1 The socialist concept of honor and disgrace, referred to as "eight honors and eight disgraces" for short, was put forward by General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Jintao when he made a speech on establishing the socialist concept of honor and disgrace at the fourth session of the 10th China People's Political Consultative Conference on the afternoon of March 4th, 2006. The purpose of putting forward "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" is to guide the broad masses of cadres and people, especially teenagers, to establish a socialist concept of honor and disgrace, and it was named as one of the top ten buzzwords in mainstream newspapers in China in spring and summer of 2006.

2. The content of eight honors and eight disgraces is to be proud of loving the motherland and ashamed of endangering the motherland; Be proud of serving the people and ashamed of deviating from the people; Proud of advocating science and ashamed of ignorance; Proud of hard work, ashamed of leisure, and disgusted with work; Be proud of unity and mutual assistance, and be ashamed of harming others and benefiting themselves; Be proud of honesty and trustworthiness, and be ashamed of forgetting righteousness; Be proud of obeying the law and discipline, and be ashamed of violating the law and discipline; Proud of hard work, ashamed of arrogance and extravagance.

3. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" adhere to serving the people as the core, collectivism as the principle, and love the motherland, people, labor, science and socialism as the basic requirements.