The CMC Chairperson Responsibility System

The CMC chairperson responsibility system is the institutional arrangement for practicing the Party's absolute leadership over the military. It represents the top of the military chain of command, a role that combines central direction functions of both the Party and the state. This assignment of responsibility is based on experience the Party has gained, and constitutes an important element of China's socialist political and military systems. 

The Constitution of the People's Republic of China (1982) stipulates, "The Central Military Commission shall practice a chairperson responsibility system." At its 19th National Congress in October 2017, the CPC decided to enshrine in the CPC Constitution that "Chairperson of the Central Military Commission assumes overall responsibility over the work of the commission." This rule vests the supreme military decision-making power in the chairperson of the CMC, and places this position at the very top of the organizational hierarchy of the people's armed forces under the leadership of the CPC. It stipulates that the chairperson of the CMC gives overall direction for the work of the commission, commands the armed forces, and makes decisions on all major issues regarding national defense and the military.  

The people's armed forces must act on the CMC chairperson responsibility system in all respects. We must strengthen political discipline and political rules, heighten our political awareness, develop our ability to have a broader picture, follow the leadership core, and align all activities with the agenda of the central leadership. We must also strengthen our confidence in the path we take, the theory that guides us forward, the political system we choose, and the culture we nurture. In short, we must ensure the purity and reliability of the armed forces, and their absolute loyalty and allegiance to the Party. 

軍委主席負(fù)責(zé)制

軍委主席負(fù)責(zé)制是堅(jiān)持黨對(duì)人民軍隊(duì)的絕對(duì)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的根本制度和根本實(shí)現(xiàn)形式，是中國共產(chǎn)黨在實(shí)踐中探索建立的黨和國家相統(tǒng)一的最高軍事領(lǐng)導(dǎo)體制，是中國特色社會(huì)主義政治制度和軍事制度的重要組成部分。

1982年《中華人民共和國憲法》規(guī)定，“中央軍事委員會(huì)實(shí)行主席負(fù)責(zé)制”。2017年10月，中國共產(chǎn)黨第十九次全國代表大會(huì)決定，把“中央軍事委員會(huì)實(shí)行主席負(fù)責(zé)制”寫入《中國共產(chǎn)黨章程》。軍委主席負(fù)責(zé)制關(guān)系人民軍隊(duì)最高領(lǐng)導(dǎo)權(quán)和指揮權(quán)，在中國共產(chǎn)黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)軍隊(duì)的一整套制度體系中處于最高層次、居于統(tǒng)領(lǐng)地位。其基本內(nèi)涵主要包括：中央軍委主席負(fù)責(zé)中央軍委全面工作；中央軍委主席領(lǐng)導(dǎo)指揮全國武裝力量；中央軍委主席決定國防和軍隊(duì)建設(shè)一切重大問題。

人民軍隊(duì)必須全面深入貫徹軍委主席負(fù)責(zé)制，強(qiáng)化政治紀(jì)律和政治規(guī)矩，增強(qiáng)政治意識(shí)、大局意識(shí)、核心意識(shí)、看齊意識(shí)，堅(jiān)定道路自信、理論自信、制度自信、文化自信，確保絕對(duì)忠誠、絕對(duì)純潔、絕對(duì)可靠，確保槍桿子永遠(yuǎn)聽黨指揮。