"If you don't eat pears, how do you know the taste of pears?" This is a phrase that Comrade Xi Jinping often said when he went to the grassroots level to investigate.

The words are very simple, but they show the usual work style of the Chinese Communists - "no investigation, no right to speak."

Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the "Work Plan for Investigation and Study in the Whole Party," pointing out that the CPC Central Committee has decided to make investigation and study in the whole party an important part of the thematic education carried out in the whole party, so as to promote a good start in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

Investigation and research is the basic skill of doing a good job in all work, and it is also Xi Jinping's consistent insistence for many years: as the secretary of the county party committee in Zhengding, Hebei, he traveled to all villages; In Ningde, Fujian, he served as the secretary of the prefectural party committee, where he advocated "four grassroots levels" and went deep among the masses; As the secretary of the provincial party committee in Zhejiang, he investigated 90 counties and municipalities in the province...

Opening the "Zhijiang New Language", the first article is about how to carry out investigation and research. In this short article, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, demanded that in the investigation work, we must maintain a realistic and pragmatic style, and strive to work depth, truth, detail, accuracy and efficiency.

This letter was written in 1984.

One day at the end of March, leading members of the four leading bodies of the Zhengding County CPC Committee, the Standing Committee of the County People's Congress, the county government, and the county CPPCC received a letter with the same content at the same time. In the letter, "pay attention to investigation and research," "focus on grassroots units and reality," and "conduct real investigation and study." Upon receiving this letter, the leaders of the four major groups of Zhengding could not sit still. "Secretary Xi is more real this time!"

Everyone in the county party compound knows that Secretary Xi never sits idly in his office. In the three years of Zhengding, he traveled to 3 townships and 25 villages in the county. Many documents and major decisions formed during this period are related to these investigations.

The wind of investigation and research rose from the compound of the county party committee and blew into the organs and townships. Cadres at all levels rushed headlong to the grassroots level to investigate and study, discover problems, and find solutions.

While the investigation and research were in full swing, Xi Jinping found that in some places, there was a phenomenon of "good news but not bad news" when reporting work. How to hear the voice of more people? How to better accept the supervision of the masses and understand the real public opinion? Soon, he came up with a new method: "Conduct questionnaires!" ”

In early October 1984, 10,5600 polls were printed. In addition to these questionnaires being distributed to all townships and units, Xi Jinping proposed to "go to the street"! The first questionnaire survey in the history of Zhengding County was officially launched.

"Public opinion survey form", someone took the watch and read it out loud, knowing what was going on, he took the initiative to come in front of Xi Jinping to pull the conversation. After a while, more and more onlookers grew. Xi Jinping invited everyone to sit down and talk, ask for opinions on the spot, and answer everyone's questions.

After the questionnaire was collected, the county party committee and the county government organized a special team to conduct classification and comprehensive analysis, and wrote a special report. On the basis of extensively soliciting the opinions of the masses, the Zhengding County CPC Committee initially formulated the county's 1985 work plan and <> major tasks to be done urgently.

Such a story is paved with the process of Comrade Xi Jinping's local work -

As soon as he took up his post in Fuzhou, Xi Jinping opened the way with investigation and research and deeply thought about development. From April 1990 to May 4, he spent more than two-thirds of his time researching and thinking at the grassroots level. Under his promotion, Fuzhou City designated March of each year as the month of investigation and research, promoting the style of research and promoting scientific decision-making.

He led the vast number of cadres to "worship practice as a teacher and the masses as a teacher," and spent half a year through 20,3 answers, 8,20 investigations, and 3820 arguments, and after several discussions and <> drafts, formulated and promulgated the "Fuzhou City's <>-year Economic and Social Development Strategy Plan," and scientifically planned Fuzhou's three-, eight-, and <>-year development goals. This is known as the "<>" strategic project.

When working in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping will arrange research at least once a week: repeated research in Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places, and put forward a series of measures to recreate the new advantages of Zhejiang's system and mechanism; Conducted research in Hangzhou and Ningbo, grasped the relationship between industrialization and urbanization in the process of urbanization, and focused on how to accelerate the construction of large cities with strong radiation and cohesion; He went to Huzhou, Jiaxing and Shaoxing to investigate, and proposed to take Shanghai as the center to accelerate the pace of integration into the economic development of the Yangtze River Delta region... On this basis, the "Eight-Eight Strategy" was formed.

In May 2015, when General Secretary Xi Jinping returned to Zhejiang for inspection, he mentioned that when he was working in Zhejiang, the provincial party committee proposed the "Eight-Eight Strategy", which is not the product of brainstorming, but a development strategy proposed after a lot of investigation and research, focusing on the two key issues of how to give full play to advantages and how to make up for shortcomings.

After working in the central government, Xi Jinping attached importance to investigation and research as always.

At the end of December 2012, Xi Jinping, who had just been elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stepped into the Pacific Bank and sounded the clarion call for poverty alleviation. Since then, he has traveled to 12 contiguous poverty-stricken areas.

"The precise poverty alleviation strategy I put forward was based on in-depth investigation and research." At a meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping recalled that every year and often, he went directly to poor households to see the real poverty and help the real poverty, directly listened to the opinions of cadres and masses in poor areas, constantly improved poverty alleviation ideas and poverty alleviation measures, constantly promoted work, grasped with feelings, and grasped with the commitment to practice the purpose, and finally won the battle against poverty with the joint efforts of the whole party and the whole country.

In order to promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, it has successively visited Chongqing, Lianghu, Jiangsu and other places for investigation, and held three special symposiums; In order to promote the all-round revitalization of Northeast China, he has visited Northeast China for investigation 3 times and held special symposiums 7 times; In order to promote the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, he has successively visited Zhangzhuang, Gansu and Zhengzhou, Henan and held special symposiums... Over the past ten years, General Secretary Xi Jinping's research footprints have spread all over the country, entering communities, enterprises, schools, and scientific research institutes, understanding what the grassroots people think, think and expect, and discovering the pain points, difficulties and blocking points of problems, and only then have they found many specific paths to gnaw off "hard bones" and cross "dangerous beaches".

September 2020, 9, Changsha, Hunan. Pan Jiuren, vice principal of Tashan Yao Nationality Township Central Primary School in Changning City, Hunan Province, who has worked on the front line of grassroots education for nearly 17 years, did not expect to have the opportunity to report to General Secretary Xi Jinping in person and put forward the "30th Five-Year Plan" proposal.

On the same day, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was on an inspection tour in Hunan, presided over a symposium of grassroots representatives.

"The first is the insufficient number of teachers, and there is a structural shortage; Secondly, the conditions are difficult, and good teachers cannot be retained..." Pan Jiuren frankly and frankly said the shortcomings in basic education in remote ethnic areas.

"The problem you reflected is very practical." General Secretary Xi Jinping responded. "Yesterday I went to see the first primary school in Wenming Yao Nationality Township, Rucheng County, the school has teaching buildings, dormitories and canteens, nutritious lunches are free, and the children are very cheerful, indicating that since the reform and opening up, we have basically solved the problem of popularizing compulsory education, but the problem of unbalanced educational resources has become prominent." During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, efforts should be made to solve this problem and study it well. ”

In order to draft the "7th Five-Year Plan" proposals, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over <> such symposiums. The heavy "<>th Five-Year Plan" proposal is precisely under the personal planning of General Secretary Xi Jinping, in the in-depth investigation and discussion, in the discussion and exchange, more scientific and more in line with the public opinion.

Over the past 10 years, the general secretary has been walking non-stop, "opening the way through investigation", discovering problems, understanding national conditions, seeking laws, constantly enriching and developing new concepts, ideas and strategies for governing the country, and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in a vast land and from a broad perspective.

At present, China's development is in a new historical position, earth-shaking changes have taken place in all fields, the tasks of reform, development and stability are complicated, and the domestic and international environment has undergone profound and complex changes. Against this background, the Party Central Committee decided to vigorously promote the style of investigation, that is, to grasp the essence and law of things through investigation and research, and find ways and paths to solve difficult problems.

This year is the first year to implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, and it is urgent to carry out extensive and in-depth investigation and study in order to implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, to find out the existing contradictions and difficulties thoroughly, and to do all work well in a down-to-earth manner.

General Secretary Xi Jinping personally carried out investigation and research, which has deeply inspired and enlightened us——

Following the investigation and study of the general secretary, "we must establish a realistic and pragmatic style, persist in pursuing the truth and the courage to correct mistakes, and proceed from objective reality" and "insist that there is one is one and two is two, and it is both good news and worry, not only the top, not only the book, only the truth";

Following the investigation and study of the general secretary, "we should sum up experience in places where the work situation is good and advanced, and we should also go to places where the masses have many opinions, go to places where work is poorly done, and go to places where there are many difficulties, complicated situations, and sharp contradictions";

Following the general secretary's investigation and study, "understand the people's situation, grasp the facts, find out what the problem is and where the crux is, and come up with practical and hard tricks to solve difficult problems, so that the process of investigation and investigation will become a process of deepening the understanding of the party's innovative theory, a process of maintaining flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, and a process of promoting the development of the cause."

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Investigation and research are the heirlooms of our party, and we must pass them on from generation to generation.

Executive producer丨Geng Zhimin

Producer丨Xinglai

Editor-in-chief丨Ning Lili

Written by 丨 Yang Caiyun

Vision丨Jiang Yuhang

Proofreader丨Cheng Yu