“Two Studies and One Action” Education Campaign

In February 2016, the CPC Central Committee started a campaign to educate all Party members in the “two studies and one action.” The education campaign required all Party members “to study the

Party Constitution and rules, and speeches of xi, and to become qualified Party members.” Its basic requirement was that Party members respect the Party Constitution and obey its rules, and that the entire Party takes its essential task to be drawing spiritual strength from xi’s most important speeches. In stressing that “the prerequisite is study, and the key is action,” it focused on resolving some of the major ideological, organizational, behavioral and disciplinary problems among Party members. In March 2017, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee distributed its Opinion on Institutionalizing Education on the “Two

Studies and One Action.” It targets the minority of officials holding important positions and extend this work to the grassroots, while continuing to comprehensively promote strict Party self-governance, and make the “two studies and one action” part of the basic education of Party members. Promoting such education is an important part in strengthening the Party ideology, an important way for the Party to reinforce in-party education for its members, and an important measure for extending comprehensive strict Party self-governance down to the grassroots.

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