Modern Re-thinking Of The Idea Of Attaching Importance To People In Ancient China

Morale-conforming, the idea and policy which was utilized by those wise dominators in history, has been practiced and developed by the Chinese Communist Party for half a century. Chairman Mao used to emphosize, that all our communists'words and deeds must accord with the interests of our people, under the criterion of their support. Deng xiaoping, who paid close attention to the interests and wishes of people, regarded their attitudes as our starting point and end-result of policy-drawing. In the Party's Fifteenth National Congress, Jiang zemin mentioned that the starting point and foothold of building socialism with Chinese characteristics was serving the people heart and soul. The exposition of our three generations of collective leadership has endowed the idea with more substantial content and the new times demand.Chinese traditional thoughts on running state affairs, especially man-oriented thoughr, have important quotable value as to the building of a socialist democratic system. lthough man-oriented thought was born of slave and feudal society and it is put forward as a method of protecting absolute monarchy, it shows thinkers and statesmen's emphasis on"man". In Chinese ancient times, Although man-oriented thought as a therotical system concerning with people's morale and sufferings, characterized by"value man","love man","benefit man"and"concern man", is in strong opposition to tyranny and absolute sovereignty, characterized by"penalize man","torment man","kill man"and"abuse man". Man-oriented thought is not onle used by the open-minded ruler, but also the lasting anchor of the men of letters. Until the end of the feudal society, when democracy awakens, the ancient man-orientism develop social criticising fuction again, and become the point of origin of the modern democracy.ancient China; the idea of attaching importance to people; modern; thinking...