China should trim people's morals and behavior to create a
better social and cultural environment for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, a senior leader
of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said?in Beijing?on
Sunday.
The country should take the chance of preparing the Games to
tackle the prominent moral problems and uncouth behavior that
cropped up in social ethic construction and promote the socialist
conception on honor and disgrace, said Li Changchun, a member of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, at
a panel meeting of the country's political advisors who convened
for their annual session.
Etiquette, public order, social service and environmental
sanitation in both urban and rural areas are the focus of the moral
and behavior shaping campaign, Li told a group of members of the
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference (CPPCC) from educational and sports circles.
Education and sport form an important part of the foundation of
social ethic and cultural construction, and they play important
roles in shaping people's morals and bodies, Li said.
The CPPCC National Committee's annual session opened on Saturday
and is scheduled to conclude on March 15.
(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2007)