Discipline inspection cadres from Hexi Town, Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province came to visit Qianlongshan Village. Photographed by Li Xiangyu (People's Vision)

The stone tablet of "seeking truth from facts" on the campus of the Central Party School (National School of Administration). Information picture

The implementation of the strategy of "targeted poverty alleviation", the decision to establish Hebei Xiong'an New Area, and the preparation of the outline of the 14th Five Year Plan...... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, every major decision made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has been the result of adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts, conforming to the wishes of the people, meeting their expectations, and winning the heartfelt support and strong support of the broad masses of the people.

In depth research and first-hand information

The most basic work of seeking truth from facts is to make clear the "facts", that is, to understand and grasp the facts. This requires Party members and cadres to constantly conduct in-depth and systematic investigation and research on the actual situation, master first-hand information, and make their thoughts, actions and decisions truly conform to the objective reality.

How to effectively link poverty alleviation and rural revitalization? In Le'an County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, "financial assistants" are visiting villages to provide farmers with the financial services they need most for development. This is the "prescription" issued by the Le'an County Party Committee and Government after full investigation and learning about the blocking points and difficulties of rural development.

"We have opened a store to sell agricultural materials, but we are short of funds. Can we apply for a loan?" At the party masses service center in Shandang Village, Shandang Town, Le'an County, villagers kept asking Tian Yueming, a credit officer of Shandang Sub branch of the County Rural Commercial Bank and a village "financial assistant".

At the county wide agricultural and rural work conference held last year, Peng Yingui, secretary of the Le'an County Party Committee, said that inclusive finance should sink into the countryside and be deeply integrated into all fields and links of rural revitalization. Soon, how to solve the problem of insufficient rural financial services and how to use modern finance to serve rural revitalization was put on the agenda.

Insist on seeking truth from facts and find out the real needs is the key. The County Rural Commercial Bank mobilized the staff of 17 sub branches throughout the county to take advantage of the rest time to conduct in-depth research on farmers. They go to work during the day and go to their homes at night to understand the demand for financial services of farmers, agricultural operators, large farmers and entrepreneurs returning home.

Focusing on services, innovating financial products and services... An implementation opinion on financial assistants was issued and officially distributed to 16 villages and towns in the county. Since April, the work of dispatching has been carried out. At present, 45 financial assistants have been stationed in the county, covering 80 administrative villages.

In Shandang Village, the village party masses service center arranged a special service window for financial assistants, and set up post boards and service bulletin boards. "With financial assistants in the village, we can seamlessly meet the financial needs of the masses." Kang Baohui, secretary of the village's general party branch, said that not long ago, Minle Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. in the village was in urgent need of funds due to the expansion of tomato planting area of 300 mu. After learning this, the financial assistant immediately guided the person in charge of the company to select appropriate loan products on site and helped the company to implement a credit line of 3 million yuan.

The arrival of financial assistants in the village has narrowed the distance between financial services and the masses. At present, the county also guides financial enterprises to make good use of research results, innovate rural financial products and services, and better help rural revitalization.

In the face of new situations and problems, how can leading cadres make scientific decisions? Persisting in seeking truth from facts is the basic attitude. Only when we know the real situation and the real problems can we make the right decisions to solve the problems and benefit the people.

Follow the mass line, go deep into the grassroots and ask people for advice and needs

Are the policies formulated in line with the expectations of the masses? Can the issued documents be landed at the grass-roots level? To find the answers to these questions, we need to go deep into the grass-roots level and ask people for advice. To adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, we must adhere to the mass line. Only when we fully understand what the masses think and worry about, can policies be more grounded and easy to implement.

In 2019, Dahaitang Village, High tech Zone, Yiyang City, Hunan Province was transformed into Dahaitang Community. Of the 45 communities in the area, 27 belong to non property management communities, which are generally old. In addition, there are only nine full-time staff members in a large community of 19000 people composed of five villages and groups covering a vast area of land. "There is a shortage of money on the account and people on the hand". The masses have many problems, many needs are not met, and community cadres are stretched thin.

A turning point has come. Since the beginning of this year, several new faces from higher authorities have become active in the community. It turned out that Yiyang City carried out the work of cadres contacting and serving the masses, which was led by the Municipal Party Committee Office and specifically responsible by the Municipal Innovation and Culture Office. Each community was required to have city and district units to pair up. From the main leaders of the city and district to the main heads of all departments, they should go into the community and ask the people what they need. According to the arrangement, Gao Hongkai and Huang Feng, cadres of the Publicity Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and Liu Jian, cadres of the Organization and Industry Bureau of the High tech Zone, became the liaison cadres of Haidatang Community.

How to find a breakthrough to solve the community's problems and various problems reflected by the masses? They decided to carry out "knock on the door" and spent nearly a month, from 7:00 to 9:30 every night, holding small notebooks and listening to the demands from door to door.

The problem of sewer piping in Haitang Yincheng Garden Community is a long-term "pain point" for residents. Once piping occurs, fecal water and sewage will flow across the yard, which has received a great response from the masses. As a joint unit, the Publicity Department of the Municipal Party Committee convened a multi department meeting in accordance with the working system of contacting and serving the masses, and soon came up with a reconstruction plan with an investment of 600000 yuan to thoroughly solve the troubles that have plagued residents for many years.

In recent years, some places have also adopted a pragmatic attitude to deal with the formalistic problems that the masses detest, and have taken practical measures to solve the practical problems reflected by the masses.

"In the past, the call to the police to find the owner to move a car accounted for 1/3 of the traffic police in the city." Yuan Yanjun, deputy leader of the traffic police brigade of the Liuyang Public Security Bureau in Hunan, said that in the face of driving difficulties, parking difficulties and aging problems, the relevant departments have also proposed measures, but the problem has been hanging in the air.

"We didn't know exactly how many resident vehicles there were in the urban area and how many parking spaces there were in the area," said Yuan Yanjun. The traffic police department, street and community cadres spent nearly a month counting parking spaces in the community and garage. Using the big data of relevant maps and the cameras of road checkpoints, it is calculated that there are about 97000 resident vehicles moving in the urban area for four consecutive weeks. There are about 80000 parking spaces of all kinds, and the demand distribution of parking spaces in the urban area is also well known.

The apparent problem is traffic jam and disorderly parking, but the root problem is that more than 10000 vehicles have no parking space for a long time. Once the problem is found out, there will be a solution. Liuyang City has increased the construction of public parking lots, and it is expected to build more than 1000 parking spaces in 2021. In addition, on the basis of investigating the actual needs of the masses, the city has increased the reform of urban and rural public transport integration. At present, more than 200 public transport vehicles in the city go between urban and rural areas to solve the travel problem of rural people.

To solve the problem of policy "hanging in the air" and "acclimatization", Party members and cadres must go to the masses, listen to the voice of the people and visit the people. Only by following the mass line can we truly seek truth from facts.

Emancipate the mind, use the brain, and constantly innovate the concept of development

Insisting on seeking truth from facts will inevitably require emancipating the mind and forging ahead. In order to keep pace with the changing internal and external situations and conditions, we must break through the shackles of backward traditional concepts and subjective prejudice.

Over the years, the change of Shatu Village, Qiaotou Town, Chengmai County, Hainan Province is the result of the cadres and the masses' insistence on seeking truth from facts and constantly emancipating their minds.

Walking into Shatu Village, you can see the huge sweet potato sculpture. In front of us, this beautiful village with more than 800 small western-style houses used to be "covered with dirt on sunny days and muddy on rainy days".

There is a reason for poverty. In the past, the villagers mainly planted rice, but the water and fertilizer conservation in river and sand land was very poor, and the planting efficiency was not high. Young people went to cities to work, and large areas of land were abandoned.

"If the village wants to develop, the old way will not work." Wang Wenke, the village secretary and the director of the village committee, said that he went around to find ways. He found that although it is not good to grow rice in the sandy land, the quality of planting sweet potatoes is particularly good. Knowing that urban people have a large demand for high-quality agricultural products, Wang Wenke decided to take the villagers to have a try.

The villagers are not enthusiastic: "Our ancestors all planted sweet potatoes, and no one has made a fortune." "Sweet potatoes are used to feed pigs and brew wine. How could it be possible to rely on them to become rich?" These statements did not stop Wang Wenke, but gave him a wake up call. After investigation, he found that the yield per mu of sweet potato planted by villagers was low and the selling price was low, mainly because of the poor variety. After repeated investigation, Wang Wenke found a variety with good taste, sweetness, appearance and fiber content.

After finding the seedlings, Wang Wenke began to do ideological work door-to-door, persuaded five villagers to adjust 200 mu of land to work together. Scientific planting has brought rich returns. In the first year, villagers have made money and joined in one after another. 200 mu, 1700 mu, 2600 mu... The planting area has increased year by year, and now the whole village has planted nearly 20000 mu.

With the increase of planting area, a new problem arises - high yield but low harvest. Chengmai County proposed to "enrich farmers with trademarks". Qiaotou Town cooperated with Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences to explore a set of strict standardized planting process. Shatu Village registered the trademark "Qiaosha", followed by the geographical indication certification trademark "Chengmai Qiaotou Sweet Potato". With the brand and trademark, the name of Qiaotou sweet potato is becoming more and more popular. Small sweet potato has entered the large supermarkets in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places.

"The price of sweet potatoes has gone from 0.8 yuan to 5 yuan per kilogram. By the end of 2020, the sales of sweet potatoes in the whole village will be about 290 million yuan," said Wang Wenke.

By firmly adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts and using their brains, cadres can break through the shackles of original thinking, constantly emancipate their minds, innovate the concept of development, master new skills and methods, and better serve the masses.

Format design: Zhang Fangman

People's Daily (June 15, 2021, 19th Edition)

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