Turn "five overabundances" to "five cut-downs" to improve cadres' governing capability

During recent years, the CPC Central Committee has adopted measures including large-scale trainings on secretaries of county Party committees and directors of public security bureaus as well as 10,000 directors of organization departments going to grassroots units. What's your expectation on new measures about construction of cadres' governing capability to be put forward at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee?

Xu Yaotong, director of the Scientific Research Department under the China National School of Administration recently said in an interview with the People's Daily Online (PDO) that I expect that new discussions about construction of cadres' governing capability will be put forward and some new measures will be adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of 17th CPC Central Committee. In general, emphasis should be placed on studying, seeking truth from facts, stressing practical results and innovation as well as keeping in close contact with the masses. These are the fundamental requirements and important means to improve the governing capability of various levels of cadres.

Improving governing capacity is not an empty talk. To improve it, the current "five overabundances" in the "officialdom" must be overcome. These include: excessive meetings, speeches, documents, entertainment and assessment. If cadres carry out their work heavily depending on the "five overabundances," they would cultivate other kinds of capabilities, including those to alienate from the masses and palter with superiors, to pay lip services rather than solve practical problems, to assign work but never check results, and to only go through formalities but care nothing about efficiency. I think that "five overabundances" should be overcome and transformed into "five cut-downs," namely, cutting down meetings, documents, speeches, entertainment and assessment. Only by doing so can cadres' capacities to study, seek truth from reality, stress practical results and innovation as well as keep in close contact with the masses can be better cultivated.

By People's Daily Online