First Ever Conference on Filial Piety Held in SW ChinaThe first-ever national conference on loyalty and filial piety to be held in China opened in Chengdu, capital city of southwest China's Sichuan Province recently.More than 100 scholars from both home and overseas attended the conference. The aim of the conference is to assimilate the quintessence of filial piety, enhance the cohesive force of the Chinese nation, promote social stability and eliminate the negative influence of feudalism in modern life, said the organizer. Participants agreed that the basic principle of morality is to love the motherland and people. Scholars from Taiwan said people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits accept traditional virtues of Chinese culture, which closely integrate people on both sides. The conference was jointly organized by the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences and the Society for Promoting Cross-Straits Exchanges in Sichuan Province. |
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