Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 25th, title: "General Secretary listen to my story"
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Every year at the National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping communicates face-to-face with the deputies and listens to the voices of the people.
The candid and sincere exchanges and interactions time and time again captured the vivid moments of the people's democracy in the whole process, and it is also a true portrayal of the people's leaders and the people's heart-to-heart.
From now on, Xinhua News Agency has opened the "Story of the General Secretary and the Representative Committee" column, which will be narrated by the memory of the representative committee members, showing the profound friendship between the General Secretary and the people.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Qu Ting, Zou Duowei and Guo Jingdan
General Secretary Xi Jinping and representative Zhu Guoping had two close exchanges, both of which were related to storytelling.
The first time was 8 years ago, in the Shanghai Hall of the Great Hall of the People.
At 3:00 pm on March 5, 2014, with warm applause, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the venue to participate in the deliberation of the Shanghai delegation of the second session of the 12th National People's Congress.
Zhu Guoping, Secretary of the General Party Branch of Hongchu Residential Area, Hongqiao Street, Changning District, Shanghai, was one of the delegates.
Everyone sits in an inner and outer circle, and Zhu Guoping sits in the inner circle.
Seeing many familiar faces, the general secretary happily shook hands with the delegates.
When Zhu Guoping arrived, the general secretary affectionately called her "an old representative".
Zhu Guoping was a two-term representative at that time. Hearing what the general secretary said, he felt very warm.
During the deliberation, Zhu Guoping did not hesitate and told the general secretary three stories in 8 minutes: How do ordinary people "rob" school district housing?
How difficult is it to see a doctor in a crowded pediatrician?
How to provide the elderly with decent care?
"In today's hospitals, there are as many people as a train station, and patients from all over the world are 'crowded' to first-tier cities to see a doctor. It is understandable for difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and minor illnesses and pains are really a waste of money..."
Zhu Guoping tells a short story from the parents, and it is also the truth from the grassroots level.
The general secretary listened to the praise and said that telling stories is better than reasoning.
Zhu Guoping knew in his heart that when the general secretary listened to her community representative's storytelling, he was listening to the voices of the people from the grass-roots level, understood the people's sentiments from the grass-roots level, and investigated the public opinions from the grass-roots level.
At that meeting, the general secretary pointed out: "The focus of social governance must fall to urban and rural communities. The stronger the community service and management capabilities, the more solid the foundation of social governance will be."
Zhu Guoping secretly made up his mind: in the future, the work will be done more meticulously, and more "stories" that reflect the people's urgency and longing will be "updated".
After the meeting, community residents praised her as "the king of stories", and Zhu Guoping's "clockwork" was even better.
Residents are ill and hospitalized, and she "must visit" at weddings and funerals; she "must ask" about the elderly in need and those who are re-employed; she "must remember" measures to help the poor and residents' advice... "Small things in big cities" of more than 1,000 families in the jurisdiction, All turned into high-quality suggestions on Zhu Guoping's desk.
On November 2, 2019, Zhu Guoping met the general secretary again.
Near the evening that day, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was investigating in Shanghai, came to Hongqiao Street where Zhu Guoping was located to investigate.
At the Gubei Civic Center, Zhu Guoping stood beside the general secretary and told the story of her "new" from grassroots legislative practice.
In the past few years, Zhu Guoping and the residents have successively participated in the revision of more than 30 laws, including the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, the National Anthem Law, and the Law on the Protection of Minors, and put forward more than 600 various legislative suggestions. .
Zhu Guoping said to the general secretary: "We ordinary people are very happy to see that their suggestions have become a sentence or a word in the law... Residents not only feel the people's democracy from 'zero distance', but also have a sense of ownership. , more legal thinking.”
After a detailed understanding of the work of the contact point, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a major assertion of "people's democracy in the whole process": "We are following a socialist political development path with Chinese characteristics, and people's democracy is a democracy in the whole process."
Zhu Guoping said with emotion: "Our little story is connected with the general secretary's general strategy of governing the country."
In March 2021, the Fourth Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress revised the Organic Law of the National People's Congress, and included "whole process democracy" into this law.
At this time, the retired Zhu Guoping continued the practice of serving the residents and listening to the people's livelihood in the Hongqiao Pingju Studio she established.
This year's National People's Congress is about to be held. Zhu Guoping is sorting out the people's livelihood stories she knows, and is busy preparing to submit a proposal to the conference: How to solve the problem of long-term care insurance assessment for the elderly?
How to manage children's Internet addiction?
Zhu Guoping said: "This 'one old and one small' is the concern of society and the concern of the general secretary. As representatives of the National People's Congress, we must continue to work hard."