Sunday, April 02, 2006

The 8 Virtues

President Hu Jintao has a message for Chinese who are greedy, lazy or unpatriotic: Be ashamed, be very ashamed. Mr Hu's list of eight do's and don'ts was unveiled during the meeting of parliament that ended this week.

"Love, do not harm the motherland.

"Uphold science; don't be ignorant and unenlightened.

"Serve, don't disserve the people.

"Work hard; don't be lazy and hate work.

"Be united and help each other; don't gain benefits at the expense of others.

"Be honest and trustworthy, not profit-mongering at the expense of your values.

"Be disciplined and law-abiding instead of chaotic and lawless.

"Know plain living and hard struggle, do not wallow in luxuries and pleasures."

-- starbulletin, 3/16/06 --

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