Emphasizing learning and being good at learning are excellent traditions formed by our Party in long-term practice, and also an important political advantage of our Party. The era we are in today is one characterized significantly by change, adjustment, and innovation. Based on the new historical situation, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee clearly put forward to the whole Party the major strategic task of building a Marxist learning-oriented party. To grasp learning with a strategic perspective not only involves studying the Party's innovative theories, its lines, principles, and policies, as well as various kinds of knowledge required for socialist modernization construction, but also studying the profound and extensive Chinese national excellent traditional culture, and being good at drawing beneficial nutrition from it to improve one's own humanistic quality. For this purpose, this journal will irregularly launch a Sinology lecture hall to discuss the enlightenment of Chinese traditional culture on doing things and being an official today with relevant experts. We hope readers like it, and tell us the issues you are concerned about so that we can jointly run the Sinology lecture hall well.
Sinology Lecture Hall
Reporter: I noticed that last year you published a monograph "The Way of the Weak - A Comprehensive Discussion of Laozi's Thought" and several articles recently published, all discussing the philosophical thought of the ancient philosopher Laozi, among which there are enlightening expositions about leaders cultivating themselves and governing the country.
Liu: "Tao Te Ching", also known as "The Classic of the Way and Virtue", as one of the excellent classics of China's five thousand years of civilization, is the first philosophy book in Chinese history, containing many profound discussions about being a person, doing things, and being an official.
Reporter: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee proposed to build a Marxist learning-oriented party, strengthen the education of clean governance for party members and cadres, and promote self-discipline among leading cadres. In the excellent classics of China's five thousand years of historical culture, they contain rich big truths about being a person, doing things, and governing the country.
Liu: Party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, frequently receiving theçtration of excellent traditional culture can enhance their understanding of the relationships between people, between people and society, and between people and nature, correctly handle important relationships such as righteousness and profit, oneself and others, power and the people, material enjoyment and spiritual enjoyment, continuously improve their own humanistic quality and spiritual realm, which is of great significance to improving their overall quality and leadership ability.
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