The process of investigation and research is the process of scientific decision-making.
Investigation and study is a process of understanding the situation. People’s correct ideas do not fall from the sky, are not inherent in their minds, but come from practice. Eating steamed buns chewed by others is tasteless. If you want to know the taste of pears, you have to change them and eat them yourself. No matter making or implementing decisions, it is inseparable from investigation and research. Only through investigation and study can we understand the actual situation, sum up grass-roots experience, create conditions for making correct decisions, and provide first-hand materials for checking the deviation of decisions and problems in the implementation process. At the same time, in the investigation and study, cadres can be assessed, their ideological level, work ability and work style can be understood on the spot, talents can be found, and cadres can be used well.
Investigation and research is a process of promoting work. After a decision is made, it is impossible to rely solely on meeting to meeting and document to document, nor can it solve the problem. Leading cadres should demonstrate their style of work, help and guide them in methods, and pay attention to supervision in implementation. They must sink in and strengthen investigation and research. By creating a certain supervision atmosphere, the momentum of promoting the work is formed, by cultivating and summarizing advanced models, the overall situation is promoted, and the rectification is urged through inspection and criticism, so that everyone has pressure, motivation and vitality.
Investigation and research is a process of connecting with the masses and doing things for the people. By going deep into the grass roots, the reality and the masses, we can understand what the masses are thinking, what they are looking forward to and what our Party committee and government need most. Thus, our various decisions and work arrangements will focus on the wisdom of the people, reflect the public opinion, reflect the people’s feelings, do one thing, win the hearts of the people, and truly achieve the relationship between the people, benefit the people, and use the power for the people.
Investigation and research is also a process of self-learning and improvement. The people are real heroes, while we ourselves are often naive and ridiculous. Since the reform and opening up, the great achievements of Zhejiang’s economic and social development have been created by the people of Zhejiang, and the major decisions made by previous provincial party committees and governments have also come from the vivid practice of the grassroots and the masses. Therefore, in the investigation and study, we should be sensitive and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions, humbly ask for advice, be students of the masses and be friends of the masses.
It is very important to learn to do research. Leading cadres should be immersed in their hearts and not be confused by superficial phenomena; It is necessary to comprehensively analyze the situation, see the whole leopard at a glance, and don’t touch the elephant by the blind; You should arrive without pomp, and don’t bluff and cause disturbance to the people. With more investigation and research, the grass-roots units will run around, run deep and thoroughly, and our skills will increase, our understanding will leap forward and our work will be better.
[Excerpt from the speech made during the investigation in Fuyang on April 9, 2004]
Comrade Chen Yun once said: "When leading organs formulate policies, they should spend more than 90% of their time on investigation and research, and less than 10% of their time on final discussion and decision." He added: "One-sidedness always comes from being busy making policy decisions without studying the actual situation." Why are some of our current decisions not targeted and operable? In the final analysis, the root is that there is a little less investigation and research. "The situation is unclear and the determination is great, and there are countless ideas in my heart."
The correct decision can never be made by one person or a group of people sitting in the house and thinking hard without investigation and research. It can only be produced in the reality of the people’s reform and development. Before making decisions on major issues, our leading cadres must have the determination to keep their eyes down and the spirit of being a pupil, take a step, go out of the yard, go to the workshop dock, go to the fields, conduct field research, communicate and discuss with people from all walks of life who really understand the truth, and obtain authentic, reliable, solid and effective research results through "exchange, comparison and repetition" so as to get correct conclusions. Investigation and research are like "pregnancy in October", and decision-making is like "delivery once". The process of investigation and research is the process of scientific decision-making, and it must not be omitted or sloppy.
[Excerpted from the column "Zhijiang Xinyu" in Zhejiang Daily on August 26th, 2005]
The research work should be "deep, practical, detailed, accurate and effective"
Investigation and research is an important way to keep close contact with the masses, and it is also a breakthrough point and an important link to strengthen the party’s style construction. Leading cadres at all levels in the province must maintain a pragmatic style in their investigation and research work, and strive to be deep, realistic, meticulous, accurate and effective. Seeking "depth" means going deep into the masses and grass roots, being good at making friends with workers, peasants, intellectuals and people from all walks of life, and solving problems in the fields, factories, mines, the masses and all social levels. Seeking "truth" means to be realistic in the style of investigation and research, to simplify official reception, not to be accompanied by layers, not to add extra burden to the grassroots, and to truly listen to the truth, touch the truth and do practical things. To be "detailed" means to listen carefully to the opinions of all parties, not only to the reports of cadres, but also to the reactions of the masses, to both positive and negative opinions, to analyze the problems in depth and to grasp the overall situation. Seeking "accuracy" means that the conclusions drawn from investigation and research should be scientific and accurate. We should not only understand the actual situation comprehensively and thoroughly, but also be good at analyzing contradictions and finding problems, seeing the essence through phenomena, grasping the regular things, and improving the scientific nature of the investigation conclusions. Seeking "effectiveness" means putting forward practical solutions to problems, formulating policies and measures with strong operability, and achieving practical results.
[Excerpt from a speech at the learning meeting of the theoretical learning center group of the provincial party committee on February 10, 2003]
Investigation is a science and an art. At present, we are in an information age, an open society and a stage of transformation in all aspects. To strengthen investigation and research work, we must actively explore the characteristics and laws of investigation and research work in the new period, strive to improve the universality of investigation and research objects, improve the pertinence of investigation and research contents, improve the scientificity of investigation and research methods, improve the effectiveness of investigation and research results, and constantly improve the quality and level of investigation and research work, so as to truly regard investigation and research as a process of understanding the situation, promoting work, connecting with the masses, doing things for the people and improving self-learning.
First, we should improve the universality of the research objects. Modern society is a diversified society. Due to the increasingly fine social division of labor, the differences in all aspects of society are increasingly prominent, and the development situation and focus of different departments and regions are different. In this case, on the one hand, the information needed by the Party committee and the government to make decisions has greatly increased, on the other hand, the representativeness of the local and individual has declined, which requires us to master as many situations as possible, be good at finding general rules from a large number of individual situations, and grasp objective things as a whole, so as to make correct decisions. In the past, there was a practice of crouching down for a week and a half, and typical investigation methods such as "dissecting sparrows" were widely used. This spirit should be studied and promoted, but now the pace of work is so fast, the information channels are so wide, the communication tools are so developed, and we have to take care of the situation on the surface. It is also necessary to improve the methods and means, and it is not appropriate to sell ourselves short. We should not only do a good job in typical investigation, but also pay attention to improving the universality of investigation and research objects. We should not cover the whole area with points, but only see trees and not forests. Comrade Mao Zedong attaches great importance to typical investigation and is an expert in conducting typical investigation, but he also cautiously sees that the application scope of typical investigation results is limited, and warns us not to be trapped in narrow empiricism. For leading cadres, especially provincial leading cadres, personal time and energy are limited, even if they spend more time on their own, it will inevitably have its limitations, and it is difficult to ensure that the objects of investigation and research are sufficiently extensive and representative.To solve this contradiction, it is necessary to give full play to the role of various localities and departments, especially the comprehensive research department, fully mobilize the research strength of all walks of life, make full use of modern information means, and achieve the combination of point and surface, up and down, internal and external, multi-level, multi-directional and multi-channel understanding of the situation, so that the decision-making has more factual basis. As the old saying goes, "A gentleman’s life is different, and goodness is false in things." This is the truth.
Second, we should improve the pertinence of investigation and research contents. Recently, in his important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Hu Jintao explicitly asked us to "be brave in exploration, be brave in tackling difficulties, be good at innovation, analyze new situations, grasp new features and put forward new ideas, unswervingly implement the line, principles and policies of the Central Committee, and carry out work creatively in combination with reality, so as to constantly create a new situation in all work". To carry out this requirement, we must put targeted investigation and research in an important position. Practice shows that our investigation and research should focus on the central work, be close to reality, the masses and decision-making, be busy with ideas and seek for key points, and be targeted, get twice the result with half the effort and be fruitful. If you are away from the central work and the decision-making needs, the research effect will be greatly reduced. The current economic and social life is extremely complicated, so the policy research department should carry out investigation and study, and the countermeasures and suggestions put forward should not be vague and empty, but must be realistic, correct in thinking and specific in measures. In particular, under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development and the theory of building a harmonious socialist society, we should thoroughly study some new situations and problems in the practice of implementing the "Eighth Five-Year Plan", building a "peaceful Zhejiang" and a cultural province, and constantly put forward insights on "serving the symptoms". For most research results, improving pertinence means timeliness. For hot issues and important issues that leaders pay attention to, we must concentrate our efforts, respond quickly, investigate in time, and actively seek ideas, ideas, countermeasures, suggestions and solutions for leaders to meet their decision-making needs. "Writing at the right time, a word is worth a thousand dollars", and "being born at the right time" can be used for it. If times change and the focus of work shifts, the research results will be slowly produced, even if it is comprehensive, correct and profound, it will be too late to be of great use.
Third, we should improve the diversity of investigation and research methods. Our party has rich experience in investigation and research, and has formed many effective investigation and research methods in long-term practice, such as holding investigation meetings, seminars, visiting investigations, casing investigations, typical investigations, field visits, etc., which we should inherit and improve in the new period. At the same time, we must adapt to the new situation of economic and social development and change, be good at using scientific investigation methods, and comprehensively apply multidisciplinary theories such as economics, sociology, information theory, system theory and cybernetics to provide comprehensive, accurate and reliable information and data for correct decision-making. In concrete practice, we should adopt different investigation methods according to different investigation tasks and requirements, combine micro-investigation with macro-investigation, combine qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, boldly innovate and take a multi-pronged approach to improve the efficiency of investigation work and the quality of investigation results.
Fourth, we should improve the effectiveness of the research results. The general investigation and research is to understand the facts of the basic level and enhance the feelings with the masses, but the policy research department requires a little higher, not only to focus on investigation, but also to focus on research. I once said that "the key is to be good at research after investigation, to be good at spying on the whole leopard when grasping the point, and to be able to see the micro-knowledge and comprehensive refining in the running." Comrades in the policy research department should have the sensitivity to grasp the key points and identify the typical ones, and carry forward the spirit of perseverance and inquiry. At the same time, the investigation and study of the policy research department is not pure theoretical research, but also different from the specific work deployment, but a countermeasure application research combining theory with practice, and it must be emphasized that "research is applied". As the saying goes, "words can carry the Tao, and use is the most expensive." Specifically, the topic of investigation must be closely related to the needs of practical work. The starting point is to provide necessary countermeasures and suggestions for the work of party committees and governments, and the foothold is to solve specific problems in economic and social life; The field of vision of research must be broad and open, not only to foresee the trend and the general trend, but also to see the signs and tendencies of "the wind rises at the end of Qingping"; The process of investigation must be a process of careful analysis and research, from the rough to the fine, from the false to the true, from the outside to the inside. It must be able to grasp the essence and crux of things, reflect the whole picture and characteristics of things, find effective ways and means to solve problems, and avoid superficial, subjective assumptions, isolated, static and one-sided observation and research; The suggestions formed by the investigation must take into account both needs and possibilities.Put forward practical and concrete measures. Some countermeasures and suggestions seem to be correct, but they can only be shelved because they are difficult to actually operate.
[Excerpt from a speech at the Policy Research Office of the Provincial Party Committee on November 2, 2005]
To engage in pilot projects, we should "boldly imagine and carefully verify"
In various reforms, we often adopt the pilot method and gain some experience before popularizing it. Since it is a pilot project, which has never been done before, we must have the spirit of "being the first in the world", emancipate our minds, boldly rush and try, and reform whatever is conducive to development; It is to go beyond the original system and fundamentally break through the shackles of development.
Do a good job in the pilot work, while "boldly imagining", but also "carefully verifying." We should pay attention to strategies and methods, and strive to follow suit. We should adhere to the point test, promote it on the surface, make it easy before it is difficult, make it shallow before it is deep, adjust measures to local conditions, do not make a one-size-fits-all approach, and do not seek quick march. In the first pilot, we should encourage success, tolerate failure, correct mistakes, and pay attention to protecting the enthusiasm of cadres and the masses for reform; In all-round promotion, we should lead the way with mature experience, avoid repetition, reduce mistakes and minimize the risks and costs of reform as much as possible. At the same time, we should pay attention to combining the strength of reform with the affordability of the people, strengthen ideological and political work, improve various supporting measures, be active and steady, and make overall plans to ensure the smooth progress of reform.
[Excerpted from the column "Zhijiang Xinyu" of Zhejiang Daily on September 10, 2003.Article]