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. 

軍委主席負責制

軍委主席負責制是堅持黨對人民軍隊的絕對領導的根本制度和根本實現形式，是中國共產黨在實踐中探索建立的黨和國家相統一的最高軍事領導體制，是中國特色社會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》規定，“中央軍事委員會實行主席負責制”。2017年10月，中國共產黨第十九次全國代表大會決定，把“中央軍事委員會實行主席負責制”寫入《中國共產黨章程》。軍委主席負責制關系人民軍隊最高領導權和指揮權，在中國共產黨領導軍隊的一整套制度體系中處于最高層次、居于統領地位。其基本內涵主要包括：中央軍委主席負責中央軍委全面工作；中央軍委主席領導指揮全國武裝力量；中央軍委主席決定國防和軍隊建設一切重大問題。

人民軍隊必須全面深入貫徹軍委主席負責制，強化政治紀律和政治規矩，增強政治意識、大局意識、核心意識、看齊意識，堅定道路自信、理論自信、制度自信、文化自信，確保絕對忠誠、絕對純潔、絕對可靠，確保槍桿子永遠聽黨指揮。