Who gave the Tet gift, who gave it?

In recent years, the Secretariat and the Prime Minister have strictly enforced the spirit of banning giving Tet gifts to superiors, and superiors "taking advantage" of subordinates.

This year, the Directive of the Secretariat and the Prime Minister was also issued very early, emphasizing the requirement to strictly implement not to organize visits and New Year greetings to superiors and leaders at all levels; not to organize Central delegations to visit and wish New Year greetings to Party committees and authorities of provinces and cities; strictly prohibit giving or presenting New Year gifts to leaders at all levels in any form.

The strict implementation of the spirit of banning Tet gifts, which has been implemented for many years, has brought about remarkable results (illustrative photo).

The Central Government's directive to thoroughly implement the spirit of banning giving Tet gifts, banning subordinates from going to higher-level Tet holidays, and banning localities from going to the Central Government's Tet holidays has had remarkable results.

In fact, for many years now, the situation of blue-plate cars from various localities flocking to Hanoi near Tet has disappeared.

This is also a very meaningful directive, because it relieves the heavy psychology of subordinates.

In the past, it was customary to give gifts and bribes during Tet as a "duty", and if one did not give gifts, one would be afraid that one's superiors would "notice". Many people were afraid and considered this a "burden", but because it had become a habit, one still had to follow it.

Vietnamese people value loyalty and always uphold the tradition of remembering the person who planted the tree when eating the fruit. That is why every time Tet comes, spring comes, people often give gifts to each other to show their affection, gratitude and respect.

It must be affirmed that giving each other small gifts at the beginning of the new year is a good custom, there is nothing bad about it.

However, how to prevent this custom from being distorted and exploited to bribe superiors with impure motives has never been easy.

If there is a bad motive, people do not need to wait for Tet, they can give gifts at any time. And with modern technology like today, giving gifts does not need to meet in person?

In other words, in terms of form, it is very difficult to recognize and very difficult to control the giving of Tet gifts. Obviously, many people do not need to go to each other's houses, do not need to go to the office, do not even need to call or text each other, but they can still give and receive gifts in many ways.

But no matter what, whether giving a gift out of affection or personal motive, both the giver and the recipient will surely realize it immediately.

For example, the trial of former Education Publishing House Chairman Nguyen Duc Thai took place on the afternoon of January 16. The content showed that thanks to supporting partners, defendant Thai received nearly 25 billion VND in bribes. During Tet, the defendant received many gift bags, each time from several hundred million VND to several billion VND.

Obviously, Tet gifts here no longer have a pure meaning, expressing personal feelings according to cultural traditions and social ethics? If it were a peach blossom branch, a pair of banh chung, a chicken or a bonsai pot, it could be said to be sentimental, but a few hundred million dong, how can it be justified?

It must be admitted that detecting or checking illegal Tet gift giving is very difficult. Monitoring and handling cannot bring about thorough results, so the most important thing is to prevent it through propaganda and setting an example by the leaders themselves.

Perhaps, the qualities and character of the leader, the person with the authority and position are the decisive factors. Once they are strict and resolute in not accepting, no subordinate, no individual who wants to profit will dare to give. In other words, the self-awareness of the cadre is the decisive factor.

However, it should be reiterated that we should not confuse giving and receiving valuable Tet gifts for the purpose of disguised bribery with giving gifts and Tet greetings out of pure feelings; we should not be so extreme as to think that even though Tet is coming, we do not need to wish each other anything.

Giving each other small gifts at the beginning of the new year is a good custom, nothing to be afraid of. However, how to prevent this custom from being distorted and exploited is what is necessary.

In other words, giving Tet gifts is not bad, but if the gift giving is accompanied by impure motives and purposes, it is a negative behavior that needs to be condemned and prevented.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/qua-tet-ai-tang-tang-ai-192250116223646276.htm