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Traditionally Chinese people place much value in virtue, with a long-held belief that one should never appropriate valuable items lost by others. However, a recent regulation by the government of south China’s Guangdong Province has provoked heated debate on whether such virtuous behavior should be rewarded with money.
According to the regulation, when the owner claims a lost item, he or she is expected to voluntarily pay the finder 10 percent of the item’s value. If no one claims the lost thing, the government will auction it and reward the people who found it with 10 percent of its value. The reasoning behind the regulation is to motivate the public to hand over valuables that are found.
Since the Chinese people are now encouraged to learn from Lei Feng, a symbol of altruism in China since the 1960s, this regulation has caused a great controversy in China. Supporters believe the reward is an expression of gratitude and will encourage people to be more virtuous. However, opponents argue that material rewards will only tarnish morality and the 10 percent reward is hard to determine when the lost items are documents, certificates or ID cards.
shu shengxiang Xinhua Daily telegraph
When people find your valuable things, they don’t appropriate them but return them back. As the owner, it is reasonable that you thank them with certain amount of cash. Like the common practice of giving tips in Western countries, it is not only a reward, but also an expression of gratitude to show respects to others’ work.
However, in the Chinese culture, people are particularly critical about the virtue of giving back found items. People take it for granted that if the finder accepts the owner’s rewards, he or she will not be a virtuous person. But I don’t agree. People should realize that expressing gratitude by means of giving the finder some kind of reward is in fact respecting their virtue.
Knowing this, we can understand that the regulation issued by Guangdong Province aims to promote the virtue of returning lost items. In turn, this can promote and develop the culture of gratitude.
Wu ruowei college student in Beijing
Although great economic progress has been achieved over the past decades, some moral problems have emerged, such as the case where pedestrians walked past a young victim of a car accident on a street in Foshan, south China’s Guangdong Province, without offering help.
With people re-examining their morality after the incident, the new regulation by Guangdong Province is a positive response. It doesn’t mean that the morality should be promoted by material rewards, but that certain rewards will positively guide people’s value system and help promote traditional virtues.
As it takes time and energy for the finders to return lost property to the owner, it stands to reason that they should get some benefits. With the implementation of the regulation, more people would return lost property, as they will benefit from material rewards. In this way, more and more people will voluntarily do good deeds.
Fang Hua voc.com.cn
The regulation was made based on the premise that not everyone has the high ethical standards.
China’s Property Law states that the owner should pay the finder or relevant authority the expense they spent to keep the lost property. Based on the law, the regulation by Guangdong Province specifies the details of how a finder should deal with lost property, how an owner could get it back, and how much a finder should be rewarded. I think it is positive.
It is unrealistic to regard everyone as a saint with perfect moral integrity. While there are many virtuous people in society, the majority are ordinary human beings who may sometimes be selfish. So we cannot expect the majority to act like saints. The code of conduct of a society should not be set up based on the moral minority but on the humanness of the ordinary majority.
Jin Zhen scol.com.cn
Asking the owner to reward the finder with cash is against Chinese traditional virtue. Admittedly, as materialism grows, it is necessary to some extent to reward finders who return lost property to the owners. But I don’t think the incentives should be in the way of cash, which makes it seem that people did good things for material gains, not because of their personal virtuous behavior. Moreover, as the reward is a voluntary act according to the regulations, will the owner be punished for refusing to pay the finder?
Why not reward the finders with certificates that can be used in job hunting or as discounts when buying a house, etc. That type of incentive is more acceptable and can promote virtue as well.
Wan Xiaoyang Jxcn.cn
It is universally acknowledged that returning lost property to its owner is a virtuous act. In a world full of material desires, virtue is a scarce commodity and it is important for the public to maintain this pure value.
People hand over what they have found because of what is in their heart, not because of seeking a reward. If the finder is looking to make money they can sell the found item instead of relying on the 10 percent reward from the owner. In fact, many people hold the principles of Chinese traditional virtue high and will hand over the lost property even they are taxi drivers or cleaners who lead a hard life. The regulation will not promote virtue but only tarnish the virtue of the truly noble in society.
Wang Jie company employee
I don’t think the regulation will encourage people to hand over lost property, but only distort virtue. Giving back instead of appropriating lost property is a matter of morality. And whether the owner rewards the finder or not depends on his or her moral quality and financial capability. But if law stipulates the reward, even though it is voluntary, it will put those who don’t want to give rewards in a position of moral disadvantage. Because of the material rewards, the owner will not be grateful to the finder and take it for granted that their lost property should be returned. The finder’s delight at the integrity of having lost property returned will also disappear.
And it will be difficult to implement the regulation. For example, if the lost property is documents, certificates or IDs, how will their value and percentage reward be determined?
According to the regulation, when the owner claims a lost item, he or she is expected to voluntarily pay the finder 10 percent of the item’s value. If no one claims the lost thing, the government will auction it and reward the people who found it with 10 percent of its value. The reasoning behind the regulation is to motivate the public to hand over valuables that are found.
Since the Chinese people are now encouraged to learn from Lei Feng, a symbol of altruism in China since the 1960s, this regulation has caused a great controversy in China. Supporters believe the reward is an expression of gratitude and will encourage people to be more virtuous. However, opponents argue that material rewards will only tarnish morality and the 10 percent reward is hard to determine when the lost items are documents, certificates or ID cards.
shu shengxiang Xinhua Daily telegraph
When people find your valuable things, they don’t appropriate them but return them back. As the owner, it is reasonable that you thank them with certain amount of cash. Like the common practice of giving tips in Western countries, it is not only a reward, but also an expression of gratitude to show respects to others’ work.
However, in the Chinese culture, people are particularly critical about the virtue of giving back found items. People take it for granted that if the finder accepts the owner’s rewards, he or she will not be a virtuous person. But I don’t agree. People should realize that expressing gratitude by means of giving the finder some kind of reward is in fact respecting their virtue.
Knowing this, we can understand that the regulation issued by Guangdong Province aims to promote the virtue of returning lost items. In turn, this can promote and develop the culture of gratitude.
Wu ruowei college student in Beijing
Although great economic progress has been achieved over the past decades, some moral problems have emerged, such as the case where pedestrians walked past a young victim of a car accident on a street in Foshan, south China’s Guangdong Province, without offering help.
With people re-examining their morality after the incident, the new regulation by Guangdong Province is a positive response. It doesn’t mean that the morality should be promoted by material rewards, but that certain rewards will positively guide people’s value system and help promote traditional virtues.
As it takes time and energy for the finders to return lost property to the owner, it stands to reason that they should get some benefits. With the implementation of the regulation, more people would return lost property, as they will benefit from material rewards. In this way, more and more people will voluntarily do good deeds.
Fang Hua voc.com.cn
The regulation was made based on the premise that not everyone has the high ethical standards.
China’s Property Law states that the owner should pay the finder or relevant authority the expense they spent to keep the lost property. Based on the law, the regulation by Guangdong Province specifies the details of how a finder should deal with lost property, how an owner could get it back, and how much a finder should be rewarded. I think it is positive.
It is unrealistic to regard everyone as a saint with perfect moral integrity. While there are many virtuous people in society, the majority are ordinary human beings who may sometimes be selfish. So we cannot expect the majority to act like saints. The code of conduct of a society should not be set up based on the moral minority but on the humanness of the ordinary majority.
Jin Zhen scol.com.cn
Asking the owner to reward the finder with cash is against Chinese traditional virtue. Admittedly, as materialism grows, it is necessary to some extent to reward finders who return lost property to the owners. But I don’t think the incentives should be in the way of cash, which makes it seem that people did good things for material gains, not because of their personal virtuous behavior. Moreover, as the reward is a voluntary act according to the regulations, will the owner be punished for refusing to pay the finder?
Why not reward the finders with certificates that can be used in job hunting or as discounts when buying a house, etc. That type of incentive is more acceptable and can promote virtue as well.
Wan Xiaoyang Jxcn.cn
It is universally acknowledged that returning lost property to its owner is a virtuous act. In a world full of material desires, virtue is a scarce commodity and it is important for the public to maintain this pure value.
People hand over what they have found because of what is in their heart, not because of seeking a reward. If the finder is looking to make money they can sell the found item instead of relying on the 10 percent reward from the owner. In fact, many people hold the principles of Chinese traditional virtue high and will hand over the lost property even they are taxi drivers or cleaners who lead a hard life. The regulation will not promote virtue but only tarnish the virtue of the truly noble in society.
Wang Jie company employee
I don’t think the regulation will encourage people to hand over lost property, but only distort virtue. Giving back instead of appropriating lost property is a matter of morality. And whether the owner rewards the finder or not depends on his or her moral quality and financial capability. But if law stipulates the reward, even though it is voluntary, it will put those who don’t want to give rewards in a position of moral disadvantage. Because of the material rewards, the owner will not be grateful to the finder and take it for granted that their lost property should be returned. The finder’s delight at the integrity of having lost property returned will also disappear.
And it will be difficult to implement the regulation. For example, if the lost property is documents, certificates or IDs, how will their value and percentage reward be determined?