Editor's note:
Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China has handed over an excellent answer sheet to the people and to history.
Now, the party unites and leads the people of all ethnic groups in the country to embark on a new road to take the exam to achieve the second centenary goal.
The history of the "two centenary" goals has intersected. We have started a new journey to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and we are marching forward on the road of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly quoted scriptures, aided the ancients and verified the present, endowed the allusions with fresh connotations of the times, and profoundly explained the spiritual code of the Chinese Communist Party's original aspirations.
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【Interpretation】
"The virtue of a gentleman is the virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of a villain is grass, and the wind on the grass must sway" from "The Analects of Confucius Yan Yuan", which means that the moral quality of a gentleman is like the wind, and the moral quality of a villain is like grass, when the wind blows When it reaches the grass, the grass must fall.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Kangzi, a powerful minister of the State of Lu, asked Confucius how to govern political affairs: "What if you kill the wicked in order to make the virtuous?" Confucius replied, "You govern political affairs, where is the use of killing people? What about the means? As long as you want to do good things, the common people will naturally follow them.” He took the example of “the virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of grass, and the wind on grass” as an example.
From this, the idiom "grass follows the wind" is formed, which is a metaphor for the person above who can transform the people with virtue, and the people's direction will be transformed, just like the wind blows the grass, and the people follow each other.
【Interpretation】
"If you don't lead, you won't follow, and if you don't act first, you won't believe." Leading agencies and leading cadres take the lead in rushing ahead and do it first, thus forming the "head goose effect", which is the key to our party's success.
Whether it is a period of revolutionary war or a period of peaceful construction, it is precisely because there are a large number of heroic models who set an example and take the lead, our party can unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to overcome difficulties and obstacles and achieve great victories one after another.
During the Revolutionary War era, shouting "follow me" and shouting "follow me", although only one word difference, embodies two very different styles of work.
In 1936, when American journalist Edgar Snow visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, he discovered such a phenomenon: in the Red Army, commanders suffered a high casualty rate because they always took the lead and charged forward.
In stark contrast to this, the Kuomintang "upper-level officers and soldiers did not know how to make up for it, and they were lax and restless."
In the end, the "Yan'an style" defeated the "Xi'an style".
The "follow me" style born in the revolutionary war years has become a fine tradition in the course of our party's leadership of revolution, construction and reform, which is reflected in the words and deeds of party members and cadres, and is rooted in the original mission.
After the founding of New China, it was precisely because our party had a large number of heroic models like Jiao Yulu, Gu Wenchang, Yang Shanzhou, and Zhang Fuqing who took the lead and led the people to continue to create new prospects for the development of various undertakings.
In the battle of epidemic prevention and control, the majority of party members and cadres did not forget their original aspirations, kept their mission in mind, and shouted "I am a party member, I will go first!" "I am a party member, come with me!" Attract more forces to unite around the party organization, form a strong synergy to fight the epidemic, and let the party flag always fly high on the front line of the epidemic prevention and control struggle.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a distinctive feature of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core of promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party is to insist on grasping the "key minority" of leading cadres, lead by example, lead the leaders, and establish serious intra-party politics. benchmark of life.
The "Several Guidelines on Intra-Party Political Life under the New Situation" deliberated and adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee pointed out that in the new situation, strengthening and regulating the political life within the Party should focus on leading organs and leading cadres at all levels, and the key is the special emphasis on senior cadres. He is a member of the Central Committee, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
Senior cadres, especially the members of the central leadership, must set an example, abide by the party constitution and party rules, strictly abide by the party's political discipline and political rules, persist in not forgetting the original intention, continue to move forward, and insist on being the first to set an example and lead the way, and set an example for the whole party and the whole society .
In the future, on the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, we will face even more arduous and arduous tasks, and we will also experience many difficulties, obstacles and even stormy waves.
As long as the majority of party members and cadres maintain the style of "follow me" at all times, gather the strength of "follow me", consciously lead by example, and play an exemplary role, we will surely be able to overcome all kinds of risks and challenges on the way forward, and continue to promote socialism with Chinese characteristics. Great things move forward.
(Author Yang Lixin)
(China Central Radio and Television Station CCTV Network)