The official release of "Opinions of the State Council Central Committee on Supporting Shenzhen to Build Socialism with Chinese characteristics Experimental Demonstration Zone" has brought great opportunities and higher requirements for the development of Shenzhen. As the soul and extension of hard power, soft power provides a strong stamina for the development of cities. The repositioning of the "first demonstration zone" requires Shenzhen to attach importance to the development of hard power such as economic construction, and at the same time, it should focus on cultivating and developing soft guarantee and soft support to become a global benchmark city with competitiveness, innovation and outstanding influence.
"Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Supporting Shenzhen to Build Socialism with Chinese characteristics Experimental Demonstration Zone" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") points out that Shenzhen should move forward in the direction of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics Experimental Demonstration Zone and strive to build a city model of a powerful socialist modernization country. To achieve this goal, in addition to hard conditions such as high-quality economic development and continuous improvement of people's livelihood, Shenzhen needs soft power support such as good law and good governance, humanistic spirit and public civilization.
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Strength "hard core" is form, and charm "software" is God.
A city, when viewed by a thousand people, has a thousand appearances. To measure the development of a city scientifically, we need to use indicators from many aspects and dimensions, which include both hard power and soft power. The so-called hard power refers to economic aggregate, per capita GDP, fiscal revenue, scientific and technological innovation, hardware facilities and so on; The so-called soft power refers to the business environment, cultural atmosphere, humanistic quality, the level of rule of law and so on. Hard power is the shape of a city, which constitutes the bones and muscles of the city. The "hard core" index fully shows that the city's own strength is not too hard. Soft power is more like the soul of a city. It is invisible and ubiquitous, and the data indicators may not be clear at a glance, but it still reflects the charm and strength of a city. When a city or a region develops to a certain stage, the gap between tangible and hard power may narrow, but the influence and role of soft power in promoting urban upgrading and enhancing urban charm will become more and more prominent. At that time, when mentioning a city, people first thought of tall buildings no longer, but people, temperament and spirit here.
At present, in the process of urban construction in China, due to the limitation of development stage and level, urban politicians and citizens often pay more attention to hardware construction than software construction. A city with connotation, a city with flesh and blood, can not be separated from its internal "software" driving role. It is not difficult to build a city, but it is difficult to make it a city full of vitality and charm. Only by combining soft and hard can the real strength of a city be displayed.
In this sense, if a city wants to show its charm, become a place that the talents of the whole country and even the world yearn for from the heart, and truly become a "demonstration area", it must not only have "numbers to convince people", but also have "moving stories". "Numbers" are indicators reflecting economic development, industrial optimization and people's livelihood construction. When the "figures" go up, they will be among the best in all kinds of city rankings and awards activities, and the advanced nature of Shenzhen relative to other cities will be reflected through "hard leverage" and comparable indicators. "Stories" are warm-hearted stories that can be seen everywhere in the city, including understanding between strangers on the subway, easy help in high-speed railway station, greetings to cleaners, concern among neighbors, concession among colleagues in the workplace and so on. These "stories" are statistically "difficult to measure" and cannot be transformed into glamorous figures on the city's "statements"; Citizen's emotion is immeasurable, which plays an irreplaceable role in citizens' sense of happiness, belonging and satisfaction. As a soft business card of a city, stories play an irreplaceable role in infiltrating citizens' lives and hearts. "Digital" can be promoted rapidly through hardware construction and project implementation, while "story" needs long-term and all-round "soft construction" to breed.
The official release of "Opinions of the State Council Central Committee on Supporting Shenzhen to Build Socialism with Chinese characteristics Experimental Demonstration Zone" has brought great opportunities and higher requirements for the development of Shenzhen. As the soul and extension of hard power, soft power provides a strong stamina for the development of cities. The repositioning of the "Pilot Demonstration Zone" requires Shenzhen to pay attention to the development of hard power such as economic construction, but also focus on cultivating and developing soft security and soft support to become a global benchmark city with competitiveness, innovation and outstanding influence.
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Good law and good governance is a basic "software", which needs the joint efforts of the government and society.
The opinion puts forward that Shenzhen should take the lead in creating a democratic and legal environment that highlights fairness and justice and become a model of a city ruled by law. Improve the level of rule of law in an all-round way, standardize the boundary between the government and the market with the rule of law, and create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable world-class business environment ruled by law.
Good law and good governance are the objective basis of urban construction and development, and the institutionalized characteristics of urban management towards civilization. Building a socialist country ruled by law has always been the basic strategy of our party to lead the people in governing the country. As a "first demonstration area", Shenzhen should certainly set an example. The rule of law is the basic software for a society and a region to run smoothly and efficiently, which is equivalent to the operating system of a smart device. Other functional software needs to be embedded and installed in this system to run, and its significance is self-evident. For example, the development of high-end industries depends particularly on the legal environment, strategic emerging industries need laws to properly protect intellectual property rights, and the development of financial industries needs laws to fully protect the interests of investors.
A good environment ruled by law needs to build a government ruled by law. A good environment for the rule of law not only requires the judicial organs to try according to law, be honest and transparent, and be highly professional, but also requires the government, as an administrative organ, to act in strict accordance with the law in its daily work. First, formulate detailed working rules according to the law to minimize the space for human manipulation; The second is to disclose the detailed work code to realize the transparency and predictability of management; Third, adopt a strict supervision mechanism to ensure the strict implementation of work norms. Building a government ruled by law is also a way to strengthen the government's own construction and improve the government's administrative ability and management level. The public's awareness of rights is getting stronger and stronger, and the requirements for government work are much higher than in the past, which requires government workers to change into the service concept of "power belongs to the people", earnestly strengthen the government's own legal system construction, and promote management and service innovation.
Citizens' legal awareness and legal quality are also important factors to create a good legal environment. The rule of law in cities is the result of the joint efforts of every citizen. If citizens' concept and awareness of the rule of law are weak, even the best laws will not work because they are not observed and enforced. A good environment for the rule of law is a castle in the air, which is out of reach. The formation of a society ruled by law requires the orderly development and implementation of comprehensive legal education, forming a new atmosphere of learning, understanding and abiding by the law in the whole society, and realizing that everyone understands and abides by the law.
As an immigrant city, Shenzhen has good conditions to promote all citizens, including civil servants, to strengthen their legal awareness and respect the law when something goes wrong. On the whole, Shenzhen has a high level of modernization, and its citizens have a high average education level, and they can generally accept the concept of the rule of law, which provides a good foundation for Shenzhen to avoid falling into various stereotypes and "hidden rules" formed in rural society for thousands of years. Shenzhen citizens have a wide range of sources, diverse cultures and strong mobility, which provides a good realistic environment for breaking through the complex human network of acquaintance society and preventing "human interference with the rule of law" and "human substitution for the law".
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Humanistic spirit nourishes the soul, highlights the thickness of urban culture, and should be cultivated in a targeted manner.
Culture is the blood of the nation and the spiritual home of the people. The opinions require Shenzhen to become a model of urban civilization, practice socialist core values, build a high-level public cultural service system and a modern cultural industry system, and become a leader in raising flags, gathering people's hearts, educating new people, promoting culture and displaying images in the new era.
As a soft power, culture is an important symbol to measure the comprehensive competitiveness of a city. In recent years, Shenzhen's cultural industry is relatively developed, and its cultural undertakings are gradually becoming brighter under the construction and development. To build a pilot demonstration area, Shenzhen should further intensify the development of cultural undertakings, and at the same time actively promote the development of cultural industries, promote the coordinated development of the two, and create an urban civilization for Shenzhen that displays advanced socialist culture.
An important performance of improving urban cultural literacy is citizens' reading habits. Advocating universal reading and building a scholarly society are the external manifestations of a "literate" city.
As one of the most modern cities in China, Shenzhen should give full play to the role of "first demonstration" and provide experience for the development of other cities. Shenzhen's industrial structure is relatively reasonable, with a high degree of marketization, and citizens are faced with enormous competitive pressure, material temptation and urgent need for knowledge renewal, which easily makes people become economic animals. With the average education level of Shenzhen citizens relatively high, the focus of cultural construction is not the improvement of citizens' knowledge level, but the improvement of humanistic spirit, which makes citizens' pursuit of humanistic life and material life balanced, which is not only conducive to citizens' personal mental health and life enrichment, but also conducive to social harmony and stability. It is necessary to cultivate urban humanistic spirit by holding lectures, salons, concerts and humanistic skills training in the community, with special emphasis on promoting Chinese excellent traditional culture. At the same time, we should face up to the common reality of the high incidence of mental illness in modern society, vigorously promote the construction of psychological counseling and psychotherapy institutions, and help citizens in need to maintain or restore their mental health through expert lectures, community publicity activities, mutual help and exchanges between patients and friends, and mental health experience activities, and regard mental health construction as a very important content of urban cultural construction.
Cultural construction can also be coordinated with economic development. As a leading city of high-tech industry in China, it is necessary for Shenzhen to cultivate the corresponding "engineer culture", so that the industrial and cultural advantages can promote each other, vigorously promote commercial or public exchange places with engineers and technicians as the mainstay, break down the barriers between companies, and provide conditions for the exchange of engineers and technicians in the industry, including forward-looking ideas, engineering knowledge, career planning and living arrangements. By cultivating "engineer culture", we can promote technology spillover and improve the "ecological environment" of high-tech industries in Shenzhen; It makes engineers and technicians inspire and collide with each other in the process of communication, thus improving the level of industrial innovation; Promote engineers and technicians to share industry development opportunity information and career planning experience, optimize the allocation of human resources, and strengthen the "talent pool effect" in Shenzhen.
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Public civilization embodies the "literacy" of the city and needs comprehensive improvement in many aspects.
Social civilization and citizen quality are the basic "qualities" of a city. The quality of public civilization is a living city card. The harmony between people, people and society, and people and nature is inseparable from the quality of public civilization based on moral literacy. The overall education level of Shenzhen citizens is relatively high, which provides a good foundation for improving the civilized quality of citizens. However, the level of industry within the city is uneven, and the education level and ideology of citizens are quite different. Through the equalization of public services, targeted assistance and social humanistic care, they should feel that they have truly become Shenzhen citizens and consciously accept the citizens' code of conduct.
The cultivation of professional quality is also an important aspect of public civilization construction. Shenzhen has created the "Shenzhen Miracle" in the past 40 years. The speed of economic development and industrial upgrading has attracted worldwide attention. However, the rapid development has also caused many people to be eager for quick success and instant benefit, lacking the professionalism of striving for perfection and being rigorous and realistic. This is not Shenzhen's own problem, but a common stage phenomenon in various regions during the economic take-off. In order to play the role of the first demonstration zone of socialism and highlight the comprehensive advantages of socialism, Shenzhen needs not only great achievements in economic development, but also high spirits in the world in terms of professionalism, and cultivate the spirit of respecting posts and loving careers, not condescending, studying hard, striving for perfection, self-discipline and responsibility.
Volunteer culture and volunteer spirit are important contents of urban public civilization. As an immigrant city, Shenzhen's immigrant status determines that people are facing a double situation mentally. On the one hand, they are the creators of urban economy, but on the other hand, they are in urgent need of spiritual pursuit because of the lack of emotional narrative. Volunteer spirit provides them with a sense of identity and belonging. Without differences in accents and regions, volunteers all make their own contributions in their work, make their own efforts for the construction of Shenzhen, and get spiritual satisfaction. In addition, volunteer culture helps to guide the whole society to cultivate correct social values and create a selfless and harmonious society through the role model effect of volunteers. Nowadays, during major events in Shenzhen, volunteers can be seen everywhere. Volunteers use their own practical actions to spread civilization and inherit volunteer culture. In the future, Shenzhen government should further increase its support for the construction of volunteer culture, strengthen publicity and call, encourage more and more people to join volunteer service, and play an accelerator and demonstration role for the development and promotion of national volunteer culture.
(Xu Deyou: Professor, Department of Economics, Party School of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee; Zhao Zile: Ph.D., School of International Relations, Jinan University; Wang: Master of Political Economy, Guangdong Provincial Party School)