BEIJING - An article by President Xi Jinping on Party building in central Party and state institutions was published Friday in the 21st issue of the Qiushi Journal this year.

The article is a transcript of a speech by Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, at a July meeting on Party building in central Party and state institutions.

In the article, Xi urged central Party and state institutions to become exemplary ones which the CPC Central Committee trusts and people are satisfied with, and comprehensively improve the quality of Party building.

Party building in the institutions should be a priority with the Party practicing strict self-governance in every respect and carrying out self-reform, the article read.