——Cited in the "Speech at the Seminar on Comprehensively Deepening Reform for Major Leading Cadres at the Provincial and Ministerial Level to Study and Implement the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee".

■Interpretation

Regarding our road and our system, Comrade Xi Jinping has constantly emphasized the need to "have self-confidence". Indeed, China has become the world's second largest economy, weaving a social safety net covering 1.3 billion people, and such economic and social development achievements have been internationally recognized, and more and more people have begun to recognize our national governance system and governance capabilities. However, there are also different voices, whether it is the "China threat theory" or the "China collapse theory", which have been heard endlessly. "Whether the shoes fit or not, you will know when you wear them", our national governance system and governance capacity are what we have come out of in the exploration step by step, and we know best whether they are suitable or not. Over the past 30 years, China has not only survived from promoting economic and social development to coping with sudden natural disasters and various international economic crises and political turmoil, but has also developed better after every storm. This fully shows that our national governance system and governance capacity are generally good, have unique advantages, and meet the requirements of China's national conditions and development. This is the confidence we should have.

■Original text

There is sweetness and bitterness in covering things, and those who taste them know; There is danger in the road, and those who follow it know. It is to feast on the soldiers for a long time, and the listener is flickering; The old adult mourns the canonical form, and the listener sneers.

——(Ming) Liu Ji "Imitation of Lianzhu"

■Definition

"Proposed Lianzhu" is the founding father of the Ming Dynasty Liu Ji imitated the style of Lianzhu, a total of 68 songs. Liu Ji's ideas come from Confucius, Meng, Xun, Mo, Yi Xue, famous scholars, Legalists, soldiers, Lao Zhuang Taoists, etc., so he is known as the "generation of Wenzong" who "knows a hundred schools of thought and is compatible with Confucianism and Taoism". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhong Yu, the founder of the Jingling Literary School, commented: "The principle of living in the world, using the way of virtuous governance, and the husband Yin and Yang blessings and misfortunes, prosperity and decline and chaos are all in the sixty-eight songs. ”

The "infinite usefulness" of "Proposed Lianzhu" is to pay attention to practical learning, practical results, and practical skills, and emphasize practical skills. On the issue of "distinguishing between name and reality", Liu Ji advocated using "form" and "reality" to prove "sound" and "name", and the main point of view is: "Observing form in sound, not necessarily seeing form; Seeking truth in name may not be true", opposing general descriptive language and theories such as "sound" and "name", and advocating to obtain an understanding of the essence of things from "form" and "reality". To this end, he proposed: "There are sweet and bitter things, and those who taste them know; There is danger in the road, and those who follow it know. "It means that there is a bitterness in everything, and you will only know it if you have tried it; The roads in the world are smooth and bumpy, and you will only understand them if you walk through them. This is the same as Comrade Mao Zedong's remark that "if you want to know the taste of pears, you must taste them with your own mouth", and both expound the principle that "practice brings true knowledge."