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■Interpretation

How to put the people-oriented governance concept into practice? How to turn the value pursuit of people's livelihood first into action? An important aspect is to solve the practical problems of the people, which is precisely the deep meaning of Comrade Xi Jinping's quotation of Su Zhe's famous sentence. However, there are also some deviations in real life: when it comes to poverty alleviation, carry a bag of rice and a pot of oil to the homes of poor households to make a fancy stand and put on a good show; As soon as they talked about the grassroots, they went to the countryside with great fanfare, and they had already brushed their sleeves away before they had time to warm up, hoping that there would be a film on television, a word in the newspaper, and a sound on the radio, but as for the people's livelihood and practical problems, they turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear. If we cannot solve practical problems, we are formalistic, that is, we are inconsistent in what we say and what we say, and what we say and what we do. If we cannot go to the people's troubles and solve the people's worries, we cannot talk about governing for the people in any case. It is precisely for this reason that Comrade Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized "taking the hearts of the people as the heart", in fact, he is asking cadres at all levels to solve practical problems of people's livelihood, and in the face of people's livelihood problems, they must be prepared for and want to get rid of them as if they were dealing with "diseases of the heart".

■Original text

Your Majesty can choose to serve the ministers of public illness and evil, and your Majesty will be able to observe them carefully, and go to the troubles of the people, if you remove the disease of the heart, then if you have a certain private crime and a certain amount of stolen crimes, it is not a mistake, and it is suitable for those who fall into deep literature.

——(Northern Song Dynasty) Su Zhe "Book of the Emperor"

■Definition

In February of the second year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (1069), Wang Anshi was appointed as the governor of the council and began to implement the new law. Because of his different views on Wang Anshi's reforms, Su Zhe wrote to Emperor Shenzong in March of that year, stating his views on the new law. In the "Book of the Emperor", Su Zhe put forward many important points, many of which are to the point. "Removing the troubles of the people, such as removing the diseases of the heart" is one of them. The "belly and heart" in the sentence are both important organs of the human body, figuratively vital or central parts. It means that the evil of the people is removed as the sickness of one's own heart.

Su Zhe's scholarship was mainly based on Confucianism, and he was deeply influenced by Mencius's thought. It can be seen that the view of "removing the troubles of the people, such as removing the diseases of the stomach and heart" was influenced by Mencius's people-oriented thought. Mencius put forward the "joy of the people" and "the worry of the people", and advocated that the monarch should take the people's sorrows as his own. Su Zhe put forward this point of view to Song Shenzong, intending to let the emperor push himself and others, share the worries with the people, and put himself in the shoes of the people; At the same time, the suffering of the people has been raised to the level of "disease of the heart", indicating that "the suffering of the people" cannot be delayed and cannot be slackened.