Let grassroots cadres bear less burden and take more responsibility

One morning, Luo Qian, a cadre from Zhongshan Road Subdistrict Office in Yongchuan District, Chongqing, finished her desk work early. She first visited Li Jian, a poverty-stricken household, in Sunjiakou Village, and then gave a lecture to the villagers on the prevention and control of pine wilt disease. In the past, she had to spend a lot of time in the office every day dealing with various tedious reports. Nowadays, thanks to the "One Meter Pass" intelligent reporting reform, local grassroots cadres like her have more time to sink into communities, merchants, and enterprises

Reducing the burden at the grassroots level reduces the unnecessary burden on grassroots workers and increases the real sense of gain for the people. A document is stamped densely, and various summary reports are overwhelming... "Grid workers have become spreadsheets", with many tedious and repetitive tasks on their shoulders. To serve the people solidly, they often lack the ability. Over time, this will inevitably lead to omissions in work and alienation from the masses

Grassroots are the "nerve endings" of national governance and the "last mile" of serving the people. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has explicitly demanded the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, and various regions have a clear understanding of the necessity and urgency of reducing the burden on the grassroots. But it should be noted that in order to achieve practical results in reducing burdens, it is necessary to rely on solid institutional innovation. If we only stay at the level of slogans and documents, we may fall into a vicious cycle of opposing formalism with formalism

At the same time as decisively cutting ties and improving process efficiency through digital empowerment, Yongchuan District has gained valuable experience and established an effective long-term mechanism. In recent years, in response to pain points such as "table proliferation" and "excessive leaving of traces", many places have drawn a clear line of "responsibility fields" and "merged similar items", and carried out beneficial explorations. Wuhu City, Anhui Province has launched the "Report Pass" platform, which replaces manual filling with automatic data filling; Guizhou has launched a pilot project of "one table" for village level basic data and established a unified reporting mechanism for grassroots basic data. Practice has shown that there are many good ways to reduce the burden at the grassroots level, and the key is to establish a normalized mechanism to further consolidate the good results of streamlining grassroots procedural work

To promote grassroots burden reduction through mechanism innovation, we need to be particularly vigilant about the problem of "fake innovation, real form". Breaking formalism cannot be achieved overnight, and there will also be a struggle between new mechanisms and old problems. In reality, grassroots discourse power is relatively small, and the well intentioned burden reduction mechanism may also encounter problems such as "heavy coverage, light implementation" and "only seeing medication without efficacy" if it encounters layers of escalation and shifting of responsibility. To prevent the burden reduction mechanism from deviating and becoming tasteless, more patience is needed, and more "looking back" is needed to ensure that the fence at every stage is tightly tied and solid

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "doing useful things well and doing less useless work requires joint efforts from all aspects." Rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots is a systematic project. It requires courage and practical measures to innovate mechanisms to resolve structural problems, so that grassroots cadres can bear less burden and take more responsibility. The modernization level of grassroots governance will definitely be further improved, and the vast number of party members and cadres will have more energy to bend down and serve the masses