What should be improved? Avoid going through the motions and engage in formalism.

The eight central regulations require that investigation and research should be improved to avoid formalism; It is necessary to arrive without pomp, reduce escort and simplify reception.

All comrades in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should strengthen investigation and study. To go to the grassroots, we should thoroughly understand the real situation, sum up experience, study problems, solve difficulties, guide work, learn from the masses, learn from practice, have more discussions with the masses, have more heart-to-heart talks with cadres, discuss and discuss more, dissect more typical cases, and go to places where difficulties and contradictions are concentrated and the masses have more opinions. Avoid going through the motions and engage in formalism. To arrive without pomp, reduce the number of escorts, simplify the reception, do not post banners, do not arrange people to see them off, do not lay welcome carpets, do not place flowers and plants, and do not arrange banquets.

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The contents of the eight regulations are concise and clear, and they put forward clear and specific requirements from eight aspects, such as improving investigation and research, streamlining meeting activities, standardizing visiting activities, and practicing economy, which embodies the firm determination that "governing the country must first strictly manage the party."

The Singapore Lianhe Zaobao described the eight regulations in this way: At that time, few people foresaw that the "long-standing problems" in China officialdom, such as eating and drinking with public funds and meeting the sea with mountains, had improved so obviously. Specific to all localities, the eight regulations have been issued for five years, and they have also handed over eye-catching work style construction transcripts; Go to the grassroots to investigate without pomp, reduce escorts, simplify reception, and avoid going through the motions and engaging in formalism.

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