Newly-elected Chinese leader calls for solid work

“To put “practical work” in place, Xi presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee that adopted eight measures to improve Party work style and tighten the bond with the people.
The measures include more meetings with the peo­ple, travelling light with a small entourage and using fewer traffic controls, shortening meetings and speeches. The new measures have earned acclaim both at home and abroad. “Only solid work ensures that one will take the lead,” Xi has said.

When he served in Zhengding County, Hebei Province, Xi said that developing human resources was the key to shaking off poverty and backwardness in the county. He attended to the job himself by inviting pro­fessionals to the county and drawing up recruitment advertisements for talented personnel from across the country.

In the winter of 1983, he travelled to the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang to invite a cosmetics expert to work in Zhengding. Without a detailed address for the expert, he went door to door asking where the expert lived and finally found him at night after yelling his name near his home. Xi and the expert talked until midnight and Xi finally persuaded the man to work in Zhengding.

The expert later created more than 300 000 yuan in revenue for the county within the first year. In the same year, Xi decided to publish nine ways for recruiting tal­ented personnel, something that was rare at the time and became a headline story in the Hebei Daily.

In Ningde, Fujian, Xi was also practical and realistic. He pooled resources to implement aquaculture of the large yellow croaker, a local specialty, and greatly increased the income of local farmers. He also ordered party and government offices to make things conven­ient for the people.

When serving in Fuzhou, he advocated the principle of “special procedures for special issues, and do things now” to make the government more efficient.

This principle was attractive to numerous Taiwan enterprises and helped boost the local economy. He also proposed the compilation of two handbooks on government procedures for residents and overseas businesspeople. — Xinhua.