[Li Xiang China] Wu Xiangdong: Values China | Values | Characteristics of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era
Wu Xiangdong
Values are the fundamental viewpoints, views, and attitudes about values formed by people in long-term social practice activities, manifested in their value beliefs, beliefs, ideals, as well as value principles and norms.
Comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out that "the question of why people is a fundamental and principled issue." The question of "why people" refers to the question of who is the value subject and evaluation subject, and whose interests and requirements are the value standards in the values system. It is the most fundamental value position and value principle issue that runs through the entire value system and determines the nature of the value system. People's nature is the essential attribute of Marxism. Adhering to the principle of putting the people first reflects the Party's ideals, beliefs, nature, purpose, and original mission. It is a profound summary of the Party's struggle process and practical experience, and a clear background for the Party's governance in the new era.
The people are the subject and creators of history, which is the basic principle of historical materialism and provides a theoretical foundation for adhering to the value principle of putting the people first and related connotations. Adhering to the principle of putting the people first means adhering to everything for the people and developing for the people. We must put the people in the highest position in our hearts, prioritize the interests of the people, regard the realization of people's happiness as the goal of development, and regard the people's aspirations for a better life as our goal of struggle. To adhere to the principle of putting the people first, we must rely on the people for everything and rely on the people for development. The people have endless wisdom and strength, and we must respect and give full play to the people's pioneering spirit, relying closely on the people to create great historical achievements. To uphold the principle of putting the people first, we must adhere to the principle of benefiting the people in all aspects and sharing the fruits of development with the people. We must continuously improve the fairness of sharing achievements, solidly promote common prosperity for all people, and continuously promote the free and comprehensive development of individuals. To uphold the principle of putting the people first, we must learn from them in everything and firmly root ourselves in them. We should learn from the people and learn from them, continuously enrich scientific theories rooted in and serving the people, and use them to guide new practices, so that Marxism, which is characterized by Chinese characteristics and modernization, can demonstrate a stronger power of truth.
Ideals are ideals because of their grandeur, and beliefs are beliefs because of their persistence.
One is to adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We must strengthen our confidence in our path, theory, system, and culture, and never follow the old path of isolation and rigidity, nor the evil path of changing our flag. We must always adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. The second is to achieve socialist modernization and comprehensively build a socialist modernized strong country. The Chinese characteristics and essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization show a new civilization prospect different from the western modernization model. We should build China into a strong, prosperous, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country by the middle of this century by promoting Chinese path to modernization. Third, comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the distinctive theme of the CPC's unremitting struggle for a hundred years. The realization of the Chinese Dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is to achieve national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and people's happiness. Adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively building a socialist modernized strong country, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are fundamentally consistent, providing us with the answer to how to awaken the "sleeping lion" and pointing out the direction for progress.
The socialist core values reflect the unity of socialist value goals and value norms
The socialist core values are a key element of contemporary Chinese social value order and the core essence of contemporary Chinese cultural soft power. From the basic content of socialist core values, prosperity, democracy, civilization, and harmony are national value requirements, freedom, equality, justice, and the rule of law are social value requirements, and patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness are civic value requirements.For example, regarding democracy, it is pointed out that "people's democracy is a full process democracy"; Regarding the rule of law, it is emphasized that "to adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of constitution, and to adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of constitution."; Regarding fairness, it is pointed out that we need to "improve the institutional mechanisms for promoting equal opportunities and maintaining social fairness and justice"; Wait a minute.
The core socialist values not only reflect the value goals of socialism and the beautiful vision of the Chinese people, but also serve as the value norms of socialism, providing rules and standards for people's activities.We attach great importance to the cultivation of values among young students, and emphasize that the values of young people determine the values of the entire society in the future. The buttons of life should be fastened from the beginning, and one should consciously study hard, cultivate morality, discern clearly, and be down-to-earth.
The new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing clarifies the value orientation of what kind of development to achieve and how to achieve development
Material production is the foundation of all social life, and development is the first priority of the Party's governance and rejuvenation of the country. It is the foundation and key to solving all problems in our country.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development. Innovative development requires treating science with a scientific attitude, pursuing truth with a spirit of truth, continuously promoting innovation in theories, systems, technology, culture and other fields, and making innovation run through all work of the Party and the state. Coordination is not only a means and goal of development, but also a standard and scale for evaluating development. Coordinated development requires adhering to the unity of the two points and key points of development, the balance and imbalance of development, the shortcomings and potential of development, focusing on promoting regional coordinated development, urban-rural coordinated development, material civilization and spiritual civilization coordinated development, and promoting the integration and development of economic construction and national defense construction. Green is a necessary condition for sustainable development. Green development must adhere to the principle that human development activities must respect, conform to, and protect nature, and promote harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Open development requires promoting the formation of a broader, broader, and deeper pattern of opening up to the outside world, continuously enhancing China's new advantages in international economic cooperation and competition. Shared development requires adhering to the principles of universal sharing, comprehensive sharing, co construction sharing, and gradual sharing, achieving a process from lower to higher levels, from imbalance to balance, and continuously promoting common prosperity for all people. The five development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, and are a collection with inherent connections. They cannot be neglected or replaced by each other.
The construction of a community with a shared future for mankind and the promotion of common values for all mankind demonstrate the value concept of what kind of world to build and how to build it
In today's world, the century long changes are accelerating and the deep-seated contradictions in global development are becoming more prominent. The deficits in peace, development, security, and governance are increasing. Where is the world heading? What should we do?
Human beings live in the same global village and are increasingly becoming a community with a shared future, where no one or country can live independently.The construction of a community with a shared future for mankind conforms to the historical trend, answers the questions of the times, reflects the excellent cultures of China and foreign countries, and the common values pursued by all mankind. It has formed the greatest common divisor for jointly building a better world, and has become a clear banner leading the trend of the times and the direction of human progress.
The common value of all mankind is the value concept innovatively put forward by the people of the CPC in the new era on the basis of a deep grasp of the general trend of world development, with distinctive characteristics of the era of integrity, sharing and generation. There is a fundamental difference between the common values of all mankind and the so-called "universal values" in the West. Peace and development are our common cause, fairness and justice are our common ideals, and democracy and freedom are our common pursuits. We must adhere to a highly responsible attitude towards the future and destiny of humanity, be advocates of the common values of all mankind, understand the understanding of value connotations of different civilizations with a broad mind, respect the exploration of value realization paths by people of different countries, and embody the common values of all mankind in concrete and practical ways to realize the interests of our own people.
The values of communists are the soul of the political culture within the party, establishing the value requirements of what kind of communists to become and how to become communists
The leadership of the CPC is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Communists' values are the foundation of the Party's founding and governance. They not only cast the spirit of the CPC, but also erect the spiritual backbone of the Chinese nation. The values of Communist Party members are also the soul of political culture within the Party, running through all aspects of political culture within the Party, and determining the nature and direction of political culture within the Party.
To uphold the values of Communist Party members, we must first firmly uphold our ideals and beliefs.Secondly, we must stand firm in the people's position. We must always be on the same boat as the people, live and die together, have the courage to take on responsibilities and actively take action, and truly regard benefiting the people as our fundamental responsibility. Once again, we must promote values such as loyalty, honesty, impartiality, seeking truth from facts, and integrity. Loyalty and honesty refer to being loyal to the Party, sharing the Party's worries, taking responsibility for the Party, and fulfilling one's duties for the Party, being an honest person, speaking honestly, and doing honest things; Fairness and righteousness refer to upholding fairness and selflessness in serving the public, being upright and treating people fairly, handling affairs fairly and employing people fairly; Seeking truth from facts means starting from reality, linking theory with practice, seeking truth and pragmatism, advocating practical work, adhering to truth, and correcting errors; Being honest and upright means strictly following the rules, adhering to the bottom line, having reverence, being cautious in the use of power, being cautious in small matters and being strict with oneself. The ideal beliefs, value positions, and value standards of Communist Party members reflect their views on power, political achievements, and career. To promote and practice the values of Communist Party members, we must resolutely prevent and oppose individualism, decentralization, liberalism, departmentalism, and humanism. We must firmly resist and oppose vulgar and corrupt political cultures such as relational studies, thick black studies, officialdom, and hidden rules, and create a clean and upright political environment.
This value system answers the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times in the great practice of the new era from the perspective of values. It is the adherence, application, and development of Marxism and its values, the inheritance, promotion, creative transformation, and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and reflects the unity of truth and values, national and contemporary characteristics, patriotism and the unity of embracing the world.
