Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said on June 18 that the Party's upcoming year-long campaign will be a "thorough cleanup" of undesirable work styles such as formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance.

The main task of the campaign focuses on building work styles to boost ties between CPC members and the people, Xi said at a high-profile deployment conference. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided in April to launch the campaign in the latter half of the year.

The campaign will focus on CPC organs and officials at or above county level who will be required to reflect on their own practices and correct any misconduct.

Xi said that a long-term mechanism should be established to encourage Party members and officials to serve the people, be down-to-earth, upright and corruption-free as "the issue of improper work styles is prone to relapse and stubborn in nature."

The Party should take the campaign as an opportunity to introduce new rules, improve existing ones, and nullify outdated regulations, he said, vowing that no exception should be made when implementing the rules.