BEIJING: The governing Communist Party of China headed by President Xi Jinping has issued a new set of rules to remove incompetent members deemed lagging in their faith, loyalty and performance, in a bid to further strengthen the party’s control over the conduct of its nearly 100 million members.
The party released regulations Thursday outlining how underperforming and unqualified members should be dealt with, aiming to ensure the advanced nature and integrity of its membership by providing institutional guarantees, state-run Xinhua reported.Comprising 27 articles, these rules are crucial for exercising full and rigorous party self-governance, an official told Xinhua, adding they are essential for promoting the party’s self-reform, establishing a team with strong beliefs, political reliability, reasonable composition, outstanding qualities, strict discipline and significant contributions. CPC has over 99.2 million members at the end of 2023, up by over 1.1 million from 2022.
The report said unlike disciplinary measures imposed on members who violate party discipline, such as corruption, the new rules target those who lack revolutionary spirit and fail to fulfil their obligations.