able to work both at the top and down below
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n é ngsh à NGN é ngxi à, which means that cadres can work steadfastly regardless of their positions, no matter they are in leadership positions or engaged in practical work at the grass-roots level. It is an important reform of the lifelong system of cadres to implement the idea of being able to go up and down. From the issue of cadres of the ruling party.
The origin of Idioms
Deng Xiaoping's "cadre problem of the ruling party": "I propose that cadres can go up and down, whether we can test it, starting from the grassroots."
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate, object and attribute. examples we should adhere to the mechanism of employing cadres who can go up and down.
able to work both at the top and down below
come together through thick and thin - huàn nàn yǔ gòng
be cut off from the outside world - dù mén què sǎo