Stimulating the Spirit of Innovation and Building Modern Civilization (Special Reflection)

The cultural genes of "Gou Ri Xin, Ri Ri Xin, and You Ri Xin" are rooted in the spiritual bloodline of the Chinese nation, and their outstanding innovation promotes the continuous development and progress of Chinese civilization. Contemporary China is undergoing the most extensive and profound social transformation in its history, and is also undergoing the most grand and unique practical innovation in human history. This unprecedented great practice requires comprehensive and multifaceted innovation and creation. We need to deeply understand the innovative genes in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, deeply grasp the outstanding innovation of Chinese civilization, continue to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture in the new era and new journey, and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

The relentless pursuit of self-improvement. Continuous innovation requires an unwavering spirit and tenacious perseverance. Chinese civilization has outstanding innovation, stemming from our unwavering determination and will to strive for self-improvement. We have gone through a development process different from other civilizations in the world, creating a unique and brilliant culture. The Book of Changes states, "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen strive for self-improvement." The Chinese people, who possess great creative spirit, have always upheld a life attitude of striving for progress and being proactive.On the new journey of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, the more our cause advances and develops, the more new situations and problems we will face, the more risks and challenges we will face, and the more unpredictable things we will face. The more we must promote the outstanding innovation of Chinese civilization, persist in self-improvement and unremitting struggle.

The value concept of seeking novelty and innovation.The reason why Chinese civilization has become the only brilliant civilization that has lasted for more than 5000 years without interruption is that the Chinese nation is constantly changing in response to changes in the internal and external environment, constantly innovating on the basis of inheritance, and always maintaining vitality in the process of innovating and seeking new things. Innovation is the soul of national progress, the inexhaustible source of a country's prosperity and development, and also the deepest national endowment of the Chinese nation. In the new journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, we must better shoulder the new cultural mission by adhering to the principles of integrity, innovation, and seeking new benefits. To truly achieve the integration of tradition and modernity through innovative ideas, discourse, mechanisms, forms, etc., under the guidance of Marxism, we must truly make the past serve the present, foreign things serve China, make dialectical choices, and innovate.

The practical philosophy of integrating knowledge and action. The ancients said, "The beginning of knowledge is the beginning of action, and the completion of knowledge is the result of action." True knowledge and practice are both worldviews and methodologies. Knowledge is the understanding and cognition of objective things; Xing refers to a person's actual actions. The Chinese nation has always advocated the coordination and unity of knowledge and action.Because practice determines cognition, it is the source and driving force of cognition, as well as the purpose and destination of cognition. If the idea is not implemented into action and only stays at the level of understanding, innovation cannot be discussed. To uphold the outstanding innovation of Chinese civilization, we must deeply recognize the importance of integrating knowledge and action, and deeply understand that achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is not something that can be easily achieved by beating drums and gongs. We must make even more arduous and arduous efforts. On the new journey of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, we must innovate and create a better future. We must not only face reality and deepen practice, but also be rigorous, pragmatic, and hardworking. We must truly achieve the unity of knowledge and action in seeking knowledge through action and promoting action through knowledge.