Abstract: Viewed from the perspective of either individual Party members or the Party as an organization in general, the crux of the issue in refining the institutional normative system for the Party's self-revolution involves the tension between the individual members and the collective body, the tension that stems from the contradictory relationship between “autonomous decision-making” and “heteronomous decision-making.” The former is grounded in intrinsic voluntariness and derives from value-based principles while the latter, in contrast, is constrained by external coercion and subsumed to factual imperatives. From a factual perspective, the institutional normative system for the Party's self-revolution, which responses to questions of fact, evolves through a downward movement of “ideology-institution-operation.” From the standpoint of value-based aspirations, this framework, which responses to questions of necessity, ascends through three progressive dimensions: regulatory, normative, and cultural-cognitive. These two movements exhibit both antagonism and unity in the dynamics of “autonomous decision-making” and “heteronomous decision-making.” In advancing the institutional framework for the Party's self-revolution, achieving a dynamic equilibrium between empirical and value-based approaches constitutes the core proposition of Party building in the new era.

Key words: the Communist Party of China (CPC), institutional normative system for the Party's self-revolution, factuality, value-basedness