Research On The CPC's Interest Integrating Capability (Since 1978)

Interests are the root of all social phenomena and the motive force of the party's existence and development. The party is the force of interest conflict and the tool of interest integration. As the ruling party, the party's interest integration function strengthens as its expression and synthesis function are well combined with the government's macro-coordination function. It is the necessary requirement of promoting political development to fully play the ruling party's interest integration function, and it is also the important mission of achieving social stability and consolidating its ruling position.As a ruling party, the Communist Party of China has its characteristics in terms of interest integration. The fundamental goal that it strives for is to achieve people's interest and hence realize all-round communism. To realize the goal, it is necessary to coordinate and integrate the divided and complicated interest situation at the current stage. The dual role of "leading party" and "ruling party" and characteristics of socialist preliminary stage make its interest integration function more important and daunting. Since 1978, CPC has constructed the landscape of interest integration featured by "grasping the overall situation and coordinating all sides". While it plays the role of interest integration, it actively mobilizes various forces of minority parties, National People's Congress, government, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and social groups to make them play the role of interest expression, synthesis and decision-making consultation, continuously improve the process of interest coordination and have achieved effective results.With reform and opening-up deepening and market economy developing, divisions of interest subjects in China are intensified, interest gaps continuously widened and interest contradictions increasingly sharpened, which poses a series of challenges to CPC. Its solidarity, basis of class and society and capability of interest integration are subject to interest division and gaming challenge. To consolidate its ruling position and make Chinese society advance towards the fundamental goal, CPC's interest integration function will have to be enhanced.The interest integration is a system composed of such factors as objective, subject, process, target, environment and etc. Enhancing the interest integration function makes it necessary to take its relation with factors and structure into consideration. Currently, in order to enhance the function, firstly, CPC must improve its capability and quality of interest integration, specifically to improve party members'ethical quality, guarantee their rights to participate in interest integration, strengthen supervision on them, especially party officials and better play the role of party organizations, especially grass-root level organizations. Secondly, CPC must optimize the interest integration process. It should make great efforts to form a structure of interest integration featured by tolerance, consultation, balance, increment, further making minority parties, NPC, CPPCC and social groups play an important role in interest integration. CPC needs to reform and improve mechanisms relating to interest integration such as interest guidance, interest expression, interest synthesis, interest decision-making, interest allocation, interest compensation, interest contradiction reconciliation and etc. CPC must have a deep understanding of problems in interest landscape of different areas and effectively integrate intra-party interests, regional interests, inter-departmental interests, group interests and national interests. Thirdly,CPC should strengthen the education and guidance to the interest subjects, to influence them to form participative ,responsible,compromise and mutual benefit interest concept.