criticisms and self-criticisms 批评和自我批评

He urged CPC members, especially officials at various levels, to courageously and constantly relay criticisms and self-criticisms so as to boost unity and implementation of democratic centralism.

习近平要求全体党员，特别是各级领导干部大胆进行、经常进行批评和自我批评，以此促进团结和民主集中制的贯彻执行。

习近平指出，批评与自我批评（criticisms and self-criticisms）是解决党内矛盾（contradictions within the Party）的有力武器(forceful weapons)。在此次专题民主生活会上，河北省委常委班子对照形式主义（formalism）、官僚主义（bureaucracy）、享乐主义（hedonism）和奢靡之风（extravagance）的种种表现，总结问题、剖析原因。

批评与自我批评是党的群众路线（mass line）教育实践活动的一部分。群众路线就是一切为了群众，一切依靠群众，从群众中来，到群众中去（doing everything for the masses, relying on them in every task, carrying out the principle of “from the masses, to the masses”）。