党的十四届四中全会以来,我们秦皇岛市委把着力加强民主集中制建设作为党建工作的一项重点,努力使市委的工作提高到一个新的水平,保证全市经济快速、健康发展,两个文明建设同步推进。通过这段实践,我们对坚持民主集中制有了更为深刻的认识和体会。在改革、开放的新形势下更需要坚持民主集中制。民主集中制是我们党以马列主义为指导,在长期革命和建设实践中建立和完善起来的党的根本组织制度和领导制度,是科学的有效制度,是事关党和国家生死存亡的根本原则。当前,我们国家正在进行一场深刻的社会变革,更要求我们党坚持和健全民主集中制,而不是削弱和放弃民主集中制。建立社会主义市场经济体制,是一个从宏观到微观,从经济基础到上层建筑,从生产关系到意识形态在内的 Since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee, we Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee put great efforts to strengthen the construction of democratic centralism as a key task of party building, and strive to make the work of the municipal Party committee to a new level, to ensure rapid and healthy economic development in the city, two Civilization advance simultaneously. Through this practice, we have had a more profound understanding and experience in adhering to democratic centralism. Under the new situation of reform and opening up, it is even more necessary to uphold democratic centralism. Democratic centralism is the Party’s fundamental organizational system and leadership system that our party has established and perfected in the long-term revolution and construction practice under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism. It is an effective scientific system and is a fundamental principle that deals with the survival of the party and the country. At present, our country is undergoing a profound social change and even requires our party to uphold and improve its democratic centralism instead of weakening and giving up its democratic centralism. The establishment of a socialist market economic system is a process from the macro to the micro-level, from the economic base to the superstructure, from the production relations to the ideology