Leng Xia gave an academic lecture at Peking University Institute of International Relations on March 25th, 20th/KLOC-0th/2nd, with the theme of "Comparing the System Construction between Hong Kong and the Mainland from the Donald Tsang Incident". Starting with the recent incident of Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang accepting benefits and the recent negative news about Chief Executive candidates, this paper deeply analyzes the similarities and differences between Hong Kong and the mainland in system construction. On this basis, the lecture focuses on two issues: first, how complex and arduous the construction of a clean government in China is, how to form a huge interest group, and how much impact it will have on China society; Second, how to make a breakthrough in the construction of a clean government in China, what problems must be solved to make a breakthrough in the construction of a clean government in China in the future, and how to coordinate the relationship among the status of the ruling party, the national political system, democratic reform, legal construction and morality in the process of promoting the construction of a clean government.
At the end of the lecture, Leng Xia particularly emphasized that the determination and courage of leaders are crucial to successfully promoting the building of a clean government. He said, "In China, no matter the construction of a clean government or any system, it must be led and promoted by the ruling party and its leaders. Only in this way can the next system construction in China proceed smoothly from top to bottom and achieve the expected results. Under the current circumstances, no force, no social force can replace the role of * * * producers in this regard. Moreover, in this process, the sincerity, will, determination and actions of leaders are the most critical and important factors to promote the success of building a clean government in China and even the whole system. "
According to the report entitled "Guangdong can set up independent anti-corruption agencies in pilot cities and counties first" in Southern Metropolis Daily on May 26th, 20 1 1, Leng Xia suggested that Guangdong should learn from the experience of ICAC in Hong Kong and consider setting up an independent anti-corruption agency in a city and county. Leng Xia believes that there are many channels in the anti-corruption system in the Mainland, and the anti-corruption agencies are multi-governmental and overlapping, which has advantages and disadvantages, and the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Therefore, he suggested that the mainland of China could learn from Hong Kong's practice and reorganize the existing anti-corruption agencies into an independent anti-corruption department. In his report, Leng Xia put forward a concrete idea: the Ministry of Supervision and the Bureau of Corruption Prevention should be abolished in China government departments, and an independent anti-corruption department should be established. This anti-corruption department is only responsible to the Prime Minister, the provincial governor, the mayor and the county magistrate in the administrative system, similar to the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong. The Commission for Discipline Inspection is retained, but only responsible for the inner-party discipline supervision, thus separating the anti-corruption departments of the party and government with clear responsibilities. Leng Xia believes that Guangdong has always been the forefront of the country's reform and opening up, and the next round of building a clean government and legal system should also be ahead of Guangdong. Last year, some discipline inspection and procuratorial cadres in Foshan wrote an open letter, suggesting that Foshan should set up a relatively independent anti-corruption department and reorganize the existing anti-corruption institutions. This shows that the social foundation for a breakthrough in building a clean government in Guangdong Province has been established.
On the construction of a clean government in China, Leng Xia's main points are:
Based on China's special national conditions and political system, as long as China's ruling position is not affected and threatened, any social and political system reform in China, including the construction of a clean government, can be boldly initiated and carried out, and finally succeed. Leng Xia believes that "the relationship between political system reform and building a clean government is very close, and they influence and interact with each other. In recent years, the effect of building a clean government in China is not very significant, which is largely due to the failure to really handle the relationship between political system reform and building a clean government. As long as this relationship is properly handled, China's clean government construction will definitely get out of the predicament. "
"Rule of law" is a necessary condition for the success of building a clean government. Leng Xia believes that "if there is no law to follow, the law enforcement is not strict, if there is no real rule of law foundation and legal system construction, and there is no real rule of law environment, then any so-called clean government construction is just a castle in the air, and any so-called clean government construction is only the external decoration of the society ruled by men, which cannot have practical effects."
The rule of law is more important than morality. Leng Xia said: "There is nothing wrong with morality. A country, a society and a nation need morality, but there is no unified standard for morality. Everyone may have their own moral classics in their hearts. Only by establishing a legal society with laws to follow and strict law enforcement can we fundamentally solve the problem of corruption in China. Therefore, instead of letting moral blood flow through each of us, let every inch of our skin be filled with legal cells, and let every breath of each of us be filled with legal breath. The whole country abides by, maintains and defends solemn, sacred and inviolable laws and regulations, which is the greatest public morality of our nation, country and society. "
Legal system construction is more important and urgent than democracy. Leng Xia believes that in a special country like China, "democracy" is not necessarily a good thing, but "rule of law" is definitely a good thing. For China at present, the construction of legal system may be more important and urgent than democracy. Leng Xia explained that democracy and the rule of law seem to be inseparable twins, but in such a special China, the theory may not work. Theory belongs to theory and reality belongs to reality. Any reform should take into account the actual situation in China and be carried out in a pragmatic way, instead of copying other people's theories and experiences. Just as China's reform and opening up in the past 30 years is obviously different from the path taken by all socialist countries in the world, this is the so-called Socialism with Chinese characteristics. In recent years, Leng Xia has presided over a number of research projects on Hong Kong's politics, economy and people's livelihood, including 23 national security laws, future political development, governance of the SAR government, development of political parties, and relations between Hong Kong and the United States, and has written many research reports for public release or reference for decision-making.
In addition, Leng Xia has been paying close attention to the political and economic events in Hong Kong in recent ten years, and made rational, objective and independent comments, many of which have attracted the attention of relevant parties.
As early as 2003, when the legislative work of Article 23 in Hong Kong was blocked, Leng Xia publicly commented that "once Article 23 fails, it will seriously damage the dignity of the Basic Law and the harmonious and unified relationship between' one country' and' two systems', making it impossible to establish mutual trust between the mainland and Hong Kong, and between the central authorities and the Hong Kong SAR government. If such mutual trust cannot be established, the political development and future of Hong Kong will be damaged. 」
In March, 2007, Leng Xia published the article "The Influence of the Third Chief Executive Election on Hong Kong's Political Forces". According to the analysis, this chief executive election gave birth to the appearance of the "opposition party", consolidated the cohesion of the pan-popular camp, strengthened the close cooperation between the pro-Beijing camp and the chief executive, and had a certain impact and influence on the Liberal Party. He also predicted that "the third Chief Executive election in Hong Kong will have a greater impact on Hong Kong's political parties and political ecology, and will also make Hong Kong's future Chief Executive election. 」
On June 5438+ 10, 2009, Leng Xia submitted "Several Suggestions on the Budget for 2009-20 10" to the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, which put forward a number of countermeasures and suggestions to revitalize and consolidate Hong Kong's economy, and received a positive response.
In September 2009, Leng Xia published an article entitled "The Central Authorities Should Strive for the Initiative of Hong Kong's Political Reform in 20 12", suggesting that the Central Authorities should fully grasp the initiative in the review of Hong Kong's political reform to guide the healthy and steady development of Hong Kong's future political system, and put forward a number of specific suggestions.
20 10, 1 In June, Leng Xia wrote to the Constitutional Affairs Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, putting forward a number of opinions on the future development of Hong Kong's political system, which received a positive response.
At the end of 20 10, after the government of the hong kong special administrative region announced that 23 pieces of legislation would not be enacted before 20 12, Leng Xia publicly suggested on many occasions through various channels: in view of the political reality of hong kong and considering the future political development of hong kong, the central government should handle 23 pieces of legislation in hong kong with an open mind, for example, it could consider amending the basic law and submitting the national security law of hong kong to the national people's congress.
Among them, the Report on the Professionalization of Legislative Council Members in Hong Kong published in early 2009 is the first comprehensive and in-depth study on the professionalization of Legislative Council Members in Hong Kong. Liang Aishi, deputy director of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee of the National People's Congress, and Zeng Yucheng, president of the Legislative Council, wrote a preface and recommended it. The research report was published by Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore and distributed worldwide.
The report "Research on Professionalization of Legislative Councillors in Hong Kong" comprehensively and deeply analyzes the necessity of professionalization of Legislative Councillors from the aspects of increasing the power of the Legislative Council, changing the election method, increasing the workload of legislators, avoiding conflicts of interest, attracting talents to participate in parliamentary work, the development of party politics, and the increasing demand of citizens for the quality of work of legislators. Finally, it concludes that full-time or highly full-time legislators will become the inevitable choice of Hong Kong politics in the future. However, the report emphasizes that to realize full-time membership, we must proceed from the actual situation and political reality of Hong Kong and combine with the future pace of political development in Hong Kong. Easy first, then difficult, step by step, step by step. According to this principle, the report puts forward short-term planning and medium-and long-term planning for the professionalization of parliamentarians. 1998 From 2002, when Leng Xia presided over the think tank Macau Policy Research Institute, he helped He Houhua run for the chief executive and govern. It also studies Macao's transitional affairs, social development, government governance, the central government's policy towards Macao, the relationship between the United States and Macao, and the relationship between Taiwan Province Province and Macao, so as to provide countermeasures and suggestions for relevant decision makers. He also organized and presided over many seminars and symposiums on Macao in Macao and Beijing. One of them was in the second half of 1998, initiated by the Macao Policy Research Institute chaired by Leng Xia, and combined with the Foreign Economic Research Department of the the State Council Development Research Center, the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the State Development Planning Commission, the Peking University Hong Kong and Macao Research Center, and the Tsinghua University 2 1 Century Development Research Institute to form the "Proposal Drafting Committee for the Medium and Long-term Comprehensive Development Strategic Plan of the Macao Special Administrative Region". The first joint meeting of the drafting committee was held in September 1998 in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Beijing. The meeting was presided over by Lengxia. After that, according to the contents discussed by the members of the drafting committee, the Macao Policy Research Institute has written several research reports on Macao's social development and submitted them to the Macao SAR Government for reference.
The book "Stability and Development-Reflections and Suggestions on the Macao Issue" published in 2002 is some thoughts and suggestions of Leng Xia and his research team on the Macao issue, some of which can be used for reference by the Macao SAR government. This book is an important reference for studying the Macao issue.
A Cold Look at Macao was published in June 5438+February 2009, which deeply analyzed the important events of Macao's return to the motherland in the past ten years and reflected on the gains and losses of the administrative achievements of He Houhua and Macao SAR governments in the past ten years. Some critics in Hong Kong, Macao and China said that this book is a history of ten years since its return to the motherland, and some critics in Macao called it the only frank and best book on political issues after Macao's return to the motherland. Some commentators in Chinese mainland believe that studying the history of Macau's gambling industry is indispensable to "look at Macau coldly".
As the theme of "Looking at Macao with Cold Eyes" is a reflection on Macao's ten-year governance, involving the governance of Macao government, the central government's policy towards Macao, the relationship between the United States and Macao, the relationship between Taiwan Province Province and Macao, the development of Macao's democratic political system and other major issues, Leng Xia put forward many incisive and original opinions in it, and the book has also been attached importance to by various ministries and commissions of the central government, commissioned by the central government and leaders of relevant provinces and cities, and suggested as a reference for the work of Hong Kong and Macao. Research monograph "Research on Professionalization of Legislative Council Members in Hong Kong"
Current affairs and politics monograph "Looking at Macao coldly" and political and economic monthly magazine "Research on Macao Policy"
Research Report Collection "Stability and Development —— Reflections and Suggestions on Macao Issues"
Research Report on "Some Factors Affecting Macao's Stability and Countermeasures"
The research report "Short-term plan to stimulate and promote Macao's economic recovery" and the current political work "Chief Executive Competition Series 1: Who is in charge of Xiangjiang River-Tung Chee-hwa and His Opponents"
The current political work "Chief Executive Battle Series II: Competing for the Xiangjiang River-Chief Executive Battle"
The current political work "The Battle for the Chief Executive Series III: The Final Battle of Xiangjiang River-A Record of Political Parties"