"In the past, I was poor, and asked if I had eaten, but I asked if I had eaten soup? I couldn't eat a few meals." At the 2018 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping talked about a small thing from that year.

Applause and laughter in the venue were stirring, and the General Secretary continued: "The habit of thrift and thrift should be preserved. Until now, at my family, no rice grains can be lost. It has been passed down from my father at that time, and it will be criticized for waste of food conscience." "My father's thrift is almost harsh." Xi Jinping once wrote in a letter to his father Xi Zhongxun: "We have developed the habit of thrift and thrifty family education since childhood." "Such a good family tradition should be passed down from generation to generation." Xi Jinping, deeply influenced by family tradition, has always maintained his true nature of thrift. When working in Zhengding, Xi Jinping often rode his bicycle to the countryside in an old military uniform and conducted research. He lined up in the canteen to make meals like everyone else, slept in the simple office, and had old mattresses covered with patches on the bed. When he arrived in Ningde, Xi Jinping asked to keep everything simple, not change cars or offices, live in staff dormitories and eat in staff canteens, "in life, we must implement the 'minimum standards' and treat ourselves as an ordinary person."

"Frugality means codification, and if you are codifying, all virtues will prosper; if you are extravagant, all evils will be permissible." On December 4, 2012, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee reviewed and passed the eight regulations on improving work style and maintaining close ties with the masses, namely the "Eight Central Regulations", and "Thrift and thrift should be strictly implemented" is an important part of it.

"Leading cadres at all levels should set an example and set an example. They should do what they say and fulfill what they promise. Comrades from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee will start with me."

General Secretary Xi Jinping takes the lead in strictly implementing the eight central regulations. When I went to Hebei for investigation, I ate big pot of vegetables, lived in a temporary prefabricated house in the Lushan earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan, and had lunch with grassroots representatives in Gutian, Fujian and ate red rice and pumpkin soup. When I went back to Liangjiahe, I ate buckwheat stew, oil buns, and hemp soup rice with my fellow villagers. For visiting activities, we have repeatedly instructed to actuate the number of days staying in the delegation hotel. If you can, you can save as much as you want, don’t waste it, and don’t live in luxury, just be clean and comfortable.

"Great Changes - Large-scale Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up" once exhibited the dinner menu and other notes of Xi Jinping's visit to Fuping County, Hebei Province in 2012 - Xi Jinping ate the standard "four dishes and one soup": braised local chicken nuggets, Fuping stewed vegetables, fried garlic sprouts of pork belly, garlic and Chinese cabbage, and winter melon meatball soup.

Dinner menu (copy) when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Fuping County, Hebei Province in 2012.

"The waste in the catering process is shocking." "Thinking that there are still a large number of people in need in our country, the serious existence of various waste phenomena is very heartbreaking." General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions on stopping food waste, and promoted the trend of "waste is shameful and saving is glorious" and has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Frugality is our heirloom, and we cannot be thrown away at any time." "Our financial resources are constantly increasing, but we must not waste them too much!" "We cannot say that we have money, and we will float up and show off. This is not possible. We will eat and wear endlessly, and we will not plan to be poor for a lifetime."

At the opening ceremony of the training class for young and middle-aged cadres of the Central Party School (National School of Administration) in the fall semester of 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that frugality and simplicity and efforts to avoid extravagance are our heirlooms. Now, our living conditions are better, but the spirit of hard work must be lacking. We must insist on cultivating ourselves with frugality and building our business with frugality, and insist on practicing thrift and doing everything thrifty.

"No matter what level our country develops to, no matter how people's lives improve, the idea of ​​hard work and thrift can never be lost." In Xi Jinping's view, "hard work and thrift are not only important guarantees for us to develop and grow along the way, but also important guarantees for us to carry forward the past and create glory again."

On October 27, 2022, less than a week after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China closed, General Secretary Xi Jinping led the newly elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to Yan'an to pay tribute to the revolutionary holy land. Back then, Comrade Mao Zedong and other older generation revolutionaries lived in Yan'an, living in caves, eating coarse grains, and wearing common clothes, defeating the "Xi'an style" with the "Yan'an style". At the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall, the General Secretary's speech was earnest: "All comrades in the Party should vigorously carry forward the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle. No matter how rich our material life is in the future, the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle must not be lost. Be down-to-earth, work hard, concentrate on doing your own things well, and put the development of the country and the nation on the basis of your own strength." Source: "Selected Readings of Xi Jinping's Works" (Volume 1), People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Communist Party News Network, etc. Producer: Liang Changjie Planning: Yue Xiaoqiao Written by: Huangfu Lingyu Poster: Wang Yufeng