Prohibition on Officials and Public Employees Engaging in Superstitious Practices

This Scheme includes 4 basic contents regulating the public service culture of officials and public employees, notably the contents on standards of ethics and lifestyle. To be specific:

- Officials and public employees must continuously study, cultivate, and train in ethics and lifestyle. Practice diligence, thrift, integrity, righteousness, and impartiality; honesty, simplicity, straightforwardness, sincerity; without showing opportunism, selfishness, jealousy, or envy.

- Officials and public employees are not allowed to gamble, fall into social evils; must not use alcoholic beverages during working hours and lunch breaks; must smoke only in designated areas; must comply with speech discipline, and must not use social networks to exploit, spread unverified, biased, one-sided information that affects public service activities.

- Officials and public employees must adhere to family and social ethical standards, good customs, and the fine cultural traditions of the nation; must not practice superstition or engage in offensive behavior during festivals.

In addition, the Government of Vietnam stipulates that officials and public employees must be loyal to the state; protect the honor of the Fatherland and national interests; respect and devotedly serve the people; not choose easy tasks and shirk difficult ones; not fall into "term thinking"...

When interacting with citizens, officials and public employees must respect, listen, attentively guide the work processes, and thoroughly explain queries; must not be indifferent, insensitive, or irresponsible to the difficulties and frustrations of the people... and at the same time must practice "4 asks, 4 always": ask to greet, ask to apologize, ask to thank, ask for permission; always smile, always be gentle, always listen, always help.

Regarding higher leadership, officials must comply with administrative hierarchy, obey the instructions, commands, and work assignments from superiors; must not dodge or shirk responsibilities, must not flatter or curry favor with ulterior motives...

More details can be found in: Decision 1847/QD-TTg effective from December 27, 2018.

- Nguyen Trinh -

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