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Issue: 94 The effectiveness of a country's leaders is best measured by examining the well-being of that country's citizens. 国家领导工作效能最好通过国民的安乐来评判。
============================================== I basically agree with the claim that the effectiveness of a country’s leaders can be measured by examining the well-being of the country’s citizens. But in my opinion, the well-being of the citizens is just one important aspect of measuring the effectiveness of the leaders, to best evaluate the leader’s work, we should also consider other important aspect such as environment and good ecology 、healthy economic prosperity and the advances & progress in media、technology、 and arts.
Admittedly, one of the most urgent responsibilities of the country’s leaders is just lead their people to step into a better life conditions. Good and opulent food, warm and cozy living and convenient medical systems are the basic assurance for the citizen’s good life. If the leaders of one country can manage to provide their people with all of these material opulence, they will be naturally adorned by citizens and their hardworking will be acknowledged by people. Accordingly, from this aspect, we can say that leaders of this country are effective in their work of improving people’s wellbeings. For example, Deng Xiaoping, the top designer of reforming and opening of China in 1980’s, greatly improved the living conditions of most Chinese people, especially in the South of China, by leading rapid economic development. We can not deny the claim that Deng Xiaoping is one of the most effective leaders of China since 1945.
However, sometimes the well-being of the citizens can not be the best and real method to measure the effectiveness of the leaders. To better evaluate the effectiveness of the leaders, we should focus more about other aspects relating to the ostensible thriving well-beings such as environment and ecology. Because we can not exclude that some leaders could sacrifice the good environment to pursue a short time object of fast economic development, so as to provide their people with better material living conditions temporally, just because they want to acquire some acclaims in short time. In this situation, maybe the people are enjoining their ostensible “better” lives, but actually their long-term living conditions is adversely deteriorating. Another example, before the Debts crisis, the well-being of the Greece people is very well, they enjoy short working time and high salary and even several months holidays with salary to travel. But when Greece can not afford the enormous expense by continuing borrowing money from other countries, the well-being of their people plunged to the bottom over one night. This ostensible great well-being can not be the persuasive method to measure their leaders’ effectiveness.
Moreover, to measure the effectiveness of one country’s leaders, it is equally important and necessary to pay attention to the advances and progress in others fields, such as media freedom, technology innovation, and artist achievements . Because these aspects can reflect the spiritual world of the citizens. If medias can freely articulate their ideas about the politics、society、and culture, technology innovation are booming and thriving , artist achievements can be created one by one, the spirit of the citizens must be racy and free, the overall society must be in a good circulation, and so the leaders of the country must be most effective.
In sum, though the true well-being is one important method to measure the effectiveness of one country’s leaders, at the same time we should pay attention to environment and ecology accompanying with the material improvement as well as the long-run good economic conditions, additionally we can not overlook other equally important aspects such as media freedom、technology innovation and artist achievements. (589 words, 2hours) |
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