Li Hongfeng: Holding up the banner, gathering the hearts of the people, educating new people, and rejuvenating the image of the cultural exhibition is a major task of propaganda and ideological work in the new era
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General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the National Conference on Propaganda and Ideological Work in 2018 is a programmatic document with long-term guiding significance. The important task of raising the banner, gathering the hearts of the people, cultivating new people, and rejuvenating the image of cultural exhibitions put forward in the speech is a major task of propaganda and ideological work in the new era, as well as a major task of the whole party in the new era. Raising the banner, gathering the hearts of the people, educating new people, rejuvenating culture, and displaying the image are five in one, which must be understood and fully implemented. With regard to gathering the hearts of the people, we should think from the perspective of the overall situation of the work of the party and the state, and talk about the nine-point experience, or the nine-point viewpoint.
The first point
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a great political party that stands tall in the sky. The top of the sky is the heaven of Marxism, and the standing earth is the land of the Chinese. Our party was established because of the needs of the people, and it has grown and developed among the masses of the people. The masses of the people are the source of our party's strength and the foundation of its victory. Our party's ruling position is formed by history and is also determined by the party's nature and purpose. In June 1973, Comrade Mao Zedong met with Traoré, the head of state and prime minister of Mali. Traoré said that we people in the Republic of Mali think that you are a genius, and the only genius ever. The French taught me that Napoleon was the only genius of all time, but I think that Napoleon is less than one-third of Chairman Mao's contribution to the world. Mao Zedong shook his head and said, you too high. I am a genius of the land, and the land is the land. It is all the experience of the masses of the people, and I have made a summary. Without the people, nothing can be done. The most fundamental point is that our party is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the vanguard of the Chinese people, and the vanguard of the Chinese nation and the Chinese nation, and our party represents the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, the direction of progress of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the Chinese people. The theory of the Communist Party is the theory of the people, the line of the Communist Party is the line of the people, the direction of the Communist Party is the direction of the people, and the practice of the Communist Party is the practice of the people. In the words of Comrade Mao Zedong, the Communist Party is a political party that seeks the interests of the nation and the people, and it has absolutely no selfish interests in itself.
The second point
Upholding the dominant position of the people and closely relying on the people to create great historical undertakings has always been the fundamental foundation for our party to be invincible. In July 1992, when reviewing the draft report of the 14 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: The merits mentioned in the report must be placed within the scope of collective leadership. It can reflect that I am the main body, but it is by no means a single person's brain can drill into something new. Who invented the township enterprise, no one has proposed it, and I have never proposed it, but it suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and it developed very quickly and achieved quick results. The household responsibility system was also first proposed by the peasants. This is the wisdom of the masses, the wisdom of the collective. My credit is for summarizing these new things and promoting them. Don't go too far into the role of the report for me, one person, a few people, can't do such a big thing. Serving the people wholeheartedly is the fundamental starting point and end goal of all our party's actions, and is the fundamental symbol that distinguishes our party from all other political parties. The essence of the leadership of the Communist Party is to support the people as masters of the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the great call of not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission, that is, he hopes that the Chinese Communists will never forget the people, do not forget the historical materialist principle that the masses are the real heroes and the people create history, that is, he hopes that the whole party will always remember the lofty historical mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and will always breathe and share a common destiny with the people. Heart to heart, always take the people's yearning for a better life as the goal of struggle, and strive for the realization of the strategic arrangements and strategic deployment of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the grand goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way with a never-slackening mental state and an indomitable attitude of struggle.
The third point
Maintaining the closest ties with the broadest masses of the people is our party's greatest political advantage. In June 1944, a delegation of 21 Chinese and foreign journalists, mainly American journalists, came to Yan'an. Among them, the American journalist Foreman wrote a book "Report from Red China" after six months of interviews in Yan'an and Jinsui anti-Japanese base areas. In the book, he begins by saying: "Most of us journalists are not communists, nor are we sympathizers of communism. After describing a large number of facts that he had seen with his own eyes, he said with emotion: "Anyone who has seen the Eighth Route Army will not doubt them, and the reason why they were able to persist in the War of Resistance against Japan with captured weapons or homemade rudimentary weapons was because they stood with the people." "The Communist Party is considered to be the most disciplined, the most moral, with a line and policy that best suits the aspirations of the masses. Our party regards the issue of its attitude toward the masses of the people and its relationship with the masses of the people as the fundamental issue of socialist politics with Chinese characteristics. Putting people first, ruling for the people, and taking the people as the center is the foundation and essential requirement of a Marxist political party. Communist Party members must put the people in the highest position in their hearts at all times and under all circumstances. Party cadres must not reverse the relationship between public servants and masters at any time and under any circumstances. Party committees and governments must uphold the fundamental bottom line of the people at all times and under all circumstances.
The fourth point
Determined by the nature and purpose of our party and also by the road our party has traversed, the mass line is the lifeline and fundamental work line of our party, and is an important heirloom for our party to always maintain its youthful vitality and combat effectiveness. In the past, at present, and in the future, we must persist in doing everything for the masses, relying on the masses in everything, coming from the masses and going to the masses, turning the party's correct propositions into the conscious actions of the masses, and implementing the mass line in all activities of governing the country. In essence, the mass line embodies the basic Marxist principle that the masses of people are the creators of history. The masses of the people are the main force of historical development and social progress. Adhering to the party's mass line is consistent with upholding the party's democratic centralism. The party's democratic centralism is the institutional arrangement and concentrated embodiment of the party's mass line in the party's political life. The whole Party must resolutely safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, firmly implement the Party's political line, strictly abide by political discipline and rules, and maintain a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee. It is necessary to respect the party constitution and strictly implement a number of norms for political life within the party under the new situation. We should improve and implement the various systems of democratic centralism, uphold centralization on the basis of democracy and democracy under centralized guidance, give full play to democracy, be good at centralization and unity, fully arouse the enthusiasm and creativity of the whole party, and strive to create a political situation in which there is both centralism and democracy, discipline and freedom, unity of will, and a lively and lively political situation.
Fifth point
In all our work, we must take the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the highest criterion, and to test the results of all our work, we must ultimately see whether the people have truly benefited from the benefits, whether the people's living standards have been truly improved, and whether the people's rights and interests have been truly guaranteed. All cadres of the party committees and the government, regardless of their positions, are servants of the people, and everything we do is to serve the people. To serve the people, it is necessary to always and everywhere think about the people, plan for the people, and put the interests of the people in the first place. In the party and government organs, efforts should be made to strengthen the education of people-oriented and governing for the people, especially the education on the nature and purpose of the party, the education on the sense of responsibility and service in the new era, and guide party members and cadres to firmly establish the fundamental concept of people-oriented, governing for the people, and people-centered. We must uphold the consistency of being accountable to the people and to the party's leading organs. We must not underestimate the phenomena and harms of bureaucracy and formalism in some leading organs and leading cadres, who are divorced from the masses and reality, who do not care about the weal and woe of the masses, and who harm the interests of the masses, and must take resolute measures to resolve them. In the face of the new expectations of the people for a better life, we must not be complacent or slack, and we must make persistent efforts to ensure that the fruits of development benefit all people in a more equitable manner, and make steady progress in the direction of common prosperity.
The sixth point
The future and destiny of any political party ultimately depend on the will of the people. The human heart is power. A large number of facts have repeatedly proved that the relationship between the party and the masses of the people is the relationship between the minority and the majority, but it is by no means a simple quantitative relationship, and the will, interests, and demands of the majority of the masses of the people influence and determine the trend of historical development. The goal of our party's struggle cannot be achieved without the support of the people. The level of our party's governance and the results of its administration cannot be decided by ourselves, but must and can only be judged by the people. The people are the supreme arbiters and final judges of our Party's work. The greatest danger of the ruling party is that it will lose the trust and support of the masses. If you pride yourself on being wise, if you are detached from the people, or if you are above the people, you will be abandoned by the people. The longer a Marxist ruling party is in power, the more it must pay attention to understanding the people's feelings, and the more it is at a turning point in history, the more it must pay attention to grasping the people's wishes. If it is said that comprehensively and strictly administering the party and fighting corruption have been the biggest highlights of the whole party's work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, then building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and benefiting the people's livelihood should become the greatest focus of the whole party's work at present. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the socialist system in concentrating forces to do great things, concentrate on solving the outstanding problems that the masses are most looking forward to, most anxious about, most worried about, and most resentful, concentrate on solving outstanding problems such as education, medical care, employment, social security, housing, etc., and concentrate on solving outstanding problems that harm the interests of the masses, such as food and drug safety, land requisition and demolition, safe production, and the ecological environment. The interests of the masses are no trivial matter, and this is a major principle of the Communist Party's ruling power, which must be properly resolved by combining theory with practice.
The seventh point of view
Mastering ideological education is the central link in uniting the whole party in the great political struggle. It is necessary to do a good job of ideological and political work among the masses in a thorough and meticulous manner, clearly explain to the masses the party's line, principles, and policies, and the practical difficulties facing the work of the party and the government in a reasonable and rational manner. It is necessary to integrate the solution of practical problems with ideological and political work. The broad masses of the people are the most practical and the most reasonable. In 1952, Chairman Mao, the representative of the Central Condolence Group, returned to Jiangxi to visit the people of the Soviet District, an 86-year-old man, who walked 80 miles of mountain roads to meet the head of the condolence group. When he learned that the old man's two sons had died in the ranks of the Red Army, the regiment commander asked the old man, "Old man, what do you need our help with?" The old man said, I don't need help, I just want a portrait of Chairman Mao. Why is "the sun the reddest and Chairman Mao the closest"? Because in the eyes of the common people, Chairman Mao represents the Communist Party and the image of the Communist Party that "solves the problems of the masses' production and livelihood, the problems of salt, rice, housing, clothing, giving birth to children, and all the problems of the masses." This story is still deeply moved by our reading today. In the new era, we must carry forward the fine tradition of our party's ideological and political work, reap the touches of the new era through our work, and turn the consciousness of the party and the state into the consciousness of all the people, the self-confidence of the party and the state into the self-confidence of all the people, the will of the party and the state into the will of all the people, and the goal of struggle of the party and the state into the goal of struggle of all the people, so that we can continue to advance from victory to victory.
The eighth point of view
The people have faith, the country has strength, and the nation has hope. In order to establish faith in the country and the people, it is necessary to guide the broad masses of party members, cadres, and the masses of the people to take a correct view of the overall situation, the situation, and the gaps, and especially the difficulties at present. We Communists are famous for not being afraid of difficulties. We attach importance to all difficulties tactically and despise all difficulties strategically. The comrades of the whole party and the people of the whole country must fully estimate the various difficulties that may and will inevitably be encountered on the road ahead, and be prepared to overcome all difficulties in a planned way with indomitable perseverance. There is no straight road in the world, be prepared to take the winding road and don't be greedy. The future is bright, but the road is tortuous. It was so, it is now, and it will be so. Again, Comrade Mao Zedong's remark that the arguments of stopping, pessimism, inaction, and complacency are all wrong. Standing on a vast land of more than 9.6 million square kilometers, sucking in the cultural nutrients accumulated by the Chinese nation through its long struggle for more than 5,000 years, and possessing the mighty strength of more than 1.3 billion Chinese people, we have taken the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, have an incomparably broad stage of the times, have an incomparably profound historical background, and have an incomparably strong determination to move forward. This is the positive energy of the Communist Party of China, the positive energy of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. This is the fundamental material and ideological and political foundation for us to build China's self-confidence and Chinese faith.
The ninth point of view
The key to running China's affairs well lies in the party. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the core of leadership of the people of the whole country. The most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China. The party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for realizing and developing the people's interests. In the new era, the most important and fundamental interests of the people are embodied in a concentrated way, and it is the great leap forward to make the Chinese nation stronger. This is the aspiration of the party, the army, and the people, and it is also a new great revolution that is more extensive, more profound, and more arduous. The whole party should unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, always maintain the rock-solid unity of the whole party, always maintain the rock-solid unity between the party and the people, and always maintain the party's strong creativity, cohesion, combat effectiveness and leadership appeal, and coordinate the promotion of the overall layout of the "five-in-one" and the coordinated promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout. Perseverance and resolute implementation of the strategic arrangements and strategic arrangements made by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, to achieve the three historical tasks of promoting modernization, completing the reunification of the motherland, safeguarding world peace and promoting common development, and to win a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, to win the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! (This article was written in 2018)
[Li Hongfeng: Speaker of the Chang'an Street Reading Club, Head of the Discipline Inspection Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Former Ministry of Culture]
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