Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 27 (Lv Linghan) "Teng County is very close to Weishan Lake? The fish in Weishan Lake are four nostrils, don’t you know?" This was when Chairman Mao visited Shandong more than 60 years ago. I asked Wang Jide, the secretary of the Tengxian County Party Committee at the time.
Wang Jide honestly answered "I don't know", and later found the answer after consulting historical materials and on-site visits.
Chairman Mao encouraged him to "become a local official, you should understand the history of the place", "If you don't know, say you don't know, and then go to investigate. That's good!"
This is a story recorded in "Mao Zedong and Shandong" by the Shandong Provincial Party History Research Office.
What is revealed behind the story is Chairman Mao's consistent emphasis on investigation and research.
In 1930, Mao Zedong made the famous thesis that "no investigation, no right to speak" when conducting a social survey in Xunwu, Jiangxi.
He has always insisted on coming from and going to the masses, "eyes down" and "willing to be a primary school student". He regards people of different professions, different statuses, and different ages as "respectable gentlemen", and has brought him The staff went to the fields on the outskirts of the city to help farmers plow and plant rice seedlings while doing surveys.
Revolutionaries of the older generation all attached importance to investigation and research.
From the founding of New China to his death in 1976, Zhu De spent almost two to three months or more every year on investigations in factories, mines and rural areas.
When Deng Xiaoping conducts investigations and studies in various places, he always asks for figures and calculates detailed accounts. He said: “In doing things and doing work, we must conduct in-depth investigation and research, and contact the actual problems of the unit to solve problems.” Chen Yun once suggested that the Party Central Committee should make investigation and research as a formulation. The fundamental method of policy and major decision-making, he said: "Leading agencies should spend more than 90% of their time on investigation and research in formulating policies, and less than 10% of the time for final discussion and decision-making is enough."
General Secretary Xi Jinping always attaches great importance to investigation and research work, repeatedly stressing that “investigation and research are the foundation and the way to get things done”, “without investigation, there is no right to speak, let alone decision-making power”, calling on “leading cadres at all levels to take the lead in research , Frequent investigations, leaping down, sinking to the front line", "being grounded and understanding."
For the Communist Party of China, which is about to celebrate its centenary, making good use of the "heirloom" of investigation and research is still the proper meaning of the question of comprehensively enhancing its ability to govern.
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