The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to advocate prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony, freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law, patriotism, professionalism, honesty and friendliness, and actively cultivate and practice socialist core values. Prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony are the value goals at the national level, freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law are the value orientations at the social level, and patriotism, professionalism, honesty and friendliness are the value norms at the individual level of citizens. These 24 words are the basic content of socialist core values.

Socialist core values refer to people's fundamental views and attitudes on the nature, composition, standards and evaluation of socialist values, and it is people's investigation and evaluation of the significance of various material and spiritual phenomena and behaviors to individuals, proletariat and socialist society from the perspective of whether the subject needs and objects can meet the subject needs and how to meet the subject needs.

Socialist values are divided into two categories, one is the universal values of socialism, the other is the core values of socialism. It is the ideological guarantee and action guide to realize the socialist value goal. Emphasizing that people-oriented is the basic core of socialist values. Socialist core values are the foundation of building a harmonious enterprise. Socialist core values can unite people's hearts. In other words, only by following the socialist core values can we achieve the socialist value goal. Constructing Socialism with Chinese characteristics's core values is an important topic for contemporary socialist philosophy and social scientists.

Three: 24 words detailed explanation

1, rich and powerful

Wealth refers to the economy; Strong means military politics. Today's international competition is the competition of comprehensive national strength with economy and science and technology as the core, so strength also includes science and technology education.

Rich and strong. Rich and powerful.

2. Democracy

The word democracy comes from the Greek word "demos", which means people. Democracy is a government in which all citizens exercise their rights and civic responsibilities directly or through their freely elected representatives. Democracy is a series of principles and behaviors to protect human freedom; It is an institutionalized expression of freedom.

Democracy is based on the majority decision principle and respect for the rights of individuals and minorities. A democratic government knows that its primary function is to protect basic human rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, the right of equality before the law and the opportunity for people to organize and fully participate in social, political, economic and cultural life.

3. Civilization

Civilization is the sum total of humanistic spirit, invention and creation, public order and good customs, which is conducive to enhancing human adaptation and cognition to the objective world, conforms to the pursuit of human spirit and can be recognized and accepted by the vast majority of people.

The sum of wealth created by human beings, especially spiritual wealth, such as literature, art, education and science. Civilization covers the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature. Its main functions are: first, to pursue the perfection of personal morality; The second is to safeguard public interests and public order. 4. Harmony

Harmony is the concrete, dynamic, relative and dialectical unity between opposing things under certain conditions, and it is the relationship of sameness, complementarity, opposition, complementarity, mutual cooperation, mutual benefit, mutual promotion and common development between different things. This is the basic viewpoint of dialectical materialism.

5. Freedom

The original meaning of the word freedom refers to unimpeded situation. Freedom is a comfortable and harmonious psychological state that is free from fear, slavery and injury, satisfies one's own desires and realizes self-worth.

Dingdang: For prosperity and democracy,

Emphasize that civilization must be harmonious;

For freedom and equality,

Justice needs the rule of law;

Very patriotic and dedicated,

Honesty is the friendliest.