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Contemporary Value of Mencius's Thoughts of Clean Government

President HU Jintao pointed in the July speech: "We should vigorously promote the cultural inheritance and innovation."The party's seventeenth session of the sixth plenary session advocated a profound anti-corruption education. Mencius' thoughts, which was formed in the background of social unrest and the change of social system, pointed out the value orientation of the clean, the source of power, and the moral of officials. At the critical moment of reform, when the new and old systems could not transform overnight, some uncoordinated or even disordered states inevitably occur, and corruption becomes rampant. In this context, anticorruption becomes increasingly serious nowadays, and Meniscus' thoughts have important referential significance.   

  1. College of Marxism, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China
  • Received:2011-12-31 Revised:2012-01-16 Online:2012-05-15 Published:2012-05-15

Abstract:

President HU Jintao pointed in the July speech: "We should vigorously promote the cultural inheritance and innovation."The party's seventeenth session of the sixth plenary session advocated a profound anti-corruption education. Mencius' thoughts, which was formed in the background of social unrest and the change of social system, pointed out the value orientation of the clean, the source of power, and the moral of officials. At the critical moment of reform, when the new and old systems could not transform overnight, some uncoordinated or even disordered states inevitably occur, and corruption becomes rampant. In this context, anticorruption becomes increasingly serious nowadays, and Meniscus' thoughts have important referential significance.

Key words: idea of clean government, rule by moral, people-oriented thoughts, contemporary value

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