与宋平工作过的同志都认为,宋平是个谦虚谨慎,平易近人的人。宋平作报告、讲话等几乎都是自己起草讲稿,除一些大型会议的正式报告外,他从不靠秘书起草。宋平在甘肃工作期间经常下乡,每次听基层干部汇报时,总是认真听下面的情况,极少打断人家的讲话,更不摆第一书记的架子 The comrades working with Song Ping both believed that Song Ping was a humble, approachable man. Almost all of Song Ping’s reports and speeches drafted his own drafts, except for the official reports of some large-scale conferences. He never drafted it by the secretary. During his work in Gansu, Song Ping often went to the countryside. Every time he listened to reports from grassroots cadres, he always listened to the following situations with few interruptions and even dismissed the shelf of the first secretary