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Here are the key reports and articles from the People’s Daily’s edition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.Page 1: The full text of the “Detailed Rules for the CPC’s Work on Developing Party Members” have been published in the paper today. These first came into effect in May 2014 and were subsequently amended on April 2, 2026, by the Politburo Standing Committee before being promulgated on May 11, 2026. This is basically a guideline of the process by which the Party accepts new members.Let me compare the two documents to get a sense of what’s changed.Article 1: The 2014 document said that these rules were aimed at “standardising the work of developing Party members”; the 2026 document talks about “standardising” and “strengthening” that work.Article 2 has big changes: In 2014, it said that the new recruits by grassroots organisations must have “Marxist beliefs, communist consciousness, and convictions of socialism with Chinese characteristics” and they must “consciously practice core socialist values”. 第二条 党的基层组织应当把吸收具有马克思主义信仰、共产主义觉悟和中国特色社会主义信念，自觉践行社会主义核心价值观的先进分子入党，作为一项经常性重要工作. The 2026 document says that the Party’s members are “the vanguard of the Chinese working class possessing communist consciousness” and those who get in must have “faith in Marxism, communist consciousness, and belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics…deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the ‘Two Establishments’, strengthen the four consciousnesses, enhance the four self-confidences, and achieve the Two Safeguards” and “consciously practice the core socialist values”. 第二条 中国共产党党员是中国工人阶级的有共产主义觉…