Honesty is long-lasting virtue¹ of people all over the world. Likewise, it is also one of the deeply-held values of the Chinese people. Some people believe that in the market economy, honesty tends to be obsolete². In my opinion, honesty will never be out of date no matter what the situation might be.

Firstly, honesty has been treasured and honest people have been respected through history in all parts of the world. People everywhere would regarded honesty as a virtue and hate a dishonesty person. Secondly, honesty is the basis of interactions among people. People should treat each other sincerely and open their hearts to each other. Only in this way can the relationship among the people be natural. Thirdly, in the market economy, some people try to get more money at the cost of honesty. To them, a best businessman is one who can cheat most tactfully. Even in this kind of society, honesty is deeply valued by most people.

We can see that not only in history, but also at the present day, honesty was and is valued by the majority of the people and the virtue will not perish³ so easily.