Debate: Ruling the country by virtue is more important than ruling the country by law.

Because the rule of law without the support of rule of virtue has no foundation. It is necessary to strengthen the rule of virtue in contemporary China.

The rule of law and the rule of virtue complement each other. On the one hand, strengthening the rule of law can give authority to social moral norms and promote the legalization of social morality; On the other hand, strengthening the rule of virtue can effectively improve people's ideological and political quality and spiritual realm, thus fundamentally preventing and reducing the breeding of violations of law and discipline.

Marxist classical writers have always attached great importance to and evaluated the position and role of morality in governing the country and safeguarding the country. Marx once pointed out that the important task of national education is to make every member of society "turn personal purpose into everyone's purpose, rude instinct into moral intention, and natural independence into spiritual freedom."

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Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out at the National Conference of Propaganda Ministers: "In the process of building a Socialism with Chinese characteristics and developing a socialist market economy, we should unremittingly strengthen the socialist legal system and govern the country according to law, and at the same time unremittingly strengthen socialist moral construction and govern the country by virtue."

"Governing the country by virtue" is an important strategy put forward by the third generation of the party's leading collective with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core when China's social economy entered a new period of development. It is a scientific conclusion made on the basis of profoundly summing up the experience of governing the country at home and abroad, and it is a significant development for Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.