务实 wùshí to deal with concrete matters
to deal with concrete matters; pragmatic
How to remember 务实: 务 affairs + 实 real = to deal with concrete matters.
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- Pragmatic - focused on concrete results over talk - 作风务实 (zuòfēng wùshí) a down-to-earth, practical style.
- Positive; opposite of 务虚 (wùxū, deal with theory/abstractions) and of empty grandstanding - 务虚会 (wùxūhuì) a meeting on broad ideas.
- Describes people, attitudes, policies that get real things done.