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The Eight honors and Eight Shames () also known as the Eight honors and Disgraces, is a set of
moral A moral (from Latin ''morālis'') is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A ...
concepts developed by former
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Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, an ...
for the citizens of the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It is also known as Eight Virtues and Shames, or Hu Jintao's Eight-Step Programme. Its formal name in China is Socialist Concepts on honors and Disgraces (). On March 4, 2006, Hu released this list calling it the "new moral yardstick to measure the work, conduct and attitude of
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officials." It is being promulgated as the moral code for all Chinese, especially Communist Party cadres.


Translation

In October 2006 the
Xinhua News Agency Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: )J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English, or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua ...
posted an English translation of the Eight Honors and Eight Shames:Xinhua
2006-10-18


See also

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Scientific Development Concept The Scientific Outlook on Development (), sometimes translated to either the scientific development concept, or as the scientific development perspective, is one of the guiding socio-economic principles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). T ...
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Eight Musts The Eight Musts () are a policy set by the General Secretary Xi Jinping administration regarding the role of the Chinese Communist Party in Chinese society. Policy The Eight Musts are: *we must persist in the dominant role of the people; 必须坚 ...
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Honour Honour (British English) or honor (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of socia ...
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Shame Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion often associated with negative self-evaluation; motivation to quit; and feelings of pain, exposure, distrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness. Definition Shame is a discrete, basic emotion, d ...


References

{{reflist Hu Jintao Campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party 2004 documents Codes of conduct