Building a Cultural Power, Strengthening Cultural Confidence, and Cultural Confidence

We must strengthen our cultural confidence, take on our mission, and work together to create a new culture that belongs to our era, and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Cultural prosperity leads to national prosperity. A world power must be a cultural power, and a cultural power must be a confident country.

Cultural confidence is a scientific theoretical system

Cultural confidence is the basic guarantee for stimulating the creativity of the Chinese nation and consolidating its centripetal force. It is the driving force for forging a new prosperity of socialist culture in the new era, and is related to the inheritance and future of Chinese culture. Therefore, we must build and form a theoretical system of cultural self-confidence with Chinese characteristics as soon as possible based on the requirements of Chinese path to modernization for cultural construction. As a scientific theoretical system, cultural confidence is the theoretical foundation for the construction of China's cultural soft power. It has both the ideological foundation of advanced Marxist culture and the profound heritage of excellent traditional Chinese culture.

The connotation, function, dissemination methods, and theoretical construction of cultural confidence require continuous innovation, but current research has many repetitive interpretations and few innovative theories; There are many conceptual interpretations, and the exploration of connotations needs to be deepened. Especially the inherent logical relationship between cultural confidence and excellent traditional Chinese culture, as well as the core values of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, requires a systematic and scientific explanation and the construction of a complete theoretical system.

Cultural confidence leads China towards rejuvenation

Cultural self-awareness is a prerequisite for cultural confidence, and cultural confidence is the pillar and direction of cultural self-awareness. The two complement each other and are a dual force for the healthy development of culture. From a historical perspective, cultural self-awareness and cultural confidence are powerful spiritual forces for achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; From a practical perspective, in the context of globalization, cultural confidence is the most important spiritual force in building a socialist strong country, and it is the bloodline and soul of the nation.

Cultural confidence has pointed out the path of cultural development in our country, not only telling us where it comes from, but also guiding the correct direction of cultural development. In the new era, China is closer to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history. We must not only be full of theoretical, road, and institutional confidence, but also full of cultural confidence. Without confidence, there is no way to establish a country. Only by not losing direction can we lead the future.

Cultural confidence promotes the development and prosperity of socialist culture

The confidence in Chinese culture in the new era stems from three foundations: excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture. Inheriting, innovating, and promoting excellent traditional Chinese culture is the correct way to promote cultural confidence. The hundred year history of revolutionary struggle in modern China is the history of resistance and refinement of the Chinese nation, and the Nirvana history of Chinese culture regaining confidence. The national spirit with patriotism as its core and the era spirit with reform and innovation as its core are the characteristics of socialist advanced culture.

The confidence in Chinese culture in the new era is first and foremost the confidence of the Chinese people in the new era. Cultural confidence ultimately refers to the confidence of individuals as carriers and subjects of culture. The cultural confidence consciousness of individuals should be organically combined with the cultural construction at the national level, internalized in the heart, externalized in action, and used daily without realizing it, so as to unite as one and jointly promote the great development and prosperity of socialist culture.

Cultural confidence showcases China's global vision

Cultural confidence originates from the 5000 year development history of Chinese civilization, and is a natural manifestation of the Chinese people's worldview, outlook on life, and values that have been verified by history. It is a natural expression of the world's broad mindedness of drawing on the strengths of others, integrating China and foreign countries, serving the world as a whole, and harmonizing with all nations, as well as the sentiment of a community with a shared future for mankind. At present, Western countries selectively misunderstand or misread Chinese cultural confidence, confusing it with narrow nationalism or nationalism, in order to smear China and demonize it. Therefore, when we tell the story of cultural confidence to the world, we must clarify and explain the relationship between Chinese cultural confidence and Chinese history and world history, both in terms of "face saving" and "inner truth". We must also repeat and repeat the story, trying our best to promote the connotation and essence of Chinese cultural confidence to be unanimously recognized among cultural groups, media, and individuals at home and abroad.

Cultural confidence is the key to the internationalization of Chinese culture. The formation of Chinese cultural confidence must be achieved through recognition, criticism, reflection, comparison, selection, and identification with Chinese and foreign cultures, in order to be reflected in a high degree of recognition and trust in Chinese national culture. Only in this way can we remain humble and mature, engage in cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries with confidence and maturity, promote Chinese culture to go global, and forge a new global image of China in the new era.

Cultural confidence helps to enhance China's global discourse power

The process of Chinese path to modernization is also the process of conflict and fusion between Chinese culture and foreign culture, especially western culture. Western culture has always had a strong impact on traditional Chinese culture, and currently still has a negative impact on the values and outlook on life of some Chinese people, weakening the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation.

Cultural confidence is crucial to the future of the Chinese nation. Firstly, we need to rethink Chinese traditional culture towards the future and sort out the essence of Chinese traditional culture; Secondly, it is necessary to distinguish foreign cultural elements in Chinese culture and discover the laws of conflict and integration between Chinese and Western cultures. Only in this way can we make the past serve the present and the outside serve the middle; To have a targeted approach and occupy both theoretical and methodological initiative; Only by showcasing the confidence of Chinese culture to the world can we promote mutual respect and integration between Chinese and foreign cultures, dispel subjective misunderstandings or misunderstandings of Chinese culture in the world, and make the confidence of Chinese culture in the new era complement the overall national strength of China in the new era, jointly enhancing the world discourse power of Chinese culture.

Cultural Confidence Promotes China from a Cultural Power to a Cultural Power

Cultural confidence is based on comprehensive national strength, and the improvement of comprehensive national strength can easily form a cultural power. However, the transition from a cultural power to a cultural power requires long-term sedimentation and accumulation, as well as the enhancement of international cultural dissemination and influence. The development of a country's comprehensive strength to a certain extent, especially during the critical period of transitioning from a major country to a strong one, naturally requires a corresponding increase in its cultural international dissemination and influence. The strength of a country's cultural international influence is a barometer of its hard power. That is to say, only when China's cultural soft power also becomes a part of China's hard power, can China synchronously benefit the world from both material and spiritual civilization, and cultural confidence can become a part of China's confidence and a vivid and dynamic element in world civilization.

We need to be full of confidence: as long as we sincerely and objectively tell the world about our history and present, as long as we wholeheartedly build our culture, provide cultural products with Chinese characteristics, reflect Chinese spirit, and contain Chinese wisdom to the world, and show the real, three-dimensional, vivid, and comprehensive China to the world. True gold is not afraid of fire, and if we work hard for a long time, China's image will shift from being self shaped to being shaped by others around the world. There will be vivid situations where both China and foreign countries can shape the "trustworthy, lovely, and respectable" image of China. This process is also the process of globalizing Chinese culture, and Chinese culture has become an unconscious force in world culture. China's cultural confidence brings endless vitality to the world, thus becoming the source and driving force of world cultural confidence.

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