Xinhua Review | Consolidating Cultural Subjectivity - Deeply Understanding the Significant Significance of "Two Combinations" Series Review Part 6 Hangzhou | Culture | Subjectivity

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 23 (Xinhua) - Consolidating Cultural Subjectivity - Deeply Understanding the Significant Significance of "Two Combinations" - Part Six of a Series of Commentaries

Xinhua News Agency reporters Xu Zhuang, Shi Yucen, and Wang Peng

"The 'combination' consolidates cultural subjectivity, and the establishment of the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics for the new era is the most powerful manifestation of this cultural subjectivity."

General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the major thesis of "cultural subjectivity" at the cultural inheritance and development symposium, and profoundly explained and highly summarized the significance of the "two combinations", especially the "second combination.

With cultural subjectivity, there is a steadfast self in the cultural sense, and a firm and conscious commitment to undertake new cultural missions. Relying on cultural subjectivity, the Chinese people are full of vitality, independent, and confident in building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

The "two combinations" have consolidated the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation

To know the great way, one must first study history. Every civilization is rooted in its own soil of survival, embodying the extraordinary wisdom and spiritual pursuit of a country or a nation. Only by deeply understanding the unique cultural heritage of Qi Yun can we understand the uniqueness of Chinese civilization; Only by accurately grasping the unique historical trajectory can we understand the independence and autonomy of the Chinese nation.

The subjectivity of Chinese civilization is rooted in the cultural fertile soil of over 5000 years——

The history of a nation is the foundation for its survival.

On May 27, 2022, in the collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee focusing on the source of Chinese civilization, General Secretary Xi Jinping talked about the past and the present, emphasizing that "in the long historical process, the Chinese nation, with the determination and will to strive for self-improvement, has traveled through the mountains and rivers, and has gone through a development process different from that of other civilizations in the world".

Because it is different, it cannot be replicated, so it stands out. From the horizontal and vertical Chinese characters, from the thoughts of Confucius, Mencius, and Laozi, and from the examples in the collection of classics and histories... we constantly understand that the Chinese nation is a nation with unique character, and Chinese civilization is a civilization with its own system.

The unique cultural traditions, historical destiny, and basic national conditions of the Chinese nation destined the Chinese nation to take a path that suits its own characteristics, and destined that China's problems arise from the soil of China, can only be solved by the Chinese people, and can only be solved by the Chinese people.

The combination of two consolidates a deeply rooted cultural subjectivity——

How can Chinese culture continue to be inherited and developed to this day? How to consolidate its subjectivity?

At the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping vividly discussed the significance of the "two combinations:

Why is our socialism different? Why can it be vibrant and full of vitality? The key lies in Chinese characteristics, and the key to Chinese characteristics lies in the combination of the two;

The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics was guided by Marxism and also emerged from over 5000 years of Chinese civilization history

Deep thinking and clear truth: Excellent traditional Chinese culture is the "root" of our party's innovative theory, and the "two combinations" are the fundamental way to promote the sinicization and modernization of Marxism.

The cultural confidence of the new era comes from our cultural subjectivity. This subjectivity was established in China under the leadership of the CPC and hundreds of millions of people. It was established on the basis of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, the inheritance of revolutionary culture, and the development of advanced socialist culture. It was also established through the "combination of two".

The creation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the Most Powerful Embodiment of Cultural Subjectivity--

"We must jointly advocate for valuing the inheritance and innovation of civilization, fully tap into the historical and cultural values of various countries' times, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional cultures in various countries' modernization process."

On March 15, at the high-level dialogue between the Communist Party of China and the world's political parties, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the global civilization initiative for the first time and put forward the civilization proposition of contemporary Chinese Communists.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to the inheritance and development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, with a deep understanding of the role of culture in historical progress, and the spiritual characteristics of culture and historical inheritance. The correct grasp of cultural revival and civilization progress has opened up a new realm of combining the basic principles of Marxism with Chinese excellent traditional culture.

The "second combination" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping is a profound summary of our party's historical experience in the modernization of Marxism in China, and a profound grasp of the law of the development of Chinese civilization. It shows that our party's understanding of China's road, theory, and system has reached a new height, indicating that our party's historical self-confidence and cultural self-confidence have reached a new height, it shows that our party's consciousness of promoting cultural innovation in the inheritance of Chinese excellent traditional culture has reached a new height.

Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, founded in adhering to the "two combinations", has realized a new leap in the modernization of Marxism in China, is the quintessence of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit, and is the most powerful embodiment of cultural subjectivity.

Cultural subjectivity makes the Chinese nation stand proudly among the nations of the world

Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Bayannaoer, Inner Mongolia.

At the Hetao Irrigation District Water Information Monitoring Center, General Secretary Xi Jinping carefully inspected the sand table display.

Yu's decision to defile was based on water as his teacher. Why is the Yellow River only rich in the world? The answer lies in respecting nature, conforming to nature, protecting nature, following natural laws, and making good use of the power of nature.

A culture must have its subjectivity in order to have the leading, cohesive, and radiating power that transcends time and space. Cultural subjectivity is the fundamental foundation of cultural confidence. If there is no full recognition of one's own culture, it is difficult to draw on the grandeur of the millennium old inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture; If there is no strong confidence in self-reliance, there is no firm determination to continue on the chosen path. The Chinese civilization has been constantly evolving, and it is precisely because of the subjectivity of culture that generations of Chinese people have been guided to become independent, self reliant, and strive for success.

Only with cultural subjectivity can the Chinese nation have spiritual independence and autonomy——

General Secretary Xi Jinping once profoundly pointed out: "The Chinese nation has a profound foundation with a long history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, and we are leading the people on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics."

Strengthening confidence in the path, theory, and system of socialism with Chinese characteristics ultimately means strengthening cultural confidence. Only with spiritual independence and autonomy can a nation stand firm and at the forefront of history.

With cultural subjectivity, there is a solid foundation for opening up and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics——

Millions of years of human history, ten thousand years of cultural history, and more than 5000 years of civilization history... The magnificent land of China has nurtured the world's only continuous and great civilization that has developed in the form of a nation to this day.

History and reality have repeatedly proven that opening up and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics based on the profound foundation of over 5000 years of Chinese civilization, and combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and excellent traditional Chinese culture is a necessary path.

Only with cultural subjectivity can there be a powerful cultural force that leads the times——

On February 7th, the opening ceremony of the seminar on learning and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

"When a country moves towards modernization, it must not only follow the general laws of modernization, but also conform to its own reality and have its own characteristics. Chinese-style modernization has not only the common characteristics of modernization in all countries, but also the distinctive characteristics based on its own national conditions." At the opening ceremony, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that the unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democracy outlook, ecological outlook, etc. and their great practices contained in Chinese-style modernization are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization.

Chinese path to modernization is a kind of modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated. It is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture and is a new form of human civilization. It is the modernization that continues ancient civilization, rather than the modernization that eliminates ancient civilization; It is the result of civilization renewal, not the product of civilization rupture.

In the continuous history of over 5000 years, the splendid and splendid Chinese civilization has been accumulated. In the centennial struggle of the Party's leadership of the people, the Party has walked out of the path of Chinese path to modernization, created a new form of human civilization, and also has a strong cultural force to lead the times. The Chinese nation and the Chinese people will have a firm cultural self-confidence.

Consolidate cultural subjectivity and strive to build modern civilization of the Chinese nation

To the north of Hangzhou and by the Liangzhu Port, the National Version Museum Hangzhou Branch, known as the Wenrun Pavilion, gradually forms a "Liangzhu Cultural Corridor" along with the Liangzhu Museum, Liangzhu Ancient City Site Park, and others.

An hour's drive away, Hangzhou Qiantang Yuanuniverse Xintiandi Industrial Park has sprung up, introducing and cultivating a large number of future oriented scientific and technological innovation enterprises.

Culture connects the past, present, and future. Contemporary China is the continuation and development of historical China. Only by adhering to moving from history to the future, exploring and advancing from the continuation of national cultural bloodline, and continuously consolidating cultural subjectivity, can we do a good job in today's cause and shoulder new cultural missions.

Consolidate cultural subjectivity and continue to deepen the development and prosperity of socialist culture——

At the Sichuan People's Art Theatre, a group of artists born in the 1980s have created the play "Su Dongpo" into a theatrical version, a cultural and tourism on-site version, and a cultural and museum integrated version, shouldering the responsibility of inheriting the culture of the Three Soviets.

"The excellent traditional Chinese culture is undergoing creative transformation and innovative development," said producer Deng Ying. "Some viewers have followed the theatrical version of the national tour eight times, and their recognition has further enhanced our cultural confidence."

This is China where innovation and creativity are bursting with vitality, and this is China where the flower of culture is flourishing and splendid.

From digging and elucidating the essence of Chinese excellent traditional culture, to promoting the protection and utilization of cultural relics and ancient books, implementing the inheritance and development project of Chinese excellent traditional culture, from vigorously promoting the digital transformation and sharing of cultural relics resources, to promoting the exploration of the source of Chinese civilization... Practice has proved that only with the great prosperity and development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics can Chinese culture continuously consolidate and expand the subjectivity of "unique scenery".

Consolidate cultural subjectivity and be more determined to follow one's own path——

At the special exhibition "Chinese Characters in China - Chinese Civilization Between the Founders" held by the Chengdu Museum, hundreds of precious cultural relics gathered together to tell people about the inheritance of Chinese characters spanning thousands of years.

The character is a square character, and the soul is a Chinese soul. China has firm confidence in its path, theory, and system, which is essentially a cultural confidence built on the foundation of over 5000 years of civilization inheritance.

Chinese path to modernization, the old and new destiny of the Chinese nation, will certainly promote the Chinese civilization to glow with new glory. Adhering to the path of Chinese path to modernization, basing on the great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, summarizing Chinese experience with Chinese principles, upgrading Chinese experience to Chinese theory, and achieving spiritual independence are the key to consolidating cultural subjectivity.

Consolidate cultural subjectivity and shoulder the new cultural mission of the new era——

In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly declared that it is the solemn historical responsibility of contemporary Chinese Communists to continuously write a new chapter in the modernization of Marxism in China.

On the new journey, only by continuing to adhere to the "two combinations" and applying dialectical materialism and historical materialism can we correctly answer the major issues raised by the times and practice, scientific theories have more distinctive Chinese characteristics, and our cultural subjectivity can always be stable.

"We must strengthen cultural self-confidence, assume the mission, work hard, and work together to create a new culture that belongs to our era and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation." At the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward clear requirements.

All things are born, but only know how to keep their roots. Drawing nourishment and wisdom from the excellent traditional culture formed and accumulated by the Chinese nation for generations, maintaining a high level of confidence in our own cultural ideals and values, maintaining a high level of confidence in our own cultural vitality and creativity, and continuously consolidating cultural subjectivity, we can definitely create a new culture that belongs to our era and build a good modern civilization of the Chinese nation.