Prime Minister's message to the people

A simple swivel chair on the stage, the Prime Minister sat and talked with the workers, and as worker Vu Duy Tho said: "The Prime Minister is very close and simple". There were only the Prime Minister and the workers in the middle of the stadium, sitting very close, standing next to each other, without any distance.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc talks with workers.

The chair for him to rest after the exchange was just a plastic chair like the workers', sitting in the same row and next to the workers, happy and friendly. That image left a deep impression on the workers, it seemed like it had been a long time since the workers had sat near a Prime Minister.

The 9 questions that workers asked Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc were the most pressing issues of workers such as income, housing, social insurance, cultural life, and kindergarten for their children. The Prime Minister answered each issue specifically, acknowledged and proposed solutions and commitments, and at the same time directed the sectors and localities to take action to improve the material and spiritual life of workers. The Prime Minister even walked down to the workers' seats, surrounded by endless applause. He stood next to a female worker, answered enthusiastically, and his sharing was truly moving.

Worker Nguyen Gia Thai said that he never thought he could stand so close to the Prime Minister and "wished to hug the Prime Minister", he happily put his arms around Nguyen Gia Thai. Perhaps there has never been such an affectionate and close image of a Prime Minister with a worker.

People have talked a lot about the two words “close to the people”. But in reality, many leaders are very far from the people, far from the people in their hearts. We know that being close to the people does not mean sitting next to the people, but working for the people, responding to their wishes and thoughts. However, any content contains a form and vice versa. Coming to the people, sitting next to the people, listening to the people speak directly, that is the form and also the content. And that is the message of being close to the people from Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Other officials should look at the image of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at Dong Nai Provincial Stadium to re-examine themselves. Local leaders should ask themselves if they have ever come to the workers, sat and talked with them, put their arms around a worker. Through that closeness, they ask questions to know the lives of workers, understand the suffering of the people.

Understand, know to act.

According to Labor