The Study Of Pre-qin Confucian Administration Thoughts And Its Inspiration For Public Administration Of China

Pre-Qin Confucianism is the essence of Chinese traditional culture. It originated from Western Zhou Dynasty, matured in the Spring and Autumn Period. It started off offering theories and strategies for various the feudal princes to govern their countries, and then control the whole world. With years of transformation and development via ancient thinkers, it became the fundamental guiding ideology for rulers to manage the world for a long period of time. The main representatives were Confucius, Mencius and Xuncius. The Confucian sages of Pre-Qin period, integrated natural law of development with social life, obtained in-depth understanding and appropriate way to handle various social relations, continuously made summaries and renovation, and formed a systematic ideological doctrine mechanism. Its contents was profound, covering aspects of philosophy, ethics, governance, economics, etc.. Governance administration thinking was particularly rich, involving administrative thinkings of “governance by virtue”, “people as foundation”, “sincerity-oriented”, “self moral cultivation”, “utilization of talents”, “value of harmony”, etc.. For two thousand and five hundred years, it generated huge impact on the country’s political, economic, social and cultural development.Pre-Qin Confucian Administration Thoughts, as the governance thinking of China’s feudal society, had profound impact on the civilization of China. In years of changes, it presented strong vitality, and was deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese nation, and long passed on in social life. It went on and on, and promoted economic, social, political and cultural development, given that it was of excellence, e.g. its sound core, the possession of the wisdom of moderation, the respect for morality, and the attention to people, are worthy of sufficient appreciation; it was punished for hindering economic, social, political and cultural development, as it had dross that cannot be neglected. We should uphold the spirit of “take the essence, give away the dross” advocated by Mao Zedong, utilize dialectical method of Marxism, scientifically and historically analyze and disclose the things with universal and general regularity in Pre-Qin Confucian management thoughts, reveal its core value, inherit, improve, renovate, and innovate, so that it can be combined with modern administration management thoughts, and form modern administrative culture with Chinese character. This, without double, offers positive insights to improve the existing deficiencies today’s administrative management work in China, and maintains social order stability and harmony.China is currently in a decisive stage for comprehensive construction of well-off society. With a series of profound changes in the world, country, and the party, we are confronted with unprecedented development opportunities as well as risks and challenges. Under such situation, we should fully respond to the call of the Party Central Committee, improve quality of cadres in power, construct high-quality cadres in power, improve ability of the government to fully meet the requirements of new era, promote harmonious development of society for the construction of socialist and harmonious society, and strive for comprehensive construction of well-off society. Therefore, the paper sets off from the three aspects of leader self construction, government self construction, and social construction, obtains beneficial nutrients from Pre-Qin Confucian administration thoughts, takes reference from its essence, so as to promote the construction of modern administration in China, and achieve good governance of the government.