How to stimulate the enthusiasm of officers to start a business by making moves to "support" cadres in many places?

Beijing, March 3 (Zhongxin Net) -- Strictly punish false accusations and frame-ups, clarify the fault tolerance and exemption mechanism, and promote the implementation of detailed rules for leading cadres to move up and down... Recently, many places have issued a series of policies and regulations, emphasizing the encouragement of cadres and officials to start businesses and support cadres from responsibility. Experts analyzed this, to stimulate the enthusiasm of cadres and officials for entrepreneurship, it is necessary to further improve the scientific and standardized cadre management system.

Data map: Zhejiang Province false report accusation clarification of the name press conference. Photo courtesy of Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection

Conduct research on the entrepreneurial spirit of cadres and officers

This month, the central authorities issued the "Work Plan for Investigation and Study in the Whole Party," which included "insufficient entrepreneurial spirit, inaction, and inaction" in the investigation and investigation.

In Inner Mongolia, responsibility has become an important yardstick for examining and identifying leading cadres. Recently, the General Office of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee issued the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Promoting the Ability of Leading Cadres to Go Up and Down", focusing on the adjustment of cadres who are not suitable for current posts, detailing and clarifying 20 specific situations, and effectively solving the problems of "doing well and doing bad things" and cadres "lying flat" by increasing the intensity of "lowering", and forcing cadres to dare to take on responsibilities and actively act.

Heilongjiang, on the other hand, took special actions from March to the end of December this year to rectify false accusations and frame-ups. Not long ago, the discipline inspection and supervision organs of the province and the public security department issued a circular, focusing on investigating and punishing false accusations and frame-ups that used methods such as fabricating facts and forging materials to report problems, with the intention of causing party members or public officials to be subjected to adverse political influence, loss of reputation, or accountability.

"The purpose of comprehensively administering the party strictly is not to control cadres to death, but to create a political ecology and a good environment for unity and struggle and entrepreneurship through clear direction, establishment of rules, healthy atmosphere, and strong immunity." During this year's National People's Congress and National People's Congress, Ai Juntao, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission and director of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Supervision Commission, said in an interview.

Previously, the Gansu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the "Gansu Provincial Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs Fault Tolerant and Exempt Work Measures", clarifying 12 types of situations that can be fault-tolerant and exempt. Mistakes and mistakes made by Party members and cadres in promoting reform, exploring and innovating, promoting development, solving difficult problems, etc., will be refused, exempted, mitigated, or leniently dealt with in accordance with rules and disciplines and in accordance with law.

The picture shows the day when the written examination of public subjects for the recruitment of civil servants in the 2023 annual examination of the central organs and their directly subordinate institutions was held. Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Lixin

Where did the enthusiasm of cadres go?

Since 2016, Gao Xiang, deputy dean of the School of Public Administration of Zhejiang University, has conducted in-depth research on the enthusiasm of cadres. Her academic paper, "The Hidden Withdrawal of Local Cadres and Its Causes," was published in Peking University Political Science Review in November 2022.

The article compares the lack of enthusiasm of talented incumbent officials who lack enthusiasm for work, neither resign nor speak out, and put forward the concept of "Xu Shuhua of local cadres".

Judging from the research, there are two logics of local cadre Xu Shuhua: "short-term realist" and "long-term idealist". Short-term career choices are influenced by the reality of career rewards, work experience, and work environment; In long-term career planning, they pay more attention to the long-term vision of career returns.

Gao Xiang said in an interview with Chinanews.com that the spirit and value pursuit of traditional Chinese scholars still influence contemporary Chinese officials. "From my observations, many well-educated young talents still have a strong vision for Zhang Zai's 'Four Sentences of Hengqu' - to establish a life for the people, to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to continue to study for the saints, and to open peace for all generations."

A deputy department-level cadre who graduated from a prestigious university said, "The document I drafted will affect the local area for five, ten, or even thirty years, and this sense of achievement (compared to making money) is different." ”

Gao Xiang said that compared with the civil service system of British and American countries, China's requirements for cadres not only emphasize the spirit of public service, but also need to have the enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, including policy innovation and policy reproduction. "In the process of Chinese-style modernization, especially in the process of comprehensively deepening reform, a large number of policies require cadres to exert their talents."

On March 3, Dong'an County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, launched the "Thousand Sails Plan" to select and train outstanding young cadres of the "post-3s". Photo by Yan Jie

How to balance cadre enthusiasm and standardization?

"For talented cadres, it is necessary to keep him enthusiastic about his profession and to talk about norms and abide by rules, and how to balance the internal tension between the two is a problem that urgently needs to be solved from the organizational system." Gao Xiang said.

In 2017, the report of the 2022th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to the combination of strict management and love, pay equal attention to incentives and constraints, improve the cadre assessment and evaluation mechanism, establish an incentive mechanism and a fault-tolerant correction mechanism, and take a clear stand to support and encourage those cadres who dare to take responsibility, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and do not seek selfish interests. In <>, "adhering to the combination of strict management and love" was once again written into the report of the <>th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

In 2022, the discipline inspection and supervision authorities of Hainan Province clarified false reports for Gai Wenqi, secretary of the Wanning Municipal Party Committee, and eliminated the negative impact by holding a meeting to clarify the correct name and public announcements from the media. An article published in the Hainan Daily pointed out that this kind of fanfare has clarified the correct name of a cadre at the level of director of a department for the first time in Hainan.

Zhejiang has also explored ways of clarifying with stronger forms of communication. In 2022, the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision held a conference to clarify the correct name, publicly clarifying 21 party members and cadres from all over the province who had been falsely accused and accused, and announced 10 typical cases of investigation and punishment of false accusations and frame-ups. According to media reports, at that time, the press conference attracted hundreds of thousands of views in the form of online live broadcasts.

In the past two years, Gao Xiang has noticed that the phenomenon of inactivity and inaction of local cadres has changed significantly, which on the one hand shows that all localities have effectively implemented the central policies, and on the other hand, the internal adjustment of party and government organs is also being made.

Not long ago, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Plan for the Reform of Party and State Institutions," calling for streamlining the staffing of the central and state organs. Gao Xiang analyzed, which is also the embodiment of promoting the scientific allocation of government staff and improving the efficiency of government governance. (End)