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Family values vital to officials

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-12-30 07:39

Top official Xi Jinping's remarks that standards to promote officials should include their family virtues will be of great significance to improve officials' quality, says an article in cnhubei.com. An excerpt follows:

At a recent conference, Vice-President Xi Jinping said family virtue, along with political integrity, career performances, and social ethics, should be included in the examination standards before an official is promoted.

Listing a candidate's personal family virtue as one of his or her preconditions for promotion means the extension of the traditional quality of an official. This is a much-needed move. The good quality of an official should not only be embodied in officialdom, but should be reflected in his or her private life. It is well known that a large number of corrupt government officials usually degenerate because of their private lives.

Family responsibility is also a kind of social responsibility. It is unimaginable that an official, not devoted to his or her family members, will be devoted to the country and society.

The new standards put forward by Vice-President Xi for officials' promotion should sound an alarm bell to those officials who neglected the building of a good family.

(China Daily 12/30/2008 page8)