Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 25,
Title: Taking on a New Cultural Mission—In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thoughts Series 4 Review
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Peng, Gao Lei and Sun Shaolong
It is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a culturally powerful country, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation from a new starting point.
Taking on a new cultural mission demonstrates our party’s historical responsibility to promote the prosperity of Chinese culture and create a new form of human civilization. We must thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts, better shoulder the new cultural mission with an indomitable attitude of struggle, and show new atmosphere and new achievements in the struggle and practice of building a socialist cultural power and building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Connecting ancient and modern times, the new cultural mission is the deep call of the times
Culture is an important force for national survival and development.
Putting forward "taking on new cultural missions" is a solemn declaration made by General Secretary Xi Jinping from the perspective of continuing Chinese civilization and from the overall strategic perspective of the party and the country's career development. It demonstrates the deep sense of historical responsibility and firm mission of contemporary Chinese Communists sense and deep feelings of the people.
On June 1, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during an inspection at the Central Branch of the National Library of China: "In our era, when the country is prosperous, the society is safe and stable, and we have the will and ability to inherit the national culture, we must make this work Great things done.”
In the long historical process of more than 5,000 years, generations of Chinese people have carved roads and opened up mountains and forests, creating the only splendid civilization in the world that continues to last and develops in the form of a country to this day. The best inheritance of history is to create new history; the greatest tribute to human civilization is to create a new form of human civilization.
Only by shouldering new cultural missions, continuing the historical context, and promoting the Chinese nation's most basic cultural genes to adapt to contemporary culture and coordinate with modern society can we compose a cultural chapter for the new era and new journey.
"My motherland and I are like the sea and waves..." Songs were flying at the East Lake Cultural Square in Jinzhou, Liaoning.
In August 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Liaoning, came here and pointed out that "Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that coordinates material civilization and spiritual civilization."
Providing rich spiritual food for the people is an inevitable requirement to meet the people's new expectations for a better life, and it is also the essence of Chinese-style modernization. Only by firmly anchoring on the goal of allowing the people to enjoy a more fulfilling, richer, and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life, meeting the people's spiritual needs, broadening the people's spiritual space, and enhancing the people's spiritual strength, will Chinese-style modernization be more fulfilling and more fulfilling. The undertone is warmer.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has creatively incorporated cultural self-confidence into the "Four Self-confidences", calling it "a more basic, deeper and more lasting force in the development of a country and a nation."
Currently, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period. Only by shouldering the new cultural mission, activating China's excellent traditional culture, and integrating it with revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture in the new era can the great cause of rejuvenation have continuous spiritual power.
Advancing with the times, new cultural missions point the way forward for Chinese culture
"Contemporary Chinese Communists and the Chinese people should and must be able to shoulder the new cultural mission, carry out cultural creation in practical creation, and achieve cultural progress in historical progress!"
In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the major proposition of "new cultural mission" for the first time.
In June 2023, at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping clarified the "Fourteen Emphasis" on cultural construction, proposed the major task of building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation, and pointed out the direction for creating a new culture of our era.
The new cultural mission stirs up the prosperity and development of culture——
"The prosperity of a country and a nation is always supported by cultural prosperity. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation requires the development and prosperity of Chinese culture."
Under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, cultural undertakings in the new era are full of vitality, and the innovation and creativity of the entire nation are bursting out.
The new cultural mission requires us to continue to deeply explore and elucidate the essence of China’s excellent traditional culture, promote creative transformation and innovative development, and make the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books increasingly accessible. In the hearts of the people, the cultural construction of our country has been promoted to present a vivid scene of vigorous development and greater prosperity.
The new cultural mission brings together the majestic power of building a culturally powerful country——
Culture revitalizes a country and its fortunes prosper, and a strong culture strengthens a nation.
In the great journey of the new era, it is precisely because of cultural self-confidence and pride that we have the determination to stick to the right path, the motivation to forge ahead, and the vitality to change and innovate.
The new cultural mission inspires us to stand on the axis of culture, grasp history, reality and the future, consolidate the common ideological foundation for the united struggle of the whole party and the people, firmly protect the spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation, and unswervingly pursue a society with Chinese characteristics We must adhere to the path of socialism, lead the construction of a culturally powerful country with cultural confidence, and provide strong value guidance, cultural cohesion, and spiritual driving force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.
The new cultural mission calls for the mission of building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation——
In the Yin Ruins of Anyang, Henan, the Huan River meanders.
In October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during an inspection here: "This time I want to learn and understand Chinese civilization more deeply, apply the past to the present, and provide reference for better building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation."
For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has followed a path of civilization development that is different from other countries and nations. The extensive and profound Chinese excellent traditional culture has always nourished the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
The new cultural mission inspires us to refine the spiritual identity of China’s excellent traditional culture, display the cultural essence with contemporary value and world significance in China’s excellent traditional culture, and explain and recommend to the world more Chinese characteristics, embodying the Chinese spirit, and The excellent culture that contains Chinese wisdom will build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation in the process of promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Being new to the past, new cultural missions require new historical responsibilities
Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered his 2024 New Year's message, saying affectionately: "The dawn of civilization in Liangzhu and Erlitou, the inheritance of characters in the oracle bones of Yin Ruins, the cultural treasures of Sanxingdui, and the continuous cultural heritage of the National Edition Museum … China has a long history and a vast civilization. This is the foundation of our confidence and the source of our strength.”
As we embark on a new journey to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a culturally powerful country, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, we need to deeply grasp the important role of culture in leading social change and demonstrate our positive historical responsibility.
To better shoulder the new cultural mission, we must adhere to the spiritual character of self-confidence and self-reliance——
In July 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the new Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan. "After seeing it, our national pride doubled. There are five thousand years of Chinese civilization, and we are even more looking forward to the discovery of even longer Chinese civilization." said the general secretary.
The excellent traditional Chinese culture nurtured in the development of civilization for more than 5,000 years, the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture nurtured in the great struggle of the Party and the people, are the strong spiritual support for us to stand among the nations of the world.
Only by strengthening cultural self-confidence, insisting on following our own path, summarizing Chinese experience with Chinese principles, upgrading Chinese experience into Chinese theory, and achieving spiritual independence can we continuously enhance the spiritual power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
To better shoulder the new cultural mission, we must uphold a broad mind of openness and inclusiveness——
On September 23, 2023, President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan held a banquet to welcome international dignitaries who came to China to attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. Music such as China's "Tea Picking Dance", Syria's "Flowers in Dreams", and Nepal's "Flowing Silk" were played, converging into a symphony of beauty and joy shared by different civilizations.
The Chinese civilization has been famous for its openness and inclusiveness since ancient times, and it has continuously gained new vitality through exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations. We must have a broader mind, conduct more extensive cultural exchanges with other countries, and be more proactive in learning from all the outstanding achievements of civilizations in the world, so as to promote Chinese culture to the world.
To better shoulder the new cultural mission, we must adhere to the upright spirit of integrity and innovation——
The Hongshan ruins that "worship dragons and jade", the Liangzhu ruins that are "sacred places of civilization"... In May 2023, the "Why is Civilization - Digital Art Exhibition of the Achievements of the Chinese Civilization Discovery Project" online. The ancient civilization picture takes on new vitality.
Only by being upright can we not lose our way or make disruptive mistakes, and only by innovation can we grasp the times and lead the times. In the new era and new journey, only by adhering to integrity and innovation, transforming through inheritance, and surpassing through learning can we promote the extensive and profound Chinese civilization to shine with more charming brilliance and continuously create new brilliance for Chinese culture.
By adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts, using literature to promote industry, using literature to cultivate talents, using literature to establish the heart, and using literature to forge soul, we will surely be able to better shoulder the new cultural mission and realize the greatness of the Chinese nation in the prosperity of culture. revival. (Xinhuanet)