Comrade Hu Jintao put forward the socialist concept of honor and disgrace with "eight honors and eight disgraces" as the main content, one of which is called "being proud of being honest and trustworthy, and being ashamed of harming others". Although this article is not listed as the first, it is actually particularly important, and to some extent it can even be said to be the premise or foundation of other virtues. Imagine that it is important to love patriotism, serve the people, respect science, work hard, unite and help each other, abide by the law and work hard, but it must be true and do what you say; It is of no value if you just talk in general terms, perfunctory, and just pretend. This "truth" is honesty and trustworthiness. What is the basic experience of studying Fang Yonggang and Fang Yonggang recently? What moved him most? In my opinion, it is a word "truth", which means learning, believing and doing. In the final analysis, it is to be honest and trustworthy. Honesty and trustworthiness is an important norm of citizens' morality and a fine tradition of our Chinese nation, especially the basic moral standards of our party member cadres and national cadres.
Honesty and trustworthiness are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation
As early as the primitive society, our ancestors consciously or unconsciously observed the principle of honesty and trustworthiness, and placed special emphasis on honesty and justice, both inside and outside clans and tribes, for the sake of happiness. However, with the emergence of private ownership and class, the wind of fraud began to breed and spread, and dishonesty has become a serious problem. For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, intrigue and intrigue occurred frequently among countries, and even there was a situation in which "gentlemen formed alliances repeatedly, and chaos became long-term". The first article "Zheng Boke Duan" in the famous "Ancient prose" reveals Zheng's treacherous but hypocritical honesty when dealing with the contradiction between his brother and his mother. The second article, Zhou Zheng's Oath, also discussed the issue of honesty, saying that Zheng Bo and Zhou Wang exchanged their sons as "hostages" because of mutual distrust. But there are still problems, so people lament that at that time, among the people, although the problem was not as serious as that between rulers, treachery was also common. For example, between men and women, there is an article in the Book of Songs, Meng, which criticizes men for breaking their love vows and abandoning their wives. The poem sighed: "promise, don't think too much." Historically, people always keep their promises first; But then I realized that the reason why I can't keep my word lies in my insincerity. Promises alone are not enough for "hostages". You must be sincere and honest to be truly trustworthy. If you are serious and trustworthy, you don't need anything valuable as "quality", even weeds by the stream and wild vegetables by the roadside can be used as "quality"; If you are "untrustworthy", it is useless to make a "quality" of your expensive things. In the struggle against dishonest thoughts and behaviors, honesty began to develop. In fact, in the social life at that time, especially among ordinary working people, honesty and trustworthiness have always been the mainstream, and most people abide by the principle of honesty and credit.
For thousands of years, people have always affirmed and praised honesty and trustworthiness, praising honesty and trustworthiness. Our ancestors have always stressed the need to "keep a promise as good as a thousand dollars", "keep a promise as good as a thousand dollars", and "once a word is said, it is hard to recall it." Why? Because honesty and trustworthiness are the basic needs of human life and the necessary factors to promote the stable and harmonious development of human social relations. The ancients said: "A loyal person is the way of heaven; Honest people, the way of people is also. " In other words, everything is real from the sky to the ground. If you tell lies and play with falsehood, crops will not grow on the ground, factories will not produce qualified products, and even the simplest relationship between people will not be maintained. Therefore, being a man must be practical and practical. Real production and life, real people and things. Faithfully assume their responsibilities and fulfill their obligations. Honesty is the basic condition and principle of being a man. "People are human because they can talk; People can't talk, how can they be people? Words are speakers because they believe; If you don't believe what you said, why did you say it? The reason why faith is a believer is the Tao. If you believe but don't know the truth, how can you be the truth? " (Biography of the Spring and Autumn Valley)
The traditional honesty and trustworthiness of the Chinese nation is first manifested in the family, and in the integrity between parents and children, spouses and brothers. Especially the family members who go out to study, go into politics and do business as soldiers, in order to maintain stable family relations and affection, they must be honest. In order to be loyal to love, lovers often show sincerity. The legendary "holding the tail column", once promised to meet under the bridge, will faithfully keep the appointment, even if the flood strikes, will hold the column and wait, life and death will not change. Secondly, in social life, in the interaction with neighbors, fellow villagers, teachers and friends, we should abide by honesty. Many stories celebrate this honesty and trustworthiness. Zuo Zhuan recorded the story of Ji Zha hanging a sword. Ji Zha, the son of the State of Wu, knew that his friend liked his sword and promised to give it to him, but he couldn't give it to him right away because he was on a mission. By the time the diplomatic mission was completed, my friend had died. In order to keep his promise to his dead friend, he resolutely hung his sword on his friend's grave. Another example is "Fan Juqing practiced chicken and millet" recorded in Sanyan Erpai. Fan Juqing promised to visit a friend's house at some time one day. Because he was busy making a living, he forgot for the time being. In order to fulfill my promise, I thought that the soul might "travel a thousand miles a day", and in order to find a friend at once, I would commit suicide to fulfill my promise.
Furthermore, in their professional life, the people of China have always emphasized and abided by the spirit of honesty, trustworthiness and trustworthiness, and many touching stories have appeared.
For example, officials are honest and trustworthy and loyal to their duties. Dong Hu's calligraphy in Jin Dynasty is not hidden, which is about Dong Hu, a historian of Jin State. While writing History of the State of Jin, he insisted on writing Zixuan Zhao regardless of his position and power. ⒔? Gong Ling. Praised by Confucius. The History of Southern Qi also talks about the fact that three brothers, historians of Qi State, were determined to write "regicide of Cui Yi" despite the fact that the ruler Cui Yi was killed.
Doctors abide by integrity and treat patients with integrity. Song Qing, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, used drugs to treat patients whether they were rich or not. Some distant patients write IOUs regardless. For poor patients, they are never urged to pay back the money, but often burn. He said: "If you are clear, you will gain a lot. If you are far away, you will gain a lot." Doing so "does not harm the Qing dynasty to get rich" ("Liuhe East Collection? Song Qingchuan ")
Businessmen and craftsmen treat their work and customers with integrity. Wuxian people, "Cai Mian (? U) Resolutely repay the wealth of lost friends ". The dead friend left a daughter. "It's in my heart, not on paper, but Weng knows me, so I won't say much. "("clear money ")
As far as the nation is concerned, all the rulers in China know that "faith is the political foundation". First of all, we must gain the trust and support of the people. Confucius said that a country would rather "eat from the army" than break its promise. "Without faith, people can't stand." Once the integrity is lost, the country is not a country. In addition, honesty should also be emphasized between countries and nations. Once an agreement and a peace treaty are signed, they should abide by it. China is a multi-ethnic country with many neighboring countries, and the relationship between countries and nationalities is quite complicated. For thousands of years, the people of China have always emphasized morality and abided by the principle of "keeping promises and acting according to results".
Honesty and trustworthiness not only plays an important role in personal life, but also can gain the trust and support of others, which is indispensable in life. For a society or a country, it is the cornerstone of maintaining normal operation and stable order. In peacetime, it plays a great role in maintaining people's normal production and life. In wartime, especially in revolutionary war, it can also play an important role in uniting the masses and defeating the enemy. For example, Fang Zhimin, Yang Jingyu, Jie Jiang, Liu Hulan, Dong Cunrui, Lei Feng, Jiao, Wang Jinxi and so on since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Our revolutionaries and revolutionary fighters are honest and trustworthy people. They are infinitely loyal to revolutionary organizations and people's undertakings, fulfill their duties and keep their promises; Be honest and trustworthy to revolutionary comrades and people. All these ensured the victory of our new-democratic revolution and socialist revolution, as well as the victory of socialist construction later.
In short, judging from the history of China, the virtue of honesty and trustworthiness has stabilized the objective production relations and social order, guaranteed our normal production and life, and played an inestimable role in the survival and prosperity of the Chinese nation. Honesty and trustworthiness are the precious spiritual wealth of our Chinese nation, which deserves our inheritance.
Under the condition of market economy, honesty and trustworthiness are particularly important.
Advocating honesty and trustworthiness is an urgent task to build a harmonious socialist society. At present, China has entered a critical period of reform and opening up. People are experiencing profound changes in economic system, social structure, interest pattern and ideas. It is particularly important to carry forward the traditional virtues of honesty and trustworthiness of the Chinese nation.
Market economy must abide by honesty, because it is a voluntary trading activity between millions of relatively independent subjects, and it must rely on a market that abides by contracts and is honest and orderly. In this environment, although people get rid of or dilute the original natural social relations and communicate with more people in a free and equal capacity, honesty and trustworthiness have become the basic conditions for maintaining the normal operation of the market. Honesty is an intangible asset, which can reduce transaction costs. In particular, the socialist market economy is based on honesty and trustworthiness. The relationship between people under the socialist market economy should consciously respect and safeguard the legitimate interests of society and others, and consciously abide by the principle of honesty and trustworthiness. Honesty and trustworthiness is the core of the moral standard system of socialist market economy. It can be said that the socialist market economy is an honest economy.
Facing the unprecedented development opportunities and challenges facing our country, what kind of ethics, spiritual quality and ideological style we should have is a test of whether we can win and advance smoothly. Based on this, our party has been paying great attention to the ideological and moral construction of party cadres, party member and the people of the whole country, so it has repeatedly put forward and emphasized the construction of integrity.
Carry forward the traditional national spirit of honesty and trustworthiness and build a harmonious socialist society.
At present, people all over the country are conscientiously studying and implementing the spirit of the resolution of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee, striving to strengthen the construction of government integrity, business integrity and social integrity, and implementing Comrade Hu Jintao's call of "being proud of honesty and trustworthiness and being ashamed of pursuing profits at the expense of others". We should take the lead in producing party member and state cadres, be accountable to the people and adhere to principles. However, how can we raise awareness and implement the principle of honesty and trustworthiness?
In our opinion, we should first raise the awareness of honesty and trustworthiness here. What is honesty and trustworthiness? To put it simply, it is to be wholehearted to people and things, not hypocritical, to speak with one heart, and to match words with deeds. However, the honesty and trustworthiness of party member and state cadres cannot stay at such a simple and secular level. We should combine it with the guidance of Marxism and Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ideal, that is, to rise to the height of the socialist core value system. We should realize that "sincerity" has always been associated with "righteousness". The ancients said "faithfulness is close to righteousness", while modern people often say "faithfulness". In other words, honesty is hierarchical, and what we want to talk about is honesty and trustworthiness, which must be "big faith" that conforms to "morality". As for those who are upright but not upright, they are actually just "small print" and not particularly noble. For example, friendship for the self-interest of a small group, that kind of honesty can be ignored. Confucius said that honest people who devote themselves to personal interests are just "? n？ N, the villain is also. "Doctors comfort patients for the sake of their health, and they can lie to conceal their illness; An arrested soldier can deceive the enemy and say "I don't know". On the surface, this seems to be inconsistent with honesty and trustworthiness, but from a more fundamental standpoint, it is precisely greater honesty and trustworthiness and the integrity of the overwhelming majority of the people. For our party member and leading cadres at all levels, honesty and trustworthiness is the Marxist ideological style and work style, and it is the inevitable requirement of our socialist cause. To practice honesty and trustworthiness, we must learn from the excellent cultures of people all over the world, especially the excellent elements of honesty and trustworthiness in the traditional spirit of the Chinese nation, and strive to learn from the advanced figures and moral models in the revolutionary war and socialist construction, such as the "three old four strict" of Daqing workers, and strive to enhance our socialist concept of honor and disgrace. Be sincere to others, to the Party and to yourself. Dedicated to the party and the people, open-minded and innocent, after constant exercise and tempering, I finally climbed to the realm of "cautious independence".
To be honest and trustworthy, people also need to understand materialist dialectics and correctly handle the relationship between justice and benefit. Historical materialism tells us that the key to trustworthiness lies in honesty, and the key to honesty lies in correctly treating the relationship between righteousness and interests, that is, the contradiction between local interests and overall interests, temporary interests and long-term interests, and correctly handling the relationship between them. What is worth pondering is that this time, in the study and education of the socialist concept of honor and disgrace with "eight honors and eight disgraces" as the main content, Comrade Hu Jintao clearly pointed out that it is of great significance to correspond honesty and trustworthiness with "sacrificing the foundation for profit" instead of opposing "treachery" as we imagined. The "profit" mentioned here generally refers to the local and temporary interests of individuals or small groups. What is "righteousness"? It is nothing more than the long-term fundamental interests of millions of people. Comrade Hu Jintao's instructions not only pointed out the fundamental reason why people can't be honest and trustworthy, but also because of the interference of "profit"; It also points out that the fundamental way to understand and never stress honesty is to correctly understand and handle people's various interests, especially the relationship between individual interests and collective interests, temporary interests and long-term interests, and never forget interests. It is difficult to do this, but it is not difficult. The ancients still understood that "no one seeks the benefit of one person, and those who benefit the world seek it." There is no profit for the moment. And people who benefit the world will seek it. "(Hu Hong" knowing words? We should carry forward the spirit of collectivism and more consciously combine individual interests with collective interests and temporary interests with long-term interests. When there is a contradiction between the two, we should get out of the narrow world of the individual, restrain and get rid of the temptation of personal temporary interests. C. Stand firmly in the people's position and keep in mind the most fundamental interests of the people. Adhere to "righteousness is the highest" and "righteousness is the benefit", and finally achieve "righteousness is the benefit". To tell the truth, do honest things honestly. Both Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi said that dishonest people will suffer. Honest people will not suffer. Numerous practices have proved that this is a truth.
In addition, in order to improve people's moral level of honesty and trustworthiness and cultivate an honest and trustworthy social atmosphere, we must also establish perfect laws and systems, including supervision and inspection systems, reward and punishment systems, etc. Establish and improve various operating mechanisms and strengthen external constraints. For example, economically, to establish and improve the credit system of the socialist market economy, organs, units and schools should also establish credit files to record people's credit status such as economic exchanges, tax payment and violation of discipline. Reward those who are honest and trustworthy, and punish those who are treacherous.
The moral construction of honesty and trustworthiness will be long-term and arduous, but we believe that as long as we persist, we will certainly win, and the social atmosphere of honesty and trustworthiness will become more and more prosperous, because it conforms to the law of things development and meets the needs of people's interests.