BEIJING — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed that the fight against undesirable work styles should not be stopped.
Xi, also Chinese President and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction in response to an article by Xinhua News Agency about new forms of misconduct.
The new forms of misconduct are, in their nature, old problems, Xi said in the instruction, which was made public on Dec 11, warning about the intractability and recurrence of undesirable work styles — formalities for formalities’ sake, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance.
“The efforts to address such misconduct should not be stopped and the work to improve the Party’s conduct and work styles should never end,” Xi said.
In the instruction, Xi told Party and governmental departments of all localities and in all sectors to check their own performance in this regard and take concrete measures to rectify problems, especially the most prominent ones such as seeking excessive publicity but lacking solid practice and implementation.
He also asked leading officials at all levels to take the lead in the campaign.
The practice of formalities for formalities’ sake should also be strictly avoided in the upcoming CPC campaign on “staying true to our founding mission,” Xi said.
The Xinhua article pointed out that although the fight against undesirable work styles has yielded major achievements, relevant problems still linger as some officials conduct perfunctory work in their research and inspections. Some Party and governmental agencies and their workers show false concern to the public without doing practical work to serve the people.
There are also problems such as local governments working for the attention of higher officials, rather than for the people’s satisfaction, the article noted.
