In the history of China, there were many officials who were both honest and diligent. Zhuge Liang, who "did his best and died", demanded that he "not make it easy to have a surplus inside, and to win money outside". Sima Guang "wants to die in the community, bow to the housework, and are reluctant to give up day and night", "nothing good for things", "evil clothes and food to end his life". Feudal officials can still do this, but our proletarian cadres can't say anything! The older generation of proletarian revolutionaries represented by Chairman Mao were all models of honest and diligent administration. Our cadres at all levels must learn from the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation and strive to be "honest and not poor, and industrious and hard-working." In this way, we can always be rooted in the masses.

——"The Basic Skills of Cadres - Close Ties with the People" (January 1989) from "Getting Out of Poverty"

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There is a pair of couplets hanging in the account room of Yadong in Neixiang County, Henan, and the upper link is: honesty does not speak of poverty, diligence does not speak of hardship; The following link is: respect what he hears, do what he knows. Shanglian means: a truly honest person will not talk about how he is poor; A truly diligent person will not complain about how hard he is. The meaning of the next link is: we should pay attention to listening to the voices of the people and strive to practice the concepts we know. "Honesty does not speak of poverty, diligence does not mean hardship" is the use of Shanglian. This political motto, which stresses both clean and diligent administration, still has strong practical value in the building of a clean and honest party style today.

Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu State, was strict with himself, thrifty all his life, from the age of 27 to the age of 53 died of illness in Wuzhangyuan, diligently assisted Liu Bei and Liu Chan for 26 years, which can be described as a model of "dedication and dedication, and then death". It is reported that Zhuge Liang wrote an article "Self-Expression and Queen" to Liu Chan before his death, and the article wrote: "There are 800 mulberry trees in Chengdu, 15 hectares of thin fields, and the children have their own food and clothing. As for the ministers in the field, there is no other arrangement, food and clothing, all rely on the officials, do not govern the life, to the long size. If the minister dies on the day of his death, he will not let there be any surplus silk inside, and there will be wealth outside, so as to lose His Majesty. ”

Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, when he was a child, "smashed the cylinder to save friends", and achieved a witty and resolute story. He was self-motivated by "insufficient day, followed by night", worked hard and diligently, and devoted his life to the revision of history and politics, and presided over the compilation of the first chronicle general history in Chinese history, "Zizhi Tongjian". Sima Guang has been in the office for more than 40 years, whether he was a local official in his early years or later served as a high-ranking official, he was honest and honest as always, "I dare not have meat in food, and I dare not have pure silk in clothes". In his later years, Sima Guang once wrote the article "Training and Thrift to Show Kang" to teach his son Sima Kang, "From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, it is difficult" and "to make a name for thrift, and to defeat oneself with luxury", the wise sayings are still quite warning to this day.

Mao Zedong and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation can be called models of honest and diligent administration. There is such a detail: in 1936, Edgar Snow arrived in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region and became the first Western journalist to come here to cover the news. He found that Mao Zedong only had two uniforms and the only patched coat, and had no personal property at all; The officers and men of the Red Army were treated equally, and their salaries were insignificant, and no one was corrupt or favoritistic for the sake of personal gain...... Snow concluded that the Chinese Communist Party and the people's army under its leadership were "undefeatable in their perseverance and hard work."

From Zhuge Liang to Sima Guang, Xi Jinping used people to dissolve the alliance and reason with facts, and raised a question of the political literacy of party members and cadres. Honesty is the foundation of government, and diligence is the key to good governance.

Xi Jinping once wrote a poem to admire Jiao Yulu's feelings of governing for the people, and he also personally wrote an article praising Gu Wenchang for "erecting an immortal monument in the hearts of the people". At the summary meeting of the party's mass line education and practice activities, he said in a far-reaching manner: "The party cadres are all public servants of the people, and they should be honest and diligent, clean and effective. It can be seen that the excellent quality of diligence and honesty is the most important political literacy in Xi Jinping's heart. The building of a clean and honest government and the building of a diligent administration are not only a revolution of honesty and efficiency, but also a revolution in the depths of ideology and concepts. In the depths of the mind, we should build a conscious consciousness of being honest and honest and diligent in serving the people, and "if I trickle down, I will be clear and blue", cadres are good cadres and can win the support and trust of the people.