System for Requesting Instructions from and Submitting Reports to Higher Authorities

System for Requesting Instructions from and Submitting Reports to Higher Authorities

In February 2019, the CPC Central Committee issued the Regulations of the CPC on Requesting Instructions from and Submitting Reports to Higher Authorities Regarding Major Issues. It pointed out that requesting instructions and submitting reports are part of the Party's rigorous political, organizational and work discipline and an effective mechanism for practicing democratic centralism, which plays a key role in upholding the centralized, unified leadership of the Central Committee.

According to these rules, lower-level Party organizations request instructions from and submit reports to Party organizations at higher levels regarding major issues, and Party members and leading officials ask relevant Party organizations for instructions and submit reports to the latter. "Major issues" are matters that are beyond the functions and powers of the said Party organizations, Party members, and leading officials, or those within their functions and powers but with extensive influence or with a bearing on the overall situation.

This usually happens as the said Party organizations are implementing the decisions and plans made by the CPC Central Committee and other higher-level Party organizations, leading the local economic and social development, and performing their duties of full and rigorous Party self-governance, or as the Party members are fulfilling their obligations and exercising their rights, or as the leading officials are exercising powers and undertaking responsibilities.

重大事项请示报告制度

2019年2月，中共中央印发了《中国共产党重大事项请示报告条例》，并发出通知指出，重大事项请示报告制度是中国共产党的一项重要政治纪律、组织纪律、工作纪律，是执行民主集中制的有效工作机制，在维护党中央集中统一领导方面发挥了重要作用。

重大事项请示报告，就是下级党组织向上级党组织，以及党员、领导干部向党组织请示报告重大事项相关活动。重大事项，即超出党组织和党员、领导干部自身职权范围，或者虽在自身职权范围内但关乎全局、影响广泛的重要事情和重要情况，包括党组织贯彻执行党中央决策部署和上级党组织决定、领导经济社会发展事务、落实全面从严治党责任，党员履行义务、行使权利，领导干部行使权力、担负责任的重要事情和重要情况。