The meeting said that the plenum would focus on major issues concerning comprehensive and strict self-governance within the party. Beyond scaleIt is difficult to overstate the scale of Mr. Xi’s anti-corruption campaign. Yet reading the comprehensive and strict party self-governance project through the anti-corruption lens alone misses its ambition. Strengthening the foundationEarlier this year, Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and a close confidant of Mr. Xi, formally announced the establishment of ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building’ — a branch of the wider canon of ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era’. Moulding a political classIn essence, the goal of the Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building and comprehensive and strict party self-governance is not simply to punish wrongdoing.