On the occasion of the fifth Citizens’ Morality Publicity Day, in the atmosphere of selecting, commending, learning and publicizing national moral models, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, together with relevant departments, held the 4th Chinese Citizens’ Morals Forum to study and understand General Secretary Hu Jintao’s meeting with The spirit of the important speech of the national moral model is to give full play to the leading role of moral models, and further form a good trend of knowing honor and disgrace, speaking righteousness, and promoting harmony in the whole society. It is very meaningful to brainstorm and offer advice and suggestions.I would like to express warm congratulations on the convening of the forum, pay high tribute to the national moral models, and express my heartfelt thanks to people from all walks of life who care about and support moral construction!

Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, all sectors of society have worked together, and the masses of the people have actively participated. The construction of civic morality has been pioneering, innovative, solidly advancing, and flourishing in practice.The socialist concept of honor and disgrace has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the national spirit of the times has been greatly promoted, social morality has undergone gratifying changes, and the ideological and moral foundation of the united struggle of the entire Party and the people of the whole country has been further consolidated.The national moral models selected and commended just now are outstanding representatives emerging from all fronts. With their noble character and touching deeds, they embody the excellent qualities of the Chinese nation, embody the essential requirements of socialist morality, and embody the development and progress of our country's society. spirit of the times.

At present, our country has entered a new stage of historical development. In order to achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and building a socialist harmonious society, new and higher requirements are put forward for the construction of citizen morality.We must always adhere to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", thoroughly implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, focus on the center and serve the overall situation, take the socialist core value system as the foundation, and follow the "Implementation Outline for Citizen Moral Construction", Taking the establishment of the socialist concept of honor and disgrace as the main line, focusing on enhancing the awareness of integrity and civic responsibility, close to reality, life, and the masses, and more actively promote the construction of civic morality, and provide a strong ideological and moral foundation for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics Assure.

Advanced model figures are the vanguard of civic moral construction.We must give full play to their exemplary and leading role, and take the process of learning and propagating advanced model figures as a process of popularizing basic moral norms, a process of promoting truth, goodness and beauty, and a process of building a socialist core value system, so that the values ​​we advocate become vivid. Let advanced ideology and morality become learnable and feasible.We must be good at discovering and setting up advanced model figures from various regions, industries, and various groups of people, and fully demonstrate a positive, healthy and upward social mainstream, so that the party, government, military and civilians, men, women, and children can learn from them and have goals.It is necessary to carry out various forms of learning activities, work hard to enhance attractiveness and increase participation, and transform the lofty spirit of advanced model figures into the common wealth of the whole society, and transform it into a powerful driving force to guide practice and promote work.We should warmly care for and care for advanced role models, help them solve difficulties in work and life, reflect the clear direction of advocating advanced and respecting models, and create a strong atmosphere of learning advanced, catching up with advanced, and being advanced.

Strengthening the construction of civic morality, cultivating civilized morality, and improving the level of social civilization are important tasks in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, the call of the times, and the expectations of the people.Let us closely unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary, make persistent efforts, work hard, and welcome the victory of the 17th National Congress of the Party with outstanding achievements. I wish the 4th Chinese Civic Morality Forum a complete success!