The official release of "Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Supporting Shenzhen to Build Socialism with Chinese characteristics Pilot Zone" has brought great opportunities and higher requirements for the development of Shenzhen. As the soul and extension of hard power, soft power support provides strong stamina for the development of cities. The repositioning of "Pilot Demonstration Zone" requires Shenzhen to attach importance to the development of hard power such as economic construction, and at the same time, it should also focus on cultivating and developing soft guarantee and soft support to become a global benchmark city with competitiveness, innovation and outstanding influence.
The Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Supporting Shenzhen to Build a Pilot Demonstration Zone in Socialism with Chinese characteristics (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") points out that Shenzhen should move forward in the direction of building a pilot demonstration zone in Socialism with Chinese characteristics and strive to create a city example of a socialist modern power. To achieve this goal, in addition to the hard conditions such as high-quality economic development and continuous improvement of people's livelihood, Shenzhen needs more soft power support in good laws and good governance, humanistic spirit and public civilization.
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The "hard core" of strength is form, and the "software" of charm is God.
If a city is seen by a thousand people, it will have a thousand appearances. If we want 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, and it forms 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 obvious at a glance, but they still reflect the charm and strength of a city. When a city or a region develops to a certain stage, the gap of visible 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 a city is mentioned, the first thing people think of is no longer the tall buildings, but the people, temperament and spirit here.
at present, in the process of urban construction in our country, due to the limitations of development stage and level, urban administrators and citizens often pay more attention to hardware construction and despise software construction. A city with connotation, a city with flesh and blood, can not be separated from the driving role of its internal "software". 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 demonstrated.
in this sense, if a city wants to show its charm, become a place where talents from all over the country and even the world yearn for from the heart, and truly become a "demonstration area", it not only has "numbers to convince people" but also has "moving stories". "Numbers" are indicators that reflect economic development, industrial optimization, people's livelihood construction, etc. When "numbers" go up, they can be among the best in all kinds of city rankings and awards activities, and the advanced nature of Shenzhen compared with other cities is reflected through "hard leverage" and comparable indicators. "Stories" are warm-hearted stories that can be seen everywhere in the city, including the understanding between strangers on the subway, the easy help in high-speed railway station, the greetings to cleaning workers, the care between neighbors, the retreat between colleagues in the workplace and so on. These "stories" are statistically "difficult to measure" and cannot be transformed into glamorous figures on the city "statements"; Emotion of citizens is immeasurable, which plays an irreplaceable role in citizens' happiness, sense of belonging and satisfaction. Stories, as a soft business card of a city, play an irreplaceable role in infiltrating the life of citizens and permeating the hearts of citizens. "Digital" can be promoted rapidly by hardware construction and project implementation, while "story" needs long-term and all-round "soft construction" to breed.
The official release of "Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Supporting Shenzhen to Build a Pilot Demonstration Zone in Socialism with Chinese characteristics" has brought great opportunities for the development of Shenzhen and put forward higher requirements. As the soul and extension of hard power, soft power support provides strong stamina for the development of cities. The repositioning of "Pilot Demonstration Zone" requires Shenzhen to attach importance to the development of hard power such as economic construction, and at the same time, it should also focus on cultivating and developing soft guarantee 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 requires the joint efforts of the government and society.
The Opinions put forward that Shenzhen should take the lead in creating a democratic and legal environment that highlights fairness and justice and become a model city ruled by law. Comprehensively improve the level of building the rule of law, standardize the boundaries 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 laws and good governance are the objective basis of urban construction and development and the institutionalized characteristics of urban management tending to 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 "leading demonstration area", Shenzhen should certainly set an example. The rule of law is the basic software for a society and a region to operate 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 operate, and its significance is self-evident. For example, the development of high-end industries is particularly dependent on the legal environment, strategic emerging industries require laws to properly protect intellectual property rights, and the development of financial industries requires laws to fully protect the interests of investors.
a good environment ruled by law requires the construction of a government ruled by law. A good environment for the rule of law requires not only the judicial organs to try according to law, be honest and transparent, and be highly professional, but also the government as an administrative organ to act in strict accordance with the law in its daily work. First, formulate detailed work rules based on the law to minimize the space for human manipulation; Second, the detailed work code is made public to realize the transparency and predictability of management; third, the strict supervision mechanism is adopted to ensure the strict implementation of the work code. The construction of a government ruled by law is also a way to strengthen the government's own construction and improve its 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 staff to change into the service concept of "power belongs to the people", earnestly strengthen the government's own legal 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, and a good environment for the rule of law is a castle in the air, which is beyond our 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 things go wrong. On the whole, Shenzhen has a high level of modernization, a high average education level of citizens, and can generally accept the concept of the rule of law, which provides a good foundation for Shenzhen to avoid falling into all kinds of stereotypes and "hidden rules" formed in the 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 complicated human network in acquaintance society and preventing "human interference with the rule of law" and "human substitution for law".
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The humanistic spirit nourishes the soul and shows the thickness of urban culture. It is necessary to cultivate it in a targeted way.
Culture is the blood of the nation and the spiritual home of the people. In the Opinions, Shenzhen is required 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 new era to raise flags, gather people's hearts, educate new people and promote culture.
as a soft power, culture is an important symbol to measure a city's comprehensive competitiveness. In recent years, the cultural industry in Shenzhen is relatively developed, and the cultural undertakings are gradually becoming more and more bright under the construction and development. To build a pilot demonstration area, Shenzhen should further intensify its efforts to develop cultural undertakings, and at the same time actively promote the development of cultural industries, and promote the coordinated development of the two, so as to create an urban civilization showing advanced socialist culture for Shenzhen.
reading habits of citizens are an important manifestation of improving urban cultural literacy. Advocating universal reading and building a scholarly society are the external manifestations of a "literate" city.
As one of the most modernized 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, the market level is high, and the citizens are faced with great competitive pressure, material temptation and urgent demand for knowledge renewal, which easily makes people become economic animals. With the average education level of Shenzhen citizens being relatively high, the focus of cultural construction is not the improvement of citizens' knowledge level, but the promotion of humanistic spirit, which makes citizens' pursuit of humanistic life and material life form a balance, which is not only beneficial to citizens' personal mental health and life enrichment, but also conducive to social harmony and stability. It is necessary to cultivate urban humanistic spirit through lectures, salons, concerts and humanistic skills training in the community, especially focusing on carrying forward Chinese excellent traditional culture. At the same time, it is necessary to face up to the common reality of the high incidence of mental diseases 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 part of urban cultural construction.
Cultural construction can also be coordinated with economic development. As a leading city in China's high-tech industry, it is necessary for Shenzhen to cultivate the corresponding "engineer culture", so as to promote industrial and cultural advantages, vigorously promote commercial or public exchange places mainly targeting engineering and technical personnel, break down barriers between companies, and provide conditions for the exchange of engineering and technical personnel in the industry, including forward-looking ideas, engineering and technical knowledge, career planning, living arrangements and so on. By cultivating "engineer culture", we can promote technology spillover and improve the "ecological environment" of high-tech industries in Shenzhen; It causes engineers and technicians to inspire each other and collide with each other in the process of communication, thus improving the level of industrial innovation; Promote the sharing of industry development opportunity information and career planning experience among engineers and technicians, optimize the allocation of human resources, and strengthen the "talent pool effect" in Shenzhen.
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Public * * * civilization reflects the "literacy" of the city, and it is necessary to comprehensively improve
Social * * * civilization and citizen * * * quality are the basic "literacy" of the 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 the public. However, the industrial level within the city is uneven, and the citizens have great differences in education level and ideology. It is necessary to make them feel that they have truly become Shenzhen citizens and consciously accept the citizens' code of conduct through equalization of public services, targeted assistance and social and humanistic care.
the cultivation of professionalism is also an important aspect of the construction of public civilization. Shenzhen has created the "Shenzhen Miracle" in the past 4 years. The speed of economic development and industrial upgrading has attracted the world's attention. However, the rapid development has also caused many people to be eager for quick success and lack the professionalism of Excellence and rigor. This is not Shenzhen's own problem, but a staged phenomenon that is common in various regions during the economic take-off. If Shenzhen is to play the role of the first demonstration area of socialism and highlight the comprehensive advantages of socialism, it not only needs to make great achievements in economic development, but also should be high-spirited in the world in terms of professionalism, and cultivate the spirit of respecting posts and loving industries, not being condescending to posts, studying hard, striving for perfection, and being self-disciplined and responsible.
Volunteer culture and volunteerism are important contents of urban public civilization. As an immigrant city, Shenzhen's immigration 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 their lack of emotional narration. Volunteer spirit provides them with a sense of identity and belonging. Without differences in accents and regions, volunteer service providers are making their own contributions in their work, making their own efforts for the construction of Shenzhen and gaining 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 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 strengthen its efforts to support the construction of volunteer culture, and strengthen its propaganda and call to encourage more and more people to join volunteer service, so as to play an accelerator and model 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 Mengfei: Master of Political Economy, Party School of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee)