Abstract: Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has issued a series of addresses emphasizing strict governance over the Party, and a series of measures has been adopted to strengthen anti-corruption education and to improve the culture of clean government, forming a system of methods of improving the culture of clean government:applying social system analysis methods to strengthening the overall deployment; applying the research methods of social subjects to establishing the fundamental principles; applying social contradiction research methods to resolving specific problems that arise; applying process research methods to strengthening the management of party members and cadres;evaluating the results of strengthening party style and clean government with people's interests as the highest standard of social evaluation; and adhering to guiding the practice with theory. These methods have played an extremely important role in strengthening the building of the party's work style and clean government, and have opened up new horizons for party building.

Key words: the culture of clean governance, strict governance over the Party, Party building, anti-corruption and building a clean government