The tradition of thrift should not be lost.

When Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communists to Jinggang Mountain, he ate red rice and pumpkin soup and slept on soft and yellow straw. In 1935, the Communists ate grass roots and gnawed tree bark on the long March, and the team moved forward as one. In 1936, in the Shensi-Gansu-Ningxia Border region, the Communists added millet with rifles and did it themselves to provide adequate food and clothing. The subsequent War of Resistance against Japan and the War of Liberation always maintained the revolutionary nature of hard struggle and thrift, closely relied on the broad masses of the people, and always safeguarded the interests of the masses of the people. Therefore, it is invincible on the way forward.

After winning the national victory, he went to the city, like the good eight companies on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, always maintained the fine tradition and style of hard struggle. The Chinese Communists could not tolerate the slightest corruption of a very small number of people in power in the party, and severely investigated and dealt with a handful of scum, such as Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan. It is precisely because Communist Party of China has always been diligent and frugal, hard-working and simple, and consistent with the broad masses of the people, no matter what difficulties he encountered in the revolutionary road, he was able to overcome them one by one and won one victory after another.

At present, in some places, some people are inconsistent with the Party's regulations, such as eating and drinking, which has been banned repeatedly. A banquet worth a few hundred yuan or a few thousand yuan is not magnificent, and even a table worth more than 10,000 yuan dares to set it up; a school bus worth tens of thousands of yuan carries dozens of students; and a public car worth hundreds of thousands of yuan carries a person in power. Moreover, the queue of buses is getting larger and larger, and those who have some power can get one for themselves, no matter what level they are. people at the bottom have difficulties and sometimes cannot be solved in a timely manner, and people pin their hopes on meeting a Bao Qingtian. So, petition, petition again.

After the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke earnestly and earnestly hoped that the whole party would strictly practice thrift and oppose extravagance and waste, and like the timely rain of a long drought, it would bring happiness and hope to the party and the people.

The older generation of revolutionaries set an example of thrift.

As we all know, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, revolutionaries of the older generation of Communist Party of China, usually had broken clothes and were reluctant to throw them away, and would mend them many times in a row until they were too rotten to wear any more. The clothes they wear are made at their own expense.

In the mid-1960s, when I was a soldier in a grass-roots company of an airborne unit, General Chen Zaidao, commander of the Wuhan military region, also experienced life in that company. I had the privilege of witnessing his every move. We recruits ate at the same table with him every day, and the commander ate the same food as we did. Once, several grains of rice fell under the table, and we saw with our own eyes that the commander bent down and picked them up from under the table and ate them. The commander is not putting on a show, it is fast and natural. Only four of our seven new soldiers witnessed the scene, and the other three didn't know it. He usually does this all the time and cherishes food very much. He usually wears a soldier's uniform with two pockets (the soldier's uniform at that time) and stands guard like a soldier. If he is no different from an ordinary soldier in appearance, he is exactly the same, but he is a little older from his age.

Later, I was transferred to a certain airport of the East Guangdong Air Force to work at the grass-roots level. One day, I received instructions from Marshal Ye Jianying and General Xu Shiyou, then commander of the Guangzhou military region, asking me to report the situation to them. Therefore, I had the privilege of witnessing their elegant demeanor. Ye Shuai, dressed in four pockets (the army's cadre uniform at that time), was smiling and amiable. I vaguely remember that I was not nervous at all during the report. After the report, Ye Shuai was very satisfied and said: thank you! Commander Xu is also wearing a cool military uniform with four pockets and straw sandals on his feet. he is the kind of straw sandals made of waste cloth strips. According to the people around him, Commander Xu wears straw sandals all the year round, and sometimes he makes them himself. The straw sandals worn by the commander when he was young were made of straw and changed to strips of cloth when he was older.

The style of hard work, frugality, and closeness with the masses of the people of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries has given the masses confidence and trust. I was thinking that these senior leaders of Communist Party of China are all so simple, so honorable and amiable. Communist Party of China must be great. Therefore, I am determined to follow the Communist Party forever. Through my efforts, it took me five years to grow from an ordinary soldier to an honorable Communist Party of China Party member.

Older people like us, who have long been influenced by the words and deeds of the older generation of revolutionaries, have gradually formed the habit of not being extravagant, wasteful, and industrious and thrifty. Not long ago, I took my family to visit the deputy political commissar of the South China Sea Fleet (Major General). The deputy political commissar is a classmate of my high school and university, and he is also a fellow townsman. We haven't seen each other in the past 40 years, and we are incomparably affectionate when we meet each other. I can't wait to explain what we have said for decades. The general took his family and entertained my family in the army canteen, eating the food that the commanders and soldiers ate that day. The deputy commissar also paid out of his own pocket and spent 50 yuan to add two very ordinary dishes to our two families. According to regulations, the leaders at the general level can entertain their old comrades-in-arms at public expense when they meet their old classmates who are working in the army for the first time. But he is strict with himself and would rather pay for himself than eat and drink with public money.

The consumption of public funds is shocking, and the masses of the people hate it.

Today, some party members do not strictly require themselves in accordance with Communist Party of China's regulations. According to the estimate of researcher Wang Xi-zinc, in 2006, China's public expenditure on food and drink, bus expenses, and public funds going abroad reached 900 billion yuan, and more than four three Gorges can be built, or more than the sum of national defense expenditure, medical expenditure and education expenditure. According to statistics of Zhu Hongxia, a member of the Zhejiang CPPCC National Committee, it was 37 billion yuan in 1989, more than 100 billion yuan in 1994, more than 300 billion yuan in 2005, and more than 500 billion yuan every year in recent years. Almost ate many aircraft carriers in a year. According to the media, an expert project from China Agricultural University found that catering alone wastes 8 million tons of food protein every year, equivalent to the annual needs of more than 200 million people.

Public money for eating and drinking can be seen everywhere. Some people think that in any case, it is public expenditure, not eating for nothing, not drinking for nothing. Don't you see? now there are familiar quotations to persuade others to drink, what would rather hurt the body than hurt the feelings! What affection is shallow, lick it; affection is deep, one mouthful is palpable; emotional iron, drink bleeding! The policy can be relaxed at one end of the wine glass! A banquet of several hundred yuan or thousands of yuan is nothing, and some people dare to do it for a table of tens of thousands of yuan. Some people eat and drink with public money, drink too much, so that alcoholism and sudden death, but also recognized as dead in the line of duty! Some people use public money to eat abalone, sea cucumbers, lobster and so on. Tired of eating and drinking, I want to have some millet soup in my dream.

Those in power eat and drink with public funds, I do not know how many hope primary schools; those in power eat and drink with public funds, I do not know how many hospitals for the treatment of poor patients; those in power eat and drink with public funds, I do not know how many school buses have been eaten, how many rural roads have been drunk, apart from grieving and abhorrent, the public is more helpless! Because those in power have completely violated the fine tradition of our party, deviated from the will of the masses of the people, affected the trust of the masses of the people in the party and the government, and shaken the foundation of the party in power.

Anyone who has planted the field can realize that grain is hard to come by. When transplanting rice seedlings, they face the muddy water with their backs to the sky, and their legs are bitten by leeches; it is still cold in early spring and unbearably hot in midsummer. Only after a long period of cultivation and watering can we get a harvest. Through countless hard work and the price of blood and sweat, can get what is called food. There is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Gentry as proof: the farmers work hard to hoe and harvest at noon, and sweat drops fall into the soil under he. Who knows what the meal is for lunch. Each grain is filled with hard work. The acquisition of food has gone through the painstaking efforts of countless people, and the same high-end food and drinks are also hard to come by. However, those public money consumers can squander and waste at will. This has undoubtedly greatly hurt the feelings of the people and tarnished the image of the party and the government.

Advocating thrift starts with me.

All these are in line with the wishes of the masses of the people, are deeply supported by the masses of the people and are deeply popular with the people. The eight regulations of the Central Committee and the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping show great foresight, stand from the standpoint of the masses of the people, inherit and carry forward the party's fine tradition and work style, and safeguard the interests of the masses at all times. The overwhelming majority of party leading cadres at all levels have taken the lead in strictly abiding by the regulations of the CPC Central Committee and General Secretary Xi's instructions, and the party style has been rectified, resulting in upward and downward effects, affecting the political style and promoting the folkway. The people now clearly feel that in some places, there is less public money to eat and drink, less public money to sing, and the phenomenon of extravagance and extravagance and enjoyment of public money has been curbed to a certain extent. The general public reflects that the consumption of public money and profligacy, a stubborn disease for many years, does not seem as difficult to treat as cancer. As long as we have great determination, a sound system, the support and participation of the masses of the people, and the application of modern technologies such as the Internet, audio and video, we can certainly reduce or even avoid the phenomenon of eating and drinking, extravagance and waste with public funds, so that the interests of the masses of the people will suffer less or even will not be infringed.

Strict economy and opposing waste is a major event in the rejuvenation of the country, and this good tradition should be passed on and carried forward.

In order to carry forward the good tradition of thrift, we must start from me, from the small things, from the little things.

The tradition of thrift should not be lost.

Author: Shen Xun