Online Interview
Topic: Improving Work Style to Get Things Done and Benefit the People
Time:10:30 AM (Thu) February 13, 2014
Special Guests:Zhang Yanjia, Deputy Director General, the Office of the Leading Group for Mass Line Campaign of the GACC and Permanent Deputy Secretary, the Party Committee of the GACC
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Improving Work Style to Get Things Done and Benefit the People
[Netizen: Jiji]: With the successful conclusion of the first stage of the campaign, what are the new ideas and measures the Customs has in mind for the second stage? 02/13/2014 9:40:04
[Zhang Yanjia]: By drawing on the experience of the first stage, the Party Leadership Group of GAC proposes that, in the second stage, Customs should consolidate the foundation of thinking, maintain close contacts with people and focus on tackling prominent issues. Customs are also required to remain strict and practical with themselves, give different guidance to different categories and to achieve coherence and coordination. 02/13/2014 11:23:56
[Zhang Yanjia]: Since grass-root units feature more direct and broader contacts with and services for the masses, and an easier access to conflicts and problems, emphasis is laid on those problems like poor awareness of enforcing law for people, bad attitude, nonfeasance and malpractice. It is also intended to make sure the practice of grassroots in terms of strict, impartial and civilized law enforcement. All of these are going to bring customs services to a new level. 02/13/2014 11:25:15
[Netizen: Thoughts on a Still Night]: Have the Customs ever carried out criticism and self-criticism? What are the problems found and raised? Would you mind putting them on the table? 02/13/2014 9:43:11
[Zhang Yanjia]: Under the leadership of the Party Leadership Group of GACC, seminars on democratic life have been convened with great success by leading groups of all departments designated as the first batch. Prior to the seminars, an accumulative 5,300-odd hours of hearty talks has come off, where questions, thoughts and suggestions have all been well exchanged. 02/13/2014 11:26:23
[Zhang Yanjia]: The seminars focused on the "four forms of decadence", that is, formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance. With open minds, all attendees managed to rake up their own faults and shortcomings, converse freely with each other and come to agreements, with an outcome of over 2,700 pieces of critiques and opinions communicated among them. 02/13/2014 11:27:05
[Zhang Yanjia]: For the part of the Party Leadership Group, it ferreted out and put on the table those prominent problems including focusing on form and neglecting actual effect resulted from learning at the superficial level, opting for departmentalism and isolating from the people, slacking off and reconciling to current situation with no spirits of reform and innovation, keeping up with the Joneses and hankering after vainglory, etc. 02/13/2014 11:27:51
[Netizen: Beiye]: In what ways do you conform to the eight-point rules laid out by the Central Government? 02/13/2014 9:44:38
[Zhang Yanjia]: Right after the introduction of eight-point rules, the Party Leadership Group of GACC has worked out “25+10” concrete measures which agree with the rules and highlight diligence and thrift, and has refined further requirements and standards. In practice, the Party Leadership Group has launched successively six special regulation projects centering on the implementation of the eight-point rules and the Regulations on Practicing Thrift and Opposing Waste in Party and Government Organs. 02/13/2014 11:29:16
[Zhang Yanjia]: For instances, with regulating the office space owned by top leaders of all departments as a start, Customs nationwide has cleared over 28,600 square meters of excessive office space used by leading cadres, and called a halt to six on-going construction projects. 02/13/2014 11:30:12