In the afternoon of April 7, Tang Feifan, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee and Mayor of the Ningbo City, received public petitions in Cixi, presided over a special meeting on petition work supervision, and conducted research on home-based elderly care services. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s guiding principles on strengthening and improving public petition work, adhere to the requirements of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee, focus on resolving urgent public difficulties, tackle key sector issues, and make wholehearted efforts to address public concerns, thereby safeguarding people's legitimate rights and interests and maintaining social harmony and stability. Lin Jian, a member of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee and Secretary of the CPC Cixi Municipal Committee; Wang Shunda, Vice Mayor of the Ningbo City and Director of the Ningbo Public Security Bureau; along with our city leaders, including Zhang Cheng and Bu Mingchang, participated in the research or attended the meeting.

Tang first visited the Baishalu Subdistrict Home-based Elderly Care Service Center, inspected functional areas including rehabilitation stations and nursing guidance rooms, and held in-depth discussions with center administrators to understand operational details. He noted that elderly care represents both a crucial livelihood concern for residents and a key sector generating petition complaints. We must further optimize service supply, accelerate building neighborhood elderly care networks to ensure all seniors receive quality support," he stated.

At the Cixi Social Governance Center, three groups of petitioners proposed respectively on accelerating rural clinic upgrades, promoting high-quality bayberry industrial development, and widening the eastern extension of the Jiantang-Fuhai Line. Tang attentively heard these appeals, discussed solutions on-site with local officials and relevant departments, and provided clear responses. He instructed to align with livelihood projects, expand grassroots medical resources based on population distribution, and strengthen village-level healthcare institutions. We need to enhance technological empowerment, extend industrial chains, add value, and elevate the reputation of Biqi Bayberries to strengthen Ningbo's historic specialty industry. Coordinate comprehensively to build both “arterial” and “capillary” roads, creating “Four-Good Rural Roads” that enhance public satisfaction. At the subsequent supervision meeting, Tang stressed petitions serve as a "barometer" of public sentiment, a "gathering place" for pressing concerns, and a "gauge" of cadre conduct. We need to heighten ideological awareness through implementing the Eight-Point Regulation and combating misconduct, fostering proper performance outlooks to strengthen Party-mass ties in conducting doorstep public service. Prioritize root-cause resolution by addressing reasonable appeals as personal matters, handling first-time petitions like backlog cases to prevent escalation. Enhance systematic governance through leadership exemplars, improving four mechanisms of leadership responsibility, public reception, problem-solving, long-term efficacy, with officials spearheading petition research, visits and case resolutions, extending solutions from single cases to category-wide improvements. We also need to advance legal governance by embedding legal standards throughout petition processes, resolving lawful appeals promptly and locally to manifest justice.