Qiang Ming's chivalrous understanding is the forerunner of action. To do a good job of inspection, we must first correctly understand the inspection work. Combined with some practical problems and work experience, the author thinks that we should solve the doubts and questions faced by practice, especially clarify our thinking from five aspects, get rid of misunderstandings, deepen our understanding of patrol work, further improve our confidence and sense of responsibility in patrol work, and enhance our initiative and scientificity. Get out of the misunderstanding of the importance of inspection. There is a view that patrol is easy to become a mere formality, and it is difficult to find influential case clues. Accordingly, it is of little significance. This is a one-sided understanding. In fact, the consideration of establishing the patrol system is far-reaching, and the role of patrol work should be comprehensively and dialectically understood. On the one hand, in terms of tasks, the purpose of inspection is not only to find clues to cases, but also to six aspects stipulated in the Regulations on Inspection Work. If you find any problems, you should understand them thoroughly, and you can't generalize. In fact, many inspections have found many clues to major cases. More importantly, the establishment of the inspection system has strengthened the weak links of inner-party supervision and further improved the punishment and prevention system. Although this institutional, comprehensive and deterrent role is intangible, it is significant and necessary. On the other hand, the effectiveness of the inspection system mainly depends on understanding the situation and finding problems, otherwise its institutional and deterrent effects will be greatly reduced. According to the current situation, the inspection work should pay special attention to the construction of party style and clean government and the anti-corruption struggle, the implementation of the eight regulations, the implementation of the party's political discipline, and the selection and employment of people. Get out of the misunderstanding of the necessity of inspection. The second view is that modern society is an information society, with many communication channels and a large amount of information. The existence of online public opinion is very different from the isolated social situation in the past and even in ancient times, and there is no need to patrol. This view is also one-sided. Not to mention that the inspection system in the modern sense is very different from the past, that is, from the point of view of information exchange, the necessity of inspection work is not smaller, but greater. Because of the large amount of social information, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and the mixed fish and dragons, coupled with the fast pace of society and the rapid update of information, it is more difficult to understand the real situation. Due to the long inspection time, wide conversation and in-depth understanding, the opinions of the inspection team can play an important role in distinguishing authenticity and clarifying facts. Therefore, the inspection work can only be strengthened, not weakened. In view of this, the inspection work should also pay attention to online public opinion. Get out of the misunderstanding of inspection prescription. The third view is that the inspection work has great limitations and is difficult to overcome, which is also biased. What is a restriction? The limitation is incompleteness and incompleteness. For example, the conclusion that the blind touch the elephant is caused by their own factors is limited, and the earthquake prediction is limited to the existing conditions. Patrol work also has certain limitations, but it is not insurmountable. As long as we study carefully and adopt correct countermeasures and methods, it can be effectively overcome. It is necessary to realize that the limitations of patrol work come from the subjective limitations of patrol personnel, the limitations of working methods, the limitations of patrol environment and even the limitations of institutional mechanisms, and we can constantly improve them from these aspects. For example, spot checks on personal matters reported by leading cadres are very helpful to solve problems. Get out of the misunderstanding of patrol responsibility. The fourth view is that the inspection is only a matter for the inspection team, and it is also incorrect to hold an irrelevant attitude. Patrol work involves many aspects, such as agencies, patrol teams and inspected units, and is a closely related system. Therefore, all parties involved should have a systematic concept and consciousness. Only when all the subjects and links of the inspection work form an organic whole, further improve the overall coordination level of the inspection work and make the whole inspection system run smoothly, can we form an overall joint force and ensure the smooth development of the inspection work. Get out of the misunderstanding of scientific understanding patrol. The fifth view is that patrol has existed since ancient times, which is more traditional and less scientific. This view seems reasonable, but in fact it lacks a deep understanding of inspection work and must be corrected. From the unique advantages and functions of the patrol system and the top-level design of the modern patrol system, we can deeply understand its scientificity. The status of the inspection team is detached, and it has a wide range of contacts with the masses and a long time, which is conducive to understanding a large number of situations and problems without interference; Judging from the function of the inspection system, the main object of supervision is the party and government leading bodies and their members, with the focus on the main leaders of the party and government, which solves the problem of poor supervision by the top leaders; The inspection system moves the supervision gate forward and has the functions of punishment and prevention. The establishment of patrol system is a scientific system design and an important step to improve the scientific level of party building. We should seriously carry out the inspection work with a scientific attitude. (The author is an inspector at the deputy department level of the Second Inspection Team of Gansu Provincial Committee)