" County Party Committee Courtyard ", I watched several episodes in a row, either in a meeting or on the way to a meeting. I couldn't help but mutter: Are there only meetings left in the "County Party Committee Courtyard"?
Ordinary people are confused, "What's the point of being an official?"
It's not as bad as "In the Name of the People", but it's not as good as " Celadon ".
"County Party Committee Courtyard" is indeed a peaceful and subtle satirical blockbuster.
Those who understand it are either people who have experienced it or people who are in the game.
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officialdom is an ecology.
For thousands of years, Chinese-style officialdom culture has a unique temperament. Throughout the dynasties, despite system changes, economic development, and ideological changes, some things in Chinese officialdom culture have remained unchanged. Part of it is related to the underlying logic of human nature, and part of it is related to China’s fundamental cultural background.
The image of grassroots officials shown in "County Party Committee Courtyard" has received mixed reviews. In their daily work and behavior style, the people have seen a more realistic side of grassroots civil servants. However, this form of display has not entered the common people's understanding of "officialdom".
It should be said that officialdom, in the eyes of the Chinese people, is a high-level ecology composed of power and interests. They hold the right to control and allocate resources, control the development possibilities of a land, and are a circle that ordinary people cannot approach.
Therefore, for ordinary people, they are separated from this circle and have a distance. However, when something happens, such as a child looking for a job or doing something, the first thing that comes to mind is to find connections and trust people. That "person" is the "official".
This is the "dividing" between officialdom and culture that has existed for a long time in history. On the one hand, it makes the common people confused about what an "official" does. On the other hand, it makes the common people look up, guess, and beg because of the distance.
As long as this "separation" is not broken, officialdom can only be a superior ecology to the common people, rather than specific functions, specific affairs, and specific individuals.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" is not very popular, probably because it does not have the thrilling scenes of corruption, power, and dark transactions like "In the Name of the People", nor does it have the profound subtext like "Celadon", where all the officials have become sperms. It uses a real lens to tell the people about the work, image, and behavior of grassroots civil servants:
Our current civil servants are like this, whether they are good or bad, and those who are in their positions will take their seats accordingly. Do the people think that such an official is okay? How to improve?
Then, "County Party Committee Courtyard" may also be a direct dialogue on the monolithic Chinese-style officialdom ecology.
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Interests are the underlying code for interpreting officialdom.
To put it bluntly, the operating rules of the entire world revolve around the competition for resources. The more resources, the greater the benefits. Therefore, whoever controls and allocates resources can make the rules. Most of the rules
are used to protect vested interests, and a small part are used to maintain the management and stability of other groups.
I don’t know if you have noticed that the changes in dynasties in China’s feudal era all revolved around land. In the feudal era, land was the greatest resource. Often the more land is concentrated in the hands of some very small groups, the more power the dynasty will have.
Therefore, the reincarnation of the feudal era was that it prospered with the distribution of land into the hands of most people, and perished with the concentration of land in the hands of a small number of people.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" rarely directly touches on the level of interests, but it revolves around interests from beginning to end. For example, in demolition, a big part of it is about money. For example, local projects are meant to benefit the local area, but it is also a matter of money. The key is how to get this money into the hands of the people, and how to promote the common prosperity of and . In the end, it all falls on the decision-making level, the execution level, the interest distribution level, etc.
Most of the so-called performance projects are the glorious resumes of one term as an official. It is unknown how much benefit they have to the common people.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" focuses its interests on specific projects and specific events. To put it bluntly, it is to put the wisdom and ability of the group that controls and allocates resources on the table, so that people watching the show can learn from their own experience.
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Meeting is an attitude.
There are so many meetings in the "County Party Committee Courtyard". Art comes from life. It is estimated that the number of meetings in reality is only a lot more. So, we can’t help but ask: If we are all in a meeting, who is doing the work?
The person who was really in charge was forced to cry by these meetings, saying, "It's too difficult to do something!"
But why are there meetings?
First, this is attitude, which shows how seriously you take things.
Second, this is a way. Only through meetings can we explain things clearly to everyone. It is an effective way of centralized communication.
Third, this is authority. Only through centralized meetings can the leadership's authority be truly displayed.
But, is this really the case? Not really.
First, is the way to hold meetings correct?
"County Party Committee Courtyard" gives a very dramatic interpretation of the plot of writing a speech to the leader. Indeed, when the leader wants to speak, he wants to convey the spirit of the meeting, but the speech is written by someone below. Could it be that the people below understand the problem to be solved at this meeting better than the leader himself? Or is it that the leader’s writing is not good? unknown.
When a leader reads a speech written by someone else, can he really understand what the person below means?
Second, how to hold a meeting?
The leader will speak and then discuss? Or should we raise the issue after filing a relatively mature case, let the relevant personnel study it thoroughly in advance, and then hold a meeting?
Watching many meetings in "County Party Committee Courtyard", I can't help but feel a little dumbfounded, but this is normal. This kind of normality also exists in many companies. Therefore, it is inefficient and wastes time and will eventually be eliminated.
Third, there are too many meetings, mostly because the decision-makers are incompetent and do not understand the decentralization of power and the establishment of a rights and responsibility mechanism. Then, the executive level cannot implement it. No matter how accountable it is, it feels like it is a slap in the face. Another reason is that there is no follow-up supervision mechanism.
There are many meetings. To put it bluntly, it is formalism. It is a good opportunity for some people to take advantage of it. Because if we are all in a meeting, we all have responsibilities.
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We have been exposed to history since we were young, reading history textbooks and taking exams. However, we have not really read history.
Most of us are trying to remember historical events and historical timelines. It seems that the more I remember, the more history I read.
In fact, we only know some fragments and know what happened in which year. We never seem to know why these things happen, and the underlying rules and patterns behind the rise and fall of changes throughout history.
From this perspective, our history education has failed.
Knowledge, if it cannot be used to improve reality, most of the time, it just takes up brain memory in vain.
"County Party Committee Courtyard" has a subtle and gentle satirical style. It feels like it is trying to mess with "In the Name of the People", but it is more down-to-earth. After all, the kind of trouble-making and turbulent officialdom most of the time only belongs to the top of the profit food chain.
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