Chapter 048 Speech at the Party School

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is another winter and summer.

Li Yuanzhuo, secretary of the provincial party committee, and Xiao Chen, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, attended the seminar at the same time and delivered important speeches respectively, which greatly increased the weight of this seminar.

First of all, of course, Li Yuanzhuo, secretary of the provincial party committee, made a speech, he smiled and stretched out his hand to stop everyone's applause, and said: "Development is the last word, speeding up development is the country's strategic positioning for the eastern region, and taking the lead in development is the party Central Committee's target positioning for Jiangdong's development." This is the consistent demand put forward by the principal leaders of the CPC Central Committee such as Comrade Nanxun, Comrade Xiao Fei, Comrade Jiang Enguo, and Comrade Gu Banglan for Jiangdong, and it is the most important task for ruling and rejuvenating the country. In recent years, the whole province has resolutely implemented the principles and policies of the central government, adhered to the first development, scientific development and harmonious development, and maintained a good economic and social development trend. In the first half of this year, the province's economy continued to maintain steady and rapid growth, the quality and efficiency of economic operation were further improved, and the process of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way was further accelerated. According to the latest figures from the Provincial Bureau of Statistics, from January to June this year, the GDP of our province reached 821.2 billion yuan, ranking third in the country; The growth rate is third. I think a better situation is the benign change of our internal regional development, in the past, southern Jiangsu's speeches were all about what goals to achieve, what level to achieve, and how many billions of output to strive for; As for northern Jiangsu, there are many difficulties and what support do you hope the province will give. This morning is different, and the speech of southern Jiangsu talked about what problems have been encountered and how to find ways to solve them; And the central and northern parts of the Soviet Union talked about what indicators we have reached, what indicators we still need to achieve, and who we must strive to catch up. I think that the confidence of central and northern Jiangsu, and the mental state of solving difficult problems in southern Jiangsu is a gratifying phenomenon. To a certain extent, the central and northern Soviet Union have stood up, and this is not just a state of mind. I carefully looked at the statistics, in the first half of this year, there is a very gratifying phenomenon of the 8 traditional incremental indicators, ranking 1, 2, 3 cities, in the past, basically all in southern Jiangsu, this time separated, southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, and central Jiangsu each accounted for one-third. From the point of view of growth rate, the one standing in the forefront is no longer exclusive to southern Jiangsu, and southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu are equally divided.

Of course, there are still regional disparities, but a momentum of common development is beginning to emerge, which means that the strategy of common development in our region is beginning to bear fruit. Such a momentum is the result of cadres at all levels in the province doing solid work and overcoming difficulties, the result of the hard work and hard work of the broad masses of the people, and the result of the whole province emancipating their minds and forging ahead in a pioneering spirit in accordance with the correct principles of the party Central Committee. It is precisely by constantly promoting the emancipation of the mind that we have achieved continuous breakthroughs in reform, continuous leaps in development, and continuous social progress. However, we must also be soberly aware that the biggest problem affecting the smooth realization of the 'two firsts' is still the issue of ideology and concepts, and the biggest obstacle restricting economic and social development is still the ideological obstacle.

Recently, we have listened to the opinions of various quarters, and many of them have pointed out that there is still a market for conservative thinking among some localities, departments, and some cadres in our province: First, there is a feeling of slackness, and we always feel that Jiangdong is already ahead, and it is unrealistic to set high standards. Slackness, complacency and dependency have grown. Second, some comrades passively learned the lessons of the 'Tieben' incident (please Google the incident and despise all kinds of poisons). It should be said that the 'Tieben' incident is indeed a matter of great influence, and we regard it as a measure in macroeconomic regulation and control, and a promotion for us to implement the macroeconomic regulation and control policy and implement the scientific outlook on development. But it is true that it has also brought some ideological baggage to some of our comrades, and they are unwilling to act. Third, the current party committee is about to change its term, and there are also a very small number of comrades who will 'keep their official positions' by this time, and they no longer dare to do some things that should be done for fear of offending people; and they do not want to do some things again because they may not be able to finish doing them.

In the face of fierce competition, especially in the face of the difficulties brought about by the 'four tights', there is a fear of difficulties in some places, and there is a lack of momentum to dare to break through and dare to try. From the provincial point of view, although the major regions are showing a situation of all-round development, there are also individual localities and other localities that have begun to further form gaps, and the situation of not being able to open up the situation still exists in some localities. These situations also affect some departments, some of which clearly stipulate that they can do it, but lack the enthusiasm to take the initiative to do it; Some documents do not stipulate what cannot be done, and they do not dare to explore for fear of taking risks; Some could have done better, and felt that they could have done it in the past, and they didn't need to be sharp. There are also some comrades who are overly optimistic about the achievements they have made and have a sense of satisfaction. Therefore, in some localities and among some comrades, the sense of urgency is not as strong as in the past, the enthusiasm is not as high as in the past, the courage is not as great as in the past, and the work is not as practical as in the past. Although this situation has occurred in a small number of localities, a small number of departments, and a small number of people, its negative impact cannot be ignored, because in the long run, Jiangdong may fall behind.

Emancipating the mind is not a simple slogan, it is to conform to the new situation and seek new development, and use this as a carrier for emancipating the mind. We are not talking about emancipating our minds there, but we are trying to solve new problems in the light of the new reality.

First of all, it is necessary to emancipate the mind in accordance with the requirements of development. The process of emancipating the mind is a process of deepening understanding, and to a certain extent, it is also a process of continuous progress in practice. I believe that the most active driving force for emancipating the mind is practice, that is, what we are doing now, and doing what we do well, this is the purpose of emancipating the mind. Therefore, wherever development goes, the emancipation of the mind must be pushed forward, so as to guide the development of practice. Recently, Comrade Xiao Chen and I went to Suyu to investigate the education work, how did the education reform in Suyu come about? Comrade Su Yu introduced that reform is a matter of necessity, and that emancipating the mind is a reality that needs to be brought out. They emancipated their minds, explored methods that were not recognized at some point or in the early days of reform, and they did so boldly, and now they are paying off. The high school penetration rate has risen three places from 13th in the province. The money is still the money, the conditions are still those conditions, but the results are very different. This is the emancipation of the mind. The purpose of emancipating the mind is to solve practical problems, and emancipating the mind promotes reform and development. Therefore, we must keep up with the pace of practice, constantly test our own ideological understanding with the standards of practice, constantly dispel outdated concepts with changes in the situation, and strive to emancipate our minds throughout the entire process of development. Last time, Comrade Xiao Chen mentioned one point in his speech to the students of the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee, what is the key to opening up? It's to let go. I think it's very philosophical. And he also said that he is not afraid of the invisible hand of the market, but he is afraid of the idle hand of the government. I think this is something that all the leaders of our departments should learn from.

Second, it is necessary to emancipate the mind in accordance with the wishes of the masses. At present, what is the most urgent desire of the 74 million people in Jiangdong? I have experienced that there are all kinds of wishes, farmers want you to requisition more money, workers want their wages to continue to rise, and migrant workers want to get the money that belongs to them in time. Everyone has their own requirements, and the general requirement is to speed up development, get rich as soon as possible, and be able to live a well-off life in an all-round way. Realizing the 'six more' and 'one benefit' proposed by the first comprehensive well-off is the strongest will of the 1.3 billion people in China and the 74 million people in Jiangdong. This should become the fundamental starting point for our Jiangdong cadres to emancipate their minds and do more practical work. At present, there are indeed a few comrades who would rather do less work than take risks, and want to be peace officials. In fact, the biggest hidden risk of this kind of peace officer is that if you can't grasp the opportunity and develop, the masses will be dissatisfied for a long time. If the masses are dissatisfied for a long time, our party and government will lose the support of the people, and the people will not follow you. This is the greatest danger. As a leading cadre, it is not an easy thing to have the courage to be responsible for the people, and it is necessary to put aside some of our own gains and losses. Emancipating the mind is also the saying, 'Go up, follow without orders; If you can't do it, you won't obey orders. So we can't just tell the people below to emancipate their minds and take risks, but we also have to start by example.

Third, it is necessary to emancipate the mind in view of the difficult problems of development. At present, Jiangdong's development is facing many problems, especially in the place where we have the fastest development, the most new problems have been encountered, the resource and environmental constraints have intensified, the vitality of the system and mechanism is insufficient, and the regional development gap has widened. Just now we said that the industrial and GDP growth rates of Suyu and Huaiyīn are relatively fast, but their per capita GDP level and per capita industrial level are only one-tenth of that of Wucheng. "Freezing three feet is not a day's cold", and the accumulation of wealth cannot be completed in a day. In addition, the environment for the development of the open economy has become tighter, and social contradictions have begun to encounter some new situations, which all need to be resolved. This is not only a difficult problem we have encountered, but also a space for us to emancipate our minds, and more importantly, a potential for us to speed up development. By solving these difficult problems, we will have practical results in emancipating our minds and will have new space for development. For example, the constraints of resources and environment now require a new shift in the way we grow. The "inverted bī mechanism" is now on the documents of the Government Council. In our country, we have the smallest per capita land area, the least per capita mineral resources in the country, and the weakest per capita environmental space in the country. There is a large regional gap, and it should be said that Jiangdong is the most prominent on the eastern coast, so you should speed up the adjustment of the layout of regional development. After this layout adjustment, it has brought new impetus to the development of northern Jiangsu. Practice has repeatedly proved that the more difficult and contradictory there are, the easier it is to widen the gap. At this time, the more emancipated the mind is a new driving force, whoever emancipates the mind quickly and has a strong ability to innovate will develop quickly; Whoever does not emancipate his mind and follow the old rules may fall behind in the competition.

Fourth, it is necessary to emancipate the mind through comparison and reference. Some time ago, when we went out to study, I had a very deep experience, that is, Comrade Xiao Fei's "not only the top, not only the book, but only the truth" and "exchange, comparison, and repetition" are extremely useful ideological methods and work methods. There is comparison to distinguish, and there is discrimination to know the insufficiency. Through exchange, comparison, and repetition, we can have a clear judgment and clear requirements. Every time we go outside to take a look and learn, we can broaden our horizons, broaden our thinking, and broaden our minds. Practice produces true knowledge, learning produces true knowledge, and comparison produces true knowledge. We must be good at discovering the existing problems and development gaps through comparison with others and other places, learning from others' strengths and promoting our own strengths; In learning from the successful experience of developed countries or regions, we should expand new space for emancipating the mind; In the application of ideological methods such as comparative reference, we should maintain the ideological leadership and take the lead in development. Self-closure in the mind and self-closure in the field of vision is the greatest 'poison' for the emancipation of the mind.

In addition, the key to emancipating the mind must not stop at general appeals and empty slogans, but must be implemented in action and in solving specific problems.

Emancipating the mind should first be embodied in the innovation of development ideas. To a considerable extent, regional competition is a competition of development ideas. Thinking right, get twice the result with half the effort; If you don't think the right way, you will get twice the result. In the same development background, whoever can innovate development ideas will be able to seize the opportunity and take the lead in development. We plan for development, not only to assess the situation, conform to the general trend, but also to find our own positioning, and give full play to our own characteristics and advantages. The differences between southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu are obvious in our province, and the conditions between urban and rural areas are quite different. It's hard and we can't manage everything with one idea. For example, the 'two wheels' of new industrialization in our province, one wheel is advanced manufacturing, and the other wheel is modern service industry, but these 'two wheels' are different in southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu, and you have to master the steering wheel to be different. The development of modern service industry in the province is three sentences, focusing on the development of production services, vigorously cultivating emerging service industries, and comprehensively upgrading traditional service industries, and the focus of the three regions is also different. Southern Jiangsu should comprehensively develop three major types of service industries; Jiangsu and China, especially the areas along the Yangtze River, should focus on the development of logistics and the development of the market, especially the product market; At present, the foundation of industry in northern Jiangsu is still very thin, and it is necessary to first accelerate the development of industrialization and create conditions for the service industry to develop more fully. In addition, big cities are not the same as rural areas, especially Jinning, Wucheng, Liangxi, and Yanling, which should focus on developing the software industry. Therefore, different regions, different levels of development, different development endowments, and different ideas for our development are also different, and we cannot 'one size fits all'. From the provincial point of view, it is necessary to adhere to the classification guidance; From the local point of view, the above ideas and strategies must be creatively implemented in the light of local realities, and we must keep the pulse of local development in mind and embark on a special development path that suits the conditions of the province, the city, and the county. If we carry out whatever is said above, we will carry it out as it is, this is the worst implementation, and the cadres who grasp the implementation in this way are the cadres who have the least level of implementation. It is necessary to carry it out in accordance with the actual conditions on the ground and in line with the realities of the localities.

The emancipation of the mind should also be reflected in the formulation of development policies. Why is it that after some policies are introduced, the response is flat and difficult to implement? After the introduction of some policies, the response was positive and very popular? The key is whether the policy works. To formulate a good policy, we must not only understand both the upper and lower ends, but also understand the left and right directions, and this requires emancipating the mind. Sometimes, to introduce a policy, there is a lot of resistance from all sides, and the process of policy formation often becomes a process of departmental bargaining. If each department only considers its own interests, who will represent the grassroots, who will represent the people, and who will represent the enterprise? It will not work if this continues, and it will affect the overall situation of development. Why do we say that we should broaden our horizons, broaden our thinking, and broaden our minds? Without the concept of the overall situation, we cannot think about the overall situation, development, and the people, and without this broad Xiōng, it is impossible for us to emancipate our minds smoothly.

The emancipation of the mind should also be reflected in the implementation of development measures. At present, many things are not without deployment, not without measures, nor without policies, but the key is that the implementation is insufficient. Our leading cadres must not only have the ability to make scientific decisions, but also have the ability to grasp implementation; We must not only be good at planning ideas, but also good at promoting implementation; We must not only take the lead in implementing the measures ourselves, but also mobilize the enthusiasm of all quarters to promote the implementation of various measures. Huaiyīn's leader said very well, whether the leading cadres take grasping industry as the first strategy, not depends on how you write, how you say, and what documents you send, but whether you grasp the projects or not, and how many projects you grasp. The leaders of Yandu are listed, and each person grasps the project, how well they grasp it, and they must explain it to everyone regularly and let everyone evaluate. In all operational links, implementation is the most difficult. We emphasize the need to have a contingent of leading cadres who want to do things, know how to do things, get things done, and have few accidents, which means that we must have a team that is good at implementation. Therefore, to emancipate the mind is not to move from theory to theory, but to proceed from practice through theory to practice, that is, to get things done in the end, as its destination. This is the emancipation of the mind that our current development in Jiangdong requires. ”

After Secretary Li Yuanzhuo mainly emphasized the emancipation of the mind, Xiao Chen's speech this time made everyone begin to believe that a rumor may not be empty and may not be without cause, because Xiao Chen's speech this time is no longer only about party affairs and discipline, but for the first time after he became deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, it involves economic construction for the first time, and it also clearly points out some problems. This reminds us of a topic that has been widely circulated recently: Comrade Xiao Chen's performance in the "remnant" incident has satisfied several leaders of the Central Committee, and his performance has gradually detached or at least diluted the influence of factional politics. It is said that some people close to the main leaders of the central government said that Xiao Chen "has the potential to be the king of the world", and some well-informed cadres in Jiangdong have speculated that perhaps Secretary Xiao's position may have to be moved up or forward.

Xiao Chen's speech this time did begin to involve the economy, but it was not enough to describe, it was completely a big talk, he said: "Since entering the 'Eleventh Five-Year Plan', the provincial party committee and the provincial government have paid more attention to the issue of regional common development, put the acceleration of the revitalization of northern Jiangsu in a more prominent position, and studied it as an important topic. This is because both the land area and the total population of northern Jiangsu account for about half of the province, and without the well-off in northern Jiangsu, there will be no well-off in the whole province, and without the basic modernization of northern Jiangsu, there will be no basic modernization of the whole province. However, judging from the current situation of economic and social development in northern Jiangsu, the proportion of northern Jiangsu in the province in terms of economic aggregate and average volume is getting smaller and smaller, and some economic indicators are not even lower than the national average, and the gap with southern Jiangsu is not narrowing, but getting bigger and bigger. In 2000, the per capita GDP of the five cities in northern Jiangsu was 6,289 yuan, which was 53.4% of the province and 28.3% of that of southern Jiangsu. By 2005, although the per capita GDP of the five cities in northern Jiangsu reached 12,910 yuan, it dropped to 45% of the province and 22% of southern Jiangsu, which was lower than the national average of 3,021 yuan; In 2000, the total fiscal revenue of the five cities in northern Jiangsu was 13.028 billion yuan, which was 15.1% of the province and 24.7% of that of southern Jiangsu. By 2005, the total fiscal revenue of the five cities in northern Jiangsu was 50.113 billion yuan, down to 12.7% of the province and 20.3% of southern Jiangsu.

For Jiangdong, which is located on the eastern coast, it is extremely abnormal for the gap between southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu to be so large. The reason for this, some people think that it is a location problem, I think the location is not the fundamental reason, Qidong Jilin, Xusheng, Heze location and northern Jiangsu are roughly the same, the development is still very fast; Some people think that resources are not abundant, and I think that resources are not the decisive factor, Zhanggang has no coal, and still has a thermal power plant, and there is no quartz sand, and a glass factory is still set up; Some people think that the provincial party committee and the provincial government have not supported northern Jiangsu enough, I think this view is pure nonsense, the successive provincial party committees and provincial governments have always attached great importance to the development of northern Jiangsu, especially in recent years, they have taken a series of measures such as dispatching poverty alleviation teams, implementing the 'four transfers', 'five-party linkage' and jointly building development zones, and specially issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Revitalization of Northern Jiangsu", the fields of support are getting wider and wider, the methods are becoming more and more practical, and the intensity is getting bigger and bigger; There are also people who believe that the quality of the cadres in northern Jiangsu is not high, and I think this statement is also unfounded. Historically, the cadres of northern Jiangsu have also created many brilliant achievements in practice, and this cannot be erased.

So, what is the root cause of the long-term lagging development and underdeveloped economy in northern Jiangsu? In addition to the objective factors such as flood areas, old areas, and agricultural areas in history, I think the most fundamental thing is that the endogenous driving force for the development of northern Jiangsu is insufficient, as Secretary Yuan Zhuo said at the conference on accelerating the revitalization of northern Jiangsu and promoting regional common development on March 31, 2005: "Practice has proved that it is necessary to support the development of underdeveloped areas, but relying on external help can only solve temporary difficulties." There is no example of Jiangdong becoming an advanced region by relying on support, not in the whole country, and probably not in the world. To accelerate the revitalization of northern Jiangsu, the decisive factor also lies in the endogenous power of jīfa. 'How to develop the endogenous power of the underdeveloped areas in northern Jiangsu?