President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, sits with villagers around a firepit to discuss all-around rural revitalization at a drum tower while visiting the Zhaoxing Dong village in Liping county of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Guizhou province, March 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]

　　BEIJING -- The Communist Party of China has launched a four-month campaign to urge its around 100 million members to bolster compliance with a code of conduct that has strengthened the Party over the past 12 years.

　　This education campaign on the eight-point rules was planned by none other than China's top leader Xi Jinping. During his inspection tour to Southwest China last week, Xi urged Party organs at all levels to meticulously organize and implement the campaign.

　　He called for fighting misconduct and corruption as a whole, and making relentless efforts to root out the underlying conditions for corruption.

　　Exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance has been a signature and cornerstone of Xi's leadership. In his first press appearance as the newly elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in November 2012, he candidly acknowledged that the Party faced “numerous severe challenges,“ with corruption being a primary concern.

　　He immediately started addressing the issue by tackling the deteriorating conduct of officials — some had indulged in extravagance, grown content with empty formalities, or put on an air of bureaucracy.

　　“The Party's conduct is crucial to winning the people's support and is a matter concerning the Party's survival or demise,“ Xi said.