Civil servant interviews think like President Xi

Quotes from the Supreme Leader

"The people’s yearning for a better life is our goal."

"Our people love life and look forward to better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory income, more reliable social security, better health care, more comfortable living conditions, a better environment, and hope that their children can grow up better, work better, and live better. The people’s yearning for a better life is our goal."

(2) "You need to be hard to strike iron."

"It is our responsibility to work with the whole party to insist that the party should manage the party, strictly govern the party, effectively solve the outstanding problems existing in ourselves, effectively improve the work style, and closely contact the masses, so that our party will always become the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics."

(3) "Always have a heart-to-heart with the people"

"We must always have a heart-to-heart with the people, share weal and woe with the people, and work in unity with the people. We must work hard in public all night, and strive to hand over a qualified answer to history and the people."

"The Chinese Dream"

"Everyone has ideals and pursuits, and they all have their own dreams. Now, everyone is talking about the Chinese dream. I think that achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times."

(5) "Empty talk misleads the country, but practical work rejuvenates the country"

"Empty talk misleads the country, and hard work rejuvenates the country. Our generation of Communists must carry on the past and build the future, build our party well, unite all Chinese sons and daughters to build our country well, develop our nation well, and continue to move forward bravely towards the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."

(6) "Reform will not stop, and opening up will not stop."

"The whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country must unswervingly follow the path of reform and opening up to strengthen the country, pay more attention to the systematization, integrity and coordination of reform, ensure that reform does not stop and opening up does not stop, and work together to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and accelerate socialist modernization."

(7) "Dream of a Strong Army"

"Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation since modern times. It can be said that this dream is a dream of a strong country, and for the military, it is also a dream of a strong army. To achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must insist on the unity of a rich country and a strong army, and strive to build and consolidate national defense and a strong army."

(8) "Keep the safety of the masses in mind at all times"

"We must pay special attention, care and concern for the people in need, do everything possible to help them solve their problems, take the safety of the people to heart at all times, and send the warmth of the party and the government to thousands of households."

(9) "Stepping stones to leave marks, grabbing iron marks"

"We must grasp it with the vigor of stepping on stones and leaving marks, grasping iron marks, making a good start and ending, doing a good job, preventing anticlimactic situations, letting the whole party and the people supervise, and letting the people constantly see tangible results and changes."

(10) Fighting "tigers" and "flies" together

"Strictly governing the party, the hand of punishment must not be relaxed. We must insist on fighting’tigers’ and’flies’ together. We must not only resolutely investigate and deal with cases of violations of discipline and law by leading cadres, but also effectively solve the problems of unhealthy practices and corruption that occur around the masses. We must insist that there are no exceptions in front of party discipline and state laws. No matter who is involved, we must investigate to the end and never tolerate it."

(11) "Lock power in the cage of the system"

"It is necessary to strengthen the restriction and supervision of the operation of power, lock power into the cage of the system, and form a punishment mechanism that does not dare to be corrupt, a prevention mechanism that cannot be corrupt, and a guarantee mechanism that is not easy to be corrupt."

(12) "Never sacrifice core national interests"

"We must stick to the path of peaceful development, but we must never give up our legitimate rights and interests, and we must never sacrifice our core national interests. No foreign country should expect us to trade with our core interests, and we should not expect us to swallow the bitter fruit of harming our country’s sovereignty, security and development interests."

(13) "We must tolerate sharp criticism."

"For the Chinese Communist Party, it must tolerate sharp criticism, and if there is one, it must be corrected and if not, it must be encouraged. For people outside the party, it must have the courage to speak the truth, dare to speak unpleasant words, and truly reflect the voices of the masses.

(14) "Study, study, study again"

"If our cadres want to move up, our party wants to move up, our country wants to move up, and our nation wants to move up, we must make great efforts to learn, keep learning, keep learning, keep practicing, practice, practice."

(15) "Whether the shoes fit or not, you won’t know until you wear them."

Whether a country’s development path is suitable or not, only the people of that country have the most say.

Source: Huatu Education