胡锦涛同志要求宣传思想工作要“总结经验,深化改革,在‘三贴近’上取得新进展”。这对新时期思想政治工作进一步解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进,提出了新的更高的要求。思想政治工作要在落实“三贴近”上取得新突破,要求锤炼三种功夫,突出“三性”。在调查研究上下工夫,突出针对性。搞好调查研究是落实“三贴近”的前提和基础,是思想政治工作体现时代性、把握规律性、富于创造性的要求,是解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进的要求,是适应全 Comrade Hu Jintao demanded that propaganda and ideological work should be “summing up experience, deepening reform and making new progress in the ’three closer’.” This emancipates our minds further in ideological and political work in the new period, asks for truth from facts, advances with the times and sets new and higher requirements. The ideological and political work must make new breakthroughs in the implementation of the “three close-tos” and require that three kinds of efforts be tempered, highlighting the “three nature.” In the research work, give prominence to targeted. Doing a good job of investigation and study is the precondition and basis for the implementation of the “three close-tos.” It is a requirement that ideological and political work embodies the times and rules and is creative. It is the requirement of emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times. all