"Leadership Digest" July 2024
High-end interviews
Party discipline: Integrate into daily life and grasp it regularly
——Interview with Huang Weiding, an expert in party building research and a researcher of Qiushi magazine
◇ Jing Yu (Special Reporter of this magazine)
In April 2024, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice on Carrying out Party Discipline Study and Education in the Whole Party". The circular stresses that it is necessary to organize party members, especially party-member leading cadres, to conscientiously study the "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China", and pointed out that the main goal to be achieved in the study and education of party discipline is: "to further strengthen the sense of discipline, strengthen self-restraint, improve immunity, enhance political determination, discipline determination, moral determination, and resistance to corruption, and always be loyal, clean and responsible." ”
How do you view the significance of this ideological education? What are the manifestations of the so-called concentration? How do you think about the importance of political determination? What do you think about strengthening discipline? What is the core of it? Why is it important? How to improve and enhance discipline in "integrating into daily life and grasping on a regular basis", and what improvements have been made to the "Regulations"? How to view the requirement for party members and cadres to enhance the "four forces" through discipline education and settle on "always be loyal, clean and responsible"? In response to these problems, the special reporter of this magazine interviewed Huang Weiding, an expert in party building research and a researcher of Qiushi magazine.
Highlights
01 Deng Xiaoping's difficult voyage to the United States for the first time / Xu Bailing
January 28, 1979 is the Spring Festival for Chinese. Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, who led the Chinese Government delegation on a goodwill visit to the United States of America, boarded the Boeing 707-2406 special plane of the Civil Aviation of China. The flight route departed from Beijing, stopped in Shanghai, passed through Anchorage, and finally arrived in Washington, D.C., with a planned 16-hour flight.
02 Cold thinking on artificial intelligence / Zhu Rongsheng Wang Hao
At the beginning of this year, OpenAI released the Wensheng video model Sora. Judging from the introduction of OpenAI's official website, Sora can generate a virtual video that plays smoothly based on the text entered by humans. This advancement in Wensheng video technology has once again stimulated a discussion about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on human society. While public opinion is hotly discussing the bright future of the AI era, it is also worried about whether human society has enough capacity and resilience to adapt to technological changes. This feeling of anticipation and anxiety has long accompanied the discussion about the development of AI technology and its implications.
03 The formulation of the "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention for Party and Government Cadres" / Zhu Yan Bai Jinbo
The broad masses of party members and cadres should be very familiar with the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention" of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, but I am afraid that few people know that our party has specially formulated a "three major disciplines and eight points of attention for party and government cadres."
04 Flight in a Hurricane - Churchill's Eloquence / Zhou Zexiong
Winston Churchill, who wrote more history than most professional historians, boasted to Oxford professor Keith Fayling: "I can form armies of the ghosts of the dead and recreate their glittering images." "Yes, he can also form ghost armies in English and let them charge into battle in the imagination of the people.
05 Sima Guang's change of attitude towards Wang Anshi / Zhao Dongmei
Sima Guang watched as Wang Anshi drifted away from his original position. "Change customs, legislate", open up the way of speech, quote gentlemen, and cheer up morale, this is Wang Anshi's original statement. Sima Guang agreed. However, Wang Anshi's tone became so fast, so fast that Sima Guang couldn't come back to his senses. He said that "quoting gentlemen" was when he first came to power on 3 February, but on 21 March, he said: "If you want to manage your finances now, you must promote capable people." When virtue and talent cannot be both, Wang Anshi chooses to give up virtue and take talent.
06
A good CEO is a spring/[American] Jack Welch
Management, knowing when to intervene and when to let people do it, is purely a decision that requires courage. Having the right people do the right thing is far more important than developing a new strategy. This tenet applies to any business.
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