Ours is a society that sets great store by role models.

The Confucian paradigm of social harmony emphasizes leading by example, so we have the time-tested teaching to "convince with virtue", and the admonishment that "if the upper beam is lopsided, the lower ones will go askew".

The Communist Party of China knows very well the value of examples. And role models have been continuously presented for Party cadres and the public to emulate.