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The Most Important Thing in Improving the Work Style Is to "Be Earnest"

林学启:抓作风建设最重要的是“讲认真”

· · CPC History & Party Building · Lin Xueqi, Special Researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in Shandong Province, Professor at the School of Marxism, Party School of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the CPC (Shandong Academy of Governance) · Guangming Daily, 16 June 2025, p. 6 · 12 min read

Being earnest is the fundamental work attitude of our Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed that "the most important thing in improving the work style is to be earnest," and that "if one is not earnest, it is easy to be perfunctory and sloppy; even if a problem is right before one's eyes, one will neither see it nor understand it; it is easy to make a show of force; even if one has expended great effort, one may still engage in formalism and go through the motions." These important expositions point out the methodological path for deepening the improvement of the work style, and also provide the fundamental guidance for the current study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations [1]1 This is a quotation from a speech by Xi Jinping on work-style improvement. and for ensuring that the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations takes root. They have extremely important theoretical significance and practical value.

讲认真是我们党的根本工作态度。习近平总书记强调,“抓作风建设最重要的是讲认真”,“如果不讲认真,就容易马虎敷衍,即使问题摆在眼前也看不到、识不透,就容易虚晃一枪,即使花了很大精力也可能搞形式、走过场”。这些重要论述为作风建设持续向纵深推进指明了方法路径,也为当下开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育以及推动中央八项规定精神落地生根提供了根本遵循,具有十分重要的理论意义和实践价值。

1. "Being Earnest" Is a Fine Tradition of Governing the Party

1.“讲认真”是管党治党的优良传统

The improvement of the Party's work style is a systematic project with a long-term and strategic nature; it is a protracted and difficult battle that cannot be accomplished overnight and must be persistently pursued. Over the course of more than a century of struggle, Chinese Communists have consistently confronted and resolved various difficult problems, pain points, and stubborn and chronic ills encountered in the process of governing the Party and the state with a "meticulous" attitude, and have continuously risen to the challenges and risks with different characteristics in different periods.

党的作风建设是一项具有长期性、战略性的系统工程,是一场持久战、攻坚战,不可能一蹴而就,必须常抓不懈。在一百多年奋斗历程中,中国共产党人一贯以“较真”态度直面并解决管党治党、治国理政过程中面临的各种难题痛点和顽瘴痼疾,面对不同时期具有不同特点的风险挑战不断迎难而上。

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Comrade Mao Zedong, when summing up some shortcomings and mistakes in the work since the founding of the country, pointed out: "We must earnestly correct them. What the world fears is 'earnestness'; the Communist Party is the most earnest." He stressed the need to face and resolve the mistakes and twists and turns in socialist construction with an attitude of seeking truth from facts and doing solid work. After reform and opening up, in the face of unhealthy tendencies and corrupt practices that had grown to a certain extent within the Party, Comrade Deng Xiaoping clearly stated that it was necessary to "use a resolute, serious, and earnest attitude to carry out this Party consolidation, effectively solve the serious problems that must be solved as mentioned above, and absolutely not go through the motions, so as not to disappoint the entire Party and the people of the whole country." Entering the 1990s, in response to issues such as the need to resolutely overcome bureaucracy in work concerning intellectuals, Comrade Jiang Zemin clearly pointed out: "All problems that can be solved through effort must be earnestly addressed and resolved as soon as possible, with less empty talk and more practical work." In response to the question of how to build leading bodies at all levels into strong leading collectives under the new situation, Comrade Hu Jintao clearly emphasized: "We must rely on education, supervision, the rule of law, strict discipline, and strengthening Party spirit training. The key lies in earnest implementation and earnest action."

中华人民共和国成立后,毛泽东同志在总结新中国成立以来工作中的一些缺点和失误时就曾指出:“我们要认真地改。世界上怕就怕‘认真’二字,共产党就最讲认真。”他强调要以求真务实、真抓实干的态度面对和解决社会主义建设中的失误和曲折。改革开放后,面对党内一定程度上滋生的不正之风及贪腐行为,邓小平同志明确指出要“用坚决、严肃、认真的态度来进行这次整党,切实解决上述那些必须解决的严重问题,绝对不能走过场,使全党同志和全国人民失望”。进入20世纪90年代,针对在知识分子工作中要坚决克服官僚主义等问题,江泽民同志明确指出:“凡是经过努力可以解决的问题,都必须认真去办,尽快解决,少说空话,多办实事。”针对新形势下如何将各级领导班子建设成为坚强领导集体的问题,胡锦涛同志明确强调,“要靠教育,靠监督,靠法制,靠严肃纪律,靠加强党性锻炼。关键在于认真抓,认真做”。

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has upheld a problem-oriented awareness and problem orientation, with the self-revolutionary spirit of daring to turn the blade inward and cut off one's own hand, promptly discovering and solving the Party's own problems and pain points, preventing small problems from becoming big ones, and small seepages from turning into large collapses. Regarding the Party's self-building, especially the issue of work style, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Being earnest is the fundamental work attitude of our Party; we must be selfless and fearless, dare to take responsibility, and embody the spirit of earnestness in all aspects of inner-Party life and in undertaking our work." Being earnest is a major issue concerning the cause of the Party and the people, a major issue concerning worldview and methodology, and a major issue concerning the Party's nature and purpose. It should be reflected in all aspects of undertaking work and in all aspects of inner-Party life. It is precisely because the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has resolutely upheld the attitude of "being earnest" without slackening or relaxing, and the spirit of the nail [2]2 "Leaving a mark when grasping iron and imprinting when stepping on stone" is a Chinese idiom used by Xi Jinping to describe a firm and resolute attitude in carrying out work., to thoroughly rectify the "Four Forms of Decadence" [3]3 The "four forms of decadence" (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, which were the targets of the mass line education and practice campaign launched by the CPC in 2013., maintaining a high degree of political vigilance and a sense of urgency regarding various risks and challenges, and continuously enhancing the Party's capacity for self-purification, self-improvement, self-reform, and self-enhancement, achieving genuine and strict management, strict and rigorous management, and constant and persistent management through systematic and normalized governance, that the Party's and government's work style has taken on a new look, the inner-Party political ecosystem has been effectively purified, and the Party's governing foundation has been continuously consolidated.

党的十八大以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央秉持问题意识和问题导向,以敢于刀刃向内、壮士断腕的自我革命精神及时发现和解决自身存在的问题和痛点,防止小问题变成大问题,小管涌演变为大塌方。针对党的自身建设尤其是作风建设问题,习近平总书记强调:“讲认真是我们党的根本工作态度,必须做到无私无畏、敢于担当,把认真精神体现到党内生活和干事创业方方面面。”讲认真是关系党和人民事业的大问题,是关系世界观和方法论的大问题,是关系党的性质和宗旨的大问题,应该体现在干事创业方方面面,也应该体现在党内生活方方面面。正是以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚决秉持不松劲、不懈怠的“讲认真”态度和钉钉子精神彻底纠治“四风”问题,对各种风险和挑战保持高度政治敏锐性和忧患意识,不断增强党的自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高能力,以系统性治理、常态化治理实现真抓真管、严抓严管、常抓常管,党风政风为之一新,党内政治生态得以有效净化,党的执政基础得到持续巩固。

Thus, "being earnest," as a work attitude, value stance, and spiritual character, has become a valuable experience and fine tradition of our Party in governing the Party, manifesting the distinctive quality of our Party in upholding truth, correcting errors, and embodying the spirit of earnestness in all aspects of inner-Party life and in undertaking our work.

可见,“讲认真”作为一种工作态度、价值立场、精神品格,已成为我们党管党治党的宝贵经验和优良传统,彰显了我们党坚持真理、修正错误,把认真精神体现到党内生活和干事创业方方面面的鲜明品质。

2. "Being Earnest" Is an Inherent Requirement for Deepening the Improvement of the Work Style

2.“讲认真”是纵深推进作风建设的内在要求

The improvement of the Party's work style is a systematic and continuous process oriented towards the values of clean cadres, clean government, and clean politics, involving the improvement of political atmosphere, the rigor of political life, the elimination of political corruption, the clarity of political relations, the standardization of political behavior, and the cultivation of political culture. The long-term nature of work style improvement determines that deepening it requires "being earnest." Work style improvement is a protracted battle. The formation of the Party's fine work style is not something that can be achieved overnight or once and for all; it has the characteristic of being "easy to destroy but hard to repair." Therefore, if there is even a slight slackening or relaxation, it can easily become polluted and deteriorate. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Work style improvement is always on the way; there is never a rest period. It cannot be a mere skimming of the surface, cannot start with a bang and end with a whimper, and cannot be just a passing fad. Otherwise, not only will it be impossible to fundamentally solve the problem, but it will also lead to the continuous rebound and intensification of work style problems, ultimately losing the trust of the people." To comprehensively consider and comprehensively assess the long-term nature of current work style improvement, it is necessary to proceed from the political height that "work style problems are fundamentally problems of Party spirit," to implement and refine that earnest effort into all aspects and fields of work style improvement, to earnestly formulate and plan the target system, strategy system, and institutional system for promoting work style improvement, to promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style improvement, to highlight addressing root causes and prevention, to rectify one problem after another, to eliminate one cause after another, never slackening, never relaxing.

党的作风建设是一场以干部清正、政府清廉、政治清明为价值导向,涉及政治风气改善、政治生活严肃、政治腐败清除、政治关系清朗、政治行为规范、政治文化涵养等方面的系统性、持续性的过程。作风建设的长期性决定了纵深推进作风建设必须“讲认真”。作风建设是持久战,党的优良作风的形成并非一朝一夕、一劳永逸之功所能达致,而是具有“破坏易修复难”的特性,因此,如果稍有松懈、松劲,就极易被污染和恶化。正如习近平总书记指出的:“作风建设永远在路上,永远没有休止符,不可蜻蜓点水,不可虎头蛇尾,不可只是一阵风,否则不仅不可能从根本上解决问题,而且会导致作风问题不断反弹、愈演愈烈,最后失信于民。”全面考量和综合研判当前作风建设的长期性,需要从“作风问题根本上是党性问题”的政治高度出发,将那股认真劲落实落细到作风建设的全方位、各领域之中,认真制定和规划推进作风建设的目标体系、策略体系和制度体系,推进作风建设常态化长效化,突出治本和预防,一个问题一个问题纠治,一个诱因一个诱因消除,永不懈怠,永不松劲。

The stubbornness and recurrence of work style problems require that deepening work style improvement must "be earnest." Since the New Era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has incorporated work style improvement into the overall strategic deployment of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, starting with the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulations to resolutely rectify the "Four Forms of Decadence," resolutely cracking down on unhealthy practices such as using public funds for dining, tourism, and gift-giving, and focusing on solving prominent issues that the masses strongly reflect. Work style problems within the Party have been greatly rectified and corrected, and the inner-Party spirit has taken on a new look. However, we must also be soberly aware of the stubbornness and recurrence of work style problems. We must adopt the attitude and stance of "being earnest" and the spirit and character of the "nail" to grasp them regularly, meticulously, and persistently. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We have been constantly addressing work style problems, but many problems have not only remained unsolved but have become worse. Some unhealthy practices are like cutting leeks; cut one batch, and another grows. The crux lies in underestimating the stubbornness and recurrence of work style problems, lacking the tenacity for regular and strict management, and lacking institutions that can ensure long-term and fundamental solutions." The difficulty in rectifying unhealthy practices lies in preventing a rebound. It is precisely based on this realistic consideration and sober understanding that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made the major strategic deployment to carry out study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations throughout the Party, requiring the entire Party to accurately understand the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations and their implementation rules, to establish institutional arrangements for the source governance of unhealthy practices, to eradicate from the source governance level various causes of problems that pollute the Party's work style building, and to effectively promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style improvement.

作风问题的顽固性和反复性,要求纵深推进作风建设必须“讲认真”。新时代以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央将作风建设纳入全面从严治党的总体战略部署,从制定和实施中央八项规定以坚决纠治“四风”着手,坚决狠刹公款吃喝、公款旅游、公款送礼等不良风气,着力解决群众反映强烈的突出问题,党内作风问题得到极大整顿和纠治,党内精神面貌为之一新。但是,我们也要清醒意识到作风问题的顽固性和反复性,必须以“讲认真”的态度立场和“钉钉子”的精神品格抓常、抓细、抓长。正如习近平总书记指出的,“作风问题我们一直在抓,但很多问题不仅没有解决、反而愈演愈烈,一些不良作风像割韭菜一样,割了一茬长一茬。症结就在于对作风问题的顽固性和反复性估计不足,缺乏常抓的韧劲、严抓的耐心,缺乏管长远、固根本的制度”。纠风之难,难在防止反弹。正是基于这一现实考量和清醒认识,以习近平同志为核心的党中央作出在全党开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育的重大战略部署,要求全党准确领会中央八项规定及其实施细则精神,建立不正之风源头治理的制度安排,从源头治理层面铲除污染党内作风建设的各种问题肇因,切实推进作风建设常态化、长效化。

3. Promoting Work Style Improvement to Go Deeper and Be More Concrete with an Attitude of "Being Earnest"

3.以“讲认真”态度推进作风建设走深走实

The improvement of the Party's work style is a systematic, strategic, and long-term project that unifies stages and continuity, quantitative development and qualitative improvement. Promoting work style improvement requires perseverance and sustained effort, breaking out of the "vicious circle" where it improves when grasped and slackens when let go. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "On the issue of improving the work style, we cannot retreat, nor are we allowed to retreat. We must maintain the tenacity for regular and persistent management." We should firmly establish the clear attitude that the key to improving the work style lies in being earnest, and transform the fine tradition of "being earnest" into practical skills and concrete measures for promoting work style improvement to go deeper, be more concrete, become normalized, and achieve long-term effectiveness.

党的作风建设是一项阶段性与连续性相统一、量化发展与质化提升相统一的系统性、战略性、长期性工程,推进作风建设要锲而不舍、久久为功,走出抓一抓就好一些、放一放就松下来的“怪圈”。正如习近平总书记所指出的,“在改进作风问题上,我们不能退,也退不得,必须保持常抓的韧劲、长抓的耐心”。我们应牢固树立抓作风建设贵在认真的鲜明态度,将“讲认真”的优良传统转化为推进作风建设走深走实、常态长效的实践本领与现实举措。

Make efforts and seek practical results in political sobriety. Maintaining political sobriety and firmness is the prerequisite for grasping the initiative in practice. At present, advancing the improvement of the work style must first fully recognize that work-style problems have characteristics such as stubbornness, interweaving, complexity, and repetitiveness; "if one is not careful, it is very easy to become polluted, and once problems arise, it will cost a great deal to restore things once they have gone wrong." [1]1 This is a quotation from a speech by Xi Jinping on work-style improvement. It is necessary to maintain at all times the earnest drive of "leaving a mark when grasping iron and imprinting when stepping on stone" [2]2 "Leaving a mark when grasping iron and imprinting when stepping on stone" is a Chinese idiom used by Xi Jinping to describe a firm and resolute attitude in carrying out work. in improving the work style, maintain strategic resolve, manage earnestly and grasp practically, run the word "earnest" through the entire process of improving the work style, adopt the spirit of driving in a nail, solving one problem at a time, holding firm at one node at a time, embody seeking truth from facts in every aspect of improving the work style, and resolutely prevent the rebound and resurgence of work-style problems.

在政治清醒上下功夫、求实效。保持政治上的清醒和坚定是把握实践主动的前提。当前,推进作风建设首先应充分认识到作风问题具有顽固性、交织性、复杂性、反复性等特征,“稍不注意,就很容易受到污染,一旦出现问题,再想恢复就要付出很大代价”。必须时刻保持抓铁有痕、踏石留印的认真劲头抓作风建设,保持战略定力,认认真真管、实实在在抓,将认真二字贯穿作风建设始终,以钉钉子的精神,一个问题一个问题地解决,一个节点一个节点地坚守,把求真务实体现在作风建设的方方面面,坚决防止作风问题反弹回潮。

Make efforts and seek practical results in deepening rectification. At present, the improvement of the work style has entered a stage of in-depth development, in which many deep-seated chronic ills and "hard bones" that are difficult to chew have become important inducements for polluting the Party's work style and worsening the Party's political ecology. To advance the improvement of the work style with an attitude of "being earnest," it is necessary to adhere to the combination of concentrated rectification and regular governance, adhere to the combination of grasping regularly, grasping in detail, and grasping over the long term with addressing both symptoms and root causes, conduct in-depth investigation and research, combine regional characteristics, industry features, and stage-specific tasks, identify the prominent manifestations of the "four forms of decadence," [3]3 The "four forms of decadence" (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, which were the targets of the mass line education and practice campaign launched by the CPC in 2013. precisely analyze and comprehensively assess typical cases of investigating and punishing the "four forms of decadence" and their hidden and mutated problems, ascertain the underlying roots and inducements of their occurrence, thereby continuously eradicating the soil that breeds unhealthy tendencies, promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of the Party's work-style improvement, achieve the goal of using a fine Party work style to create and cultivate the entire Party's mental state of being motivated to do business and start undertakings, and drive the fundamental improvement of government conduct, social conduct, and public conduct.

在深化整治上下功夫、求实效。当前作风建设进入纵深发展的阶段,其中诸多顽瘴痼疾和难啃的“硬骨头”已成为当前污染党内作风、恶化党内政治生态的重要诱因。以“讲认真”态度推进作风建设,应坚持集中整治与常态治理相结合,坚持抓常、抓细、抓长与标本兼治相结合,深入开展调查研究,结合地区特点、行业特征、阶段任务,查找“四风”问题突出表现,精准分析和综合研判“四风”问题查处的典型案件及其隐形变异问题,摸清其发生的背后根源和诱因,从而不断铲除不正之风滋生的土壤,推进党的作风建设常态化长效化,实现以优良党风营造和涵养全党干事创业的精神状态,并带动政风、社风、民风根本好转。

Make efforts and seek practical results in the simultaneous investigation and governance of work-style problems and corruption. The Party's work-style problems are directly related to whether the Party's leadership position and ruling foundation are consolidated, and how the Party's leadership level and governing capacity are; they are the key link in the principle that "to govern the country, the Party must first be governed, and to govern the Party, strictness is essential." The practice of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party shows that the corruption and degeneration of Party cadres and members often begin with work-style problems; unhealthy tendencies breed and conceal corruption and degeneration, and corruption and degeneration further fuel the arrogance of various unhealthy tendencies. To advance the improvement of the work style with an attitude of "being earnest," it is necessary to deeply grasp the stage-specific characteristics of the integration and interweaving of work-style problems and corruption, and advance the investigation of corruption through work-style problems and the correction of work-style problems through corruption as an integrated whole, grasping them together, and rectifying them together. It is necessary both to seriously rectify the corruption inducements and roots behind the Party's unhealthy tendencies, and at the same time to deeply excavate and investigate the work-style problems existing in corruption cases, thereby continuously eradicating the "stock" of corruption, curbing the "increment" of corruption, avoiding falling into the passive situation of "treating the head when the head aches, treating the foot when the foot hurts," [4]4 This is a Chinese idiom meaning to deal with problems superficially without addressing the root causes. achieve the interconnection of investigating corruption through work-style problems and correcting work-style problems through corruption, and effectively realize "using 'simultaneous investigation' to severely punish problems where work-style issues and corruption are interwoven, and using 'simultaneous governance' to eradicate the common roots of work-style issues and corruption."

在风腐同查同治上下功夫、求实效。党的作风问题直接关系党的领导地位与执政基础巩固与否、党的领导水平与执政能力水平如何,是“治国必先治党,治党务必从严”的关键环节。全面从严治党的实践表明,党员干部的腐败堕落,往往从作风问题开始,不正之风滋生掩藏腐败蜕化,腐败堕落进一步助长各种不正之风的嚣张气焰。以“讲认真”态度推进作风建设,要深刻把握风腐一体、风腐交织的阶段性特征,将由风查腐与由腐纠风一体推进、一体来抓、一体纠治。既要严肃整治党内不正之风背后的腐败诱因和根源,也要同时深挖和查摆腐败案件中存在的作风问题,从而不断铲除腐败“存量”,遏制腐败“增量”,避免陷入“头痛医头、脚痛医脚”的被动境地,实现由风查腐与由腐纠风相贯通,切实做到“以‘同查’严惩风腐交织问题,以‘同治’铲除风腐共性根源”。

Make efforts and seek practical results in cultural cultivation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "For us Communists, whether we can solve work-style problems is a very important yardstick for measuring our belief in Marxism, our conviction in socialism and communism, and our loyalty to the Party and the people." Work-style problems are essentially problems of Party spirit. Analyzed from the dimension of cultural cultivation, emphasizing returning to simplicity and consolidating the foundation and cultivating the root [5]5 "Returning to simplicity" (返璞归真) and "consolidating the foundation and cultivating the root" (固本培元) are traditional Chinese philosophical concepts, here used metaphorically to mean returning to the Party's fundamental nature and strengthening its ideological foundation. means grasping the deep-seated issues of improving the work style. On the new journey of the New Era, the Party Central Committee has clearly proposed strengthening the construction of a clean culture in the New Era. Once political culture is formed, it has relative stability and independence, and can exert a subtle and潜移默化 [6]6 "Subtle and潜移默化" is a Chinese idiom meaning a long-term, imperceptible influence. influence on the behavioral activities, thinking patterns, and value concepts of political subjects such as political parties and social members. Therefore, to advance the improvement of the work style with an attitude of "being earnest," it is necessary to continuously enhance the intensity, breadth, and effectiveness of clean culture education, use the integrity and incorruptibility of Party and government organs' staff to lead market entities, social organizations, and personnel in all walks of life to advocate and respect integrity and incorruptibility. Deeply excavate the resources related to clean culture in ancient books and documents, summarize and refine the clean governance thoughts of sages, virtuous officials, and incorruptible officials, take them as important content for the clean culture education of Party cadres and members, and lay a solid foundation of clean culture for the Party's work-style improvement.

在文化涵养上下功夫、求实效。习近平总书记指出:“对我们共产党人来讲,能不能解决好作风问题,是衡量对马克思主义信仰、对社会主义和共产主义信念、对党和人民忠诚的一把十分重要的尺子。”作风问题本质上是党性问题,从文化涵养维度分析,注重强调返璞归真、固本培元,就是抓住了改进作风的深层问题。新时代新征程,党中央明确提出加强新时代廉洁文化建设。政治文化一经形成就具有相对稳定性和独立性,能够对政党及社会成员等政治主体的行为活动、思维模式、价值理念等产生潜移默化的影响。因此,以“讲认真”态度推进作风建设,就要不断提升廉洁文化教育的力度、广度和效度,以党政机关工作人员的清正清廉引领市场主体、社会团体等各行各业人员崇廉尚廉的良好风气。深入挖掘古籍文献中有关廉洁文化的资源,总结提炼圣人先贤、清官廉吏的廉政思想,将其作为党员干部廉洁文化教育的重要内容,为党的作风建设筑牢坚实的廉洁文化根基。

On the new journey, we must persistently strengthen the improvement of the work style, abide by the political conviction that "the most important thing in improving the work style is to be earnest," forever maintain the political consciousness that "the improvement of the work style is always on the way," [7]7 "The improvement of the work style is always on the way" is a well-known statement by Xi Jinping, emphasizing the ongoing nature of work-style rectification. embody the spiritual character of "being earnest" in every aspect of doing business and starting undertakings, use a fine Party work style to continuously consolidate the foundation of the Party's own construction, drive the continuous improvement of government conduct, social conduct, and public conduct, and gather the mighty force to strive to advance Chinese-path modernization.

新征程上,我们要持之以恒加强作风建设,恪守“抓作风建设最重要的是讲认真”的政治信念,永葆“作风建设永远在路上”的政治自觉,将“讲认真”的精神品格体现在干事创业方方面面,以优良党风不断夯实党的自身建设根基,带动政风、社风、民风不断向好发展,汇聚起奋力推进中国式现代化建设的磅礴力量。

(Author: Lin Xueqi, is a Distinguished Researcher of the Shandong Provincial Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and a Professor at the School of Marxism of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee of the CPC [Shandong Academy of Governance].)

(作者:林学启,系山东省习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心特约研究员,中共山东省委党校〔山东行政学院〕马克思主义学院教授)

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Notes

  1. The Eight-Point Regulations: A set of rules adopted by the CPC Central Committee in December 2012 to improve Party and government conduct, requiring austerity, efficiency, and opposition to formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. ↩
  2. Spirit of the nail: A metaphor used by Xi Jinping, meaning to work with persistence and focus, like driving a nail, until ↩
  3. This is a quotation from a speech by Xi Jinping on work-style improvement. ↩
  4. "Leaving a mark when grasping iron and imprinting when stepping on stone" is a Chinese idiom used by Xi Jinping to describe a firm and resolute attitude in carrying out work. ↩
  5. The "four forms of decadence" (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, which were the targets of the mass line education and practice campaign launched by the CPC in 2013. ↩
  6. This is a Chinese idiom meaning to deal with problems superficially without addressing the root causes. ↩
  7. "Returning to simplicity" (返璞归真) and "consolidating the foundation and cultivating the root" (固本培元) are traditional Chinese philosophical concepts, here used metaphorically to mean returning to the Party's fundamental nature and strengthening its ideological foundation. ↩
  8. "Subtle and潜移默化" is a Chinese idiom meaning a long-term, imperceptible influence. ↩
  9. "The improvement of the work style is always on the way" is a well-known statement by Xi Jinping, emphasizing the ongoing nature of work-style rectification. ↩