2024-01-27 08:15:06
Xinhua Review｜Strengthen cultural confidence and consolidate cultural subjectivity—In-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought Series Review No. 5
This is the welcome ceremony of the China-Central Asia Summit taken at the Tang Furong Garden in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on May 18, 2023.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Hong
Only a nation with cultural self-confidence can stand firm, stand firm, and travel far.
General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions on publicizing ideological and cultural work, emphasizing the need to “strengthen cultural confidence, uphold openness and inclusiveness, and persist in integrity and innovation.” In the new era and new journey, we must follow the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts, promote cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, consolidate cultural subjectivity, create new glories for socialist culture, and gather majestic spiritual power for the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation.
“In the final analysis, we need to strengthen our cultural confidence.”
In October 2023, the National Propaganda, Ideology and Culture Work Conference formally proposed Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, marking that our party’s understanding of the laws of socialist cultural construction with Chinese characteristics has reached a new height, and that our party’s historical and cultural confidence has reached a new height.
“To strengthen confidence in the path, theory, and system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, in the final analysis, we need to strengthen cultural confidence. Cultural confidence is a more basic, deeper, and more lasting force.”
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to cultural construction and listed cultural self-confidence, road self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, and system self-confidence as the “four self-confidences” of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
In winter, the tourism market in various scenic spots in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province “heats up”, and many tourists come here for study tours, winter tours and other activities. The picture shows students participating in research activities visiting Yangguan Museum in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province on January 21.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Xiping
We have enough confidence and sufficient reasons to strengthen our cultural confidence.
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Both history and reality show that a nation that abandons or betrays its own history and culture is not only unlikely to develop, but is also likely to stage historical tragedies.
Looking back at history, the Chinese civilization has endured for thousands of years and endured many hardships. This is the miracle of human civilization and the basis for our self-confidence.
Drawing on the cultural nutrients of more than 5,000 years, under the leadership and promotion of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, Chinese culture has become a grand sight in the new era, and the cultural confidence of the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups has been significantly enhanced.
Put on a “horse-faced skirt”, light up a bamboo table lamp, and buy some time-honored Chinese products… Traditional cultural elements that once had nothing to do with fashion are now becoming a new national style trend that is highly sought after by young people.
Films such as “Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang’an” and “Changjin Lake” are deeply loved by the audience; “Fuxing Library” and “Chinese Painting Series of Ancient Dynasties” were compiled and published… The “pool of spring water” of Chinese culture is full of vitality, and the Chinese people’s self-confidence and pride arises spontaneously.
On January 18, the lighting ceremony of the Yangliuqing National Trend Light Exhibition in Xiqing District, Tianjin was held in Yangliuqing Town.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ran
Relying on firm cultural self-confidence, the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups have radiated more proactive spiritual power.
From the poverty alleviation spirit and the anti-epidemic spirit to the Beidou spirit and the Silk Road spirit in the new era… Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture have been integrated and vibrant in the new era, and have a profound and long history. Chinese civilization has demonstrated strong vitality in self-development, responding to challenges, and creating new situations.
Chinese civilization surges forward, and the Chinese nation continues to prosper. Based on firm cultural self-confidence, the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese power have shown great momentum. The Chinese people’s ambition, integrity, and confidence have been continuously strengthened, and the edifice of the Chinese national spirit has stood tall in the new era.
“Cultural confidence comes from our cultural subjectivity”
In June 2023, at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the important conclusion of “cultural subjectivity” and pointed out that “cultural confidence comes from our cultural subjectivity.”
Cultural subjectivity is the fundamental basis of cultural self-confidence. Only with cultural subjectivity can the Chinese nation have spiritual independence.
The source is dredged and the flow is long; the roots are deep and the leaves are luxuriant.
This subjectivity was established by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China on the land of China; it is based on the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s excellent traditional culture, inheritance of revolutionary culture, and development of advanced socialist culture, drawing on and absorbing all the excellence of mankind It was established on the basis of the achievements of civilization; it was established by combining the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific reality and with China’s excellent traditional culture.
The picture shows the audience visiting the former site where the Communist Party of China was founded (the editorial department of “New Youth”).Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Ying
Only by standing in the long river of time and understanding the soul of the Chinese nation’s spirit of independence and self-reliance can we deeply understand where cultural subjectivity comes from——
Yuelu Academy, a thousand-year-old institution of learning. The “Seeking Truth from Facts” plaque hanging high in front of the academy’s lecture hall records the long history of China’s excellent traditional culture and the brilliance of its thoughts that shine through the past and present.
In September 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected here, he looked at this plaque and pondered for a long time: “How can the Communist Party succeed? Back then in Shikumen, there were so many people on a boat on Nanhu, and now it is like this One step. The path here must be clarified, and the truth must be localized.”
At the most critical moment in modern China, the Chinese Communists based themselves on their own historical traditions and cultural heritage, and based on China’s basic national conditions, independently explored a path suitable for themselves, awakened a nation that had been sleeping for a long time, and activated a great civilization that had been covered in dust.
Entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively put forward the major conclusion of “two combinations” and insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific reality and with China’s excellent traditional culture, giving birth to the essence of the times of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit, and realizing A new leap forward in adapting Marxism to the times.
He took a clear-cut stand against moving a “flying peak” into the political system, emphasizing that “only the person who wears the shoe knows whether it fits or not” and “you must not learn to walk in Handan and lose your old ways.” There is no one-size-fits-all modernization model, and there is no modernization standard that is universally applicable. “The modernization we promote has the common characteristics of the modernization of all countries, and also has Chinese characteristics based on national conditions.”…
The establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the most powerful manifestation of cultural subjectivity.
With cultural subjectivity, there will be a firm self in the cultural sense, cultural self-confidence will have a fundamental basis, the Communist Party of China will have a strong cultural force to lead the times, and the Chinese nation and the Chinese people will have a solid cultural foundation for national identity. , Chinese civilization has a distinct cultural characteristic of exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations in the world.
“Cultural confidence must be integrated into the spiritual temperament and cultural character of the entire nation.”
“Actively cultivate a financial culture with Chinese characteristics.” Recently, at the opening ceremony of a special seminar on promoting high-quality financial development for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed this major topic, which will further consolidate the foundation of cultural confidence and promote “honesty and trustworthiness” and “taking justice with justice”. “Li” and other excellent Chinese traditional cultures are blooming in a new era.
To strengthen cultural self-confidence is to persist in following your own path.
Through the smoke and clouds of history, Chinese civilization has gone through thousands of years of ups and downs, and its continuous inheritance has never been interrupted. It has always been endless and everlasting. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “Chinese civilization has outstanding continuity, which fundamentally determines that the Chinese nation must follow its own path.”
Following one’s own path is the Party’s entire theoretical and practical foothold, and it is also the historical conclusion reached by the Party’s century-old struggle.
On Lotus Mountain in Shenzhen, tall and lush alpine banyan trees stand facing the wind, witnessing the myriad aspects of reform and opening up in the new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping said: “Of course we must hold high the banner of reform, but our reform is a reform that continues to advance on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We will neither follow the old path of isolation and rigidity, nor take the evil path of changing the banner.”
It is by insisting on following its own path that reform and opening up have become a key move in determining the future and destiny of contemporary China. China has made great strides to catch up with the times.
By insisting on following its own path and putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength, China has firmly grasped the destiny of development and progress in its own hands.
This is the line between the Shenzhen Civic Center and Lianhuashan Park taken in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province (drone photo).Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xu
To strengthen cultural self-confidence is to achieve spiritual independence.
If people have no spirit, they will not stand up; if a country has no spirit, it will not be strong. If you don’t have your own spiritual independence, your independence in politics, thought, culture, system, etc. will be drained from the bottom of the cauldron.
On June 30, 2023, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held its sixth collective study session on opening up a new realm of sinicizing Marxism for the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important remarks:
“The major proposition of adapting Marxism to the times and adapting it to the current times determines that we must never abandon the soul of Marxism and the root of China’s excellent traditional culture. Adhering to this soul and root is the basis and prerequisite for theoretical innovation. “
In the new era, Chinese Communists have opened up a new realm of combining the basic principles of Marxism with China’s excellent traditional culture and consolidated cultural subjectivity.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the first task to strengthen cultural self-confidence is to base on the great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, use Chinese principles to summarize Chinese experience, and upgrade Chinese experience into Chinese theory. We should neither blindly follow various dogmas nor copy foreign countries. Theory and achieve spiritual independence.
To strengthen cultural self-confidence is to look at the world levelly.
Brand activities such as “Experience China”, “Happy Spring Festival” and “Spring Together” have gone global and set off a craze for the charm of Chinese culture; the Beijing Winter Olympics, Hangzhou Asian Games, and Chengdu Universiade amazed everyone, demonstrating the grace and magnanimity of Chinese culture that embraces all rivers and embraces all corners of the world. ; A series of home diplomacy such as the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the Shanghai International Import Expo, and the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations tell China’s story and introduce China’s experience… China is showing itself to the world with an open and inclusive mind.
On January 22, people watched a lion dance performance in the old town of Rabat, the capital of Morocco. On the same day, the 2024 Moroccan “Happy Spring Festival·Chinese Temple Fair” event hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China and the Chinese Embassy in Morocco opened in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, to welcome the upcoming Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Lunar Calendar.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huo Jing
As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development: “Cultural self-confidence must be integrated into the spiritual temperament and cultural character of the entire nation, and a high-spirited outlook and a rational and peaceful mentality must be developed.”
The people have faith, the nation has hope, and the country has strength.
By continuously laying a solid foundation for cultural self-confidence and consolidating cultural subjectivity, hundreds of millions of Chinese people are confident, self-reliant and full of pride, and are marching forward on the great journey of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation. (Reporters Pan Jie, Yu Qiongyuan, Yan Fujing)
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