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Hello, comrades! We know that the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China said that the socialist concept of honor and disgrace is an important part of the socialist core value system. Moreover, the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China specially added the content of strengthening the moral cultivation of leading cadres in party member in the newly revised fifth paragraph of Article 34 of party constitution. This is because the moral construction of leading cadres in party member has been a common concern of all walks of life in recent years. I am mainly engaged in the teaching and research of ethics. In recent years, my academic research focuses on institutional ethics and official ethics.

Considering that all walks of life have higher expectations for the moral level of leading cadres, the discussion of leading cadres at all levels should be more targeted. Today, I want to discuss three issues with you: First, the importance and urgency of strengthening the moral construction of leading cadres; Second, the social ethical environment and its main moral challenges faced by the current party and government management; The third is the basic way to improve the moral construction level of leading cadres.

Let's look at the first question first.

First, the importance and urgency of strengthening the moral construction of leading cadres

(A) the importance of strengthening the moral construction of leading cadres

It is necessary for us to understand the basic meaning of morality and ethics before conducting in-depth research on the moral construction of leading cadres.

Generally speaking, people usually use the concepts of morality and ethics interchangeably, but from the perspective of ethics, morality mainly refers to personal conduct or virtue, while ethics refers to possible social relations norms. Moral ethics does not rely on external coercion to regulate and restrain people's behavior like legal norms, but mainly influences people's behavior with the help of soft means such as social public opinion, customs and habits, and people's inner beliefs. It is suggested that the activity space should be based on the individual's independent personality, in which various activities are directly regulated by private interests, emotional friendship and living habits. Society and the state have no right to get involved. The public sphere refers to the world where people live together. This world is created through equal dialogue and free consultation. In this world, every participant can freely express his opinions and defend his rights. The world is regulated by laws and ethics, including various social organizations, nation-states and the international society in which we live. This is their distinction between private sphere and public sphere. According to Habermas and Arendt, if there is no division between private sphere and public sphere, a truly independent modern personality will not be formed, and it will be impossible to truly realize social modernization.

Of course, you can't rule out the influence of external system on you. For example, the cadre selection and appointment system mentioned in our country just now, if only the top leader of a unit decides the promotion and appointment of cadres, others can't intervene, and the top leader is still a corrupt official, and he will be promoted if someone gives him a gift. People who don't send will see that if you don't send them, they can't get on, so they have to run away and run for official positions. There are indeed institutional problems in this. As Comrade Xiaoping said, good people can't do good things, and they can't do things under this system. Obviously, I think the relationship between personal moral level and institutional ethics is dialectical and unified. Only by organically combining the two can we really improve the moral construction level of leading cadres.