By Jiang Zaidong
The Thought on Party Building remains committed to self-confidence, self-reliance, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. It has opened new pathways for addressing internal challenges through one’s own efforts, regarding “exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance” as the strategic policy for party building in the new era, advancing coordinated efforts to ensure officials “do not have the audacity, opportunity or desire to conduct corruption” with the sense of mission that “failing several corrupt officials rather than failing 1.4 billion” is necessary, continuously promoting the Party’s self-reform with the tenacity of “always being on the road”, and guiding a great social revolution through a great self-revolution, ensuring that the Party always remains the strong leadership core for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
It is precisely because Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building demonstrates noble values and distinctive intellectual strength that it offers valuable reference for political parties, especially in developing countries, to strengthen themselves and independently explore paths towards modernization, thus contributing to progress in human political civilization. An increasing number of political parties and statesmen around the world are asking: “Why is the CPC capable?” General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that political parties in different countries should enhance mutual trust, strengthen communication and close coordination, and explore the building of a new type of party-to-party relationship based on a new type of international relations, featuring seeking common ground while shelving differences, mutual respect and mutual learning.
They should establish a network of international party-to-party exchanges and cooperation in various forms and at multiple levels, pooling a mighty force for building a community with a shared future for humanity. We are pleased to see that exchanges and mutual learning between the CPC and political parties in Pakistan continue to deepen. Our two sides have signed MOUs on inter-party exchanges and cooperation, established the CPEC Political Parties Joint Consultation Mechanism, and convened the China-Pakistan Political Parties Forum. Each year, China invites multiple groups of Pakistani political party representatives to visit and attend conferences in China, and continues to support “small and beautiful” livelihood projects in Pakistan through platforms such as the Silk Road Workshop.
In this milestone year marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, a high-level Pakistani political party delegation visited Hubei in May, making positive contributions to advancing sub-national cooperation. Also in May, the second China-Pakistan Political Parties Forum and Meeting of the CPEC Political Parties Joint Consultation Mechanism was held, drawing leaders from 12 major Pakistani political parties. Broad consensus was reached on consolidating traditional friendship and advancing practical cooperation. On August 12, we hosted the Symposium on Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, putting us at the forefront of the CPC’s global exchanges with political parties on party building and governance experience.
We want to extend our sincere gratitude to Pakistani political parties and stand ready to continue implementing the important consensus reached by our leaders, further expanding “political party plus” cooperation on the existing basis, and carrying forward our ironclad China-Pakistan friendship through successive rounds of inter-party mutual learning. We will also continue to deepen exchanges on party building and governance with Pakistani political parties, inject fresh impetus into China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperation, enable new achievements in Chinese modernization to bring new opportunities for our Pakistani brothers and sisters, and accelerate the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.
(The writer is a career Chinese diplomat and Ambassador for Pakistan, possesses in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Asia, South Asia and Middle East regions, can be reached at editorial@metro-morning.com)
