Undertake the new cultural mission of the capital in the new era

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: it is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point.

Holding high the banner of thought, condensing the heart and forging the soul

Mo Gaoyi, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, introduced that with the Party Committee's Theoretical Learning Center Group as the leader, Beijing will organically combine political theory learning with the construction of a new development pattern, and will focus on thematic learning and grassroots theoretical propaganda, continuously deepening theoretical education.

Red is the brightest background color in the capital city of Beijing. To promote the inheritance of the red gene, Beijing continues to promote the development of the three major red cultural theme areas. The Beijing University Red Mansion, Xiangshan Revolution Memorial Hall, and Chinese People's Anti Japanese War Memorial Hall have become real-life classrooms for learning and education, as well as popular check-in places for young people.

Leading the cultural construction of the capital with socialist core values. The public civilized behavior index of Beijing citizens has been climbing for 10 consecutive years, with 4.581 million registered volunteers becoming a beautiful scenery of the city, and 460000 "Beijing role models" scattered throughout urban and rural areas, highlighting the growing trend of urban civilization.

Guarding the Golden Business Card with Heart and Emotion

Entering Sanlihe Park in Dongcheng District, the flowing water is babbling, the breeze is blowing green, and the water flows through the alleys and alleys, like the "Little Jiangnan" of the capital city. "The Hutong area here has restored its historical style, and the old neighbors have started a new life," said Li Zheng, Secretary of the Caochang Community Party Committee.

The rich historical and cultural heritage is a golden calling card of Beijing. The old city cannot be demolished anymore, and Beijing has made unprecedented efforts to protect, inherit, and utilize its historical and cultural heritage. The urban characteristics of "the style of the capital, the charm of the ancient capital, and the style of the times" have become increasingly prominent.

The north-south central axis, which is 7.8 kilometers long and one of the longest and most well preserved ancient city axes in the world, passes through the entire city. The magnificent spatial order unique to Beijing was born from the establishment of this central axis. Chen Mingjie, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, introduced that in recent years, Beijing has orderly promoted the evacuation of cultural relics such as the Temple of Supreme Harmony, Temple of Heaven, and Xiannong Altar, and more than a hundred cultural relic restoration projects have been launched, presenting a brilliant central axis.

"Revitalization" is the best protection for the old city. Beijing's innovation promotes the path of old city renewal, integrating modern facilities into ancient architecture and introducing new business models. Traditional style and fashion elements coexist in quadrangle courtyards, and more than 100 privately built "large and disorderly courtyards" are transformed into spacious and tidy "beautiful courtyards".

The 62 kilometer section of the Beijing Hebei section of the Grand Canal has been fully navigable, accelerating the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" national cultural relic protection and utilization demonstration zone. The centuries old Royal Glass Kiln Factory continues to carry out cultural rescue... We will coordinate the construction of the Grand Canal, the Great Wall, and the Yongding River in Xishan, presenting a vivid picture of historical and cultural heritage connected in a line on the land of Beijing.

The cultural supply is becoming increasingly abundant

With the people's aspiration for a better life as its goal, Beijing continues to deepen the supply side structural reform in the cultural field, and the supply of high-quality culture is becoming increasingly abundant. After many years of reopening, the Beijing International Theatre Center for the Performing Arts has been completed and put into use, and the sound of drums and gongs in the Zhengyi Temple, a century old theater building, has once again sounded. Combining the characteristics of urban space, Beijing is vigorously promoting the construction of the "City of Performing Arts" to create a new space for performing arts. A series of cultural masterpieces cross the distance of time and space, entering the hearts of the audience, and the business card of "watching Beijing in big dramas" becomes brighter and brighter as they are erased.

"The creation of major themes leads the trend of literature and art in the new era, and the sense of happiness and gain in popular culture has significantly increased." Zhao Weidong, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee in charge of daily work, introduced that high-quality works such as "Changjin Lake", "Awakening Era", "Night of Fragrant Mountains", and "Five Stars Leaving the East" have been praised and received high praise. "Eleven works have won the" Five One Projects "Award for the 16th Spiritual Civilization Construction, with the number and score of awards ranking first in the country."

At present, the network of public cultural service facilities in Beijing has been basically formed, with full coverage of public cultural facilities at the city, district, street, township, and village levels. There are 7110 public cultural facilities in the city, forming a "15 minute public cultural service circle".

The rich and diverse cultural supply satisfies the spiritual life of the people and continuously empowers urban development. Data shows that in the first half of 2023, Beijing's cultural new business enterprises achieved a revenue of 642.08 billion yuan, accounting for more than 1/4 of the national cultural new business enterprise revenue. They have 11 national cultural and technological integration demonstration bases, ranking first in the country in terms of quantity.

"In the past decade of the new era, the profound transformation of the capital's development with milestone significance and the significant pioneering achievements in the construction of the national cultural center are all the fruitful results of the localization and modernization of Marxism in China." Mo Gaoyi stated that as a national cultural center, Beijing should lead by example in shouldering the new cultural mission of the new era.