Abstract:

The century-long history of adhering to the Party leadership shows that the Party leadership and governing power are always complementary, and the governing power is always based on the Party leadership.Exercising governing power is a powerful way to fortify the Party leadership.To construct a long-term ruling Marxist Party in the new era, we must think deeply about the governing power by closely relating it to Party leadership.Comparatively speaking, the Party leadership belongs to “political power”, emphasizing “conformity with the public will”, while the governing power belongs to the “legal category”, emphasizing “conformity with the law”.They differ in scope, practice, and pathways.Only by understanding the political nature, basic content, basic characteristics, and basic requirements of the governing power of the Party is it possible to examine the logic of its leadership.From the perspective of the Party's leadership logic, the governing power has the dual attributes of political power and political rights, with a distinct political nature that is both “legal” and “procedural”, occupies space-time, and adheres to boundaries.In the new era, to maximize the Party's governing power, we must organically unify the Party leadership and governing power, and strengthen the Party's political leadership and supervision over state organs.This will include increasing the awareness of long-term governance concepts that always put the people first.By keeping pace with the times, Party's governing system and mode will improve and advance the rule of law.It will also enhance cadres’ governance abilities and win the people's trust though political integrity, clean government, and honest officials.

Key words: Communist Party of China, leadership of the Party, governing power of the Party, political connotation, rule of law requirements