Du Jiahao, Deputy Secretary of Hunan provincial Committee and Hunan Governor (left), encouraged Rednet to focus on reporting average people, and to reflect their wishes and voices, after his attendance of the discussion of delegation from Changsha on February 11, 2014.
Rednet (Changsha): "The reports of Rednet should focus more on average people, " said Du Jiahao, Deputy Secretary of Hunan provincial Committee and Hunan Governor , encouraged Rednet to focus on reporting average people, and to reflect their wishes and voices, after his attendance of the discussion of delegation from Changsha on February 11, 2014.
Du said that the most impressive story of Rednet last year seemed still fresh for him, which was the report about the large number of grass-root cadres’ vivid stories for drought-resistance period in 2013. Last year, Hunan suffered from an unusual drought, and then cadres of various levels and the masses all had worked hard for drought-resistance, under the leadership of Hunan provincial party Committee and Government. The article of August 5, catching Du’s attention by the headlines of Rednet’s Home page, is about a village secretary of regional CP drains his private fish ponds for irrgating villagers’ plants for local drought-resistance, on the consequence, 15000 kilogram of his personal owned fish is all dead of drought, submitted by Rednet’s branch website in Shaoyang County.
The next day after the report was published on Rednet, Du praised Su Zhongqing, the village cadre, for his outstanding characteristic of the selflessness and his regardless of personal gains and loses, through a phone call to Shaoyang County. The spirits is worthwhile for all cadres’ learning for implement a "mass line" campaign throughout the province. "Mass line" refers to a guideline under which the Communist Party of China (CPC) is required to prioritize the interests of the people and persist in exercising power for them.
Su’s selfless act has touched Hunan netizens. Du expressed his concern for grass-roots living, which also get endorsed by Rednet’s readers.
"As the party's grass-roots cadres, a village Party cadre, Su made a difficult choice, a ' helpless ' choice. Though helpless, it immediately drew attention and affirmation from higher Party organizations--leadership of Hunan CPC and Government. " Fu cun, a commentator, said that soul resonance between Governor Du and a village cadre means a lot, and it gives everyone the firm confidence for drought relief and regaining production, at the critical time .
"Concerns about the grass roots is the Government's duty, " said Du. In this year's Government work report, Du pointed out that , government should ensure and improve people's livelihood, by continuing solid work for average people, providing job opportunities for people, building a more fair and sustainable social security systems, and multiply increasing residents ' income in 2014. Du encouraged Rednet focusing reports on average people, by reflecting the wishes and voices of people.
(Reporter Liao Jie and Chen Zonghao, photo by Feng Jun)
