Following the deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee has decided to launch a Party-wide in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focusing on county-level and above leading cadres. This aims to unify thoughts, will, and actions with the Party's innovative theories, carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party, keep in mind the "three musts," and mobilize the entire Party to work together for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

I. Significance

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is contemporary Chinese Marxism, 21st-century Marxism, the essence of Chinese culture and spirit, the crystallization of the Party's and people's practical experience and collective wisdom, an important component of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the action guideline for all ethnic groups across the country to strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It must be adhered to and developed continuously. The great changes in the new era over the past 10 years were achieved through the joint efforts of all ethnic groups across the country. The most fundamental reason is that there is General Secretary Xi Jinping at the helm and the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Practice has fully proved that the "two establishes" are major political achievements made by the Party in the new era, the decisive factors in promoting the historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and the greatest certainty, confidence, and guarantee for overcoming all difficulties and challenges and coping with all uncertainties.

Launching the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and persistently using this thought to forge unity and strengthen the Party's ideological construction, is of great significance in helping the Party to more profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishes," more consciously enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards." This ensures that the Party maintains high consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action.

The 20th National Congress of the CPC has outlined a grand blueprint for comprehensively building a socialist modern country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Launching this themed education is a powerful measure to promote the implementation of the strategic deployment of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, and a major deployment to further advance the new great project of Party building in the new era. It is of great significance to implementing the new development philosophy, building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, advancing Chinese-style modernization, advancing the Party's self-revolution, maintaining the clarity and determination to solve problems unique to large parties, always staying with the people, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and ensuring that the entire Party is more closely united around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core to complete the Party's mission in the new era and on the new journey.

II. Objectives and Requirements

The overall requirement for this themed education is to "study the ideology, strengthen Party spirit, emphasize practice, and achieve new success." The fundamental task is to ensure that learning, thinking, and application are interconnected, and that knowledge, belief, and action are unified. This will transform Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into a powerful force to strengthen ideals, temper Party spirit, guide practice, and promote work. It aims to ensure the Party maintains unified thought, firm will, coordinated action, and strong combat effectiveness, and strives to achieve tangible results in forging unity through learning, enhancing wisdom through learning, rectifying conduct through learning, and promoting work through learning. The specific goals are as follows:

1. Forge unity and strengthen the foundation. Conduct a comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth study of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully and accurately grasp the main content of this important thought, fully understand its worldview, methodology, and the underlying positions, viewpoints, and methods, and deeply understand its principles, theories, and philosophies. This will help Party members and cadres truly understand, believe in, and apply it, promoting deeper, more practical, and more heartfelt learning, improving ideological awareness, and ensuring that the foundation of faith is strengthened, the spirit is replenished, and the course of thought is steadied.

2. Temper character and strengthen loyalty. Deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishes," enhance political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness in terms of loyalty to the core, support for the core, upholding the core, and defending the core, and continuously improve political judgment, political understanding, and political implementation. Always be loyal to the Party, the people, and Marxism, truly love the Party, always worry about the Party, firmly protect the Party, and work hard to develop the Party.

3. Promote development through practical action. Highlighting a practical orientation, focusing on practical work and seeking practical results, closely focusing on the central tasks of the Party in the new era and on the new journey, embracing the "major national issues," firmly establishing correct views on power, performance, and careers, enhancing the ability to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, and prevent and resolve risks, daring to struggle, taking responsibility, focusing on problems, and forging ahead despite difficulties. With a sense of responsibility that is always concerned and a spirit of proactive and responsible action, fulfill responsibilities for the Party and the people, and achieve new results in promoting high-quality development with new atmosphere and actions, opening up new ground for development through tenacious struggle.

4. Practice the purpose and benefit the people. Upholding the people's supremacy, doing everything for the people and relying on the people, always sharing the same breath, destiny, and heart with the people, taking serving the people as an important content, using the people's satisfaction or dissatisfaction as the fundamental criterion for judgment, focusing on the issues that the people care most about, are most directly related to, and are most realistic, and doing the work of benefiting the people, warming the hearts of the people, and following the will of the people to the hearts of the people. Continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, and allow the fruits of modernization to benefit all people more and more equitably.

5. Uphold integrity and establish a new style. Adhering to Party spirit in conduct and work, enhancing awareness of discipline and rules, practicing "three strictures and three realisms," strictly implementing the Central Eight-Point Regulations and their implementation details, continuously rectifying the "four winds," placing greater emphasis on rectifying formalism and bureaucratism, resolutely opposing privileged thoughts and phenomena, ensuring that power is used justly, legally, for the people, and honestly, and promoting the formation of clean and clear comradely relations, orderly superior-subordinate relations, and a new type of political and business relationship that combines closeness and distance. Serve as a leader, creator, and protector of a good political and social atmosphere, and establish a new style of the era that emphasizes truth-seeking, pragmatism, and unity and struggle.

Themed education adheres to the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, focusing on solving six prominent problems: In terms of theoretical study, the main problems are impure and improper learning styles, superficial, non-in-depth, and unsystematic learning, and gaps and shortcomings in using the Party's innovative theories to guide practice and solve problems; in terms of political quality, the main problems are insufficient political judgment, political understanding, and political implementation, weakening of faith and belief, and non-compliance or non-prohibition in implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping, making choices, seeking compromises, cutting corners, and failing to meet requirements, disregarding the overall situation, engaging in departmental and local protectionism; in terms of capabilities, the main problems are a lack of firm establishment of the new development concept, insufficient ability to promote high-quality development, do mass work, and respond to risks and challenges, and a lack of awareness and ability to promptly identify and solve existing problems; in terms of responsibility and action, the main problems are insufficient spirit of hard work and entrepreneurship, lack of awareness of responsibility, lack of fighting spirit, self-preservation, inaction, unwillingness to take tough measures, unwillingness to overcome difficulties, the existence of inertia and path dependence, hesitation, and shifting responsibility; in terms of work style, the main problems are indifference to the purpose and feelings of the masses, detachment from the masses and reality, infrequent and non-in-depth investigation and research, insufficient understanding and perception of the rapidly changing objective reality and the warmth and coldness of the masses, simplification and "one-size-fits-all" approach in implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, blind copying and pasting, general uniformity from top to bottom, reporting good news and not bad news, fabrication and superficiality, formalism and bureaucratism, and the existence of privileged thoughts and behaviors; in terms of integrity and self-discipline, the main problems are weak awareness of discipline and law, lack of attention, understanding, and grasp of Party regulations and discipline, weak awareness of using legal thinking and methods to carry out work, continued occurrence of violations of discipline, use of power and influence for personal gain and corruption, and corruption that harms the interests of the masses.

三、工作安排

中央政治局就学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想举行集体学习，深入开展调查研究，统筹和加强工作指导，示范带动和推进全党主题教育深入开展。全国人大常委会党组、国务院党组、全国政协党组，结合各自实际开展主题教育。

主题教育自上而下分两批进行。第一批包括中央和国家机关及其直属单位、省（自治区、直辖市）和副省级城市机关及其直属单位，中管金融企业、中管企业、中管高校，从2023年4月开始，2023年8月基本结束；第二批包括省以下各级机关及其直属单位和其他基层党组织，从2023年9月开始，2024年1月基本结束。

主题教育不划阶段、不分环节，把理论学习、调查研究、推动发展、检视整改等贯通起来，有机融合、一体推进。

1. 理论学习。全面深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，大力弘扬马克思主义学风，坚持全面系统、及时跟进，坚持多思多想、学深悟透，坚持知行合一、学以致用，坚持联系实际、立足岗位，从事什么工作就重点学什么，做到知其言更知其义、知其然更知其所以然，在深学细照笃行中提高理论素养、坚定理想信念、升华觉悟境界、增强能力本领，夯实坚定拥护“两个确立”、坚决做到“两个维护”的思想根基。

坚持读原著学原文悟原理，认真研读党的二十大报告和党章，学习《习近平著作选读》、《习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想专题摘编》等，全面学习领会习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的科学体系、核心要义、实践要求，把握好这一重要思想的世界观和方法论，坚持好、运用好贯穿其中的立场观点方法。结合工作实际和职责任务，深入学习习近平总书记关于本地区本部门本领域的重要讲话和重要指示批示精神，跟进学习习近平总书记最新重要讲话和文章。认真学习中国式现代化理论，围绕统筹推进“五位一体”总体布局和协调推进“四个全面”战略布局，有侧重地进行研读，突出对贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局、推动高质量发展的理解掌握。

党委（党组）要加强集中学习，组织举办读书班，时间不少于一周。党委（党组）理论学习中心组结合本地区本部门本单位实际列出若干专题，组织党员领导干部联系思想和工作实际，深入研讨，交流运用党的创新理论解决实际问题的具体案例和体会，提出改进工作的思路措施。领导班子成员要结合学习体会和实际工作讲专题党课，主要负责同志带头讲，其他班子成员到分管领域、部门等基层单位或所在党支部讲。党员领导干部要把学习作为一种生活态度、一种工作责任、一种精神追求，抓好个人自学。

党支部依托“三会一课”、主题党日，通过交流研讨、宣讲阐释、案例教学、线上培训等方式组织党员学习，深刻领悟习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的真理力量和实践伟力。结合常态化党史学习教育，运用红色教育资源和党性教育基地开展学习，砥砺理想信念和初心使命。注重抓好青年党员、离退休干部职工党员和流动党员的学习。坚持以党内教育引导和带动全社会的学习，让党的创新理论“飞入寻常百姓家”。

2. 调查研究。要按照党中央关于在全党大兴调查研究的工作方案，组织广大党员、干部扑下身子、沉到一线接地气，掌握真实情况和民情民意，在调查研究中加深对党的创新理论的理解，运用党的创新理论研究新情况、解决新问题，使调查研究的过程成为理论学习向实践运用转化的过程，成为转变作风、增进同群众感情的过程，成为提高履职本领、增强责任担当的过程。

县处级以上领导班子要围绕贯彻落实党中央决策部署和习近平总书记重要指示批示精神，结合职责任务，有针对性地研究确定若干调研课题，开展专题调研。领导班子成员每人领题调研，形成高质量调研成果。调研结束后，领导班子结合专题研讨，运用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的立场观点方法，交流调研情况，集思广益研究对策措施，形成指导实践、推动工作的思路办法和政策举措，并抓好组织实施，真正把调研成果转化为解决问题、促进发展的实际行动。

各级领导干部要深入农村、社区、企业、医院、学校、新经济组织、新社会组织等基层单位，摸准情况、吃透问题，问计于群众、问计于实践；要转换角色、走进群众，了解群众的烦心事操心事揪心事，发现和查找工作中的差距不足，推动解决一批发展所需、改革所急、基层所盼、民心所向的问题。开展典型案例的解剖式调研，加强督查式调研。基层党组织要利用主题党日，组织党员、干部采取走访调研等多种方式，广泛听取群众意见，真心帮助群众解决实际困难，扎实推动各项工作部署落地生效。

要多采取“四不两直”方式，多到困难多、群众意见集中、工作打不开局面的地方和单位，体察实情、解剖麻雀，把问题研究透彻、把措施提准提实。要加强工作协调和衔接，对表现在基层、根子在上面的问题，对涉及多个地区、部门和单位的问题，上下协同、一体推进解决。要制定调研计划安排，统筹确定调研时间、地点，防止扎堆调研、作秀式调研，不折腾基层、不增加基层负担，坚决克服调研中的形式主义、官僚主义。

3. 推动发展。紧紧围绕高质量发展这个全面建设社会主义现代化国家的首要任务，以强化理论学习指导发展实践，以深化调查研究推动解决发展难题，把学习和调研落实到完成党的二十大部署的各项工作任务中去，以推动高质量发展、提高人民生活品质的新成效检验主题教育成果。

破难题、促发展。县处级以上领导班子和领导干部根据自身职责，结合理论学习和调查研究，深入查找分析在贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局、推动高质量发展中的问题短板及其根源，找准切入点、发力点，把本地区本部门本单位工作融入新发展格局。领导班子和领导干部要紧密结合实际，认真贯彻落实党中央关于全面建设社会主义现代化国家的战略部署，增强系统观念和大局意识，保持战略清醒、战略自信、战略主动，正确处理推进中国式现代化的一系列重大关系，做好着力扩大国内需求、深化供给侧结构性改革，加快建设现代化产业体系，全面推进乡村振兴，实施科教兴国战略、人才强国战略、创新驱动发展战略，在发展中保障和改善民生，推动绿色发展、推进美丽中国建设，推进全面依法治国，建设社会主义文化强国，维护社会稳定等方面工作，形成共促高质量发展的强大合力。紧密结合中心任务和日常工作，组织党员、干部立足岗位作贡献，积极履职尽责，勇于担当作为，以每名党员、干部本职工作水平的提升，促进本地区本部门本单位工作的高质量发展。

Doing practical things and resolving people's concerns. Firmly establishing the people-centered development philosophy, actively exploring and carrying out initiatives such as "responding to the people's calls" and "handling complaints immediately," to address the specific issues that concern the masses. Focusing on resolving prominent issues in areas such as employment, education, medical care, childcare, housing, and elderly care, establishing a list of livelihood projects, and improving the institutional mechanisms for resolving livelihood issues. Implementing the system of party and government leaders directly contacting the masses, promptly addressing, clarifying doubts, and responding to the concerns of the public. Widely carrying out party volunteer services, encouraging party members to play a role in serving the masses and contributing to society.

4. Inspection and Rectification. Upholding the spirit of self-revolution with a critical and self-reflective approach, adhering to the principle of learning, comparing, inspecting, and rectifying simultaneously, combining classified rectification with concentrated governance, thoroughly identifying shortcomings, and effectively rectifying and addressing prominent issues.

Conducting Party Spirit Analysis. The leadership team will benchmark against Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This will address the implementation of strategic deployments such as comprehensively, accurately, and completely implementing the new development philosophy, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and focusing on promoting high-quality development; the implementation of key tasks, measures, policies, and requirements put forward by the Party Central Committee; the responsibilities and duties of the region, department, and unit; and systematically sorting out problems discovered through investigation and research, problems hindering development, and problems that have aroused strong public concern. Combining this with problems found through inspections, audits, and supervision, a list of problems will be compiled. Party members and cadres will conduct party spirit analysis from the perspectives of politics, ideology, ability, style, and discipline, identifying the root causes of problems and focusing on resolving them from their ideological roots. Before the conclusion of the thematic education, county-level and above leadership teams will hold special democratic life meetings, grassroots party organizations will hold special organizational life meetings, and party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, will reflect on themselves, their responsibilities, and their work, engaging in candid and earnest criticism and self-criticism.

Carrying out Rectification and Governance. For the identified problems, rectification measures will be developed one by one, and those that can be rectified will be rectified immediately. For problems that cannot be resolved immediately, specific measures, rectification deadlines, and responsibilities will be clarified to ensure that rectification is in place. All regions, departments, and units should identify several prominent issues that have aroused strong public concern and have not been resolved for a long time, formulate special governance plans, and adopt a ledger-style management and project-based approach for concentrated governance, ensuring effectiveness and achieving tangible results. The special governance plans and their implementation should be reported to party members and the masses in an appropriate manner. Higher-level authorities should set an example and strengthen supervision and inspection of lower-level authorities.

Various central and state organs should, in accordance with the Party Central Committee's deployment and arrangements for the education and rectification of the cadre队伍, combine their own realities and effectively carry out the education and rectification of the cadre队伍 within their organs and systems during the thematic education.

5. Establishing Rules and Regulations. Combining "immediate rectification" with "long-term establishment," good practices and experiences in learning and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era during the thematic education will be promptly codified into regulations. At the same time, a long-term mechanism will be established to consolidate and deepen the achievements of the thematic education, and the institutional mechanisms for learning and implementing the Party's innovative theories will be improved to ensure their long-term effectiveness.

IV. Organizational Leadership

The thematic education will be carried out under the leadership of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. A Central Leading Group for Learning and Implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (hereinafter referred to as the Central Thematic Education Leading Group) will be established, with a central leader serving as the group leader. The Central Thematic Education Leading Group will have an office responsible for daily work. The functional roles of the member units of the Central Thematic Education Leading Group will be leveraged to form a concerted effort.

All levels of Party committees (Party groups) should attach great importance to and meticulously organize the thematic education, establishing corresponding leadership and working bodies. The main responsible comrades of the Party committees (Party groups) should fulfill their primary responsibilities. All levels of Party committees (Party groups) should include thematic education in the content of inspections, strengthen work coordination and connection, and coordinate promotion. Combining with the actual situation of their respective regions, departments, and units, they should make unified arrangements and orderly promote the first and second batches of thematic education. Adhering to the principle of adapting measures to local conditions and strengthening classified guidance, the guiding role of industry and system-level competent departments in their respective industries and systems should be brought into full play. Combining the thematic education with the promotion of central tasks to prevent the phenomenon of separation. Focusing on the mastery and application of the Party's innovative theories, the transformation of the results of investigation and research, the resolution of urgent and difficult problems of the masses, the special rectification of prominent problems, and the satisfaction of party members, cadres, and the masses, methods such as presentations, questionnaires, on-site inspections, and random visits will be used to combine process evaluation with summary assessment. Through comprehensive self-assessment by the leadership team and analysis by the guidance group, the effectiveness of the thematic education will be evaluated. The implementation of thematic education will be an important content in the annual assessment of leadership teams and leading cadres, and in the performance appraisal of Party organization secretaries in charge of Party building.

The Central Thematic Education Leading Group will establish guidance groups that will use methods such as rotating guidance, random checks, and investigative interviews to supervise and guide the thematic education in various regions, departments, and units. Provincial (autonomous region, municipality) Party committees and industry-level competent department Party groups (Party committees) will send rotating guidance groups to strengthen supervision and guidance of their subordinate regions, departments, and units to ensure the quality of the thematic education. Guidance groups will not be established at the municipal and county levels.

Strengthening publicity and guidance, giving full play to the role of the main channels of publicity such as party newspapers, periodicals, television stations, and radio stations at all levels, paying attention to the use of new media, extensively publicizing the deployment and requirements of the Party Central Committee, publicizing the important speeches and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on thematic education, reflecting the progress and achievements of thematic education, and promptly selecting and publicizing advanced models to create a positive public opinion atmosphere.

The thematic education must be practical and effective, resolutely opposing formalism and resolutely preventing "low-level red" and "high-level black." There will be no rigid requirements for writing reading notes and心得体会, no arbitrary requirements for grassroots reporting of materials, strict control over the number of briefings, and strict control over the traces of management on network platforms. Those who are negative, perfunctory, or formalistic in carrying out thematic education will be severely criticized, and those who distort the form or have serious problems will be held accountable according to regulations.

The thematic education on learning and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force will be deployed and implemented by the Central Military Commission in accordance with this opinion.

Source: "Party Building Research," 2023, No. 5, Special Issue on Thematic Education