The mass line 群眾路線 (qun zhong lu xian)

The "mass line" is a methodology of the Communist Party of China, introduced by Chairman Mao Zedong to compel the CPC rank and file to stay close to the people. It's back in the limelight after top CPC leaders decided in April to launch a year-long "mass line" campaign in the second half of this year in a bid to strengthen Party-people ties.

The mass line campaign was officially launched at a meeting of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee in June. Party General Secretary Xi Jinping said in his speech at the meeting that the campaign will be a "thorough cleanup" of undesirable work styles. He said the campaign was a crackdown on the "four forms of decadence", that is, "formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance".