At the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "It is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a strong cultural country and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point." This is a clarion call for cultural construction in the new era and a scientific guide for building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, as well as the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. Since its founding, our Party has been an active leader and practitioner of China's advanced culture, as well as a faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture. For more than 100 years, our party has always regarded working for the happiness of the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its original mission, always adhered to the communist ideal and socialist belief, and united and led the people of all ethnic groups in the country to strive for national independence, people's liberation, and the realization of national prosperity and people's happiness.
After the founding of New China, the Party established the guiding position of Marxism in the cultural field, defined the strategic position of cultural construction in the overall layout of socialist construction, put forward the basic principles of "making the past serve the present" and "making foreign things serve China", and formulated the cultural development guidelines of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend", Emphasizing and actively giving play to the main role of the people in cultural construction, education, science, culture, health and sports have made great progress, showing a warm scene of vigorous socialist culture, and creating a new mass culture of the people that has never been seen in Chinese history.
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, in the practice of leading the Party and the people to promote the governance of the country, has insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, and has promoted China's various undertakings, including cultural construction, to achieve historic achievements and historic changes.
On July 1, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China: "We adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote the coordinated development of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization, create a new path of Chinese style modernization, and create a new form of human civilization." On the new journey, We must "adhere to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture". The report of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China further pointed out that "only by combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality, with China's excellent traditional culture, and adhering to the application of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, can we correctly answer the major issues raised by the times and practice, and can we always maintain the vitality and exuberance of Marxism." On June 2, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development focused on summarizing the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization, profoundly expounded the significance of "two combinations", especially the "second combination", and made a comprehensive strategic deployment for building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, which is a scientific summary of the practical experience of the Party's leadership in cultural construction in the new era, It has provided a fundamental guide for the construction of a modern civilization of the Chinese nation and a socialist cultural power.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), General Secretary Xi Jinping has insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and excellent traditional Chinese culture, deeply considered the major issue of promoting the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics and building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, and put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new assertions. For example, we should strengthen the Party's overall leadership over the propaganda of ideological and cultural work, shoulder a new cultural mission, build a strong socialist cultural country, and create a new glory of socialist culture; Adhere to the fundamental system of the guiding role of Marxism in the ideological field, promote the modernization of Marxism in China, and build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leadership; Adhere to cultural self-confidence, promote the prosperity of socialist culture, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation; We should guide cultural construction with socialist core values, and extensively carry out publicity and education on socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese Dream, so that all people can closely unite in their ideals, beliefs, values, and moral concepts; Accelerate the construction of philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, take China's reality as the research starting point, interpret China's practice, and build China's theory; Promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, so that the Chinese culture can show permanent charm and the style of the times; Improve the dissemination, guidance, influence and credibility of news public opinion, carry forward the theme, spread positive energy, and consolidate and strengthen the mainstream ideological public opinion in the new era; Emphasize the creation orientation of taking the people as the center, put social benefits first, and launch more excellent works to enhance the people's spiritual strength; Strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics and the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, and safeguard the Chinese context; Build a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation and build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation; Cultivate a positive, healthy and good network culture and build network civilization; Improve the soft power of national culture and the influence of Chinese culture, strengthen the construction of international communication capacity, tell Chinese stories well, and promote Chinese culture to better go global; We should promote the common values of all mankind, implement the global civilization initiative, promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and enrich the world civilization garden.
People cannot stand without spirit, and countries cannot be strong without spirit. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has coordinated the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the world's unprecedented changes in a century. It has achieved great changes in the new era for ten years. It is a milestone in the history of the Party, the history of new China, the history of reform and opening up, the history of socialist development, and the history of the development of the Chinese nation, and it is a major milestone in building a socialist cultural power Building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation provides a more perfect system guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more active spiritual force.
To continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point, we must strengthen cultural self-confidence. Cultural confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper confidence, and a more basic, deeper and more lasting force. A nation with cultural self-confidence can stand, stand steadily and go far. Looking around the world today, the Communist Party of China, the People's Republic of China and the Chinese nation have the most reason to be confident. Our confidence comes from the great achievements made by the Party and the people together, the revolutionary culture and the advanced socialist culture nurtured in the great struggle of the Party and the people, and the Chinese civilization that has lasted for thousands of years and experienced countless hardships. Only a civilization full of confidence can tolerate, learn from and absorb different civilizations while maintaining its own national characteristics, and can always adhere to its own path. The primary task of strengthening cultural self-confidence is to base on the great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, summarize Chinese experience with Chinese principles, upgrade Chinese experience to Chinese theory, and achieve spiritual independence. We should adhere to the basic principles of Marxism, adhere to the Party's overall leadership, adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristics, integrate cultural self-confidence into the ethos and cultural character of the whole nation, develop an uplifting style and a rational and peaceful mentality, adhere to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, and create a new brilliance of socialist culture.
To continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point, we must uphold openness and inclusiveness. Openness and inclusiveness have always been a source of vitality for the development of civilization, and a significant symbol of cultural self-confidence. Chinese civilization is a civilization born on the land of China, and also an open system formed by continuous exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations. Adhering to openness and inclusiveness means that we should learn more actively from all the outstanding achievements of civilization created by mankind, integrate China and foreign countries, connect the past and the present, adapt the outstanding cultural genes in all civilizations created by mankind to contemporary culture, coordinate with modern society, and transcend time and space, transcend countries, and have eternal charm The excellent cultural spirit with contemporary value should be carried forward.
The Communist Party of China has a high degree of historical consciousness and cultural confidence in building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, made full use of the precious resources of China's excellent traditional culture, promoted exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and implemented the global civilization initiative, making solid progress in building a socialist cultural power. Having the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the root of our party's firm belief and conviction and grasping the historical initiative. We must adhere to the modernization of Marxism in China, inherit and develop the excellent traditional Chinese culture, promote the localization of foreign cultures, and constantly cultivate and create a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
To continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a strong cultural country, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point, we must adhere to integrity and innovation. For cultural construction, integrity can not lose oneself and direction, and innovation can grasp and lead the times. To be honest is to adhere to the fundamental system of the guiding role of Marxism in the ideological field, adhere to the fundamental requirement of combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and the excellent traditional culture of China, adhere to the cultural leadership of the Communist Party of China and the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and never abandon the spirit of Marxism, We must never abandon the root of China's excellent traditional culture. Innovation is to create new ideas, new words, new mechanisms and new forms. First of all, we should grasp the world outlook and methodology of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, adhere to and use the positions, views and methods that run through it, truly make the past serve the present, foreign things serve China, dialectically choose between the old and the new, and realize the organic connection between tradition and modern times.
The best inheritance of history is to create a new history, and the greatest respect for human civilization is to create a new form of human civilization. The new form of human civilization created by Chinese style modernization is both Chinese and global; It is present and future. For a new era and a new journey, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment", strengthen the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve the "two maintenance", firmly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote cultural prosperity and build a cultural power, To contribute a model of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation to the world today.
(The author is an associate researcher of the Marxism Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a special researcher of the Shanghai Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Shanghai Municipal People's Government)
