Historical Review On Institutional Anticorruption Of The Headership Of The Three Generations Of CPC Since The Establishment Of PRC

It is generally known that the matter of maintaining a pure and clean government has always been the fatal problem of each country and each government since ancient dynasties, and that the Communist Party of China (CPC), as the ruling party in China, is especially concerned with its accomplishments of combating corruption. As a result, the leadership of the three generations of CPC has been waging a long and arduous battle against corruption for more than five decades based on the characteristics of various forms of corruption and their historical conditions and social environment, hence found an effective way of preventing corruption by organically combining ideological construction and institutional reforms. Therefore, it is very significant for us to review the losses and gains in combating corruption since the birth of PRC, because this will provide us a better understanding of CPC's future orientation in combating corruption.The present paper maintains that to prevent and combat corruption is one of the most urgent tasks of CPC, because it is a significant factor that determines the death or the living of the party and the success or the failure of economic construction. And this paper also puts forward the methodological studies of anti-corruption by cutting its ties from the root, following the major role of institutional anti-corruption.First, this paper retrospectively explores the three theoretical stages of anti-corruption since CPC became the ruling party of China, namely, the infant stage, the growing stage and the mature stage. Based on this knowledge, this paper systematically interpreted the theories ofinstitutional anti-corruption of CPC in different times represented by the thoughts of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin from five perspectives, that is, the recognition of corruption, the root of corruption, the methods of anti-corruption, the understanding of institutional anti-corruption and the exercise of institutional reforms.Second, following the comparative study of institutional anti-corruption of the three stages, the author of the present paper holds that the theories of the three stages can be traced to the same purpose as a whole and that they mirrors the features of anti-corruption in different times.Third, it can be safely concluded that to prevent and combat corruption remains the political foundation of institutional anti-corruption, that to enforce institutional anti-corruption is the most fundamental way of fighting corruption and that to adhere to 'the Three Represents Theory' proposed by Jiang Zemin becomes the guarantee of institutional anti-corruption:...