Taking Socialist Core Values to Guide the Voluntary Service with Chinese Characteristics

Wu Liansong

doi:10.11648/j.ash.20170301.11

Abstract

Volunteer service is a critical symbol of modern civilization as well as an important channel and way to cultivate and practice the socialist core values, the spirit of volunteerism it advocates is the organic combination of the traditional virtues of Chinese nation and the spirit of the era of reform and innovation in China. It has intrinsic unity with socialist core values. To construct of the volunteer service spirit with Chinese characteristics, we must continue to play the leading role of the socialist core values, attract and appeal more people to participate in volunteer service, and promote the harmonious and orderly development of volunteer service.

Highlights

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, voluntary service has become a trend and fashion, and plenty of voluntary service groups emerged just like bamboo shoots after a spring rain
Voluntary service and the volunteer spirit it advocated, i.e. dedication, friendship, mutual assistance and progress have lodged themselves in the public mind
Voluntary Service will achieve the unity of self-worth and social value, which is the important channel to the implementation of socialist core values

Summary

Introduction

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, voluntary service has become a trend and fashion, and plenty of voluntary service groups emerged just like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. Voluntary service and the volunteer spirit it advocated, i.e. dedication, friendship, mutual assistance and progress have lodged themselves in the public mind. The socialist core values are the most profound spiritual core of the socialist core value system. To guide social trends of thought and forge public consensus with socialist core values, we must internalized the socialist core values in the heart and externalized it to the behaviors. Voluntary Service will achieve the unity of self-worth and social value, which is the important channel to the implementation of socialist core values

Volunteer Service and Its Educational Functions

Conclusion