Ming Shan County in Sichuan Province organized 100 officials divided into two batches to attend a 15-day training session at Tsinghua University, costing over one million yuan. The county party secretary, Cen Gang, evaluated the training results as follows: "After the training, Ming Shan officials learned to use creative thinking and agile thinking to analyze and solve problems, improving their execution ability." (December 5, Huaxi Metropolis Daily)
Ming Shan is an underdeveloped hilly agricultural county. Although it's not far from Chengdu, the "thinking and methods of leading cadres were lagging behind," so it was appropriate for the county to organize official training sessions. Despite the per capita training cost exceeding ten thousand yuan, if the training truly had the effect assessed by the county party secretary, the people would still be happy.
On the surface, the people of Ming Shan should feel happy about the results of this training because the training wasn't sightseeing or a public-funded tour. During the training, the officials "ate and stayed at school" and "never went out on the streets." Moreover, those who expressed affirmation of the training results weren't just the county party secretary; other officials were also satisfied. For example, Vice Chairman of the County Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zheng Rongjie, felt that "the spiritual harvest outweighs the knowledge harvest," while the Director of the County Finance Bureau, Ma Zhaoyun, said he learned how to "use today's money to do tomorrow's things."
Regarding the gains provided by the training to the officials, some I can imagine, such as some officials "over 40 years old who have never taken a train or been to Beijing," and this training made up for these regrets. However, some I cannot imagine. For instance, a township party secretary said that last year's renovated sewer system became blocked this summer, resulting in villagers petitioning. After the training, this secretary realized it was due to "emphasizing people's livelihood but neglecting democracy." I would like to ask this secretary: since you even make decisions for the people regarding the renovation of sewers, can a few days of training really make your future style more democratic?
In this way, whether it's the county party secretary or other participating officials, the evaluation of the training results is too subjective. Within less than half a month after the end of the training, how could the improvement in the ability to "analyze and solve problems using creative thinking and agile thinking" be visible? Compared with the evaluations of the county party secretary and other officials, I believe the evaluation of the common people is much more scientific. For example, a regular citizen doing business said: "We don't care what they learned during the training; we are most concerned about what changes they will bring to Ming Shan after learning." (Source: People's Network - Opinion Channel) Related thematic articles: BMW external hang measures are the inevitable result of being the most practical for high-end talents, the news once transmitted, if the same number of people switch to cars, emergency transfer and resettlement of 6.707 million people, a self-built house with an area of 800.6 square meters.