Xinhua News Agency, Tianjin, February 20 (Reporter Bai Jiali) Xiaobailou Street Office, Heping District, central Tianjin, is a special existence for the people around it - it is not only a link to serve and contact the masses, but also the second grassroots legislative contact point in the country established by the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to be located in the streets.

"This is like a 'living room' that gathers social conditions and public opinion." Guo Jiawei, director of the Office of Xiaobailou Street Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the Heping District People's Congress, said that whenever the legislative consultation activity begins, the street will feedback the people's voices to the highest legislative body in its "original flavor", and some reasonable opinions and suggestions will even be reflected in our laws. Therefore, on weekdays, the people around them also like to reflect some small problems around them or talk about their new expectations.

Faced with the enthusiastic "voice" of the masses, how grassroots cadres can free up more time and energy to be good "listeners" and "solvers" has always been a trouble for Guo Jiawei and his colleagues. Not long ago, with the release of a special "list", grassroots cadres saw new changes.

"For grassroots cadres, they spend more time pulling a cart down and less time looking up at the road. They have been busy all year round, but it is not clear to ask everyone to specifically talk about what work matters they are busy with." Liu Mei, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiaobailou Street, said. Not only that, sometimes functional departments have the "muscle memory" of "looking for grassroots if you have something to do" when promoting work. Assessment, ranking, accountability, etc. have turned some "local management" matters into "local guarantee" problems.

In order to solve the prominent problems of "small horses pulling big cars" in such grassroots governance, and to give grassroots cadres more time to listen to the voices of the people and solve urgent and anxious problems, the Organization Department of the Heping District Committee has dispatched capable forces to go deep into multiple streets and communities to find out the truth.

Hu Bin, deputy director of the Organization Department of Heping District Committee, who participated in the on-site investigation, was deeply touched by this. "We have conducted a 'comprehensive investigation' of the issues that have been strongly reflected by the grassroots and the specific work undertaken. After a month, we collected the street OA, WeChat groups, telephone notifications and other content in the past year, and finally clarified 913 work matters at the grassroots level."

Faced with this "daily list" of grassroots work, the relevant departments, together with the grassroots level, carefully analyzed and judged, and finally decided to effectively reduce the burden on the grassroots level through the "list system".

"We have analyzed the compliance, rationality and necessity of the 913 tasks undertaken by the street item by item, and streamlined the complicated and trivial daily work as much as possible. With the assistance and cooperation of various functional departments, 287 tasks that grassroots should not be undertaken by the grassroots, including data statistics of old communities, have been effectively cut off." Hu Bin said.

The grid worker of Tai'andao Community, Xiaobailou Street, is explaining how to use the "general grid" code to the residents. Xinhua News Agency issued

So long after, a "list" after "slimming down" came to Xiaobailou Street Office and other subordinate streets in Heping District, which became a hot topic for grassroots cadres.

"Some colleagues said that this is the first time that they have had a 'detailed account' of their own work content after years of work; some colleagues said that the more than 200 tasks cut out reflect the determination to reduce the burden on the grassroots level," said Liu Mei.

When the reporter visited many communities in Heping District, he heard feedback from many grassroots cadres on this "list": "The work of 'arbitrary dispatch' has decreased", "There are fewer reports of repeated reports and multiple reports", "There are no corresponding assessment indicators"... What has increased is the time and enthusiasm of grassroots cadres to serve the people.

The old man Shi Shuwen, who lives in Xiaobailou Street, also felt this change. Shi Shuwen has always been paying attention to the community's aging-friendly transformation, because some buildings in the community have not installed elevators. She suggested that the community can place several foldable chairs in the corridor, which will not affect safe passage, but also allow the elderly to rest when they cannot climb the stairs. "I didn't expect that the suggestions I made soon became a reality," she said with a smile.

In Heping District, more people's voices and wishes have become reality. "As a grassroots cadre, being able to have more time to solve the problems around the people and get more smiles is the greatest recognition of our work." Yan Chunhong, secretary of the Party Committee of Tai'an Road Community, Xiaobailou Street, said with emotion.

"Empowering grassroots burden reduction, it is necessary to discover the 'pain points' of grassroots through solid research and serve as the 'target' for rectification. Next, we will further clarify the scope of access to the grassroots' assignment of responsibilities to the grassroots, prevent tasks from being assigned to the grassroots, and regularly analyze the prominent problems and weak links in the grassroots burden reduction work, so as to prevent the rebound of burden reduction problems." Hu Bin said.

Planning: Shao Xiangyun

Reporter: Bai Jiali

Poster production: Fang Jinyang