The General Secretary’s People-Centered Sentiment: Emphasizing Seeking Truth from Facts, Being Practical and Realistic, and Getting Things Done
Seek truth from facts, be practical and realistic, and get things done to promote the unity of livelihood improvement and long-term development Focus on the public’s urgent, difficult, and anxious concerns, and understand how a correct view of political achievements is translated into concrete results through hard work
The article centers on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important statements on “seeking truth from facts, pursuing truth and pragmatism, and working hard and in a downtoearth manner” on multiple occasions, emphasizing that Party members and cadres should persist in proceeding from reality and focus their work on resolving the pressing difficulties and urgent concerns of the people.
Drawing on cases such as the renovation of old urban areas in Shanghai, housing improvements for urban builders and managers, the fishing ban in the Yangtze River, and the renovation of rural toilets, the article explains that a correct view of political achievements should take benefiting the people as its ultimate goal, and promote the unity of livelihood improvement and longterm development.
The article also points out that adapting measures to local conditions, respecting the laws of development, and opposing formalism are key to doing all kinds of work well. Only by turning scientific decisionmaking into practical action can we continuously enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security.