Strong leadership core to build stronger nation

Editor's Note: The People's Daily published an editorial on Friday defining the achievements of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China that concluded on Thursday. Excerpts:

The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was a particularly important meeting held at a critical juncture when China is comprehensively deepening reforms and building a moderately well-off society in an all-round way.

The plenum highly praised the achievements of the Party in promoting stricter governance, comprehensively analyzed the situations and tasks facing Party building, and systematically summarized the theories and practices followed by the Party for stricter self-governance since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in late 2012. It also made a new, significant layout for strengthening the work of Party building in today's situations, thus fully embodying the top leadership's determination and historical responsibility in Party building and stricter governance.