2004年6月29日,中央政治局第十四次在中南海怀仁堂集中学习,来自北大和中央党校的两名学者讲解党的执政能力。这次看似平常的学习,却有一种不寻常的意义。随后的7月23日,中央政治局举行会议,作出决定并宣布,十六届四中全会的主要议题是,研究加强党的执政能力建设问题。从1949年至今,中国共产党已执政55年。以55年的历史提炼出执政能力建设的主题,是从革命党到执政党之后进一步的跨越,是对一个执政党应有的使命、责任和前景的深刻思考。“为谁执政?依靠谁执政?如何执政?”这样的思考在过去55年中以各种方式出现过。然而,全球化浪潮与国家发展方向的新认识,却要求思考的深度不止于此。当前,在国际上,各种价值观念、政治文化和治国模式的冲突、比较、竞争和借鉴日益深刻,一些老党、大党相继丧失执政地位;在国内,随着改革的深入,长期积累下来的深层次矛盾日益凸显。那么,中国共产党如何在国际风云中屹立不倒?如何代表最广大人民群众的根本利益?求解的方向在于对执政党执政能力、执政方式与执政理念的新认识。同样重要的是,执政党自身建设也引发了如此之需求。“中国革命的全国胜利只是万里长征的第一步”。从西柏坡解放区执政到北京“赶考”执政中国,中国共产党走完了执政万里长征的第一步。那么到今天,我们 On June 29, 2004, the Central Political Bureau concentrated its study in Huairentang, Zhongnanhai for the fourteenth time. Two scholars from Peking University and Central Party School talked about the party’s ability to govern. This seemingly ordinary study, but there is an unusual meaning. Then on July 23, the Central Political Bureau held a meeting to make a decision and announced that the major issue for the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee will be to study the issue of strengthening the building of the party’s ability to govern. Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been in power for 55 years. The 55-year history of refining the theme of governing capacity building is a further leap forward from the revolutionary party to the ruling party and a profound consideration of the due mission, responsibility and prospects of a ruling party. “For whom to govern? Depending on who governed? How to govern?” Such thinking has come across in various ways for the past 55 years. However, the new understanding of the tide of globalization and the direction of national development requires that the depth of thinking go beyond this. At present, in the international arena, the conflicts, comparisons, competitions and references of various values, political cultures and state-governing models have become increasingly profound. Some old and major parties have successively lost their ruling status. In the country, with the deepening of reform, they have accumulated over the long term The deep-seated contradictions have become increasingly prominent. How does the Chinese Communist Party stand in the international situation? How to represent the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people? The solution lies in a new understanding of the ruling party’s ruling ability, ruling style and ruling philosophy. Equally important, the ruling party has also created such needs. “The national victory of the Chinese revolution is only the first step in the Long March.” From the liberation of Xibaipo Prefecture to Beijing to “test” the ruling China, the Chinese Communist Party has completed the first step in the ruling Long March. So till today, us