and realizing national rejuvenation," said Xu Yousheng, deputy head and a spokesman for the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee.

United front work focuses on non-CPC members, Chinese nationals living at home and abroad, religious and ethnic groups, outstanding intellectuals and those working in the private sector.

Its main function is to manage relations with non-CPC elites, including individuals or organizations with social, commercial or academic influence, both within and outside China.

"Uniting people and mobilizing all forces possible to achieve the goals set by the Party has always been the fundamental goal of the united front work," Xu added.

"While strengthening mutual understanding, the united front work has also been respecting and embracing the differences," Xu said.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, the central government has held a series of key meetings to discuss united front work.

It also revised the regulation on united front work in 2020, providing improved guidelines for carrying out united front work in the new era, he added.

As July 1 marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China, more than 1,300 congratulatory messages had been received from abroad as of June 27, according to a senior official.

The messages are from over 150 heads of state and government as well as more than 200 leaders of political parties, Guo Yezhou, deputy head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, told a news conference in Beijing on June 28.

Among the messages, political parties of some countries expressed their congratulations in the form of adopting political resolutions, he noted.

Parties in some countries have even overcome their own political differences, holding meetings and jointly signing congratulatory messages in order to highlight their bipartisan consensus that they are friendly to China, Guo added.

At present, the Party maintains regular contact with more than 560 political parties and political organizations in more than 160 countries. "We have friends all over the world," Guo said.

Amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the CPC has provided medical supplies and other materials to more than 200 political parties in more than 70 countries, and it mobilized China's nongovernmental organizations to provide support to more than 60 countries, Guo said.

The Party also introduced in a timely manner China's experience and practices in fighting COVID-19 and in boosting recovery to more than 400 political parties and political organizations in more than 140 countries.

"It can be said that the Party's foreign affairs work shows the sense of duty of a major party and enriches the connotation of a community with a shared future for mankind," Guo said.

The dual-circulation development paradigm, in which domestic circulation is the mainstay and domestic and foreign markets support each other, will serve as the "China approach" of promoting economic globalization, a senior official said.

"Building the new development paradigm is a kind of 'China approach' and 'China contribution' for deepening economic globalization and realizing common prosperity of all countries, amid profound and complex changes in the international environment," said Han Wenxiu, an official with the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs.

China will provide different economies with larger market space and more cooperation opportunities under the new paradigm, injecting impetus into the global recovery and sustained growth, Han said.

Though taking domestic circulation as the basic foothold for economic development, the paradigm by no means indicates that China will give up international cooperation, Han said.

Instead, it means that China will open up in a wider range, further harmonize domestic standards with global practices, and attract high-end global talent, knowledge, technology and management experience, so that the international circulation will boost the domestic counterpart, he said.

In building the new paradigm, China will uphold supply-side structural reform as the main task while continuously expanding domestic demand. Specifically, more efforts will be made to boost the recovery in consumption and strengthen the employment-first policy, he said.

China's economic recovery has remained unbalanced, Han said. The country will make policy support more targeted and offer more aid to small and medium-sized enterprises.