Building a Socialist Cultural Power and Socialism | Tradition | Culture
Xi Jinping: to invigorate culture is to adhere to the road of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent Chinese traditional culture, inherit revolutionary culture, develop advanced socialist culture, stimulate the cultural innovation and creative vitality of the whole nation, and build a socialist cultural power.
These words come from General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech at the national propaganda and ideological work conference on August 21, 2018.
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Culture promotes the prosperity of a country, culture strengthens the nation.
The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the crystallization and essence of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, the root and soul of the Chinese nation, and the foundation for us to stand firm in the turmoil of world culture. As a world heritage country, China has 56 World Heritage sites, ranking second in the world. From continuously doing a good job in the sorting and protection of ancient books, to actively promoting intangible cultural heritage into people's daily lives, Chinese excellent traditional culture has come to life through creative transformation and innovative development. For example, in the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization, many places pay more attention to the protection of local traditional culture, integrating traditional customs, agricultural culture and tourism elements into development, achieving the organic integration of traditional culture and modern production and life, and revitalizing villages that carry the charm of traditional culture. At the same time, the digital technology driven by the Internet, artificial intelligence and big data continues to derive new modes of traditional cultural expression by empowering China's excellent traditional cultural resources. With the help of digital technology, Chinese excellent traditional culture has more opportunities to "break the circle" and "go to sea" with the help of digital technology, whether it is the first national style virtual person "Tianyu" to go to the sea, or new communication paths such as the immersive "trip to Mogao Grottoes" and zero distance contact with the Terra Cotta Warriors created by "VR+Humanities". In 2022, China's foreign cultural trade volume exceeded 220 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of about 11%, and the scale of cultural product imports and exports has been ranked first in the world for many years.
Revolutionary culture is the spiritual and cultural crystallization formed by our party's leadership of the Chinese people in the arduous revolutionary struggle.Inheriting and promoting excellent traditional Chinese culture and revolutionary culture is not only our duty to strengthen historical confidence, enhance cultural confidence, and build a socialist cultural power, but also our spiritual strength to comprehensively build a socialist modernized country and promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
On 2 June, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the forum on cultural inheritance and development and made an important speech emphasizing the need to strengthen cultural self-confidence, shoulder the mission, strive for something, and make joint efforts to create a new culture that belongs to our time, and to build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. We should deeply understand the General Secretary's important exposition on the five outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization: continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace, and stand at the strategic height of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We should persist in combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, on the basis of inheriting and carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture and revolutionary culture. Adhere to our own path, uphold openness and inclusiveness, maintain the integrity and spirit of innovation, and better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength.
Special expert in this issue: social and Ecological Civilization Teaching and Research Department of Liu Chen Central Party School