A key meeting of the Communist Party of China on Friday stressed that local Party committees must ensure full and firm implementation of the decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee while adapting their work to local realities with greater initiative and creativity.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which deliberated on regulations on the work of local Party committees.

The meeting said that local Party committees have a responsibility to pursue development and ensure security, and must work in a down-to-earth manner and deliver solid results.

It called for full and faithful application of the new development philosophy, solid efforts to promote high-quality development, stronger measures to ensure and improve people's well-being, and all-out efforts to safeguard national security and overall social stability.

It stressed the need to foster and practice a correct understanding of what it means to perform well, and strive to deliver results that can withstand the tests of practice, the people and history.

To ensure the strict implementation of democratic centralism, the fundamental organizational principle of the Party, it was noted at the meeting that rules for deliberation and decision-making should be improved, the negative list should be refined, and oversight mechanisms should be strengthened by clarifying priorities, specific measures and accountability provisions.

The meeting said that local Party committees should intensify efforts to tackle pointless formalities to ease burdens on those working at the grassroots level, exercise power in accordance with the law and regulations, uphold integrity, and foster a clean and upright political environment.