新有1 Xinhua News Agency Beijing, October 10 Question: Reduce burdens, increase efficiency, focus on practical work, take responsibility and fulfill your responsibilities and open a new chapter - Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Review of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core to rectify formalism at the grassroots level
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Qi, Fan Sixiang, and Dong Boting
Proposal issues are related to people's support and the ruling foundation of the party.
Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has combined the resolution of prominent problems of formalism with reducing burdens for the grassroots level, and has coordinated and promoted it as an important content of the Party’s work style construction. It has explored the new path of the Party’s self-revolution in the new era with new practices. The special working mechanism for rectifying formalism at the central level to reduce the burden on grassroots units has taken effective measures to urge and promote all regions and departments to continue to correct the prominent problems of formalism and bureaucracy, and to release unnecessary burdens for grassroots units.
Reduce burden and increase efficiency, and strive for lightweight equipment. The vast majority of grassroots cadres will let go of their hands and feet to do things and start businesses, use more time and energy to implement and seek development, work hard and forge ahead.
Leading above: The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to it and plans to promote the rectification of formalism and reduces the burden on grassroots
On September 9, 2022, a report entitled "Report on the Work of Reducing the Burden of Formalism and Reducing the Burden of Formalism and Rescuing the Grassroots since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China" was placed on the desk of the comrades attending the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
"Remediating formalism to reduce burdens for grassroots units has become a normalized work for all regions and departments to focus on work style construction, and has become a powerful tool to promote the in-depth development of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party."
The pertinent evaluation demonstrates the solid achievements of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core in rectifying formalism to reduce burdens for grassroots units.
In December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on an article in Xinhua News Agency entitled "New manifestations of formalism and bureaucracy worthy of attention", pointing out that the situation reflected in the article seems to be new, but in fact it is an old problem, which once again shows that the "Four Evils" problem is stubborn and repetitive. Correcting the " Four Winds " cannot stop, and style construction is always on the road.
Fight to the point, hit the current problems, and have a clear attitude.
General Secretary Xi Jinping led the whole party to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on grassroots units with firm determination and strong will.
Staff of the Comprehensive Service Center of Yanjiatun Town, Xiangdu District, Xingtai City, Hebei Province assist the public in filling out relevant forms (photo taken on March 30, 2022). Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zhang Chi)
On April 15, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping set off from Beijing early in the morning, arrived in Chongqing by plane, then transferred to train and changed cars, climbed over mountains and beams, and rushed all the way to Huaxi Village, Zhongyi Township, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County.
Carely inspect the restaurant and the kitchen in primary school; see inside the house from outside the house at the home of poor households; sit together with village representatives, grassroots cadres, poverty alleviation cadres, rural doctors, etc. at the homes of old party members to set policies, talk about changes, and seek development... General Secretary Xi Jinping set an example for the whole party to carry forward a pragmatic style and conduct in-depth investigation and research.
During this inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to resolutely rectify formalism and bureaucracy, so that grassroots cadres can be freed from red tape, mountain and sea of writing, and welcoming and sending.
In 2020, the sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic once caught grassroots cadres off guard. At the critical moment of the fight against the epidemic, signs of formalism and bureaucracy appeared in some areas.
On February 3, 2020, at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping seriously criticized the formalism problems that arise in the fight against the epidemic in some areas -
"Some cities and counties, health and family planning bureaus, emergency bureaus, government offices, county party committee offices, women's federations, education bureaus, Agriculture and Rural Bureaus , etc., each made one or several forms, requiring grassroots cadres to fill in and report them quickly. The contents of these forms are actually almost the same, but no document or department helped townships solve the problem of urgently needed even a mask or a bottle of disinfectant."
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that grassroots cadres should devote more energy to the front line of epidemic prevention and control, rather than using formalism and bureaucracy to increase burdens to grassroots cadres and consume the energy of grassroots cadres in fighting the epidemic.
The clear requirements and warm care have deeply inspired the majority of grassroots cadres.
The village-level agent of Jincun, Lushan Township, Changxing County, Zhejiang Province handles the affairs required for villagers' registration, and the agent will go to the county to handle the affairs for villagers (photo taken on November 20, 2019). Jincun, Lushan Township has set up a special agency window in the village convenience service center to provide villagers with agency and payment services. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yu
From presiding over important meetings to local inspections, General Secretary Xi Jinping often emphasized the need to resolutely overcome formalism and bureaucracy, and conducted profound analysis from all aspects, which not only explained the serious harm of formalism and bureaucracy, but also portrayed many manifestations; it not only clarified the key tasks of rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots level, but also proposed methods and measures to point out the direction for rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots level.
Other comrades of the Central Political Bureau conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the instructions and requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and insist on starting from themselves and starting from their own areas and places in charge. Since 2019, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee has listened to the annual work report on rectifying formalism and reducing burdens for grassroots units every year, and continues to send strong signals of rectifying formalism and bureaucracy, and caring for grassroots cadres and the masses.
The General Office of the CPC Central Committee has continuously issued documents to deploy solutions to the problems of excessive and frequent supervision, inspection and assessment, and excessive traces for grassroots. It clearly put forward the "Year of Reducing the Burden of Grassroots" and make comprehensive arrangements for reducing burdens for grassroots.
The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to it and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s high attention, and the central leadership set an example and set an example, which has given a strong impetus to the whole party to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on grassroots levels and solve problems and difficulties.
System promotion: The central level of rectification of formalism and reducing burdens for grassroots units is focused on rectifying old problems and new manifestations of formalism and implementing
At the front line of major tasks such as rural revitalization and epidemic prevention and control, the vast majority of rural grassroots cadres have combined local realities to make the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee take root. However, in some places, there are also excessive burdens at the grassroots level. "The endless meetings, the endless forms, and the endless inspections" have made grassroots cadres busy.
"Reduce the burden of work affairs of village-level organizations" "Strengthen the village-level work mechanisms and signs"...
In 2022, the "Opinions on Standardizing Work Affairs, Mechanisms and Signs of Village-level Organizations" issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council implemented precise policies to further free village-level organizations and village cadres from the constraints of formalism.
The release of the document is an example of the central government's special working mechanism to rectify formalism and reduce burdens at the grassroots level, and to keep pace with the times to study and draft and promote the issuance of relevant documents.
In March 2019, the Party Central Committee clearly stated that the General Office of the Central Committee shall take the lead, and eight units including the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, the Central Organization Department, the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Reform Office, the Central and State Organs Working Committee, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the General Office of the State Council, the General Office of the State Council, and the General Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference , and the General Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference participated, and established a special working mechanism to specifically be responsible for overall coordination and supervision of rectification of formalism and reducing burdens for grassroots.
A step by step every year.
Special work mechanism strengthens overall coordination, systematically plan and promote various measures to reduce burdens at the grassroots level, and continuously deepens the work.
——Strive to avoid formalism and bureaucracy, we must focus on ideological cracking and vigorously strengthen ideological education.
At the "24-hour government service self-service supermarket" at the Yuquan District Government Service Center of Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, citizens are self-service invoice processing (photo taken on April 2, 2022). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Zhipeng Photo by
9 special topics, including 182 important discussions, excerpted from more than 70 important documents, and published many important discussions for the first time... The "Selected Important Discourses on Strive to Rescue Formalism and Bureaucracy" promoted by the special working mechanism for rectifying formalism at the central level to reduce burdens at the grassroots level has become a compulsory course in cadre education and training and an important content of the theoretical study central group learning at all levels.
In the theme education of "Never forget the original aspiration and keep the mission in mind" and the study and education of party history, we should focus on avoiding formalism and bureaucracy; start from the central and state organs, and carry out a major cleanup of cadres' thoughts and conduct a major investigation of existing problems; vigorously carry forward the great spirit of building the party, carry forward the great spirit of poverty alleviation, the spirit of fighting the epidemic, etc.... The vast number of party members and cadres strengthen theoretical armed forces and continuously enhance their ideological awareness, political awareness and action awareness of avoiding formalism and bureaucracy.
——Strive to avoid formalism and bureaucracy, we must adhere to problem-oriented approach and strive to solve prominent problems that grassroots cadres and the masses have strongly reflected.
With the development of mobile Internet technology, formalism has moved from "office desk" to "fingertips". The distorted "work group" and "government affairs APP" have made grassroots cadres tired of replying.
With the coordinated promotion of the special working mechanism for rectifying formalism at the central level to reduce burdens at the grassroots level, all regions and departments have carried out special rectification of "formalism at the fingertips".
"The most intuitive thing is that the phone has fewer prompts for 'dingding Dangdang'." A grassroots cadre in Danshuichi Street, Jiang'an District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province said that through special rectification, there are fewer cases of "focusing on groups" and "climbing stairs".
When you have strong reactions, you will pay attention to whatever problems are prominent, and you will correct them.
Simplify the document meeting and take real action, define hard levers to take hard measures; coordinate and standardize supervision, inspection and assessment, and implement annual plan management; comprehensively clean up and standardize "one-vote veto" and signing responsibility letters, "a certain chief system" established by following the trend, and creation activities involving urban selection, evaluation and commendation, etc., face the difficulties of grassroots cadres and the masses, and improve the effectiveness of grassroots governance.
——Strive to avoid formalism and bureaucracy, we must improve laws and regulations and strengthen institutional guarantees.
Small wisdom governs affairs, great wisdom governs systems.
In the auxiliary application area of Erdao District Government Service Center, Changchun City, Jilin Province, citizens will fill in the matters with the assistance of staff (photo taken on November 23, 2020). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Chang
The special working mechanism for rectifying formalism at the central level to reduce burdens for grassroots level insists on integrating institutional construction into all aspects of the rectification work process, using reform ideas and methods to treat both the symptoms and root causes, and strive to plug institutional loopholes.
Formulate and revise a number of party regulations and policy documents in terms of intra-party supervision and discipline enforcement, and encourage cadres to take responsibility and act; in rectifying the mountains and rivers of documents and meetings, coordinating and standardizing supervision, inspection and assessment, a method of "establishing accounts, strictly managing, correcting deviations, and reporting" has been generally established from top to bottom; in terms of cleaning up and standardizing government affairs APPs, creating activities involving urban selection, evaluation and commendation, as well as village-level organization work affairs, mechanism signs and certification matters... The establishment and improvement of a series of systems not only ensure that the rectification work is implemented, but also open up paths for more effective rectification.
——Strive to avoid formalism and bureaucracy, we must gather forces from all parties to promote the formation of a good situation of joint management and joint efforts to overcome difficulties.
The special working mechanism for rectifying formalism at the central level to reduce burdens at the grassroots level fully plays the role of leading overall coordination and promoting all member units and relevant departments to combine their respective division of responsibilities to form a working synergy.
All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, based on local actual conditions, have targetedly corrected problems such as many grassroots report records, many villages (communities) listings, increased epidemic prevention and control measures, and formalism in poverty alleviation and rural revitalization through "pull" and "making lists", so that grassroots cadres and the masses can truly feel.
has achieved good results: it has corrected some stubborn problems that have not been eliminated for many years, and has curbed some unhealthy trends that have been plagued by a long time
Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and the joint efforts of all regions and departments, the problems of formalism and bureaucracy in the Party have been curbed and governed to a certain extent. The Party style, political style and social atmosphere have been renewed, forming an important achievement in adhering to the Party’s management and comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the new era.
——The ideological consensus and powerful force to avoid formalism and bureaucracy have been gathered.
What is the effect of reducing burdens? The masses have the right to speak.
In the government service hall of Jiangbei Integrated Development Zone (Harbin Area of the Free Trade Pilot Zone) in Harbin New District, Heilongjiang Province, citizens are handling business (photo taken on July 12, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Tao
The results of the 2022 National Bureau of Statistics’ social situation and public opinion telephone survey showed that 83.8% of the public expressed satisfaction with the situation where their locations and units overcome formalism and bureaucracy, and 75.6% of the public believed that the grassroots burden reduction policy has achieved good results.
Leading organs and leading cadres at all levels have a deeper understanding of the harm of formalism and bureaucracy and are more vigilant, and have built a highly consistent ideological consensus. Grassroots cadres generally feel that leading cadres at all levels now have the string of efforts to avoid formalism and bureaucracy. When considering problems and deploying work, they must think about whether the burden on grassroots level has increased, and the atmosphere of improving work style and improving efficiency is becoming increasingly strong.
——The prominent problems of formalism that are strongly reflected by grassroots units have been effectively governed.
There are many and frequent inspections, inspections, and assessments, and numerous "one votes"... The problem that cadres and the masses most hope to be corrected is to make efforts to rectify.
The rectification of the mountains of documents and meetings has achieved positive results. As of the end of 2021, the number of documents of the central and state organs, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities has decreased by more than 50% compared with 2018, and the number of meetings has decreased by more than 65%. "Turn the sticks" and telling the truth have become the norm, and long meetings have opened short and long stories have become the mainstream.
The number of supervision, inspection and assessment matters of central and state organs, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities has decreased year by year, with an overall decline of more than 90%. Problems such as arbitrary bulls, excessive and excessive frequency have been significantly improved. Supervision, inspection and assessment pay more attention to work performance, more attention to result-oriented, more attention to cadre and masses evaluation, and more attention to helping grassroots solve practical difficulties.
The numerous "vetos" and the signing of the responsibility letter have been cleaned up and standardized, and the total number of matters in central and state organs, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities has decreased by 90% and 73% respectively after the cleanup of matters.
In addition, the "certain chief system" that has been flooding for a period of time, the creation activities involving urban selection, evaluation and commendation, and village (community) mechanism signs have also been cleaned up and standardized, and have been well received by grassroots cadres and the masses.
——Grassroots cadres have more time and energy to implement.
Staff of the Qibao Town Community Affairs Acceptance Service Center, Minhang District, Shanghai (left) introduced the use of smart file cabinets to residents who came to do business (photo taken on March 3, 2021).Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
Cadres of Xingwang Community, Xinyang Street, Haicang District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province said that in the past few years, sometimes he had to travel to several venues a day, and he had to undertake matters such as household gas safety inspections that were not within the scope of the community's responsibilities. "Once, I was woken up by phone at around 11 o'clock in the middle of the night and notified that there was a superior inspection task the next day, so I quickly got up and prepared materials." A cadre said, "Now there are fewer meetings and fewer materials, so community cadres have more time to contact and serve the people."
The "heavy punch" rectification of the Party Central Committee has further freed the majority of party members and cadres from the constraints of formalism and bureaucracy. Many grassroots cadres say that reducing the burden on grassroots is actually a "one reduction and N increase". With less formalism, there will be more time to communicate with the masses and do practical things.
In coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, from intensive care unit to rush to treatment in every second to urban and rural communities to check door-to-door; from overtime production in factory workshops to scientific research laboratories day and night to research, the vast number of grassroots party members and cadres have shown a strong style and good spirit in the front line.
——It has given birth to changes in leadership methods and innovation in work mechanisms.
After the navigation, drive to the place, chatting with the villagers I met in detail...I found that the comrades from Beijing were friendly and easy-going, and the villagers slowly opened up. This is a scene where the grassroots burden reduction observation points survey team conducted research in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province.
The "four nos and two direct" research methods that do not send notifications, do not say hello, do not listen to reports, do not need to accompany and receive, go straight to the grassroots and go directly to the scene have become the mainstream. "Anatomy Sparrow" on-site research and "road office", "front-line work method", "street and township whistle blowing, department reporting" have become normalized methods to solve the urgent and difficult problems of the people on the spot. Using big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technical means to improve work efficiency and enhance service efficiency have become the key exploration directions for changing functions and methods.
In the process of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on grassroots, the work orientation of paying attention to, caring for, and improving grassroots has been further formed, the modernization of grassroots governance system and governance capabilities has been continuously strengthened, the role of grassroots party organizations as a fighting fortress has been continuously highlighted, the system and mechanism of grassroots governance has been continuously improved, and more social resources, management authority and people's livelihood services have been delegated to the grassroots level, and the effect of delegating power and empowering grassroots level has gradually emerged.
While achieving good results, there are still some prominent problems in the current rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on grassroots units. Some formalism problems are still rampant, there are still shortcomings in the construction of the system and mechanism, some places and departments have a slack mentality, and there is still a gap in the implementation of various regulations on reducing burdens at the grassroots level.
Free and work hard for a long time.
Faced with the problem, we must further uphold and carry forward the Party’s traditional style of seeking truth from facts, give full play to the role of the special work mechanism, promote the in-depth development of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on grassroots units, give grassroots party members and cadres more time and energy to implement, and provide a strong style guarantee for the creation of a new situation for the cause of the Party and the country.
Remember the original mission and work hard to make the country prosperous.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, with the determination to keep the horse away from the saddle and never let go of the reins, the tenacity of repeatedly grasping and repeatedly, and the spirit of nailing down the nails to rectify formalism at the grassroots level, it will surely gather the powerful force of the whole party to forge ahead on a new journey and make contributions to the new era, and welcome the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Party with practical actions.
Poster design: Pan Hongyu
