Eight-point Regulation

The Eight-point Regulation from the Central is a set of regulations stipulated by the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012 aimed at instilling more discipline among party members and making the party "closer to the masses". They were first announced on 4 December 2012, after a Politburo meeting led by Xi Jinping, who then had recently became General Secretary of the CCP. Detailed implementing regulations were adopted by the Politburo in 2022.
In effect, the regulations "aim to reduce bureaucracy, extravagance and undesirable work practices of CCP members," calls for party members and officials in particular to "do real work, say real things", and understand the practical situation on the ground. It seeks to tackle "practices of extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy" that permeated Chinese officialdom during the rule of Xi Jinping's predecessors. Beginning in 2012, local authorities implemented the regulation and stressed reforms as such prohibiting private use of public cars, reduce and simplify official meetings, and prohibit expensive meals and showy official trips.

History

The eight-point regulation has played a significant role in Xi Jinping's anticorruption campaign.
On 27 October 2017, the first meeting of the Politburo of the 19th [Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party] considered the Implementing Rules of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee for Implementing the Eight-point Regulation of the Central Committee.
At the end of 2021, the Politburo held a meeting and considered the Report on the Implementation of the Eight-point Regulation of the Central Committee by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in 2021 and the Report on the Work of Rectifying Formalism and Reducing Burdens for the Grassroots in 2021.
In September 2022, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee considered the Report on the Implementation of the Eight-point Regulation of the Central Committee by the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee.
On 25 October 2022, the General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Politburo, and one of the important agendas of the meeting was to consider the implementation rules for the Eight-point Regulation, and the meeting put forward the idea that the Eight-point Regulation of the Central Committee must always be regarded as the "long-term and effective rules of iron, and a hard bar".