On this day, 29 years ago, on September 26, 1996 (August 14, 1996 in the lunar calendar), General Secretary Jiang Zemin inspected the People's Daily. At 3:30 pm on September 26, 1996, General Secretary Jiang Zemin came to the People's Daily. Accompanied by People's Daily President Shao Huaze and Editor-in-Chief Fan Jingyi, Jiang Zemin first met with the newspaper's editors, reporters and staff representatives, and took photos with everyone to commemorate the occasion. He expressed heartfelt thanks and cordial condolences to all comrades of the People's Daily. Later, Jiang Zemin and others visited with great interest the large offset printing workshop of the newspaper's printing factory, the night shift studio of the editorial department, the laser phototypesetting workshop and the computer data retrieval system. After listening to Shao Huaze's work report on the People's Daily, Jiang Zemin delivered an important speech. He said that the People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Party Central Committee and the largest newspaper in the country. For decades, the People's Daily, as the voice of the Party and the people, has adhered to the correct idea and policy of running a newspaper under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, and has made important contributions in revolution, construction and reform. Many veteran comrades in the newspaper have dedicated their precious years and lifelong energy to running the People's Daily well. Their achievements and spirit deserve praise and learning from. In recent years, the People's Daily has adhered to the direction of serving the people and socialism, comprehensively and accurately publicizing and implementing the party's basic theory, basic line, basic principles, and various decisions, reflecting the great achievements and spiritual outlook of the people, and contributing to reform. Opening up and socialist modernization have played an important role in guiding public opinion and have indeed played a vanguard role in newspapers across the country. The central government is satisfied with the work of the People's Daily. The People's Daily has won trust and prestige among the people. I hope everyone will cherish this trust and prestige, continue to improve their work, and run the newspaper better. In his speech, Jiang Zemin emphasized that how well the People's Daily is run will have a major exemplary and guiding role in newspapers and the entire press across the country. It is hoped that the People's Daily will take a clear-cut stand in adhering to the principle of party spirit and adhere to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with China characteristics and the Party's basic line. No matter at any time and under any circumstances, it must maintain a high degree of ideological and political consistency with the Party Central Committee, carry forward the main theme of patriotism, collectivism, and socialism, enthusiastically praise the people's achievements in reform and construction, and inspire the people to work hard to revitalize China. At the same time, negative corruption phenomena must also be criticized and exposed, and public opinion should play a supervisory role. Comrades in newspapers must have a sense of the overall situation and concept of the overall situation, insist on running newspapers by politicians, correctly handle the relationship between reform, development and stability, and proceed from the overall situation and from the overall interests of the party and the people. On the premise of adhering to the correct orientation of public opinion, we must emphasize the art of publicity, improve the level of guidance, and strive to make our propaganda and reports closer to life and readers, so that readers can hear and hear them. In his speech, Jiang Zemin highlighted the importance of strengthening the building of the news team. He said that the key to whether the news industry can be run well depends on whether there is a high-quality news team. We must fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of journalists by strengthening ideological and political work. All news organizations should strengthen coordination, form a strong synergy, and play a greater role in the construction of two civilizations. In recent years, the central propaganda department and the news and public opinion circles have actively explored the formation of a joint force of news and public opinion and accumulated useful experience. We hope to summarize and improve it in order to do better. Jiang Zemin said that in order to better shoulder the task of guiding people with correct public opinion, journalists, especially Communist Party members and leading cadres, must strive to improve their ideological, political and professional qualities. Comrades on the news front, especially young and middle-aged comrades, must not only have high aspirations, but also be down-to-earth, and honestly work hard on the basis of ideological, political and professional foundations. Jiang Zemin put forward six specific requirements to journalists. He said that journalists must first lay a solid foundation for the theoretical line. We must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with China characteristics, and adhere to the party's basic line to guide our own thinking and work. Once the theoretical line is well established, no matter how complex the situation is or how the situation changes, we will maintain a firm and correct political stance and political direction. He said that we must lay a solid foundation for policies, laws and disciplines. We must firmly grasp the central government's principles and policies, firmly grasp the national laws and regulations, and strictly abide by the discipline of journalism work. Journalism work is highly political and policy-oriented work. If journalists are not familiar with the party's principles and policies and the country's laws and regulations, they will have poor publicity and even misleading, bringing undue losses to the cause of the party and the people. He said that we must lay a solid foundation for the views of the masses. News work and party newspaper work are, in the final analysis, also mass work and an important link between our party and the masses. Close contact with the masses is a required course and basic skill for journalists. Everyone must establish a solid mass perspective, breathe and share a shared destiny with the broad masses of the people, be good at doing investigation and research work, closely follow the pulse of the times, listen to the voices of the masses, and write more good works that reflect reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. Jiang Zemin said that we must lay a solid foundation of knowledge. Knowledge is power. First of all, we must strive to master knowledge directly related to our business work. At the same time, we must also read extensively, reading some books on philosophy, politics, economics, law, history, literature, etc., and learn as much scientific and technological knowledge as possible. We hope that our news team will have more editors, reporters and commentators who understand politics, learn and are knowledgeable. Jiang Zemin said that we must lay a solid foundation for news business. Journalism work, whether editing or interviewing, requires professional skills, especially good writing skills. Nowadays, many reports published in newspapers have good themes, good content, and wonderful language, allowing people to enjoy beauty while receiving education. However, there are also some news works that do not pay attention to rhetoric and literary grace. The text is dry and always has a few clichés over and over again. There are also some grandstanding, creating random concepts, and bizarre words that make people unable to understand. This bad style of writing should be corrected. Journalists must be strongly encouraged to practice hard basic skills. Jiang Zemin emphasized that in the new historical period, we must still persist in carrying forward the party's fine style of journalism work. The first is a dedicated style, loving and dedicated to the party's journalism. The second is the style of seeking truth from facts, reporting the truth and telling the truth. The third is the style of hard work, not afraid of hardship and tiredness, and sometimes not afraid of danger and sacrifice. The fourth is to maintain a clean and honest style, consciously resist the erosion of money worship, hedonism, and individualism, abide by professional ethics, and resolutely oppose paid news. The fifth is a rigorous and meticulous style, meticulous, striving for excellence, and strictly preventing mistakes. Sixth, the style of innovation. Journalism is an undertaking that is always done and new and has a broad space for galloping. On the premise of adhering to the basic principles and principles of the party's journalism work, journalists should constantly explore new reporting fields, constantly explore new reporting forms, constantly adopt new reporting techniques, and constantly write innovative and excellent works. The editorial board of the People's Daily encourages and organizes everyone to delve into business and produce more high-quality products, which is worth advocating.