作者：陈西

一个失败国家，是从这三个职业腐烂开始的：教育、医疗与公权力。这三个职业是国家的根基，民族未来的保障，一旦它开始从内部溃烂，不待有外敌入侵，这个国家注定走向失败。尤其是第三个，我们第二个“文明对话国际日”不得不关注的职业。

第一教育。本是给孩子点亮人生的灯，教会他独立思考，以对话打开孩子心灵的亮光，去照亮必然会遭遇到的那一段行走在黑暗世界中的路，确保行走者不成为黑暗的一部分。可要是教育者丢了初心，把学生当成敛财工具，把良知换成碎银，他们必然驯化学生为工具，驯化学生高度一致地听话，而失去了对话的勇气。听话的教育不但毁掉了一代人的未来，更是毁掉了这个民族的明天。

第二医院。本该是生命的避风港，是缓解痛苦点燃希望的地方，可要是这里把救死扶伤的誓言踩在脚下，变成“认钱不认人”冷漠之地，那时，老百姓怕的不只是病痛，更怕从那扇冰冷大门里伸出谋财夺命之魔手，搞得人财两空。

第三公权力。我们不怕教育溃烂，不怕医院腐败，我们最怕公权力的溃烂和腐败。一旦公权力变质，整个国家真的就无可救药了。正如乔治•华盛顿说的：我们越来越明白，对人类文明威胁最大、破坏最惨烈的，是不受制约的权力；其次才是自然灾害和人类的无知。

中国历来也有一句话：国家之败，由于官邪。因为，“官本位”害怕透明机制，一旦当官，终生吸血。并且，这种机制是上层决定下层，整个国家处在“上梁不正，下梁歪”的劣势中；不像“民本位”国家有阳光法，基层决定上层。所以，不怕教育和医院的溃烂，就怕官僚特权阶级的产生；如此，他们必制定出汲取式的国策，这个国家就完了。

这时，官僚特权阶级制定的法律不再保障自由，而是沦为压榨的工具，所谓的法治成了特权者最虚伪的表演，所谓“为人民服务”变成了“为人民币服务”，维护社会的公义变成了保护特权，公权偷梁换柱为私权，源头活水变成了臭气熏天的死水，这个国家的政治生态不就被一小撮特权者葬送了吗？

我们担忧是有依据的。公务员财务公开的良法讨论了30多年未能通过，反之，两高（〔2026〕6号法释）5月1日施行的法释通行了，这正是让我们担忧的证据。体制内有识之士早就提出了“公务员财务公开”的法案；这本是一副对症的良药，是提纲挈领的阳光法，是可以医疗好社会乱象疾病的法案；谁想，良药未制成，毒药却先落地了。我们说它“毒，恶”，是说它是贪腐的陷阱，划定300万元为犯重罪的门槛似乎在暗示，300万元为轻罪，反而使陷阱扩大化了。

官本位独大是公权力失去制衡，兽性贪得无厌的表现，是榨取式官僚特权阶级正在败坏国家的罪证。世界万物都必须在悖论中，在正反制衡结构中，让彼此的张力或冲突成就彼此，促进他们的进化。官本位必须与民本位形成张力，如同阴阳、正反、左右、新旧、美丑、善恶必须形成张力一样。符合“一阴一阳谓之道”。

官本位独大说明，我们国家正滑向汲取性失败的制度里。在此时刻，曾有共和国公民代米安、宋淑文、熊利、陈西等等公民先后站出来，他（她）们曾向“全国人大常委会法制工作委员会”发出“提案申请书”，呼吁重新审议“并废止法释〔2026〕6号司法解释”。

与此同时，在第二个文明对话国际日来临之际，我们“公民对话联盟”呼吁开展“公务员财务公开法案”的全民对话，以阳光法解决官本位之邪的问题。如果有关国家机关不能理解阳光法百般的好处，可以向香港廉政公署取经。国家成败兴亡与每个国民休戚相关，覆巢之下无完卵。望有更多的共和国公民参与到文明对话日活动中来！

“公民对话联盟平台”发起人：贵州贵阳公民_陈西-手机号：18198281954（社交软件同号）浙江杭州公民-陈树庆微信号：wxid-wmhnbocidh4k22湖南怀化公民-唐浩铭手机：13212390018,13974518171（社交软件同号）江西赣州公民-刘少明手机：18802016201（社交软件同号）贵州贵阳公民-徐国庆手机：13984086628（社交软件同号）湖北潜江公民-姚立法手机：

13339728964（社交软件同号）山东德州公民-陈立勇手机：18005449982（社交软件同号）

四川成都公民-陈云飞电话：16718106764微信号：cyf1989-06-04湖北随州市公民-刘飞跃手机：19171484732（社交软件同号）贵州贵阳市公民-申有连手机：13037897453（社交软件同号）

欢迎广大共和国公民参加第二届“公民对话联盟”发起人活动。

从公告发出之日起，凡自愿公开留下电话号码或联系方式的为共和国“公民对话联盟”发起人，“志愿服务者”；以承担起当地“文明对话国际日”服务的工作。签名按参加先后顺序自动排名。

2026年5月28日

编辑：Geoffrey Jin    校对：周敏 翻译：沈美花

Announcement No. 2:International Day of Civilizational Dialogue

Author: Chen Xi

Abstract: This article takes education, healthcare, and public power as its three entry points to explore their important impact on national development. The author argues that education should cultivate independent thinking and the ability to engage in dialogue, healthcare should focus on protecting life and alleviating suffering, and public power must be subject to effective supervision and checks and balances. The article points out that when education becomes driven by utilitarian interests, healthcare loses its humanitarian spirit, and public power lacks constraints, social trust will gradually disintegrate and institutional functioning will also be eroded. In particular, the author emphasizes the importance of oversight of power, arguing that transparency, fairness, and accountability mechanisms are key to safeguarding the rule of law, protecting citizens’ rights, and promoting a nation’s long-term development. The full text is a commentary and reflection on public governance and social systems.

A failed state begins with the decay of these three professions: education, healthcare, and public administration. These three professions form the foundation of a nation and safeguard the future of its people. Once they begin to rot from within, the nation is doomed to failure even before any external enemy invades. This is especially true of the third—the profession we must focus on during our second “International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations.”

First, education. It is meant to be the lamp that illuminates a child’s life, teaching them to think independently and using dialogue to kindle the light within their hearts—a light that will illuminate the inevitable stretch of darkness they will encounter on their journey, ensuring that the traveler does not become part of that darkness. But if educators lose their original purpose, treating students as tools for financial gain and trading their conscience for a few coins, they will inevitably turn students into tools, conditioning them to obey in perfect unison while losing the courage to engage in dialogue. An education that fosters mere obedience not only destroys the future of a generation but also destroys the tomorrow of this nation.

Second: Hospitals. They should be sanctuaries of life, places that alleviate suffering and kindle hope. But if they trample the oath to save lives underfoot and become cold, callous places that “prioritize money over people,” then the common people will fear not only illness and pain, but also the evil hands reaching out from those icy doors to rob them of both life and wealth, leaving them with nothing.

Third: Public Authority. We do not fear the decay of education or the corruption of hospitals; what we fear most is the decay and corruption of public authority. Once public authority becomes corrupted, the entire nation is truly beyond salvation. As George Washington said: “We are increasingly aware that the greatest threat to human civilization, and the most devastating force, is unchecked power; natural disasters and human ignorance come only second.”

There is a saying in China that has long held true: “A nation’s downfall stems from corrupt officials.” This is because a “government-centered” system fears transparency; once someone becomes an official, they feed off the public for life. Furthermore, in such a system, the upper echelons dictate the lower ones, leaving the entire nation in a situation where “if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will follow suit”; this is unlike a “people-centered” nation, which operates under transparent laws where the grassroots determine the policies of the higher levels. Therefore, we need not fear the decay of education or healthcare systems; what we must fear is the emergence of a privileged bureaucratic class. If this happens, they will inevitably enact exploitative national policies, and the nation will be doomed.

At this point, the laws enacted by the privileged bureaucratic class no longer safeguard freedom but degenerate into tools of exploitation. The so-called rule of law becomes the most hypocritical performance of the privileged, and the so-called “serving the people” turns into “serving the renminbi.” Upholding social justice becomes protecting privilege, public power is replaced by private power, and the fresh spring of life turns into stinking stagnant water—hasn’t the political ecosystem of this country been ruined by a tiny handful of privileged elites?

Our concerns are well-founded. A sound bill on financial transparency for civil servants has been under discussion for over 30 years without being passed. Conversely, the judicial interpretation issued by the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (Judicial Interpretation No. 6 [2026]), which took effect on May 1, has been implemented—and this is precisely what fuels our concerns. Enlightened individuals within the system have long proposed a bill for “financial transparency among civil servants.” This was meant to be a remedy tailored to the problem—a transparent law that addresses the root causes, capable of curing the ills of social chaos. Yet, before this remedy could be formulated, the poison has already taken effect. When we call it “poisonous and evil,” we mean it is a trap for corruption. Setting 3 million yuan as the threshold for a “serious crime” seems to imply that anything below that is a “minor offense,” thereby actually widening the trap.

The dominance of the official-centered mindset represents a loss of checks and balances on public power and a manifestation of insatiable greed; it is evidence that an exploitative bureaucratic privileged class is corrupting the nation. All things in the world must exist within paradoxes and structures of opposing forces, allowing their mutual tension or conflict to enrich one another and drive their evolution. The official-centered mindset must create tension with the people-centered mindset, just as yin and yang, opposites, left and right, old and new, beauty and ugliness, and good and evil must create tension. This aligns with the principle that “the interplay of yin and yang is the Way.”

The dominance of the bureaucratic mindset indicates that our country is sliding toward a system of extractive failure. At this critical juncture, citizens of the Republic—including Dai mian, Song Shuwen, Xiong Li, Chen Xi, and others—have stepped forward one after another. They submitted a “Proposal Application” to the “Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress,” calling for a re-examination and repeal of “Judicial Interpretation No. 6 [2026].”

At the same time, as the second International Day of Civilizational Dialogue approaches, we, the “Citizens’ Dialogue Alliance,” call for a nationwide dialogue on the “Civil Servant Financial Disclosure Bill” to address the ills of the bureaucratic culture through the Sunshine Law. If relevant state agencies fail to grasp the myriad benefits of the Sunshine Law, they may seek guidance from the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The rise and fall of the nation is inextricably linked to every citizen; when the nest is destroyed, no egg remains intact. We hope that more citizens of the Republic will participate in the activities of the International Day of Civilization Dialogue!

Initiators of the “Citizens’ Dialogue Alliance Platform”:

Citizen Chen Xi from Guiyang, Guizhou – Mobile:

18198281954 (same number on social media)

Citizen Chen Shuqing from Hangzhou, Zhejiang – WeChat ID: wxid-

wmhnbocidh4k22

Citizen Tang Haoming from Huaihua, Hunan – Mobile:

13212390018, 13974518171 (same number on social media

apps)

Citizen from Ganzhou, Jiangxi – Liu Shaoming Mobile:

18802016201 (same number on social media apps)

Citizen from Guiyang, Guizhou – Xu Guoqing Mobile:

13984086628 (same number on social media apps)

Citizen of Qianjiang, Hubei – Yao Lifu Mobile:

13339728964 (same number on social media)

Citizen of Dezhou, Shandong – Chen Liyong Mobile:

18005449982 (same number on social media)

Citizen of Chengdu, Sichuan – Chen Yunfei Phone:

16718106764 WeChat ID: cyf1989-06-04

Citizen from Suizhou, Hubei – Liu Feiyue Mobile:

19171484732 (Same number on social media)

Citizen from Guiyang, Guizhou – Shen Youlian Mobile:

13037897453 (Same number on social media)

We welcome citizens of the Republic to participate in the Second “Citizen Dialogue Alliance” Initiators’ Activity.

Effective from the date of this announcement, anyone who voluntarily and publicly provides their phone number or contact information will be designated as a founder and “volunteer” of the Republic’s “Citizens’ Dialogue Alliance,” tasked with organizing local “International Day of Civilized Dialogue” events. Signatures will be automatically ranked in the order they are received.

May 28, 2026

Editor: Geoffrey Jin Proofreader: Zhou Min Translator: Shen Meihua