Editor’s notes: The two sessions (the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference) are critical occasions for committee members to perform their duty. Over the past few days, the representatives of the Committees have been conscientiously performing their duties by devoting themselves to discussions and sharing their experiences during the past year. In these quality answers provided for the people, there are deep feelings of silent dedication and persistent endeavor in reform and development. On May 24, 2020, thePeople's Dailypublished an article entitled "Respond to Social Concerns and Perform Duties Actively", which recorded the story of BAI Chong-En, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Dean of Tsinghua SEM.

The following is the article translated to English.

Offering solutions to help enterprises out of difficulty

Carrying out online research, participating in seminars organized by the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and other departments, formulating college development plans and writing proposals and suggestions ... Before the NPC and CPPCC sessions, BAI Chong-En, member of CPPCC and Dean of Tsinghua SEM, had a full schedule for every day. In fact, since he became a member of CPPCC seven years ago, Bai has felt that his work has become more fast-paced as well as more meaningful.

At 7 p.m. on March 14, an online meeting was held in the conference room of Tsinghua SEM. BAI Chong-En was the convener, meeting with a number of entrepreneurs from information technology, modern manufacturing, traditional manufacturing, consumer services, finance and other industries on the other side of the video call.

"Comparing to last year, our performance has not declined but increased this year." "Tourism is facing great difficulties." "It is hard to return to work in some places." "New technologies have brought many opportunities" ... Everyone has joined in the heated discussion on how to deal with the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic. Since March, BAI Chong-En has organized more than 10 such meetings with more than 300 participants from different industries taken part in. "Since people can't go out during the epidemic prevention and control period, I thus use the school’s senior executive training resources to carry out online research to understand the difficulties faced by different enterprises, their current measures and expectations for the future."

In order to have a detailed knowledge of enterprises returning to work and resuming production, Bai led the team to carry out research on specific objects. Through verification and comparison of a large scale of data, he made his analysis and conclusion more objective and comprehensive. "Through online research, we know that there are differences among regions in resuming work, which leads to poor industrial chain connection. We didn't immediately trust the result, but quantitatively analyzed the difference in the resumption of work in different regions through data from a logistics information service company.

Through detailed and in-depth investigation and analysis, Bai has a more comprehensive understanding of the real situation of different industries and enterprises affected by the epidemic. From his perspective, it is significant for the central government to put forward "six stability" and "six security" policy. In actual practice, more elaborate measures should be taken to protect market subjects more efficiently, since “good steel needs to be used for the blade's edge”. It is necessary to distinguish enterprises of different types and industries, carry out precise assistance and avoid "flood-like" and "one size fits all" policies.

During the time between meetings, Bai made every effort to revise and perfect his proposals. In view of the difficulties faced by the enterprises during the resumption of work and production, he put forward a package of practical suggestions, and the early in-depth investigation made him more confident in performing his duties. (By MENG Xiangfu,People’s Daily, May 24, 2020)