How to draft a speech for the leader

Drafting a speech for the leadership is a regular work of the secretaries and research staff in the party and government organs. I remember that when I first came to the party's organs, an old comrade said that the speech he drafted for the first time only retained one sentence at the end, and all others changed, which is equal to rewriting. It seems that drafting a speech for the leader is not a good errand. After many years, looking back, it is difficult and difficult to draft a speech, saying that it is easy and easy, and there are rules to follow.

The leadership speech is not an individual creation, but a "job" work. It represents the first-level organization, a leading group, and an organ. However, it must have the personal style and personality characteristics of the leading cadres. How to skillfully blend the two together is a test of craftsmanship. A good speech has an appeal, appeal, and motivation to the audience.

Some people say that as long as it is a big pen, you can write a speech. Actually, isn’t Chen Boda a big pen? He was also named "Chinese historian and philosopher" by Stalin, but Mao Zedong, the opening speech of the "Big Eight" drafted by Mao Zedong, was dissatisfied. He said that he wrote too long, too far, abandoned, and found him. Secretary Tian Jiaying: "Don't write too long. I have a manuscript in my pocket. I am relieved." The only exception, not the opening speech of more than 2,000 words drafted by Mao Zedong, was beaten with 34 warm applause. Broken, five of them were "long applause", which showed a strong reaction. Everyone thought that this opening speech full of "Mao Zedong style" came from Mao Zedong's handwriting and issued a sincere approval. Mao Zedong said: "Who wrote the opening speech? It was written by a young scholar. This person is Tian Jiaying."

A speech that meets the requirements, one must be right, the second is to be new.

On the road, we must first take the actual road. The speech is nothing more than analyzing the situation, explaining doubts, explaining meaning, attracting attention, summing up experience, guiding the future, proposing tasks, specifying requirements, revealing problems, and inspiring others. In short, it is to solve the most urgent and important issues at that time. All of these require a clear understanding of the actual situation, and the speech can have a strong pertinence and distinctive characteristics of the times. A few years ago, the author accompanied a superior comrade to the following inspection work. He said that the party’s three styles of work were carried out along the way, always giving people the feeling of deja vu and not quenching thirst. The key is that the following comrades want to know, in the new Under the historical conditions, how should we carry forward the three styles of work, and this point is unclear, is it not itching?

The right way, but also the way to the audience. The same question, telling the cadres of the government and speaking to the public, speaking to the party members and speaking to the democratic parties, speaking to the experts and scholars, speaking to the practical workers, speaking to people from different industries and different workplaces, regardless of speech The angle of the speech, the focus of the speech, and the way of expressing the language should all be different. We cannot make a speech to fight the world and engage in wholesale.

On the road, it is also the way to the role of leading cadres in the speech. This is the core and most critical issue for the drafters. The speech is the leader who leads the overall work, the leader in charge, or the department leader. Is it an expert-scholar-type leader or a leader who has grown up from the grassroots level? Is it a light-weight or a light-weight leader? What kind of personal temperament is it? The cadres themselves are in line. When the relevant leaders of the State Science and Technology Commission drafted a speech for the National Science Conference held in March 1978, Deng Xiaoping’s speech was based on his scientific work policy and intellectual policy from the perspective of the leader of science education; At that time, Feng was the highest leader of the country. His speech was from a broader perspective. To this end, the drafters asked Hu Yaobang, Yao Bang suggested to teach science and education to rejuvenate the country or to build a country through science and education. It should be said that this idea is very good. It is a pity that the "two things are", the speech drafted in accordance with Hu Yaobang's opinion was not adopted. Guo Moruo was the dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a poet at the time. His speech was inspiring and embodying the poet's temperament from the perspective of the spring of science. This lecture also included the language textbook of the school.

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The right way, but also the way to draft methods. The leading comrades will first come up with an outline of the speech, clearly write a few parts, what content is written in each part, and even give examples. Any classic discussion is very specific. Such a speech is better written and best reflects the thoughts of leading comrades. The level reflects the personal style of the leader. Deng Xiaoping’s important speech at the Central Working Conference before the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, and Uniting Forward", is that Comrade Xiaoping has personally drafted an outline of 500 words and listed seven aspects. Hu Yaobang and Yu Guangyuan and others came together to clarify the parts of the speech that were to be written. They explained the ideas, principles, and policies that need to be clarified one by one, and they were very specific. Even the topic of the speech was Comrade Xiaoping. Proposed. After the first draft was formed, Comrade Xiaoping again called Yaobang and Guangyuan to revise the words and words one by one, and later through some texts to form the final speech. As the speech of the theme report of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the textual expressions from the ideological point of view, the logical structure to the main concepts are all written according to the outline.

Some leaders did not say anything beforehand. They only said that they would write a speech for the meeting, and even the outline was proposed by the drafters. When you come up with the first draft, it triggers his thinking, and then convene the comrades of the archives drafting group to study and talk about his ideas. In this case, the drafter must adapt his thinking and working methods to the habits of leadership. Some leaders also verbally say a few parts of the topic, you must turn it into a full-fledged and highly targeted speech based on the consistent thinking and style of the leader, as well as recent remarks.

The right way, but also the way to lead the way of expression. Different leaders have different requirements. Some requirements have the height of theory, the depth of thought, and the thickness of practice. They must be rigorously argued and systematically analyzed in depth; some require the use of the language of the people to enumerate the vivid examples in real life; some requirements Quoted by the classics, through today's Bogu, writing and writing; some requirements summarize the numerical formula, easy to remember below, and so on. These requirements are not high, the key is to express the intention of the leadership, so that the public can accept the understanding.

In the process of drafting many formal speeches, the opinions of all parties must be widely consulted. People in different positions generally propose amendments from their own perspectives, and some of them may contradict each other. These opinions can be carefully sorted out, reported to the leaders, changed and not changed, changed how much, how to change, according to the opinions of the leaders.

New, mainly on the basis of adhering to a good style of writing, in the actual combination of new, to make new summaries, sum up new experiences, and propose new ideas, new ideas, new methods. A good speech can have one or two views, one or two sentences that inspire the audience, be shocked, impressed, and even spread a long time. That is a very high level. Mao Zedong’s opening speech in the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China’s “open-mindedness makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind”, and now it has become a popular motto. Deng Xiaoping’s "science and technology is a productive force" at the National Science Conference in 1978, and intellectuals "is part of the working class itself", especially as the spring thunder has shaken the country and promoted the formation of talented people in the new era.

The new is not to be sensational and unconventional, but to reflect the spirit of the times, answer public concerns, public resonance, public recognition, and public participation, so that the public can listen, understand and use.

It is very important to draft a speech for the leadership to make the right path, to renovate, and to strengthen the experience. One of the important aspects is to seriously consider the place where the leadership is revised. Why is the leader dissatisfied, why should he modify it, absorb the leadership from it, upgrade himself, accumulate the number of roads, and do a good job. When Alibaba.com Ceo Weizhe became the general manager of Wan Guo Securities more than 10 years ago, 80% of the reports and speeches drafted for the boss at first were criticized for rewriting. Every time he carefully studied the boss's dissatisfaction, after half a year, the boss he wrote basically did not change. What a great leap! Moreover, the drafting of the speech must conform to the requirements of the leaders. It should be noted that when dealing with leaders, we should not only be satisfied with the daily chores of the leaders, handling the files, and arranging the life. What is more important is to learn the leaders to observe and think. And the ideas, countermeasures and methods for dealing with problems are not from the perspective of the secretary, but from the perspective of leadership. In time, it not only improved the level of drafting the speech, but also tempered its ability to be independent, to control the overall situation, and to deal with emergencies.