Chapter 56 V. Meetings that Emphasize Scientific Thought and Fully Promote Democracy

To commemorate the Third Plenum, I wrote this book "1978: The Great Turning Point".I think this meeting is the best among the not-so-small party congresses, central plenary sessions, and central work conferences that I have attended and attended in the nearly 62 years since I joined the Communist Party of China, and it is also the one that left the deepest impression on me. Among the important meetings held by the Party Central Committee that I know, sufficient scientific preparations have been made before the meeting, and not many people have fully used scientific thinking, scientific spirit, and scientific attitude to solve major problems in real life during the meeting. The Seventh Congress of the Party held in 1945 could be said to be such one.During the ten years from the Sixth Congress of the Party in 1927 to the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937, there were many serious violations of science in the leading organs of the Party Central Committee, especially in the four years from the beginning of 1931 to 1934. Anti-scientific ideas ruled the entire party of the Communist Party of China, resulting in serious losses to the cause of the Chinese revolution. After the Guizhou Zunyi Conference in 1935, the direction of development was reversed, but the problem was not completely resolved.Therefore, during the Yan'an rectification movement in 1942, senior party cadres studied the two-line struggle within the party since the Sixth National Congress, held many discussions on historical issues in 1942, 1943, and 1944, and then drafted the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" , and passed this resolution at the Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee held on the eve of the Seventh National Congress.That is to say, such a scientific study of historical issues has been carried out for three years and has achieved results. This has given the line and policy formulated by the Seventh Party Congress a solid scientific basis and enabled the Party to firmly to the final victory of the democratic revolution.

The situation of this Central Work Conference is very similar to that of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China in principle in that it emphasizes scientific thinking.Leaving aside the situation a little further away, the "Cultural Revolution" launched by Mao Zedong from 1966 to 1976 lasted for ten years.In the past ten years, the Party Central Committee represented by Mao Zedong made political mistakes that seriously violated science. Coupled with the sabotage activities of Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four", as a result, China's construction industry suffered serious losses, and China was on the verge of the collapse of the Party and the country. on the road. In October 1976, under the decision of Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying and other comrades, the "Gang of Four" was smashed, which turned China's destiny into a turning point.

In the two years since the "Gang of Four" was smashed, there have been good phenomena and good trends, but there have also been bad phenomena and bad trends. A good phenomenon is that during the two years from the crushing of the "Gang of Four" in October 1976 to the convening of the Central Work Conference in November 1978, a large number of senior cadres who were persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution" were rehabilitated and stripped of their "walking capitalism" "Liberated" from the situation of "objects of dictatorship" and took up responsible positions (the return of a large number of veteran cadres is a rather complicated process. This kind of thing began in the late period of the "Cultural Revolution". When Deng Xiaoping came back for the first time, he liberated a large number of cadres, and made some progress after the "Gang of Four" was smashed. However, it was not completely resolved until the Central Work Conference was held. To describe this specific and complicated process accurately, A large amount of investigation and scientific research is required to write a systematic work. And until now, no such scientific work has come out).At the same time, in the theoretical circles, criticize the anti-scientific remarks made during the "Cultural Revolution".These fallacies include that distribution according to work will lead to the emergence of a new bourgeoisie, criticism of the "theory of only productive forces", the implementation of the so-called comprehensive dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the belief that economic development will impact proletarian politics, and so on. continue the revolution".It is also a good phenomenon and a good trend for the theoretical circle to set things right in terms of ideology and theory.

The bad phenomenon is that after the smashing of the "Gang of Four", the Party Central Committee did not dare to deny the "Cultural Revolution", but instead demanded "correct treatment of the 'Cultural Revolution'" and continued to cultivate the personality cult of Mao Zedong, not only what Mao Zedong said before the "Cultural Revolution" They dare not have any comments, and even enshrine the so-called "decision-making" and "instructions" of Mao Zedong who is old and frail, unable to work and think normally, unable to meet and talk with cadres or even senior cadres, and even unable to speak clearly. As a god, he advocated that "we must resolutely safeguard all the decisions made by Chairman Mao, and we must unswervingly follow all Chairman Mao's instructions."This "two normals" actually became the goal of the Party Central Committee after the "Gang of Four" was smashed.Under this policy, many erroneous views and ideas put forward by the "Cultural Revolution" will be regarded as correct, and will continue to be widely propagated among cadres and the masses, and given to those who want to continue the "Cultural Revolution" Man keeps a set of "highest command" weapons.That is indeed very dangerous.

If anyone is still a little bit unconvinced on this point, you may wish to read the political report made by Hua Guofeng on August 12, 1977 and passed at the Party's Eleventh National Congress on August 18.In this report, it is pointed out that "Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat has become more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and has become a glorious banner for hundreds of millions of people to fight victoriously."In this report, Mao Zedong continued to quote Mao Zedong's statement that "the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is absolutely necessary and timely for consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat, preventing the restoration of the bourgeoisie, and building socialism."And because Mao Zedong said that there will be many political revolutions of the nature of the "Cultural Revolution" in the future, in this political report, the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" that started in 1966 and ended at the Eleventh National Congress "Called it the "First Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", and said "The victory of the first Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is by no means the end of class struggle, and by no means the end of the continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Cultural Revolution There will be many more great political revolutions of this nature in the future.”

The Eleventh National Congress of the Party was held after the "Gang of Four" was smashed, it was a meeting to expose and criticize the "Gang of Four", and it was decided to permanently expel the "Gang of Four" from the party. The chairman of the General Assembly, but even said such a thing.After reading such words, one would think that if the "two whatevers" are not opposed, it will prevent the party and the people from summing up the lessons of history on the one hand, and hinder the formation and development of new ideas and new perspectives on building a modern socialist China on the one hand. The future is fraught with danger.We must emphasize adherence to true scientific thinking, scientific spirit, and scientific attitude in dealing with Marxism, Chinese society, Chinese revolution and construction, and Mao Zedong Thought and Mao Zedong himself.

Therefore, the question of the standard for testing truth was brought up on the eve of the Central Work Conference.Hu Yaobang initiated and promoted this discussion, and comrades in the theoretical circle wrote an article "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth", and a large-scale discussion was carried out in the academic circle. What Hu Yaobang said in his "Introduction to Theoretical Work Retreat" on January 18, 1979 is completely in line with the historical situation.He said: "The ideological and theoretical work of the past two years, in terms of its scale and combat effectiveness, has surpassed any period since the founding of the People's Republic of China. year."

The theoretical work in the past two years has finally come down to the presentation and discussion of the standard of truth. The Central Work Conference can be said to be the decisive battle and victory stage for the discussion of the standard of truth. Readers may have noticed that I used the word "science" so much, but at the Central Work Conference I talked about emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, proceeding from reality, integrating theory with practice, or setting things right.I mean exactly what those words mean.The concept of science I am talking about includes both general science and Marxist science.Because Marxism is nothing more than a scientific social theory about the development of the modern world under the guidance of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. For China, it is nothing more than a theory about the development of Chinese society. It is an important part of science.Marxism itself develops with the advancement of the times, and must be integrated with the realities of each country and region in the world.

As far as the situation in our country is concerned, in 1978, compared with 1945 when the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of my country was held, the times and tasks are different, but the principle that we must work under the guidance of scientific thinking cannot be violated.To guide our country's revolution and construction requires not only general science but also Marxist science, not only the basic principles of Marxism, Marxism as the science of socialist revolution, but also the science of socialist construction. of Marxism.After the "Gang of Four" was smashed, I once said a few words like this: Religion as religion requires people to worship it, law as law requires people to obey it, and science as science requires people to study and understand it , use it in your own practice.Since Marxism is a science, we must never allow an attitude of worship and obedience to it.

Of course, the science we emphasize is not only Marxist science, but also general natural science, social science, and humanities.In the history of the party, during the period of the First Civil Revolutionary War, the Anti-Japanese War and the Second Civil Revolutionary War, military science was very important.The mistakes made by the Party Central Committee before the Zunyi Conference also included mistakes that violated military science.The fields of science we need during the construction period are very broad. Even social science cannot be included in the scope of Marxist science, not to mention natural science, thinking science, various applied sciences, technical sciences, and many intersecting sciences. What about science, fringe science?In the work of socialist construction, we must emphasize the scientific spirit and scientific attitude.

Next, I would like to talk about the historical fact that Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying, and Li Xiannian, three members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee, attached importance to the science of Marxism on the eve of the Central Work Conference in 1978. In April 1977, Deng Xiaoping wrote a letter to the Central Committee, proposing to have a complete and accurate understanding of Mao Zedong's ideological system in response to the "two whatevers". From July 16 to 21, 1977, the Third Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee passed a resolution on restoring Deng Xiaoping's leadership.Deng Xiaoping volunteered to manage science and education.The Politburo soon met to agree to Deng Xiaoping's request.On the third day after the Politburo made this decision, he talked with Hu Qiaomu, Yu Guangyuan, and Deng Liqun, saying that he did not agree to rewrite the "productivist theory" in the report of the Eleventh National Congress as a "revisionist fallacy." In this case, it is advocated that this should be said in reverse from now on. He said that he had read the manuscript written by Yu Guangyuan against and criticizing the "Only Productivity Theory" and thought it could be published (this opinion was expressed again in a conversation with Fang Yi and Li Chang on July 27. and said he wanted to watch it again).In the same conversation, he affirmed the article on distribution according to work published by the Research Office of the State Council, but he thought it was not bold enough and hoped that it could be improved (later Comrade Feng Lanrui wrote the revision). In May 1978, after "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth" was published in "Guangming Daily", he had a diametrically opposite view. He said in response to this situation, your Academy of Social Sciences is a theoretical institution, and you cannot make concessions in theory. I advise you to accommodate theoretically, but if you accommodate, you will lose your principles. On August 19, 1978, Deng Xiaoping talked about theoretical issues again.He said: "The problem is mainly caused by two articles. One is about the standard of truth. I said that this article is Marxist and cannot be refuted. I agree with the point of view of this article, but some people object to it. , saying that it is against Chairman Mao, the hat is big. The other one is about distribution according to work. I read it, and Comrade Xiannian also read it, and it is also a Marxist article.” At this time, there was only more than a month before the Central Work Conference was held. Then there was Ye Jianying's proposal to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee to hold a theoretical retreat.When did Ye Shuai put forward this suggestion? I haven't seen any materials indicating the specific time, but it must have been in mid-to-late September 1978.My basis is that Ye Jianying put forward this suggestion after listening to the State Council retreat and being inspired by the success of that meeting, and Li Xiannian's summary of the State Council retreat was made on September 9, 1978.In addition, Ye Jianying's suggestion was put forward after "Red Flag" magazine wrote an article and asked the Central Standing Committee for instructions. This was also a matter in September. Hu Yaobang wrote in "Introduction to Theoretical Work Retreat" written in January 1979: "In May of last year (referring to 1978), an important development on the ideological and theoretical front was the discussion that practice is the only criterion for testing truth... This caused a storm on the ideological and theoretical front in our country... Last year In September, the "Red Flag" magazine wrote a long article "Revisiting the Theory of Practice", and the article was sent to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee. Comrade Ye Jianying suggested that the Central Committee hold a theoretical work retreat." This "Introduction" is a reliable document on which month Ye Shuai's suggestion was made. Ye Shuai also made a suggestion to the central government, advocating that the article "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth" be published and distributed throughout the country, which shows how much he attaches importance to the discussion of this theoretical issue. Deng Xiaoping attached great importance to Ye Jianying's suggestion, and proposed that such a meeting "simply set aside the problem, so as not to talk about it behind the scenes." Whatever" leaders.Moreover, it can be seen from the conversation between Deng Xiaoping and Wei Guoqing that such a meeting will be held soon.Later it was decided to convene a central working conference. The original topic of the Central Work Conference was mainly to discuss economic work issues, but holding this meeting at this time can completely realize Deng Xiaoping's idea of ​​"opening up".In other words, the task of the theoretical retreat proposed by Ye Shuai was actually realized at the Central Work Conference, and the solution to ideological and organizational problems went beyond the scope of the theoretical retreat. During the Central Working Conference, the participants of the meeting discussed the issue of the standard of truth very enthusiastically, and had face-to-face discussions and sharp debates with comrades who opposed and resisted the standard of truth.The debate in this area has greatly promoted the solution of current practical problems.The achievements of the Central Work Conference surpassed the theoretical retreat, and proved the great role of theory in practice.Therefore, during the meeting, Deng Xiaoping talked with Hu Yaobang and me, when talking about the importance of theoretical issues, he said: the debate on the standard of truth, the more you look at it, the more it is a political issue.This idea was also mentioned later in the closing meeting speech (see Deng Xiaoping's "Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts, Unite and Look Ahead"). The Central Work Conference has fully promoted democracy, and all the people who participated in the conference felt it personally, and they are very satisfied.Hua Guofeng, who presided over the meeting, said at the meeting on November 25 and the closing meeting on December 13 that the meeting had the characteristics of fully promoting democracy.Ye Jianying and Deng Xiaoping also made such estimates for the meeting in their closing speeches. The attendees of the meeting did dare to think and speak, to break into the "no-go zone" and to say things that people were afraid to say in the past.The leader of the meeting does not interfere with anyone's speech, and does not set a restricted area, set the tone, or frame any speech. At the same time, the speaking time is not limited, the number of speeches is not limited, and the scope of speeches is not limited.The leader of the meeting did not announce the "no limit" to these few, but it was implemented naturally.The meeting was attended by senior party cadres with deep political experience.They judge the situation themselves and speak appropriately, but they will never accept interference from others. One such thing happened at the meeting.At a meeting where the conveners of each group reported to the Standing Committee the status of each group's speeches (this time the report was on the afternoon and evening of November 21), Wang Dongxing said: the overall situation must be considered.We are not messed up.We want to practice democracy, there must be democracy with leadership, centralization with leadership, and unity in the whole party. We must not say anything that is not good for the party, and do not do things that are not good for the party.There is nothing wrong with these words literally, but when Wang Dongxing said such words at the report meeting at that time, it meant to criticize or warn in advance the speeches made at the group meeting.Those who participated in the Central Work Conference were all experienced senior cadres in the party. How could they fail to understand the meaning of these few words?Therefore, after this word was passed down, the attendees in each group were very dissatisfied.Not only were the speeches of each group not influenced by Wang, but at the convener’s report to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee on November 27, each group put forward such an opinion: “What Vice-Chairman Wang said at the last meeting was about democratic leadership with leadership. And the concentrated statement, everyone thinks that this statement does not match Chairman Hua's estimate of the meeting at the meeting on the 25th. Our meeting these days does not involve the issue of whether there is a leader. This formulation is not good. This meeting is held to clarify.” At the report meeting, when the group conveners reflected the opinions of each group on Wang Dongxing’s speech, Wang Dongxing was present, and Wang did not say anything more at the meeting what.Everyone rejected Wang Dongxing's words. Criticizing and exposing comrades who said and did things that had a bad influence on real life during the "Cultural Revolution" and more than two years after the crushing of the "Gang of Four" was fully promoted at this Central Work Conference. important aspect of democracy.A prominent manifestation of this is to criticize people who have made mistakes by name, including the criticism of a vice chairman of the Party Central Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.Despite the sharpness of the critics, there is no atmosphere and pressure to prevent others from pleading and rebutting.Speaking face-to-face is to listen to different opinions and allow you to counter-criticize. As for whether you do counter-criticism, that is your own business. Speeches are only one major aspect of a meeting where democracy is fully developed.Yet another important aspect is the participation of meeting attendees in the drafting of decision documents to be taken at the meeting.The method is to let the meeting participants know what the meeting is going to make a decision, and hope that they can fully express their opinions, and collect these opinions as the basis for revising the originally prepared draft document.The process of formulating the two documents on agriculture that were prepared for the meeting is an example that can illustrate the full play of democracy in this respect. The Central Working Conference does not have the power to pass central resolutions or elect members of the Central Committee and the Politburo.Therefore, those who attend this meeting do not have such voting rights and voting rights.However, if you have the right to recommend and make suggestions, everyone will make full use of this right at the meeting. Speaking at this meeting was very common, and almost everyone expressed their views.The Northwest group I belong to has 34 members except Comrade Ji Dengkui, and all of them spoke positively.Most people spoke 4 to 6 times, 2 people spoke more than 10 times, 9 people spoke 7 to 9 times, 15 people spoke 3 to 6 times, and less than 3 times There are 8 people.It can be seen how common the speech is. To talk about democracy is to talk about equality.At the Central Work Conference this time, the members of the Politburo expressed their opinions in the group meetings as well as the general meeting participants. They did not represent the Politburo, but spoke in the same capacity as other participants; They are not regarded as leaders of a higher level, and their speeches are not particularly solemn and cautious, making people forget that they are members of the Politburo.As for the five members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee, not only were they not assigned to the six subgroups, but none of them attended a single subgroup meeting.I believe that if I attend, I will never issue any instructions or deliver any "important speeches" at the meeting, and will participate in the discussion equally.The Standing Committee also expresses its opinions, and that is at the Standing Committee meeting.Some of their opinions were expressed when the Standing Committee listened to the reports of the conveners of each group.They each speak their own views, that is, each exercise their own democratic rights.Most of these viewpoints are also conveyed to each group, and comrades in each group can also express their opinions on their viewpoints. The speeches of the Standing Committee members have two aspects: one is that each person expresses his own point of view, and these words are not binding on the attendees, and the attendees can be inspired by them.The second is for the chairperson to express on behalf of the Standing Committee opinions that have a guiding nature for the meeting.Such content is simple and mostly procedural.Our Northwest Group asked Li Dengying, Wang Huide, and Yang Xiguang to revise the working regulations of the rural people's communes, and Hu Yaobang, Wang Renzhong, and Yu Guangyuan to revise the document on accelerating agricultural development. These were arranged by the Standing Committee.We have actively completed this task. Originally, the content of democracy is multi-faceted, and people's enthusiasm and creativity can be said to be one of the fundamental contents.At this meeting, everyone felt that their enthusiasm was not suppressed in any way.Of course, it was also bound by the traditional forces at that time.For example, some people put a lot of thought into the issue of holding high the banner of Mao Zedong Thought, discussing over and over whether to repeat what Mao Zedong said is "holding high", or to look at real life realistically. No one is willing to comment on "holding high". Whether the formulation itself is correct or not did not raise such a question. Everyone knew that it was unwise to raise such a question at the meeting. When writing a national and comprehensive document, write a paragraph promoting democracy in it. This practice seems to have become a "standardized" behavior since I don't know when, so it often becomes a cliché.Routine words have their functions, but they can only function as clichés, and cannot give people a fresh feeling, nor can they give people ideological inspiration and education, and cannot arouse people's enthusiasm for democracy.If there are deep insights, fresh language, and practical content, the situation will be different.At this Central Working Conference, whether Ye Jianying or Deng Xiaoping, what they said on the issue of democracy in their speeches will leave a deep impression on the participants, and will also impress the cadres and the masses who read their speeches. .In Ye Jianying's speech at the closing meeting, he specifically talked about the topic of fully promoting democracy (rather than generally talking about promoting democracy).He exposed the absurd theory created by the "Gang of Four" that the practice of democracy is capitalism, posing as socialism with feudalism, and our important task is to pay attention to overcoming the remnants of feudalism.Ye Jianying also said that leading cadres should not talk about democracy every day, but when some sharp opinions come, their faces will be stretched.The words he said touched the essence of the matter, and they were not clichés at all.He also requested that this Central Work Conference carry forward the spirit of democracy to persevere forever.These words he said about democracy are very sincere, and they still have profound educational significance when read today. Deng Xiaoping had a very fresh idea of ​​giving "active power" to the cadres below.To fully promote democracy is to give everyone "positive power".Some people may ask: These two speeches were delivered on the closing day of the conference. Did they have any effect on the process of the conference?I would like to point out that many of their ideas about democracy were revealed long before the closing ceremony.Deng Xiaoping's statement about the "active right" was mentioned when the convener reported to the Standing Committee in November. His words spread to all groups and encouraged everyone to fully develop their enthusiasm for democracy. Lenin had a view on democracy, that is, democracy requires conditions.It can be written in law that a certain person has the same democratic rights as another person, but how can a person who takes up almost all of his time to obtain his own minimum means of survival not have enough time to participate in social and political activities, What about living a democratic life?There are some people who want to hold meetings but do not have their own auditorium, nor can they afford to rent an auditorium, so their activities have to be greatly restricted.Everyone in capitalist countries knows that running for an office costs a considerable amount of money.Whoever wants to run for a high-level office like the president must absolutely not participate without a large sum of money.No matter how popular you are, people without money cannot afford to run for office.When we hold such a working meeting, there is a good place like Jingxi Hotel, there are many good meeting rooms, and there are good food, accommodation, and services. This provides the material guarantee for the meeting.Those of us are party and state cadres, and we basically have guaranteed time to participate in political activities. Here we are talking about the issue of time. What we mean is that this working meeting gives the attendees more time to say what they want to say.At the beginning of this meeting, Hua Guofeng said that the meeting will be held for more than 20 days, starting from November 10 and ending at the end of November.Later, it was extended one by one according to the needs, and it was extended to thirty-six days. The time should be said to be relatively plentiful. In order to fully promote democracy, for those who participate in the Central Work Conference, the briefing work is a very important condition for the full development of democracy.If there is no briefing work, those of us will only be active in our own group except for a few plenary meetings, and we will not know the situation of other groups, let alone discuss beyond the scope of our group.I have attended or attended many meetings of the Central Committee, and briefings are usually issued at the meetings.Quite frankly, there is really nothing to see in the briefings of some conferences that are full of clichés.The reason is that on the one hand, some people seem to have the habit of saying clichés, and on the other hand, the substantive opinions expressed by many people have been suppressed by "Jane".Therefore, apart from this group, almost nothing is known about other groups.The briefing of this Central Work Conference is very interesting. Through it, you can learn about many situations of other groups, participate in discussions on issues raised by other groups, and express your opinions on the speeches of comrades in other groups. I am very satisfied with the briefing work of the meeting.I gave a lot of speeches at the Central Work Conference, some of which were drafted, and some were extemporaneous.I did not compare my speech with the summary published in the briefing. At that time, my impression was that the abstract was good, and the important content of my speech was not deleted, and the briefing was issued very quickly.I can also see material that interests me from other group newsletters.For example, I can see the speeches of those comrades who adhere to the "two whatevers" position and resist the discussion of the standard of truth. I can see through the briefing, and I can express opinions based on the briefing and discuss with them.The briefing of the meeting is a must-read material for me at the Central Work Conference.Make reading briefings a big part of my conference life.I think the comrades doing the briefing work at this meeting must be very nervous.They are unknown at this meeting, but they have done very important work. Unfortunately, I don't know any of them. At the same time, the briefings in the first few days of the meeting were not exactly the same as the subsequent briefings.There seemed to be more problems in the first few days. On November 13, Hu Yaobang's speech in the Northwest Group was very long, but the briefing was very short.At first I thought it was Hu Yaobang who cut it short on purpose. Recently, in my "old paper pile", I found the notes I made when Hu Yaobang gave a speech to the Northwest Group on November 15. There is a sentence in it: "Briefings don't cut out key issues." It turns out that Hu Yaobang once had an opinion.At a meeting where the convener reported to the Standing Committee, our group reported that Xu Xiangqian expressed his dissatisfaction with the briefing of the meeting six days later.It seems that Xu Xiangqian, Hu Yaobang and others made changes to the way the briefing was compiled.What I am most satisfied with is Jiang Yizhen’s speech on November 26 and Yang Xiguang’s joint speech with me criticizing Wang Dongxing by name.Probably at that time, the guidelines for compiling the briefing had already been clarified, and it could not be arbitrarily deleted or delayed.However, when criticizing the mistakes made by some Politburo members elected at the First Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee during the "Cultural Revolution", Wang Dongxing also advocated "later briefings on issues involving the Politburo" at a Standing Committee meeting.The Standing Committee did not agree to this, and it seems that it did not do so. Of course not everyone is happy with the briefing.Different people will feel differently after seeing the report of their own speech in the briefing and seeing the report of someone else's speech.I feel satisfied, but some people don't necessarily see it that way.In one newsletter, I saw that a spokesperson made comments on the newsletter, and the newsletter also published this opinion.But I think it is a good performance that the briefing can be published like this.I don't think the briefing is a small thing, but it has a lot to do with the full development of democracy. There are quite a few briefings for this meeting. I know that the Northwest Group issued a total of 71 briefings, and the number of briefings for other groups is similar. They are very valuable materials for studying this Central Work Conference.The party history research department must have all the materials. However, in a report meeting of the Central Work Conference, many people’s revelations in the briefing may not be in line with the facts. this claim.First of all, because these reports are basically accurate, and at the same time, the party will not deal with these people's issues based on briefings, but will conduct serious and practical investigations and obtain various evidences.This is very scientific work.As for the exposure at the meeting, it can only be treated as a clue and a reflection.It is not necessary or possible to spend time checking facts during the meeting. All in all, I was very impressed and thought it worth remembering that the meeting briefing was a vehicle for fully promoting democracy at the meeting. Some people may think that such a thing as briefing work is not worth spending a lot of time here to discuss, but I don't think so.Because since it is a general meeting, people come to this meeting, not to a group meeting, so he has the right to understand the situation of other groups, express his opinions on the situation of other groups, and let people from other groups The right to be heard.To limit a briefing is to limit the rights that attendees already have.Therefore, the briefing work directly reflects the democratic thought, democratic consciousness and democratic style of the meeting chairperson. The image of the moderator. Judging from these circumstances, it is in line with the facts to say that this meeting was a meeting that fully promoted democracy.