Party Affairs Blockchain - The Best Platform for Party Affairs

Author: Pencil lead

In the first half of this year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the "Study and Education Plan on Learning the Party Constitution and Party Regulations, Learning the Series of Speeches, and Being Qualified Party Members" among all Party members, requiring all regions and departments to conscientiously implement it, and make detailed arrangements and specific deployments on how to carry out the "Two Studies and One Action" study and education.

Standing at the new starting point of the "13th Five-Year Plan", the party's ideological construction, organizational construction, style construction, discipline construction and other work have entered a new historical node. The "Two Studies and One Action" carried out this time is another important measure for the party to strengthen ideological and political construction after the party's mass line education and practice activities and the "Three Stricts and Three Realities" special education. Therefore, perhaps we can use tools that are more in line with the current development status of our modern society to better carry out party affairs and better implement General Secretary Xi's requirements for party members' work.

According to the 2015 Communist Party of China Internal Statistics Bulletin released by the State Council Information Office, as of December 31, 2015, the total number of Communist Party of China members was 88.758 million, a net increase of 965,000 over the previous year, an increase of 1.1%. In terms of the age structure of party members, there are 22.544 million party members under the age of 35, accounting for more than 25% of the total.

Such a huge amount of data is registered in databases in various places. However, due to the increasing regional mobility of party members in modern society, various errors are inevitable in data statistics, and it is always difficult to achieve completely real-time consistency in the summary statistics of various places.

If all the information of all party members can be registered on the blockchain, it will not only greatly guarantee the accuracy and real-time nature of the data, but also become a unified data operation platform across the country, thus providing the best organization tool for future management work based on party member big data. And, as we all know, the data on the blockchain is tamper-proof, which can ensure that all data is true and valid, and provide great convenience for the current large number of cumbersome party member identification work. Especially in the cross-regional party member transfer work, unified and stable data is a necessary condition for the development of such work, and it no longer needs a lot of manual work like now.

Blockchain will make it easier to verify party dues

At the end of last year, the Central Inspection Team pointed out in its summary of the problems found in the inspection of central enterprises that some central enterprises have the phenomenon of "some party members and cadres receiving high salaries but not paying party dues as required", which has aroused heated discussions. For the party organizations that bear the main responsibility for comprehensively and strictly governing the party, strengthening the education, supervision and management of party members and cadres should first start with strengthening the party's leadership, enhancing party members' awareness of the party, the party constitution and organizational concepts, and consolidating the ideological foundation for strict party governance. To be a qualified party member, it is not about how loud the slogans are, but about restraining oneself with the party constitution, party rules and party discipline, and starting with paying party dues consciously, on time and in full.

In the past six months, party organizations at all levels across the country have begun to strictly review the party dues payment of party members. However, due to the great changes in data records at all levels and the changes in IT technology over the past decades that have exceeded the expectations of the statistical departments, when similar long-term data tracing work is carried out, these data are often difficult to find, or cannot be read and sorted.

With blockchain technology, all of this will not be a problem. The stability and security of blockchain will greatly ensure that all data can be read and sorted for a long time (decades or even hundreds of years). We believe that our party will still face the process of continuous upgrading of IT technology in the future. From past experience, we can conclude that if there is no unified and stable data reading solution, it will cause certain obstacles to the development of party affairs in the next decades or even hundreds of years. Today, blockchain technology provides us with a better choice.

Blockchain is the best embodiment of "Three Stricts and Three Realities"

The immutability of blockchain just reflects the spirit of General Secretary Xi’s “Three Stricts and Three Realities” speech. On March 9, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned the important statement of “being strict in self-cultivation, strict in the use of power, and strict in self-discipline; being realistic in planning, entrepreneurship, and being a person” in his speech on promoting work style construction when he participated in the deliberation of the Anhui delegation at the Second Session of the 12th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. This is called the “Three Stricts and Three Realities” speech.

How to achieve "strict self-cultivation, strict use of power, and strict self-discipline"? For party work, the first thing is that the data must withstand strict tests. Because this is the foundation of party work, and only when all data are guaranteed to be authentic and unalterable from a mathematical algorithm, the organization can examine whether each party member can withstand the evaluation of "strict self-cultivation, strict use of power, and strict self-discipline".

As for "being practical in planning, starting a business and being a person", it emphasizes that all work should be "real, solid and consolidated". As for the data of party work, the "real, solid and consolidated" data on the blockchain is far beyond the reach of traditional centralized databases.

The best embodiment of democratic centralism

Blockchain is a distributed technology that is controlled by multiple nodes at the same time, competing to keep accounts and retaining complete account information. This is a manifestation of democracy. Each node has the right to express itself and reach a consensus based on the majority opinion. Recording data on the blockchain and managing it in a unified and centralized manner can greatly reduce costs and improve efficiency, and provide unprecedented security and stability.

Specific implementation of the party affairs blockchain

Party organizations in provinces, municipalities, and even regions can become nodes in the entire blockchain system. Since hybrid chain technology can be used, each different node has different permissions. Nodes in various regions can participate in maintaining the complete local database and can participate in keeping the hash values ​​of local database records. In this way, provinces and cities do not need to keep the complete database of other regions, but can also ensure that all data cannot be tampered with. Once the data records flow, the data can be verified to be valid and not tampered with by comparing the hash values.

Each region is also maintained by multiple sub-nodes, and the corresponding complete data is retained. In this case, we can ensure that the integrity of the data will not be affected even if some nodes are damaged or disappear.

In addition, the supernode adjusts the properties of all nodes and subnodes. The supernode is controlled by the highest-level party organization department. The supernode can raise or lower the level of nodes and can check the permissions of all nodes. In the hybrid chain, the supernode has a very high authority and adjusts the properties of other nodes, but the supernode cannot tamper with any data.

Some people may think that having super nodes is not blockchain technology. This is a huge misunderstanding. Centralization and decentralization are always relative. We can constantly adjust the ratio for different scenarios and requirements. Those who pursue absolute decentralization are dogmatic and unrealistic, and have never been truly successfully achieved throughout human history. In real scenarios, only those that meet objective needs are the right thing for us to face.

Finally, the party affairs blockchain is still a concept at present. We hope to better carry out various party affairs through the most modern and advanced IT technology. In the eyes of many people, party affairs seem to be a job that has nothing to do with modern tools. But if anyone thinks about it, nearly 90 million party members, which in itself constitutes a super big data. And with the "strict party governance" and the party members' various tasks becoming more and more formalized and efficient, it is difficult to do it without the assistance of powerful IT tools. I hope this article can play a role in inspiring more people to think about the relationship between modern IT technology and party affairs.