Continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point——

General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development aroused strong repercussions

CCTV News (News Network): General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech when attending the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, he stressed that continuing to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point is our new cultural mission in the new era. We must strengthen cultural self-confidence, undertake missions, work hard, and work together to create a new culture belonging to our era and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation. The General Secretary's important speech aroused strong repercussions, everyone said that General Secretary Xi Jinping stood at the strategic height of the overall development of the cause of the party and the country, and put forward new ideas, new views and new theories, which are very political, ideological, strategic and instructive, and we must continue to deepen our understanding of the laws of cultural construction, better undertake new cultural missions, and inject inexhaustible spiritual power into the national rejuvenation of building a strong country.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that Chinese culture has a long history and Chinese civilization is broad and profound. Only by comprehensively understanding the history of Chinese civilization can we more effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, more effectively promote the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Whoever desires to flow far will drown its source. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that there are many important elements of China's excellent traditional culture, which jointly shape the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization. He pointed out that continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace are the five outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization. They believe that the five outstanding characteristics put forward by the general secretary are "accurate portraits" of Chinese civilization, which fundamentally determine that the Chinese nation must follow its own path.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is the only way to open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the profound foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization and integrate the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific conditions and with China's excellent traditional culture. This is the understanding of the regularity we have drawn in exploring the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is the greatest magic weapon for our success.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point, we must strengthen cultural self-confidence, adhere to our own road, base ourselves on the great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, sum up China's experience with Chinese reasoning, upgrade China's experience to Chinese theory, and realize spiritual independence. Everyone expressed the need to take the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech as a guide, fully implement the strategic arrangements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on propaganda, ideology and cultural work, strengthen cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, and solidly promote the construction of modern civilization and socialist cultural power of the Chinese nation.