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Professor Hu Xingdou : Chinese Intellectuals Should Tell Truth for The Whole Nation
United Morning Post, Singapore
He is a noteworthy and independent scholar who takes conscience and justice as his backbone. He has put forward a series of new arguments about constructing problem-sinology, modern Chinese civilization, modern rural system etc., and he resolved these problems by the scholar's intelligence. All of these have caused international repercussions.
Hu Xingdou is a professor of Beijing Institute of Technology and famous problem-sinology expert. When he was interviewed by our newspaper recently, he said: As an intellectual, I should tell truth for our nation and for our people. Only in this way, I can feel no shame to my conscience; only in this way, I can fulfil a citizen's duty and obligations.
Hu Xingdou said: In the 80s of last century, Chinese intellectuals paid much attention to politics. They went through all kinds of hardships during the Great Cultural Revolution period, so they had the desire to speak out. After 90s, most itellectuals got their vested interests. In order to protect their benefits, most of them chose to tell lies or keep silent, never criticizing. At present, more intellectuals are indifferent to the society. They only care about their daily life.
Hu Xingdou sighed with emotion: There are still a few conscientious intellectuals in the society, they are continuously shouting in support with the disadvantaged group, making suggestions and offering advice for the nation. The crux of China's further development is to look for the problems, to face squarely the problems, and to solve the problems according with our national conditions. That we probe into these problems is not to cavil or nit-pick, not ill-intentioned to expose the darkness, not to direct to our government, never to advocate creating disturbances. We just want to be loyal critics of social problems during the modernization process of our nation. Because only in this way, my true love on my great nation could be reflected; only in this way, the great exploit of modernization could be helped; only in this way, China could be urged onto a healthier way of development.
Cherishing the absolute sincerity to our nation, Hu Xingdou wrote aseries of compositions in recent years. He shouted in support to the powerless and poor stratum such as workers, farmers, etc., who lack the right to speak in public. All he has done was to strive for the society's supporting and sympathizing on this stratum. He was the first one who stood out to appeal for the farmer entrepreneur Sun Dawu. He once submitted a written statement to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, appealing for abolishing the labor education system.
Hu Xingdou said that the policy of reform and opening up has led our nation onto the correct path of becoming a democratic, civilized, prosperous and strong modern nation. In 1978, he became fortunately a college student. He witnessed the historical tremendous change of our nation----not only skyscrapers in the cities, GDP's growth,import and export and national reserves increasing, but also the sense of democracy, legality, fairness and efficiency has been deeply rooted among the people. However, there are still a lot of problems in the social and economic development. We should not ignore these problems, such as antagonism between masses and government in township, environment problems etc.
During the interview, he repeatedly mentioned that our nation should put in a lot of effort on open-minded and system innovation at present time. He said that it was the thought of departmentalism that had the worst effect on Chinese development. He mercilessly criticized the thought in some of his articles, which were collected in his website ---Hu Xingdou problem-sinology, and these articles struck a responsive chord in the hearts of the readers.
He said that Gu Yanwu had a famous remark: The rise and fall of the nation is connected to every ordinary man. In the crucial moment of Chinese changing into a modernized country, I could more deeply comprehend the remark's connotation meaning. Just because I love my nation so deeply, I criticize her so much.
He said that China is a huge nation with more than a billion people. So the administrative difficulties could not be resolved in time. Therefore, imperturbability, wisdom, stubbornness, firmness are highly commendable. In view of the foregoing, government and non-government's cooperation, all the stratums realizing common prosperity, prosperous and peace, but not conflicting, are the guarantees of creating a new situation of modernization. For the above reasons, Chinese intellectuals should tell the truth.
When the journalist mentioned his motto on his network----I should keep sober-minded in the indistinct humble adobe; I should keep a clear head when others have a sweet dream, he said that Chinese intellectuals should be wise and tenacious.
A speech at international conference about global governance and civil society in New York
Hu Xingdou
Distinguished leaders, reverend ambassadors for peace, ladies and gentlemen:
I am honored to give this speech here. My name is Hu Xingdou, from People's Republic of China. Is it hard to remember my name? My surname is Hu, the same as our president Hu Jintao, but unfortunately we are not relatives (laugh). Hu means ancient moon or foreigner. My given name is Xingdou, fortunately it means star or constellation, so I try to be a peace star, but not as a foreigner, I think all races, all nations can form one family.
I greatly appreciate the founding of the universal peace federation, I firmly support every ambassador's thought of peace, true love and civil society. In one article, I wrote, China should build modern Chinese civilization, we should construct a country of honesty and universal love, reinforce trustworthiness among people, transcend the love of family members, to love other people, to love society, to love mankind, to love nature and creature, to love opponents, to love enemy, to foster a tolerant and lenient soul, to cultivate the spirit of compromise, reconciliation and win-win.
Inspiringly, China, which is being under a change that never happened in the past thousands of years, has achieved a lot in building a government of rule-of-law and transparent administration during the late 20 years of reform and opening up --- we have put the items of human right and property right protection into the Constitution. Now, we all Chinese are making persistent efforts to further the construction of dignified and civilized China through building modern Chinese civilization and modern China's system.
To form a dignified and civilized China means to abandon the traditions of self-closed-system, autocracy and official-dominating society; means to cast away the politics of lies, tricks and violence, and submit to rules, formulas, transparency and supervision; means to perfect the democratic and rule-of-law system; means to protect the human rights and property rights; means to carry forward the spirit of credit and grand love; means to enhance officials' moral level and foster the public morality, to make our ancient nation dignified and civilized.
After returning home, I'll endeavor to advocate the new ideas of good governance and civil society, to promote the spirit of forgivingness, compromise, dialogue, transparency, rule of law, which is vital in contemporary China, to participate in the movement of building a tolerant, reconciliatory, dignified, civilized new China.
Thank you for giving me this precious time. Thank every respected ambassador for peace.
2005-9-16
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社会主义新农村研讨会上的发言
胡星斗
刚 才各位专家提出了许多深刻的见解，让我受益非浅。我不是专门研究农业的，许多问题没有认真考虑过，我只是对社会主义新农村建设非常感兴趣。其实，在中央提 出“社会主义新农村”之前，我就在多次发言中谈到了“社会主义新农村”，并且写了《建设社会主义新农村倡议书》，可惜一直没有公开发表。这说明，中央与学 者在许多想法方面是相通的。
现在，我谈三点：
一、作为社会改革的新农村建设。
新 农村建设是一场社会改革的运动。目前，中国在经济和政治改革方面出现了瓶颈，经济体制改革该改的都改了，政治体制改革困难重重，改革到了攻坚和啃硬骨头的 时候。这个时候，启动“社会改革”以破解困境，通过“迂回战”推动政治改革，是一项具有重大意义的战略选择。“社会主义新农村”建设就是要在中国农村和乡 镇进行广泛的社会改革。
1、 社会主义新农村是综合改革。它涉及农村经济、政治、文化、社会，以及农村教育、医疗、社会保障、土地、户籍、民政、环境卫生、乡村治理、基础设施、文明道 德等各个方面，标志着单一的经济改革已经完成，中国进入了综合改革的阶段。为了统一领导社会主义新农村建设，我建议农业部应当改名为农业与农村工作部，以 便统筹“三农”事务。
2、 社会主义新农村重在“新”字。毛泽东时代的社会主义新农村强调的是“社会主义”的意识形态，现在的社会主义新农村强调的是除旧布新，塑造“新农民、新体 制、新环境、新文化”，不只是生产的发展，生活的宽裕，而且乡风文明、村容整洁、管理民主，农民成为懂技术、闯市场、明法律、知权利的新农民，同时建立农 村义务教育、医疗养老的新体制，营造整洁卫生的新环境、健康文明的学习型的新文化。
3、 新农村建设应当与“公平市场经济”、“道德市场经济”建设，以及政府治理的改革、大力发展县域经济结合起来。我提出了建立“公平市场经济”的设想，指的是 竞争的起点和过程公平、贫富差距较小、保护弱势群体、体现人文关怀的市场经济，是公平公正公开的市场经济。“公平市场经济”与社会主义市场经济的要求是一 致的，它体现了效率与公平兼顾的原则。我希望哪一天，中央能把建设“公平市场经济”写入文件，成为中国未来市场经济建设的指南。中国还应建立“
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