The Guide should be the spirit of mountains and rivers, envoy of friendship, disseminator of culture and civilization of the motherland and publicity agent of the new idea and morale of socialism. If a tour Guide's service is satisfactory, foreign visitors would have a good impression of China and the Travel Agency, so that they would plan their second trip to China for other sights and furthermore, they would urge others to come along to see China with their own eyes. A travel Agency would, of course, employ ad many such competent and qualified interpreters as possible so ad to make their business thrive with each passing day.
A tour Guide should be able to act as an attendant, publicity agent, investigator and defender while accompanying foreign visitors. So, he or she has to have a perfect mastery of our Party's policies and political ideology, foreign language and knowledge. He or she must be honest and upright, free from corruption, prudent and careful in his or her work, diligent and assiduous in his or her working style. To be more specific, a Guide must keep in mind the following fifteen Ps, three extras, four orientations, five diligences and six important characteristics before he or she can be really called a qualified Guide-interpreter.