Our party and the army started with hard work and grew in strength through hard work. Today, we must also rely on hard work in our socialist modernization drive. The modernization of industry, agriculture, science and technology and national defense is still a historical process of arduous undertaking that requires a hundred times more efforts. A nation, a nation, an army, if we do not advocate hard work, hard working, just want to on the predecessors' create the material and cultural achievements of receptivity, is money can do everything in my brain, pleasure-seeking, and then, such a country, the nation, the army, there is no hope, there is no not decline and fall. As a Chinese saying goes, "a tour of the former virtuous states and families shows that from diligence and frugality to extravagance", we should all have a profound understanding of this truth.

-- jiang zemin, "ideological and political construction must be placed in the first place in all aspects of the military construction" (December 18, 1994)

Hard work is our party's fine tradition, in the new situation of reform and opening up must continue to carry forward. Party members and cadres at all levels, especially high-ranking officials, should play an exemplary and leading role. There is a growing tendency among a small number of cadres to pursue enjoyment and coziness. Why should the masses not object to this? If you are not right, how can you be right. Playthings grow weary. The ancients said: "worry and labor can rejuvenate the country, ease can die", "the end of arrogance, will be destroyed. All leading cadres should not forget these maxims and historical lessons.

-- jiang zemin, on the construction of the party

Our party always puts the interests of the people above all else. Apart from the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, the party has no special interests of its own. In all its work, the party must take the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the highest standard. All comrades in the party must always adhere to the fundamental view that everything is for the masses and everything depends on the masses, adhere to the party's mass line, reach deep into the masses, go down to the grass-roots level, listen to the voice of the masses to reflect their wishes, pool their wisdom, and make all decisions and work in line with the actual conditions and the needs of the masses. All party members and cadres must truly manage and use power on behalf of the people, and must never allow the use of power for personal gain or the formation of vested interests. In the process of gradually realizing the common prosperity of the whole nation, party members and cadres must correctly handle the relationship between the first wealth and the second wealth, and between individual wealth and common prosperity. All leading party members and cadres should take care of the concerns of the world first, enjoy the joys of the world later, and put hardship before enjoyment. They should first support and help the people get rich. Leading cadres at all levels should always put the people's safety in mind, care about the people's suffering, and strive to do practical and good things for the people. Leading organs and cadres at all levels should pay special attention to the people who are facing temporary difficulties in their work and life, put their affairs on the important agenda, give priority to consideration and solve them, and earnestly arrange their employment and life. Only by doing our work of caring for and serving the people well, can we always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the people and be invincible.

-- a congress to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the communist party of China