At the beginning of the year, Party committees and governments at all levels and all departments of the system seized the opportunity to hold various training meetings to unify the thinking of cadres and workers and arrange tasks for the new year. It is worth mentioning that compared with the past, there are generally fewer meetings and more training, and there is a trend of "training instead of meeting" in various places.

The purpose of "training instead of meeting" is to replace the previous situation of "leaders speaking on stage, not communicating, not practicing and not giving feedback" through various training methods such as party school training, attachment training and study and inspection. Indeed, the effectiveness of previous meetings often depends on the language level and personality charm of leaders, otherwise there will be consequences of "being dizzy and making people shine". If the theme of "training instead of meeting" is clear, diverse, rich in content and emphasizes timeliness, it will indeed achieve better results than simply holding a meeting.

However, in the process of implementation in some places, the model of "training instead of meeting" has changed. In the form of training, it is limited to "one person speaks", the lecturer who invites training is still the leader, and the teaching focuses on the arrangement of work tasks; Generalization of objects, multi-head training, and "you sing and I go on stage" in various departments, which leads to the lack of pertinence and effectiveness of training, such as lack of training, personnel only need relevant units to participate, and the same cadre arranges multiple trainings in a short period of time; The content is not in-depth, rich, vivid, irritating and infectious, and it cannot arouse interest in learning. After such training, the training has just become the "extended version" of the conference and the "vest" of the conference.

The eight central regulations clearly put forward that it is necessary to streamline meeting activities and effectively improve the meeting style. In the process of "four winds" rectification, all localities actively implemented the spirit of the Central Committee and took streamlining meetings as one of the rectification projects. However, we should guard against using meetings to talk about things and reduce the quality of training just because we want to streamline meetings. That's just replacing the old formalism with new formalism, which is by no means the goal of four winds's rectification movement.

The meeting still has an irreplaceable position in the process of administrative organs performing their duties. The author thinks that meetings should be streamlined, not simply reduced. Meetings and training should be responsible for each other. The conference should handle the tasks of ideological unity, spiritual communication and work arrangement, make good use of the characteristics of "authority, professionalism, directness and quickness", and advocate short meetings and short speeches. Training pays attention to the construction of cadres and workers' political thought and professional ability, with different purposes and less timeliness than meetings.