Shanxi Xunyang: Focusing on 'practicality, reduction, and effectiveness' to reduce the burden on grassroots.

Shanxi Province Xunyang City deeply studies and implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, increases efforts to reduce the burden on grassroots by rectifying formalism, highlights the key points of 'practicality, reduction, and effectiveness', focuses on the key aspects of 'shouldering responsibility, addressing difficulties, and supervising effectiveness', and effectively relieves the burden on grassroots to stimulate the vitality of grassroots cadres.

Focus on 'practicality' to strengthen responsibility for reduction. Strengthen learning and responsibility. Adhere to the 'first agenda' system, use methods such as theoretical study center group learning to earnestly study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on rectifying formalism to reduce burdens on grassroots, timely learn about the spirit of special work mechanism meetings at the central level and relevant regulations on reducing burdens for grassroots, guiding cadres to establish a correct view of achievements and enhance their practical ability and sense of responsibility. Strengthen mechanisms for promotion. Establish a special work mechanism at the county level to rectify formalism and reduce burdens on grassroots, clarify that the Municipal Party Committee Office and the Municipal Party Committee Supervision Office coordinate and take the lead, with participation from departments such as the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Municipal Government Office, and Municipal Organization Department, working together according to their responsibilities. Strengthen guidance and measures. Develop documents such as 'Work Task List for Rectifying Formalism to Reduce Burdens on Grassroots', 'Sixteen Measures for Promoting a Fresh Wind in Daxing', and 'Implementation Measures for Supervision Work in Xunyang City (Trial)', conduct special supervision on rectifying formalism to reduce burdens on grassroots, promoting an organic unity between reducing burdens and promoting implementation and enhancing efficiency.

Focus on 'reduction' to address difficult issues in burden reduction. Start with documents to reduce. Formulate an annual document issuance plan; temporary documents should apply for project approval from the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government according to the principle of 'one matter one report', with supporting documents strictly submitted for approval before formulation. Start with meetings to reduce. Strictly implement overall meeting planning coordination and total control requirements, enforce meeting reporting and approval systems, resolutely avoid unnecessary meetings, and merge meetings that can be combined. Departments holding city-wide meetings must report to Xunyang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for approval; no meeting may be held without approval. It is strictly forbidden to raise meeting standards arbitrarily or require multiple unit leaders to attend when one person can represent; avoid layered meetings or accompanying attendees. Start with supervision to reduce. Integrate party and government supervision forces, deepen the 'integrated major supervision' work pattern, addressing issues of multiple and repetitive supervision from the source. Develop plans for supervision inspection assessment items, manage them comprehensively, issue 'Xunyang City 2024 Annual City-wide Supervision Inspection Assessment Work Plan', clearly stating that any supervision inspection assessment not included in the plan cannot be conducted without authorization; for necessary temporary additions outside the plan, strictly implement filing approval systems with 'one matter one report' to fundamentally resolve arbitrary supervision issues. Start with assessments to reduce. Adhere to principles of 'assessing precisely, assessing less but focusing on key points, assessable, comparable, quantifiable' to optimize assessment indicators. Standardize and clean up items subject to 'one-vote veto' and signing responsibility statements, retaining only four items: implementing important instructions from General Secretary Xi Jinping, party conduct and integrity construction, production safety, statistical frauds etc. Start with cleaning up seconded personnel to reduce. Quickly and steadily clean up seconded personnel by issuing a notice requiring a swift understanding of seconded personnel numbers without conditions or reasons given; all must return to their posts as required. Start with cleaning up signs to reduce. Implement a sign admission system using 'two reductions three clean-ups four standardizations' as a focus for comprehensive actions reviewing village-level work mechanisms and institutional plaques.

Seek breakthroughs in 'effectiveness' by adhering to targeted corrections. Focus on precise supervision. Through discussions, reviewing materials, site inspections etc., conduct special supervision on city departments' work in rectifying formalism to reduce burdens on grassroots; key supervision focuses on whether there is 'abuse of power' increasing burdens on grassroots or whether grassroots have 'responsibility without power' making it difficult to effectively resolve issues, promoting solutions to prominent problems in reducing burdens for grassroots. Smooth channels for grassroots cadres to reflect issues. Set up complaint reporting hotlines encouraging grassroots cadres to actively report formalism issues and timely address reasonable demands from grassroots cadres. The Municipal Party Committee (Municipal Government) Supervision Office will understand the situation regarding reducing burdens for grassroots from different levels while coordinating key work supervision; upon discovering problems will immediately urge corrections ensuring that reduction requirements are implemented effectively.

[Author's Unit: Xunyang Municipal Party Committee (Municipal Government) Supervision Office]

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