Building the Modern Civilization of the Chinese Nation in Promoting Chinese path to modernization (Observers say)
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China outlined a grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization, and summarized the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization, including "creating a new form of human civilization". The new form of human civilization is created and continuously enriched through the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese civilization.
Chinese civilization has a long and profound history, spanning over five thousand years of continuous development, and is full of new vitality. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the wisdom crystallization and essence of the Chinese civilization, and is the root and soul of the Chinese nation. There are many important elements in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, which together shape the outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, and peace of Chinese civilization. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out: "Today's China is a development of the historical China; we are Marxist historicists, and we should not cut off the history." Chinese path to modernization is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional culture of China, and it is the modernization of the ancient civilization, not the modernization of the ancient civilization. Our party has activated the great civilization created by the Chinese nation for thousands of years with the power of Marxist truth, making the Chinese civilization shine again and giving Chinese path to modernization a deep foundation.
Building modern civilization of the Chinese nation and injecting strong spiritual strength into the construction of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation. Promoting Chinese path to modernization is a pioneering undertaking, and there are still many unknown fields that need to be explored boldly in practice. The people are the main body of Chinese path to modernization. Only by relying closely on the people, respecting the people's creative spirit, and pooling the wisdom and strength of all the people can we push forward Chinese path to modernization. Building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation, activating the vitality of excellent traditional Chinese culture with the spirit of the times, striving to draw nourishment and wisdom from the excellent traditional culture formed and accumulated by the Chinese nation for generations, and unifying the inheritance and promotion of excellent traditional Chinese culture with the cultivation and practice of core socialist values. This is not only conducive to continuously enhancing the sense of belonging, identity, dignity, and honor of the Chinese nation, but also enables all people to always have a ideological foundation of unity and struggle, an active spirit of exploration and progress, and a healthy and upward value pursuit; It is also conducive to stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation and providing a strong spiritual force for promoting Chinese path to modernization.
Building modern civilization of the Chinese nation will effectively promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. The continuous development, setbacks, and rebirth of the Chinese nation cannot be separated from the strong support of Chinese culture. To achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it requires the great development of both material civilization and spiritual civilization. To build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, excavate the essence of the Chinese civilization, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, make the most basic cultural genes of the Chinese nation adapt to the contemporary culture, coordinate with the modern society, carry forward the cultural spirit that spans time and space, transcends borders, is full of eternal charm, and has contemporary values, and constantly integrate into the modern Chinese cultural system, which is conducive to guiding the people to establish and adhere to the correct view of history, nationality, country, and culture, and nourish the spiritual world of contemporary Chinese people; It is conducive to the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and industries, and plays the role of culture in leading trends, educating the people, serving society, and promoting development.
Building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation is conducive to promoting exchanges and mutual learning among human civilizations. For a long time, Chinese civilization has exchanged and learned from other civilizations in the world, contributing profound ideological systems, rich scientific and technological cultural and artistic achievements, and unique institutional creations to the world. It has not only made outstanding contributions to the progress of human civilization, but also demonstrated the peaceful character of the Chinese nation, which values peace, the inclusive nature of embracing all rivers, and the great power of being one country under heaven. Building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation, inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of openness and inclusiveness of Chinese civilization, transcending cultural barriers through cultural exchange, transcending cultural conflicts through cultural mutual learning, and transcending cultural superiority through cultural inclusiveness, is not only conducive to the continuous rejuvenation of Chinese culture in embracing all rivers, drawing on the strengths of others, and embracing all aspects, but also promotes the better integration of Chinese culture into the world, enriches the garden of world civilizations, and promotes the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
To better shoulder the new cultural mission and build modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point, we must strengthen our historical and cultural confidence, adhere to putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of our own strength, firmly grasp the fate of China's development and progress in our own hands, based on the great historical and contemporary practices of the Chinese nation, summarize the Chinese experience with Chinese principles, and elevate the Chinese experience into Chinese theory; Adhere to openness and inclusiveness, stick to the soul of Marxism and the root of China's excellent traditional culture, constantly promote the modernization of Marxism in China, effectively connect the essence of Marxism with the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, and at the same time, learn from and learn from all the outstanding achievements of civilization in human society with an open mind that embraces all rivers, and constantly cultivate and create a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a new era; Adhere to integrity and innovation, keep the origin, root and soul of Chinese path to modernization, unswervingly adhere to the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements and major principles of Chinese path to modernization, at the same time put innovation in a prominent position in the overall national development, comply with the requirements of the development of the times, focus on solving major theoretical and practical problems, actively identify changes and seek changes, and write the contemporary chapter of Chinese civilization.
People's Daily