The Chinese civilization has always given prominence to social harmony, unity and mutual assistance. Back in the early days of the Chinese nation, the Chinese already advocated that “harmony is most valuable.” They strove for harmony–between man and nature, among people and between man’s body and soul, and yearned for an ideal society where “everyone loves everyone else, everyone is equal and the whole world is one community.”
Today, China is endeavoring to build a harmonious society. It is a society of democracy and the rule of law, fairness and justice, integrity, fraternity, vitality, stability, order and harmony between man and nature. It is a society where there is unity between the material and the spiritual, democracy and the rule of law, fairness and efficiency, and vitality and order.
The Chinese people take the maintenance of ethnic unity and harmony as their duty and the defense of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity as their sacred mission.