Original title: "Any work and do anything for the masses, we must seek truth from facts" (General Secretary’s feelings for the people)

In December 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the democratic life meeting held by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee: "Leading cadres at all levels should go deep into the grassroots and the masses, strengthen investigation and research, clarify the people’s urgent difficulties and worries, clarify the prominent problems that need to be solved urgently at the grassroots level, and study and solve them in a targeted manner."

"We must make good use of existing reform achievements and important experiences, emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, keep pace with the times, seek truth from facts, be realistic and pragmatic, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, and do our best to organize and implement the reform tasks." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the sixth meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform on August 29, 2024.

In April 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping used "wobu noodle" and "fine noodles" as an analogy to discuss the development of coal and other energy industries: "Food your stomach first and then eat well. We must be realistic, neither slow down the pace of green and low-carbon development nor be too ideal. First, we must ensure energy supply."

"Eat your stomach first and then eat well", which contains a methodology that starts from reality and seeks truth from facts.

Seeking truth from facts is the essence of Marxism. Adhering to starting from reality in everything is the starting point and end point for us to think about problems, make decisions, and do things. In March 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Hunan: "Any work and anything to do to the masses must be realistic."

The basis for adhering to seeking truth from facts lies in understanding the "practical things".

Understanding the facts, grasping the crux of the problem through investigation and research is General Secretary Xi Jinping’s consistent working method.

When working in the local area, Comrade Xi Jinping has mastered the truth and understood the "practical things".

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has traveled all over the country, using research to open up the road, discover problems, understand national conditions, seek laws, and continuously enrich and develop the theory and practice of governing the country. It has also set a brilliant example for the whole party to attach importance to, in-depth research and be good at research.

The key to adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts lies in "seeking truth", which means exploring and mastering the laws of the development of things.

Things must have a way, and then they can be accomplished. Comrade Xi Jinping once said in his local work: "Leaders must have a level. Where does the level come from? Level comes from the understanding and mastery of objective laws, and regular things are hidden in the practice of the general public."

Promote rural industrial revitalization, "Does a county rely solely on one industry to develop, and in-depth research"; promote common prosperity, "not tied together like a crab, no one can move, but encourage some people to get rich first" "Full first bring wealth later"... Come from the masses, go from the masses, and go between coming and going, is the transformation from understanding the laws to applying the laws, and is a vivid practice of General Secretary Xi Jinping's leadership in promoting the governance of the country in the new era.

During the 2024 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly explained the methodology of developing new quality productivity, emphasizing that "we must prevent rushing and bubbles, and do not build a model. All localities should insist on starting from reality, establishing first and then breaking, adapting to local conditions, and providing guidance in a classified manner."

Developing new quality productivity according to local conditions means that all localities should put themselves in a national game, grasp the laws of development, and find a development track that suits them: places with rich scientific and educational innovation resources, take emerging industries and future industries supported by basic R&D and core technologies as the focus, and further improve the innovation capabilities of "from 0 to 1"; places with dense traditional industries, focus on the combination of high-tech and traditional manufacturing, use new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, and actively promote the high-end, intelligent and green industries... It is not slow or urgent, and continue to work hard when you focus on it, unswervingly and work hard for a long time.

"How much soup is soaked as much steamed buns", "Ask woodcutters into the mountains and water to ask fishermen", "One key opens a lock"... Let's set an example again and again, and teach by example. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, seeking truth from facts, and planning careers and work from reality, so that the ideas, policies and plans put forward are in line with actual conditions, objective laws, and scientific spirit, and implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee with creative work."

Adhere to starting from reality and seeking truth from facts is not only a matter of ideological methods, but also a matter of strong party spirit. How to prevent blindly and reckless actions from "rushing up", how to insist on doing what you do and not doing what you do, and how to achieve high-quality development under a chess pattern, every step is to test the view of political achievements.

General Secretary Xi Jinping sincerely reminded: "Don't have the urge to do things quickly, that is, we must not act according to the rules, be eager for quick success and instant benefits, and be eager to achieve results. We must suppress this impetuous mentality and impatient attitude, and carry out modernization in a solid and down-to-earth manner."

The fundamental of the concept of political achievements lies in the people. Only by truly putting the people in the highest position in our hearts and taking serving the people and benefiting the people as the most important political achievements can we adhere to the principle of being based on reality and making scientific decisions in specific work, focus on the long-term, lay a solid foundation, and insist on doing practical things and seeking practical results, so as to create achievements that can stand the test of practice, the people and history.

"All the achievements we have made in the past are based on seeking truth from facts. Today, if we want to continue to advance the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we still have to rely on seeking truth from facts." This is the inheritance and development of the Party's successful experience, and this is the strategic soberness and strategic determination of the leaders of major parties and major countries.