[The Lord Father laughs and flies] Making a wedding dress is also happy

Good papers and excellent journals are mutual achievements, and good editors and excellent authors are also interdependent. Be a happy bridal dresser, and the colorful clothes you weave will also reflect your own beauty.

It has been 18 years since I stepped into the editorial board of World Economics and Politics. At the window of the editorial office always stands quietly a green tin cabinet that is old enough to enter the museum, and with its earnest gaze, I witnessed the gradual disappearance of Shaohua and the early birth of Huafa. Outside the window, the cars on Chang'an Avenue are like flowing water streets like rivers, and the deceased are still like si. I still remember the sunny days when I first joined the company, the freshness and vigor of "and trying new tea with new fire" - the teachings of the previous teachers, the help and support of comrades as warm as the new spring, accompanied by the fragrance of ink in the new periodicals, engraved in my growth and maturity rings.

The position of editor is like being a woman in a wedding dress, needle and thread, trivial and trivial, wispy, square inches, a bright cloak hanging on the body of others, when he was young, he was tired and troubled, and his heart felt a little sad - the editor is to make a wedding dress for people, work hard for half a day, the result is someone else's, the mistake is their own, the mood fluctuates, and the will is depressed. But step by step, counting like smoke in the past, that pen modification, proof after proof, repeating day by day, round after round superposition, "the grass does not thank the glory of the spring wind, the original does not complain about the autumn", finally silenced my impetuousness, let me suddenly feel - geese across the sky, the wind is light and cloudy.

Isn't making a wedding dress for someone a voluntary choice? If you don't like behind the scenes, you can choose to stand in front of the stage; but since you have chosen it, you must correct your mentality and do your duty to make a suitable, comfortable and beautiful wedding dress. When the author puts on our sewn wedding dress, attracts the admiring eyes of many guests, and obtains the happiness of life, even if we are behind the scenes, when silently watching the touching scenes, will we not be sincerely happy? What about not being in front of the stage? How many people in this world are focused on the bright light to become dazzling protagonists? The fact is that there are always fewer protagonists and more supporting roles. Everyone often pays attention to the bright side of the protagonist, but unconsciously ignores the hard work, sweat and even tears behind them. Who's to say that makeup artists, photographers, and supporting actors aren't important? How many people are doing their duty behind the scenes and giving silently? What job is not the result of the combined efforts of many people? To take the simplest example, whenever we happily get on the high-speed train, plane, or car to reunite with our families during the Chinese New Year's Festival, which driver and flight attendant is not giving up the opportunity to meet with his relatives in order to complete the passengers? Their sincere smiles and warm service from beginning to end make every passenger feel at home, when have you ever heard them pull you up and complain? Complaining will definitely make you pay a lot.

So, since you've made your choice, you're responsible for it. Whether it is in front of the stage or behind the scenes, think clearly before making a decision, do not choose to edit for many other purposes, but you are unwilling. The author has the responsibility of the author, the editor has the responsibility of the editor, although there is overlap, but it is more different. Looking at the author as a "protagonist", thinking that the editor is just an insignificant "supporting role", which leads to a change in the mentality of the work, always complaining about the world and even passively slacking off, I think it is very important because the understanding of the profession of editor is not comprehensive enough.

As an editor, you must first establish the awareness that the editor serves the author. As the saying goes, "It is difficult for a woman to cook without rice." For journals, there is no doubt that "rice" is the author's paper. Without rice under the pot, the "pot" of the journal cannot be made into "rice", and readers are "starved" because of this. On the one hand, it depends on the author's academic level and writing ability, that is, whether it can provide high-quality papers with views, innovations and standards, which is the most fundamental; on the other hand, it is related to the relationship between editors and authors. The reason for this is that: First, the editor's suggestions for the revision of the paper will help the author to improve the paper, improve the standard of the paper, and make the paper more academic value and practical significance. The technical treatment of the paper not only corrects the mistakes in the details, including knowledge points and writing norms, but more importantly, the editor has a stronger political acumen, ensures the political orientation of the paper from the perspective of editing and publishing, unifies the correct political direction and academic orientation, and integrates politics in academia, and finally presents to the reader the fine academic achievements with correct thinking and academic soul that can be read for a long time. Such a modification is convincing to the author, which can make the author trust the magazine and the editor, so as to attract them to remember to continue to submit high-quality manuscripts to the magazine in the future, forming an excellent source library for the magazine. Second, in the process of communication with the author, the sincere, serious, meticulous and patient attitude of the editor is undoubtedly a kind of "soft power". The final publication of an excellent paper is to go through many rounds of polishing for a long time, and the editor is not arrogant and impatient, and provides the author with the space to improve the quality of the paper as much as possible. This kind of repeated communication and exchange can reflect the editorial department's revision suggestions more clearly and clearly, help the author to broaden his thinking, increase the depth, make the author's grasp of the problem more in place, and the author will therefore have a deep impression and good feeling on the editor and the magazine.

Therefore, good papers and excellent journals are mutual achievements, and excellent editors and excellent authors are also interdependent. Whether the journal has "soft glutinous rice" to make "fragrant rice", and whether the editor can rely on the platform of the journal to obtain further promotion and a broader space for career development, is inseparable from the author. It can be seen that the sense of service runs through the editing work. If you do not recognize this, you will ignore the important value of editing and publishing work and the important responsibilities of the editing profession, and you will not be able to truly treat editing work from the heart, and the result will be "in Cao Ying's heart in Han" style editing.

At the same time, recognize that establishing a sense of service to authors does not mean that editors are inferior. Instead, editors are equal to authors and can be friends. The Decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Strengthening Publishing Work, promulgated on June 6, 1983, pointed out: "Socialist publishing work is the common work of publishing workers and authors and translators, and the relationship between them is comradely mutual assistance and cooperative relations. "Some editors always feel that they are inferior to the author, stand far away when participating in academic activities, nervous when communicating with the author, do not know what to say, and ask the author to ask for a manuscript in a low voice, which is not necessary." Although we are emphasizing the need to be scholar-type editors at present, we must have an objective understanding of this. First of all, the art has a specialty, people's time and energy is also limited, the editor will be greatly restricted by his own work, the editing work is demanding, the operation is detailed, and the editor is bound to make a lot of efforts to be competent. In this case, it is not easy to balance the relationship between academic research and editorial work. However, most of the current editors have high academic qualifications, have their own familiar professional fields and have the corresponding research capabilities, and many editors are researchers who are concurrently, just because of the close arrangement of editing work, personal research is affected to a certain extent, but this does not mean that the editing skills are inferior, and the editors cannot be arrogant and ashamed. Second, we must have a proper understanding of "scholar-type editors" and avoid falling into the "scholar-type editor = publishing academic papers (works)" mentality. Actively participating in academic conferences and in-depth exchanges with authors are all important manifestations of "scholar-type editing". Editors should have self-confidence, because it is precisely because the editor does not hesitate to provide pertinent opinions, positive suggestions and meticulous revisions, the expression of the paper's ideas is more sufficient, the framework is more reasonable, the expression is more fluent, the academic is more standardized, the layout is more beautiful, the problems and errors in the paper will be eliminated before the official publication, and the reader can see a good article full of academic nutrition, and be inspired and guided from it. Each issue of the magazine is the result of the joint efforts of the editor and the author, and the neon dress is complete, full of wisdom and painstaking efforts of both sides.

This shows that the goals of the author and the editor are the same, both in order to present the paper to everyone in the best possible posture. As the first reader of the paper, the editor plays an irreplaceable and unique role in the number of polishing the paper and finally publishing from the aspects of editing experience and academic literacy. Hurry up and abandon the idea that "all day long, busy, hard work, just to make a wedding dress for people, want to make people hurt"! Seeing that a beautiful wedding dress is completed, exquisite workmanship, generous style, and exquisite materials, why not be proud from the bottom of my heart? Why do we have to emphasize the hard work of the process? The spirit of editorial craftsmanship is embodied and recognized from it, and the results are good, and that is enough.

The report of the Nineteenth National Congress pointed out: "The original intention and mission of the Communist Party of China is to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. This original intention and mission is the fundamental driving force that motivates the Chinese Communists to keep moving forward. A sentence by Mr. He Chengwei, the former editor-in-chief of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group, made me feel very deeply, he said that the original intention of publishing work is to choose valuable content for readers. Paper printing and digital presentation are both forms of our readers. Not forgetting the original intention of publishing workers and keeping in mind the mission of publishing workers is the key to enhancing the soft power of publishing, and it is also the starting point for formulating strategic development. For editors, choosing content for readers is a struggle, a kind of giving, and a kind of enjoyment. At the same time, it is also a responsibility to choose content for the reader. The courage to choose, the courage to take responsibility, this has formed the backbone of the editorial staff. Although many people feel that journals and editors are relatively marginal in this unit, but from another point of view, since the journal exists, it means that the unit and leaders affirm the value and significance of its existence. As for why edge, can we think more about our own reasons? If everyone wholeheartedly treats the editorial work, the journal is prosperous, occupies a place in the evaluation system, wins a good reputation in the academic community, presents profound ideas, has a wide impact, leads the academic frontier, serves the national strategy, and cultivates academic newcomers, I believe that it will blossom inside the wall, and the inside and outside the wall will be fragrant! Find the reason for everything from yourself, and don't blame others at any time. Doing your own career planning instead of complaining about things is an effective and good choice.

I stumbled upon the saying: "Editing is also a profession that requires high emotional intelligence." "I think so. Actively show yourself, go out more to participate in academic and journal activities, take the initiative to communicate with authors, dare to express your own views and opinions, and the authors and academics will have a deeper understanding and recognition of you. Use your brains, use our wisdom to deal with the relationship between editorial work and academic research, handle the relationship between editors and authors and readers, and make yourself a skillful and skilled editor; invest energy and pass on enthusiasm to authors and readers, you are a small universe with unlimited energy.

"The excitement of life is not the focus under the spotlight, but the tranquility of the soul." Sink your heart, respect your choices, and have no regrets about your choices. "Thousands of envy of the West River, once came down to the City of Jinling", adults will reach themselves, plant trees naturally shaded, plant the heart of the magazine, complete the author at the same time, why not complete ourselves!

Be a happy bridal dresser, and the colorful clothes you weave will also reflect your own beauty.