Running The Country With Moral Being The Heritage And Development From The Thought Of The Traditional Culture

Facing the chance and challenge of the new century, Comrade Jiang Zemin brings forward the important thought of running the country with moral. The thought is based on the rich earth of Chinese traditional virtues, but it is quite different from the ancient thought of ruling the state with moral. It is the heritageand development from the traditional thought--cultivating one's moralcharacter, regulating the family, running the country and calming down the world.There are four parts in this article. The first part mainly discusses the scientific meaning of the thought of running the country with moral. The second part gives analysis to the limitation and reasonability of the ancient thought of ruling the state with moral. It discloses the limitation of the thought of running the country with moral and etiquettes, the flaw of the view of attaching important to the moral and despising the law and the defect of paying attention to the noble men's attitude and disregarding the system. At the same time, it affirms the basics of ruling the state with moral, the moral principles of the unity of righteousness and benefit, the key link of ruling the state by able and virtuous men and the central content of regarding the people as the root of the country. The third part discusses the heritage and development from the ancient thought of ruling the state with moral, from the view of attaching important to the moral and despising the law and from the thought of paying attention to the noble men's attitude and disregarding the system. The last part of this article lays emphasis on the implement of the strategic and according suggests some requirements. First, we must run the country with moral and law. Secondly, we must persist in the unity of righteousness with benefit and the unity of efficiency with justness in economic construction. Thirdly, we must hold the key link of ruling officials with moral in political construction. At last, in order to improve the ideology and moral qualities of the civilians we must combine the advanced requirements with the general requirements.