People’s Daily commentator article

Lay a solid foundation, hold on to the core, and truly achieve your goals

——Comments on the series of activities for in-depth study and practice of the scientific outlook on development

Party members and cadres receive education, scientific development reaches a higher level, and the people benefit from it are the general requirements put forward by the Central Committee for carrying out in-depth study and practice activities throughout the party. Recently, General Secretary Hu Jintao and other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee emphasized during the contact point survey that to carry out this study and practice activity, the education of party members and cadres is the foundation, the level of scientific development is the core, and the people's benefits are the purpose. We must correctly grasp this general requirement, lay a solid foundation, firmly grasp the core, truly achieve the goal, and strive to achieve practical results in learning and practice activities.

The key to carrying out study and practice activities well is to correctly grasp this general requirement. This general requirement looks at the overall situation, focuses on practice, is specific and clear, and conforms to the development reality and work reality of each unit and the ideological reality of party members and cadres. It also conforms to the new requirements of scientific development and the new expectations of the people. It is the basic guideline for carrying out study and practice activities. Party members and cadres receive education, scientific development reaches a higher level, and the people benefit from it. The three are interconnected and interact with each other to form an inseparable and unified whole, which together constitute an important symbol of the effectiveness of learning and practice activities. Learning and practice activities must be carried out closely around this general requirement and implemented in accordance with this general requirement.

To correctly grasp the general requirements of learning and practice activities, the first step is to deeply understand the spiritual essence of this general requirement. It should be deeply understood that party members and cadres are the backbone of the implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development. Through learning and practical activities, the Scientific Outlook on Development can take root in the minds of the majority of party members and cadres and truly become a solid concept for promoting economic and social development. Only in this way can we manage the long term and manage the fundamentals. Only by creating such a team of party members and cadres who consciously practice the scientific outlook on development and have the ability to promote scientific development can we provide a strong organizational guarantee for promoting scientific development. We should deeply realize that scientific development is the correct path to lead the development and progress of contemporary China and is the inevitable choice for my country's economic and social development. To carry out study and practice activities, we must always highlight the theme of scientific development, strive to solve outstanding problems that affect and restrict scientific development, form a strong driving force for scientific development, and truly raise the implementation of the scientific outlook on development to a new level, so that our country's economic and social development will be good and fast. We should deeply realize that bringing benefits to the people is a successful experience created by our party’s centralized education activities in recent years and an important direction for all our party’s struggles and work. We focus on party building and building party members and cadres, fundamentally speaking, to better benefit the people. Only by allowing development results to benefit the broad masses of the people and achieving scientific development can we have the broadest and deepest mass foundation, and can we unite and lead the people to fulfill the lofty mission entrusted by the times.

To correctly grasp the general requirements of learning and practice activities, it is important to implement them closely in conjunction with their respective specific realities. It is the general requirement that party members and cadres receive education, that scientific development reaches a higher level, and that the people benefit from it, and it is also an achievable goal. Allowing party members and cadres to receive education means that the majority of party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, can effectively enhance their consciousness and determination to implement the scientific outlook on development and follow the scientific development path. The key here is that through study and practice activities, the majority of party members and cadres can reach consensus on major issues such as whether to develop scientifically and how to achieve scientific development. To raise the level of scientific development is to transform the scientific outlook on development into correct ideas and conscious actions to promote scientific development. The key here is to focus on solving outstanding problems that affect and restrict scientific development through learning and practical activities, build institutions and mechanisms that are conducive to scientific development, and improve the ability to lead scientific development and promote social harmony. To bring benefits to the people means to effectively solve the outstanding problems that the people have strongly expressed, and to make the process of implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development a process that continuously benefits the people. The key here is to solve outstanding problems in the party spirit, work style and party discipline of party members and cadres through learning and practice activities, further improve work style and serve the people, better grasp the new demands and expectations of the people, do practical things that the people are eager to do and have the conditions to do, so that the people can get tangible benefits.

Now, the first batch of learning and practice activities are being carried out in depth. If we correctly grasp the general requirements of study and practice activities and conscientiously implement these general requirements, study and practice activities will surely achieve practical results and win the trust of the people. (People’s Daily, Page 2, November 18, 2008)