China News Service, March 28th: When a new official takes office, he cannot just burn "three fires"
The mountains are high, the roads are far away and the fields are thin, and the terrain is jagged. In the 1980s, Ningde, Fujian Province, was once known as "old, young, frontier, island, and poor", and its economic aggregate ranked last in the province.
In 1988, Xi Jinping was transferred to Secretary of the Ningde Prefectural Committee. At that time, "building the Fuwen Railway, developing the Sanduao Port, and building a central city" were the "three major dreams" that were hotly discussed in the local area.
Faced with the eagerness of some cadres to lead everyone out of poverty and become rich quickly, Xi Jinping "did not pretend to burn 'three fires'", but instead plunged into the grassroots level and visited 9 counties in eastern Fujian in one month to observe the actual situation.
After extensive and in-depth research, Xi Jinping poured "cold water" on everyone and heated up the "warm fire": the development of Ningde "must be based on reality, do not have thoughts that exceed reality, let alone be impatient", and "do the basic work first."
He regarded "getting rid of poverty" as the main line of his work, and put forward the development idea of "relying on the mountains to sing folk songs, relying on the sea to eat from the sea and reciting the scriptures of the sea", and led Ningde party members, cadres and the masses to "drop water through stone" and "weak birds fly first".
Why can't "new officials" rush to "ignite the fire"?
In the book "Escaping Poverty" published in 1992, Xi Jinping profoundly discussed, "Whether the 'three fires' should be burned, and when is the appropriate time to burn them, all must be based on reality. We must go deeper into the masses, do more research and research, understand the ins and outs of the matter, and then assess the situation, burn it when it should be burned, and never follow fashion and forcefully 'burn the fire' if it should not be burned."
When a "new official" takes office, he must not only act proactively and seize opportunities, but also proceed from reality and act according to rules.
Putting research first and seeking truth from facts have been consistent in Xi Jinping’s political practice.
In Zhengding, he set up tables on the street and took people who came to the market to do investigations; in Fujian, he followed the thorny mountain road cut with a hatchet to "enter the party three times" and took the lead in implementing the "four grassroots level" system; in Zhejiang, he traveled to 11 cities in 118 days and deployed "tens of millions of projects" based on in-depth research; in Shanghai, he vigorously promoted the spirit of truth-seeking and pragmatism, and worked hard on investigations and research…
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that investigation and research are the basis and the way to achieve things. Without investigation, there is no right to speak, and without investigation, there is no right to make decisions.
Why can't "new officials" just burn "three fires"?
When working in Ningde, Xi Jinping often said, "To develop the economy, we cannot rush to burn the 'three fires', but we must 'burn small fires with warm water, and keep burning the fire'."
"You have to work for three to five years. At this time, what matters is not your 'three fires', but your 'over the mountain'" "What we need is a step-by-step practical spirit, and we do not need the speculative mentality of new officials who only burn three fires in the hope of success"… In "Eradicating Poverty", Xi Jinping said this.
Deep thinking contains the dialectics of current and long-term, manifest and latent merit, and demonstrates the view of political achievement that "success does not have to be mine, success must be mine".
From the "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy from 1985 to 2000", to Fuzhou's "3820" strategic project, and then to Zhejiang's "Double Eighth Strategy"… When working at the local level, each strategic plan formulated by Xi Jinping's leadership is a vivid portrayal of "the willingness to do the paving work and the willingness to grasp the unfinished things."
This year is the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, and it is also a critical period for the successive changes of provincial, municipal, county and township leadership teams.
Since the beginning of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the establishment and implementation of a correct view of political performance. "It is good for leadership groups at all levels to be enthusiastic and motivated. The key is that the view of political performance must be aligned." "Starting from this year, local governments will change their positions one after another. We must prevent waiting and inaction as the change approaches, and rush for quick success and quick gains after the change, so as to ensure that a blueprint is drawn to the end."…
At the beginning of the game, it is of far-reaching significance to examine the "three fires" with a correct view of political performance.
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|Planner: Zhou Rui
|Coordinator: Ma Xueling Kan Feng
|Written by: Gao Meng
|Proofreading: Shao Meng and Li Jingtong
|Visual: Xu Yang Lei Yuzhu
|Produced by "Xi Yan Dao" Studio of China News Network
