A prosperous country is based on comprehensive national strength and is characterized by the prosperity of all the people. It must have five elements: strong basic strength, strong economic ability, leading scientific and technological development level, strong military ability and superior national political system. In the next step, China needs to make greater efforts to fill the shortcomings in areas such as per capita wealth and core scientific and technological innovation, so as to achieve national prosperity as soon as possible.
Democracy in the modern sense refers to the management of state affairs within a certain class according to the principle of equality and the principle that the minority is subordinate to the majority. Its core content is how to ensure the realization of people's rights and the healthy operation of state power. As we said, election, consultation, expression and supervision are all common forms of democracy. Democracy in Socialism with Chinese characteristics has several characteristics: people's congress system, political consultation system and grass-roots democracy system.
The degree of civilization of a country is manifested in the comprehensive national strength and the advanced state of people's production and living standards, such as political openness, advanced science and technology, and affluent people's lives. The 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward two civilizations: material civilization construction and spiritual civilization construction for the first time. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China established the construction of socialist material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization as the three basic goals for the all-round development of socialist modernization. The 18th National Congress defined the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics as "five in one". According to this layout, China will continue to create high-level material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization.
Harmony is a state of existence and development of things, and it is the coordination and balance of the relationship between people and themselves, others, society and nature. The main purpose is to create a world of universal development, prosperity and lasting peace, for example, to oppose armed conflicts; Mutual tolerance and understanding among different civilizations, cultures and systems; Promotion and protection of human rights; Everyone enjoys equal opportunities and rights to pursue all-round development and so on.
Freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law embody the provisions of socialist core values in value orientation and are based on the requirements of the social level.
Freedom includes personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of publication, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of procession, freedom of demonstration and freedom of religious belief. China's Constitution provides for the protection of citizens' freedoms and rights, and at the same time stipulates that citizens shall not harm the interests of the state, society or the collective or the legitimate freedoms and rights of other citizens when exercising their freedoms and rights. This restriction and constraint is out of the need to protect the freedom of the greatest number of people. The well-off society to be built in an all-round way is a society full of freedom, which is not only rich in material life, but also the political, economic and cultural rights of the people are effectively respected and guaranteed.
Equality means that people enjoy equal rights in economy, politics and culture. People's basic rights cannot be treated differently because of differences in birth, household registration, occupation and wealth. We should not only emphasize formal equality and procedural equality, but also promote the reform of income distribution mechanism by shortening the development gap between regions and between urban and rural areas and the gap between the rich and the poor, so as to strive for equality in results and substance. We must also adhere to equality before the law, so that every citizen can get equal legal protection, and no organization or individual has the privilege beyond the Constitution and the law.
Justice is the maintenance of legitimate interests, and its essence is to require the reasonable distribution of economic, political, cultural and other rights among social members, and all kinds of obligations are reasonably borne by social members. To evaluate whether the society is just, the situation of the people at the bottom of the society is one of the yardsticks. In real life, people's abilities are big and small, and their contributions are small and big. Coupled with social environment, national policies and other factors, everyone's development opportunities and social wealth are naturally different, so fairness is not equal to average.
The rule of law is the basic way of governing the country and embodies the ruling ability of a country's ruling party. At present, the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been formed, and all national undertakings have been brought into the track of rule of law. Emphasizing the thinking of rule of law means respecting legal authority, following the principle of rule of law and embodying legal rationality. Emphasizing the rule of law means dealing with problems and resolving disputes in accordance with legal rules, so that the ruling behavior is legal, reasonable, open and fair.
Patriotism, dedication, honesty and friendliness embody the provisions of socialist core values in moral norms and are based on the requirements of individual citizens.
Patriotism is not only manifested in the love of the motherland, history and culture, but also in the personal love of others, politics and society, and even more in the practice of building the motherland. Patriotism is the basic obligation and virtue of every citizen, and citizens should insist that national interests are higher than their own interests. But patriotism should be distinguished from narrow nationalism. We should not only love our motherland, but also respect the rights, freedoms, thoughts and beliefs of other countries and nations.
Dedication means loving and attaching importance to what you do, and transforming this pride into the motivation of work and the love for life, the collective and the country. Dedication is the basic professional requirement of citizens, and it is also the premise for practitioners to do their jobs well. Whether citizens can do their jobs carefully or not is not only related to their own survival and development, but also determines the healthy development of the whole country.
The basic content of honesty is honesty, sincerity and credibility, that is, treat people with sincerity and win the trust of others with sincerity. Honesty is the foundation and necessary moral quality of individuals. In today's society, honesty is no longer limited to the traditional level of personal moral cultivation, but the social morality of modern citizens, the rules of communication in the public sphere and the code of conduct of government agencies. From small agreements between people to large treaties between countries, we must stress honesty. Honesty is also the basic requirement of national social construction. Only when the state and society emphasize honesty can honesty become the bond to maintain the whole society and become the universal state of the whole society.
Kindness includes kindness to relatives and friends, kindness to others, kindness to society and kindness to nature. Being kind to relatives can harmonize family relations. Being kind to friends and others can harmonize interpersonal relationships. Only by being kind to nature can we form a harmonious ecological relationship. Whether you can be friendly to others not only reflects a person's moral level, but also reflects the quality of a nation. Kindness is a moral requirement for interpersonal relationships and a basic and universal value that all walks of life should actively advocate.