Recently, it’s quite common to hear the news that the government’s key officials were found guilty of accepting bribes, abusing personal power and thus being put into prison. Such news has aroused great attention from the public. Apparently, it’s really necessary to fight against corruption and reduce red tape. A clean government is the basic foundation for the steady and healthy growth for our country’s development.

最近，我们经常看到新闻报道说政府高官应受贿、滥用权力而被关进监狱。此类新闻引发了公众的极大注意。显而易见，打击腐败，减少官僚作风非常有必要。清正廉洁的政府是我们国家稳定、健康发展的基础。

First of all, to be a public servant should work diligently in an honest and clean way and abide by laws and regulations when performing his duties. He must remember that personal interests should put behind country’s interests. That’s the basic requirement for them. Any official who fails to meet the standard of these rules should be kicked out of the public servant forever. And the incomes and outputs of the governments should be examined by random. The daily expense of the governments must reduce to the minimized.

首先，当一个公务员必须勤奋工作，公正廉洁，遵守法律法规。他必须牢记个人利益要放在国家利益之后。这是最基本的要求。任何违背这些法规的公务员被永久性的开除公职。政府的收入和支出也应当不定期进行检查。政府的日常开销必须减到最少。

Secondly, the public servants should remain themselves that their salaries come from ordinary people tax-paying. Tens of thousands people pay tax for the government’s daily expense as well as public servants and key officials’ incomes. If the servants abused their position power to gain benefits, they will receive punishment.

其次，公务员应该提醒自己：他们的工资来自普通人所缴纳的税收。成千上万的人所纳的税，为政府的开销和公务员工和政府高官的收入埋单。如果人民公仆滥用手头上的权利去谋取不正当利益，那么，他们将会受到惩罚。

To reduce governments’ corruptions, what we can do is to strengthen supervision mechanisms, so as to publish corrupted officials and let them pay higher costs for their behavior. What’s more, we should take effective measures to put a limit on their power and prevent them from abusing power. Only in this way, we can have a clean environment.

为了减少政府腐败现象，我们能做的是加强监督体系，惩处腐败官员，让他们为自己的行为付出昂贵的代价。再有，我们可以采取有效的举措限制他们的权利以此来阻止他们滥用权利。只有这样，我们才能有个廉洁的环境。