People’s Daily People’s Forum: Run the Heart with Virtue and Cultivate People with Culture.
In recent years, some officials who have been labeled as "strong officials", "capable officials" and "Confucian officials" have repeatedly been dismissed for suspected crimes. Recently, a research report shows that the crime of accepting bribes by cadres with high academic qualifications and high professional titles presents the phenomenon of "evaluating the excellent" and corruption. Therefore, the corruption of technical expert cadres has aroused social concern and thinking.
It is true that putting power in the cage of the system and forming a disciplinary mechanism that "does not dare to rot", a preventive mechanism that "cannot rot" and a guarantee mechanism that "is not easy to rot" are the fundamental solutions. However, the self-restraint mechanism of "unwilling to rot" is also the root of the source. This kind of self-discipline stems from the nourishment of virtue and the cultivation of culture, which is manifested in the persistence of principles and bottom lines and the pursuit of honesty and integrity. For cadres at all levels, especially those technical experts, whether they have this kind of self-restraint ability directly determines their different paths of honesty and greed, success and failure.
Historically, for talented people, whether there is virtue or not, whether virtue can nurture and moisten their talents, determines whether they are immortal or immortal. Yan Song, the powerful minister of the Ming Dynasty, was extremely gifted. At the age of 19, he was recruited as a scholar. At the age of 25, he was a rare "genius". However, when he was in power, he ran amok and used power for personal gain. When he copied his home, he found a lot of gold and silver. In Zhuge Liang’s life, his loyalty of "devoting all his efforts to death", his mind of "being indifferent to clear aspirations, being quiet and far-reaching" and his ethics of "keeping private property and leaving nothing behind" have brought his wisdom of serving the country and the people into full play. Therefore, some historians believe that Zhuge Liang’s spiritual character and political strategy are the decisive factors for the weak Shu Han to attack Wei.
The sages have said, "It is useless to be smart when doing things perversely", "It is useless to be arrogant, knowledgeable" and "it is useless to be extravagant and extravagant". Comrade Chen Yun said: You can’t do anything without virtue, but you can do bad things without virtue. Ji Jianye, Zhang Shuguang and other fallen horses show that if the official virtue is despicable and the mind is not right, the higher the talent, the more evil thoughts, the stronger the ability, the deeper the corruption, the greater the courage and the more harm. To some extent, those technical expert cadres embarked on the road of corruption, which was also related to valuing talents over morality when they were elected, and relying on talents to the detriment of morality when using power. Then, how can we cultivate people with morality, so as to keep them away from corruption?
Not long ago, the central government offered 41 provincial and ministerial officials a "clean government course" to conduct special training on clean government. Learning style is flexible, and the location is not limited to campus. The learning content includes not only theoretical knowledge, but also specific cases, including clean government models and negative teaching materials documentaries. This is undoubtedly an innovation of clean government education. Following this train of thought, we can do more and go further in the education of clean government by moistening our hearts with morality and educating people. As a kind of subtle effort, moral education focuses on making contributions for a long time, but it is difficult to innovate constantly. In fact, this regular "beating" of cadres’ thoughts at all levels is very important, and it is likely that some people will stop at the cliff of corruption at a key node.
The way to govern the country is to get people; The way to choose people is to have both ability and political integrity. Pay attention to moral education forging and self-cultivation, and constantly explore moral education paths that reach people’s hearts, so that morality can always moisten their hearts and let literature constantly transform their people. Then, it will become a spiritual agreement that cadres at all levels will abide by if they are innocent and clean.
People’s Daily (November 07, 2013, 04 edition)





















