People's Daily Online: When Bo Xilai and Lei Zhengfu were in power, they spoke arrogantly, but in private they acted like dogs.

People's Daily: When Bo Xilai and Lei Zhengfu were in power, they spoke arrogantly but in private they acted like dogs. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the first appearance of the new leadership was refreshing. For example...

It has been 15 days since the new leadership took office. The media has sensitively discovered that many "new" ideas are often related to expressions. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s plain speaking, Vice Premier Li Keqiang’s pragmatism during meetings, his emphasis on grassroots opinions, his “zero tolerance” for officials’ scripted speeches, and his comparison of the dangers of formalism with corruption. What does it all mean?

Chinese people have always valued expression. As the saying goes, listen to his words and watch his actions. Expression is almost always closely linked to action. The reason why empty talk harms the country has four disadvantages:

First, empty talk covers up the emptiness of values, and mediocre language means mediocre thoughts. Only by liberating the mind can we liberate expression. This is an irrefutable principle. The lack of innovative thinking, lack of reform spirit, conservative and backward concepts will inevitably lead to boring and empty expressions. When Mao Zedong was in a cave dwelling in Yan'an, facing the raging war, he vigorously "opposed the party's stereotyped writing". According to his words: "If we do not oppose the stereotyped writing and old dogmatism, the Chinese people's minds will not be liberated from the constraints of the stereotyped writing and old dogmatism, and China will have no hope of freedom and independence." Similarly, if we do not abandon empty talk and do not emancipate our minds, the Chinese nation will have no hope of rejuvenation and development. This is a serious mistake for the country!

Second, empty talk builds a wall of tyranny and privilege. The ruling class of China’s feudal society has used mythology and self-isolation since ancient times to create privileged ways of expression, such as the serious disconnect between written language and spoken language, and the monopoly of writing, that is, the monopoly of expression, maintained through the monopoly of education. The greatest significance of the May Fourth vernacular movement was to break the tyranny and privilege of expression, thereby liberating the minds of the public. Nowadays, stereotyped expressions in some local officialdoms seem to be deeply ingrained. As soon as officials on the stage open their mouths, they will spout out empty words like running water, as if they are isolating themselves from the public with a fence, maintaining a false and superior sense of superiority, and destroying the mutual trust, consensus and relationship between the party and the masses, and between the government and the people. This is a serious mistake for the country!

Third, empty talk obscures the truth and condones hypocrisy. When Bo Xilai, Lei Zhengfu and other corrupt officials were in power, they spoke arrogantly and high-soundingly, as if they had the justice of the world under their control, but in private they acted like dogs and acted against the laws of nature. Some officials also take the inconsistency between words and deeds as a matter of course and take it for granted. This kind of custom is still spreading everywhere, even affecting children. The "fake empty space" in compositions and the "standardized expressions and expressions" in TV shots have made distortion and inaccuracy the norm for the next generation, poisoning the pure and simple national temperament and suffocating people. This is a serious mistake for the country!

Fourth, empty talk has allowed laziness to prevail. Some officials in charge are accustomed to having their secretaries and subordinates prepare speeches, and are content to become "props" for meetings and speeches. They are willing to be officials who do not use their brains, do not pay attention to the public sentiment, and do not do practical things. Over time, laziness, indolence, and laziness in governance have become an epidemic in the officialdom, with all the airs and ostentation but few people doing practical work. This is a serious mistake for the country!

In this sense, the new leaders have set an example in terms of expression. They deeply hate the empty talk that harms the country, cut into the current shortcomings, and attack the old habits of the officialdom. The new trend of expression that emerged in just 15 days has brought the country closer to the people and allowed the Chinese people to see the hope of rejuvenating the country.

Put an end to empty talk, there is no greater good!