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"Handling some affairs at the village committee office is just like dropping in on a neighbor," said a villager from the Shuanglou Village of Duji District, Huaibei in Anhui province. After the high wall of the village committee office was demolished and its iron gate was removed, villagers consider the office as their "new home."
Since the village committee office opened to the public, no piece of glass in the office has ever been broken, and there seems to be much more "chemistry." Handling affairs at the office has become more convenient, the village administrative affairs have become more transparent and the relations between cadres and general villagers have been more harmonious.
Why has the previous office with a high wall and locked gate become a place that every villager likes to visit? A village party secretary explained that both a visible office wall and an invisible wall between cadres and general villagers have been demolished.
The "open village committee" is like a mirror reflecting the new explorations and experience made by various levels of Party organizations in terms of actively improving the relations between the Party and the public as well as between cadres and the public during the campaign of implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development. It has also caused everyone to think about how to improve relations between cadres and the public under this new situation.
Close and harmonious relations between cadres and the public are directly determined by how the cadres treat the public. For instance, Shen Hao, a grassroots-level official in Xiaogang Village, has never had his office door closed in the day or his house door locked at night, so villagers can find him anytime if they have emergencies. "Seek help from Shen if you have difficulties" has become a daily mantra of local villagers.
To make the relations between cadres and the public more harmonious, it is critical for cadres at various levels to become emotionally connected with the people, better service the people, place importance on on-site investigations and research. It is necessary to create conditions to enable the people to monitor the government and to allow the government become closer to the people.
The key to a country's stability is to win the hearts and minds of the people. How can we advance the exchanges between cadres and the public and make their relations more harmonious through democratic and orderly approaches? It is a major task that each Party member, particularly cadres.
By People's Daily Online
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