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Socialist Concept of Honor and Disgrace

Chinese Communist Party moral concepts

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ905509 ↗
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The Eight honors and Eight Shames or the Eight honors and Disgraces, officially called the Socialist Concept of Honor and Disgrace, is a set of moral concepts developed by former General Secretary Hu Jintao for the citizens of the People's Republic of China. It is also known as Eight Virtues and Shames, or Hu Jintao's Eight-Step Programme.

History

On March 4, 2006, Hu released this list calling it the "new moral yardstick to measure the work, conduct and attitude of Communist Party officials." It is being promulgated as the moral code for all Chinese, especially Chinese Communist Party cadres.

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This entry incorporates text from “Socialist Concept of Honor and Disgrace” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.