The cartoon "The Analects of Confucius" records that Zi Gong asked about politics. Confucius said, "Prepare enough food, enrich armaments and build people's trust in the government." Zi Gong said, "If you have to remove one item, which of these three items should you remove?" Confucius said, "Without armaments, we still have to eat." Zi Gong asked again, "If you had to remove one item, which of these two items would you remove?" Confucius said, "In addition to grain. Because, since ancient times, no one can avoid death. No food, just hunger. However, if a country or a government cannot win the trust of the people, there will be no way to exist and it will soon collapse. " This dialogue is about the truth that "people cannot stand without faith". In other words, the key to the reasonable and legal existence of a government lies in the trust of ordinary people. Every time the government lacks credit, it will actually shake its ruling foundation; A serious government credit crisis will also lead to the complete collapse of the entire social credit system. The recent official earthquake in Maoming city cannot deny the mainstream of the majority of party and government leading cadres, but the huge impact on social politics and the psychological and emotional shock it brings cannot be underestimated. Officialdom corruption is a cancer on the body of modern democratic politics, which not only damages the image of the Party committee and the government, but also, at a deeper level, the government credit crisis caused by it will seriously endanger the legitimacy foundation of our party's governance. Therefore, rebuilding the government's credit and remolding Maoming's image are the core issues that need to be solved urgently by the new leadership of Maoming. To rebuild the government's credit, we must first have the determination and courage to cure drugs.

Rebuilding trust is not how gorgeous slogans you shout, nor how many image projects you take. The key is that you must first be able to completely remove the cancer on your body and let the people see your self-healing ability. In this way, even if one or two corruption cases happen occasionally, the people will think that it is only a local bacterial infection and will not regard it as an spreading and incurable cancer. Otherwise, most people will think that the root of a tree is rotten, and spraying pesticides on the branches and leaves will not help. The core of rebuilding government credit is to ensure institutional justice by building a government ruled by law.

I don't agree that some comrades now use the insufficient effective supply of the system as an excuse for corrupt behavior, because any corrupt behavior can find a similar excuse. However, we must clearly realize that institutional defects are indeed one of the key factors for the high incidence of corruption. Western political theories since modern times are almost all based on the assumption that human nature is evil. Hume even put forward the "rogue hypothesis", that is, when designing any government system and determining some restrictive and supervisory institutions in the system, it must be assumed that every member is a rogue and that everything he does is for personal gain and has no other purpose. Whether this assumption is reasonable or not, the system construction based on this assumption will inevitably take controlling and restraining the abuse of power as the primary principle of government governance. The reconstruction of government credibility should not rely too much on the moral self-discipline of leading cadres, but should focus on institutional constraints and institutional prevention within the framework of the rule of law. This kind of restraint and prevention is not a distrust of leading cadres, but a protection for them; At the same time, it also creates an institutional environment for governing the country according to law. For Maoming, holding high the concept of rule of law and transforming it into the administrative consciousness of the government, unswervingly promoting political democratization and openness of government affairs, and letting all ordinary people supervise the government are the core links to rebuild the government's credit. The key to remoulding government credit is to implement people-oriented strategy and build a service-oriented government.

Whether ordinary people trust the government depends on whose interests the government represents, whose voice it reflects, whose position it embodies and whose will and strength it embodies. When our party and government officials have the masses in mind, think for the masses in everything, rely on the masses in their work, and think for the masses in everything, when every leading cadre consciously and sincerely does practical things for the people, tries his best to solve problems and persistently does good deeds, the people will sincerely support and trust the government. If Maoming wants to get out of the credit crisis caused by a few degenerate leading cadres, the government should be more close to the people, love the people, serve the people and benefit the people, change the governance-oriented government into a service-oriented government, change the people's petition into an official visit, and change the people's face into an official. At present, Maoming's ten livelihood facts and the big visit activities of party and government officials are the full embodiment of the people-oriented strategy. It is impossible to rebuild government credit overnight.

One or two typical accidents may cause heavy losses to government credit, but rebuilding government credit is a long-term systematic project. As the saying goes, Ma Quan has a long-term view and will know it for a long time. Tang Shaolian: Ph.D., Department of Ideological and Political Science, Guangdong Institute of Petrochemical Technology.