What is a culture of clean government?

The culture of clean government is people's thoughts, beliefs, knowledge, behavior norms and their corresponding lifestyle and social evaluation, which fundamentally reflects the ruling philosophy, purpose and mode of a class and a political party, and is an objective reflection of clean government behavior in culture and concept. The main contents are political ideology and morality, political social and cultural atmosphere, politicians' professional ethics and social morality. The construction of clean government culture is the new development and exploration of the theory and thought of socialist advanced culture construction, and its core value is to be pragmatic and clean for the people. There are four basic categories: first, it refers to the ideological and moral requirements of clean politics, which act on the inner world of rulers and form the cultural motive force of clean politics; Second, it refers to creating a good cultural atmosphere of honesty in politics in the whole society, forming a social fashion of being proud of honesty and ashamed of greed, and enriching people's spiritual world with a healthy and upward culture of pursuing honesty; Third, it refers to the professional culture that employees of all professional classes abide by professional ethics, love their jobs, be honest and self-disciplined, and abide by the law; Fourth, the broad masses of people's pursuit of fairness and justice, stability and order, honesty and friendship is a psychological and cultural reflection. The culture of clean government has a very long historical tradition in China, and it is an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Clean government culture has a long history in the history of Chinese civilization. Zhou Li puts forward that there are six honesty in the assessment of officials, namely, honesty, ability, respect, integrity, law and discrimination. An official must have the basic qualities of kindness, competence, dedication, justice, law-abiding, and distinguishing right from wrong, all of which are based on honesty. Ouyang Xiu's "On Integrity" is about fairness and decency, which means that integrity is an essential political character of officials. In the Ming Dynasty, Guo Yunli's Official Proverbs systematically and clearly put forward that "officials are not afraid of my strictness, but they are afraid of my honesty, and the people are not satisfied with our ability and serve our public; Public officials dare not slow down; Cheap people dare not bully. Honesty and incorruptibility has become a classic interpretation of the praise of "honesty and incorruptibility" in later generations, which has had an important impact on the enrichment and development of China's incorruptible culture.

After all, the clean government culture we are building today is different from the ancient "clean government culture" and needs to be endowed with new connotations and characteristics of the times. First of all, the construction of clean government culture is an important part of building an advanced socialist culture, and strengthening the construction of clean government culture is an important content of building a socialist core value system. Only by laying a solid foundation for building a clean and honest culture can we better arm the whole party and educate the people with the latest achievements of Marxism in China, rally strength with Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ideal, inspire fighting spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and lead the fashion with the socialist concept of honor and disgrace. Secondly, strengthening the construction of a clean and honest government culture is a major issue to comprehensively enhance China's cultural soft power. Some people say that the United States relies on "three movies" to influence the world, namely Hollywood blockbusters, McDonald's potato chips and Intel chips. The "three films" are actually attached to the strong penetration and influence of culture. Nowadays, with the development of world multipolarization and economic globalization, the all-round competition around comprehensive national strength is becoming more and more fierce. Culture has been regarded as an important factor of national core competitiveness, and improving cultural soft power has become an important development strategy for many countries. For China, which is facing a rare opportunity for development, strengthening the construction of clean government culture has become an important task for the peaceful rise of China in the new century and an important content of "improving the soft power of national culture", which is a brand-new significance endowed by the times. Third, the historical limitation of "honest and upright official culture" lies in its excessive dependence on personal qualities and morality, which is not universal and stable. To overcome this drawback, today's clean government culture construction must complement the system construction. We know that once the culture of clean government is formed and solidified, its moral binding force is often stronger, more lasting, more stable and more sustainable than the formal system.