任期制就是对党政领导干部的任职期限和任期届数进行严格界定的一种制度。它既是社会主义民主的内在要求,也是对权力制约监督机制和领导生命周期理论等自然法则和社会规律的制度性遵循。建立党政领导干部任期制,虽然起因于废除领导职务终身制的需要,但其深远意义则远远超出了废除领导职务终身制本身。党政领导干部任期制的普遍建立,不仅为党政领导干部的和平更替提供了制度规范,而且使党和国家权力顺利实现了代际更迭,为党和国家的长治久安提供了制度保证。因此,必须坚持和完善党政领导干部任期制,而不能随意改变或放弃党政领导干部任期制。
The tenure system is a system that defines the office term and the number of the office term of the Party and government leading cadres.It is not only the inherent requirement of socialist democracy,but also the institutional compliance of the natural law and social law,such as the power restriction and supervision mechanism and the leadership life cycle theory.Although it is due to the need to abolish the tenure of leadership positions,we established the tenure system,but its far-reaching significance is far beyond the abolition of leadership tenure itself.The widely-established tenure system not only provides a system specification for the peaceful change of the Party and government leading cadres,and makes the Party and state power realize intergenerational change,and provides the system guarantee for the Party and the country's long period of stability.Therefore,we must uphold and improve the tenure system of the Party and government leading cadres,instead of arbitrarily changing or giving it up.