Volunteerism And Its Contemporary Value

Along with the development of times and social progress,the wordVolunteerism appear frequently in mass media and people’s daily conversation, and itcontinuously deepens people’s awareness of volunteerism. The research of volunteerismand it’s contemporary value, provides a solid theoretical basis for better volunteerservice activities in future. And it can offer related theoretical guidance for betterpromotion of volunteerism.The spirit of the volunteerism is a kind of virtue spirit, practical spirit, the valueappeal, Has five basic characteristics of voluntary, unpaid, social, value, international.In our experience of the "Lei Feng learning", slow development, the rapid developmentand the people of the four stages. As an important part of moral theory, the volunteerismhas a huge role in theory and practice, it is true for individuals, the same for the stateand society. The volunteerism with performance of “dedication, friendship, mutual aid,and progress” owns the core of the socialist moral construction, and the basic principlesof socialist moral construction. And reflects the core values of socialism, enrichesconnotation of socialist core value system; inherits the essence of Chinese traditionalculture, extending the theoretical value of the Chinese excellent traditional culture. Itcan meet individual’s high-level needs, help to realize personal value; promote thecultivation of civic spirit to build a good citizen relations; resolve some socialcontradictions, which is conducive to building a harmonious society. And it helps setup the new image of a nation’s civilization, improve the practical value of the nationalsoft power. It`s action force can become an important auxiliary in economy, politic,culture and social development.In order to carry forward volunteer spirit, to achieve the deepening anddevelopment of the volunteer spirit, and solve practical problems in the process ofpromotion, government should protect volunteerism from the aspects of regulations andpermissions; voluntary organizations should set up the mechanism of information, organize volunteer service activities, perfect the incentive mechanism, and raise fundsto protect the platform of volunteer spirit to carry forward; it needs the society to createa good social media environment, social culture environment and supply social materialsupport;firm needs of individuals pursuing their own values, improve literacy and moralself-perfection through practice. Only the government, voluntary organizations,socialparties and oursel to work together, then can guarantee the strategy of volunteerismpromotion to be effective, to ensure that the theoretical and practical values ofvolunteerism play the biggest role.