Xinhua Review｜Promoting cultural construction with the people as the center—In-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought Series Review No. 8
On December 28, 2023, villagers in Zhaojia Town, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province performed waist drums on the village evening stage. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yu
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 29, Title
: Promoting cultural construction with the people as the center - In-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts series review No. 8
Xinhua News Agency reporters Li Yanxia, Liu Hui, Liu Kaixiong
The people-centered work orientation reflects our party’s clear position in leading and promoting cultural construction.
To deeply study and implement Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts, we must firmly stand on the people’s position, respect the people’s dominant position, protect the people’s cultural rights and interests, promote the unity of satisfying the people’s cultural needs and enhancing the people’s spiritual strength, and enhance the people’s sense of cultural gain and happiness.
"Continuously solve the fundamental questions of 'for whom, who to rely on, and who am I'"
At the beginning of the new year, the Peking Opera Music Bicentenary Tour sponsored by the China Academy of Opera and other organizations was staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts. The wonderful performances of nearly a hundred artists won rounds of applause and cheers from the audience.
Only works that are people-centered can be more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
On October 23, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the teachers and students of the China Academy of Opera, encouraging them to "explore the true meaning of art through mutual learning and mutual learning, and hone their original aspirations for art while serving the people." Over the past three years, the peaches and plums are fragrant, and the virtues and arts are both fragrant.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has insisted that cultural development is for the people, cultural development relies on the people, and the fruits of cultural development are shared by the people, promoting the prosperity and development of socialist culture, and enriching the people's spiritual and cultural life.
This is the consistent original mission——
In May 1942, the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art was held. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out: "The question of why people are human beings is a fundamental question, a question of principle."
In October 2014, a symposium on literary and artistic work was held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Socialist literature and art, in essence, is the people’s literature and art.”
The two symposiums held 72 years apart have the same theme of serving the people.
"Find the correct coordinate positioning while focusing on the center and serving the overall situation, keep in mind social responsibilities, and constantly solve the fundamental question of 'for whom, who to rely on, and who am I'." In February 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping said in the party's news and public opinion work The important speeches delivered at the symposium are clear from the source.
This is the pursuit of value that puts the people first——
More than 3,300 public libraries have been built across the country, and more than 10,000 cultural centers and museums have been built; all public libraries, cultural centers, art galleries, comprehensive cultural stations and more than 90% of museums are open to the public free of charge... A series of "hard-core" data demonstrate that our country The improvement of cultural "soft power" also demonstrates the people-centered value of cultural construction.
On January 14, citizens read in the Beijing City Library. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Ziyang
The people's nature is the essential attribute of Marxism, and the people's stand is the fundamental political stance of the Communist Party of China.
“We must take the realization, maintenance and development of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the starting point and goal” and “bring the people’s spiritual and cultural life to a new level”... General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech profoundly elaborated on what culture is for people. issues, fully demonstrating the profound feelings of the people.
This is an inevitable requirement of the development of the times——
Putting the people at the center is an echo of history and a proposition of the times.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China summarized the five important characteristics of Chinese-style modernization, among which "modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated" is among them. "Enriching the people's spiritual world" has become one of the essential requirements of Chinese modernization and the proper meaning of pursuing a better life in the new era.
In the new era and new journey, in the face of the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs, we must stand firm on the people’s stand, regard the people’s interests, the people’s will and the people’s voice as the fundamental basis for cultural construction, and push the socialist cultural undertaking to a new level.
"The most fundamental, most critical and most reliable way is to take root in the people and take root in life."
In the cold winter, more than 100 Ulan herdsman riding teams went deep into the pastoral areas to perform creative performances, adding warmth to the vast grassland.
“The long-lasting prosperity of Ulan Muqi shows that the people need art, and art also needs the people.” In November 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to the team members of Ulan Muqi in Sunit Right Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, encouraging them to always Be a "red literary light cavalry" on the grassland.
On December 21, 2023, the Ulan Muqi team performed a matouqur performance in Aqitu Ulasum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Kaiyan
The people are the creators and witnesses of history, and are the main force relying on the construction of a culturally powerful country.
“There are a hundred or a thousand methods of literary and artistic creation, but the most fundamental, most critical, and most reliable method is to take root in the people and take root in life.” “We must deeply understand the truth that the people are the creators of history, go deep into the masses, and go deep into life. Be a primary school student of the people sincerely”…General Secretary Xi Jinping has profound thoughts on upholding the people’s dominant position in cultural construction.
The ideological and theoretical circles pay attention to practical issues, respond to people's concerns, and let theoretical readings that are easy to understand and face the problems directly reach the masses; the news front carries out the activities of "going to the grassroots, changing work styles, and changing writing styles", and collects articles that are "stained with mud", "brought with dew" and " "Steaming" news works; cultural and literary workers go into the depths of practice, observe people's lives, and launch outstanding works full of the flavor of the times... Practice has proved that to promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture, only by taking root in the people and relying on the people , in order to obtain an inexhaustible source of power.
Take deep root among the people and draw vital water from the source for the prosperity and development of socialist culture——
Ask him how clear he is? Come for living water from a source. The great struggle and rich and colorful social life of hundreds of millions of people are fertile ground for the prosperity and development of socialist cultural undertakings.
Reportages such as "Rural State Affairs" and "Eighteen Stories of Shibadong Village" truly and vividly tell the story of poverty alleviation; "Mountains and Seas", "The World", "My Motherland and Me" and other excellent film and television works reflect the climate of the times, Praising the people's creation... Adhering to the people-centered creative orientation, the literary and artistic garden of the new era is blooming with hundreds of flowers and fruitful results.
Embarking on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, more than 1.4 billion people are carrying out new practices, performing new lives, and creating new miracles, providing a broad space for cultural prosperity and development. It is necessary to go deep into life, take root among the people, create more cultural masterpieces that match the new era, and move forward from the "plateau" to the "peak".
Rely closely on the people and fully stimulate the vitality and creativity of the people——
In 2023, more than 20,000 "village evening" demonstrations and exhibitions will be held nationwide, with about 130 million participants. Currently, there are more than 460,000 mass cultural and artistic teams registered in our country... Since the new era, the people are taking the stage and playing the leading role in cultural construction. .
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "The people are both the creators and witnesses of history, and they are both the 'actors' and the 'actors' of history."
To promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture, we must firmly establish the perspective of relying on the people, respect the people's dominant position and pioneering spirit, open up channels, build platforms, and create conditions for the people to become the main force in socialist cultural construction, so that the people can Vitality and creativity are fully displayed and burst out.
“Better meet people’s new expectations for spiritual and cultural life”
Climb the Xunyang Tower to admire the vast Yangtze River, walk into the Pipa Pavilion to experience the immersive theater of "Pipa Parade", and take a leisurely walk along the riverside greenway... Since the opening of the Jiujiang City section of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, it has become a place for citizens to relax and tourists to check in. ideas.
Jiujiang City section of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park (drone photo, June 14, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wan Xiang
The construction of a national cultural park is a major cultural project that promotes cultural prosperity and development, and is a vivid footnote to better meet the people's spiritual and cultural needs.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the people's new expectations for improving their quality of life and moving towards common prosperity have put forward new and higher requirements for cultural construction. We must take realizing the people's yearning for a better life as the starting point and goal of building a culturally powerful country, closely focus on the goal of allowing the people to enjoy a more fulfilling, richer, and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life, and deeply promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture.
Firmly grasp the fundamental requirement of high-quality development and expand the supply of high-quality cultural products and services——
The "research craze" is on the rise, it is hard to get tickets for cultural and museum venues, and cultural tourism represented by "Zibo Barbecue" and "Erbin" are "out of the circle"... The new phenomenon of cultural consumption reflects the increasingly diverse and personalized spiritual culture of the people. need.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the main contradiction in cultural supply has shifted from "whether it is available" to "whether it is good or not." We must focus on high-quality development, improve cultural industry planning and policies, cultivate new cultural formats and cultural consumption models, expand the supply of high-quality cultural products and services, and allow people to enjoy a more fulfilling, richer, and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life.
Closely rely on the fundamental driving force of deepening reform to make the results of cultural development benefit all people more and more equitably——
Hunan’s “Ten Small Schools”, Beijing’s “27 Courtyards”, and Chengdu’s “Liu Deng Study Room”... deepen the reform of systems and mechanisms, introduce social forces to build and share, and new public cultural spaces are becoming the "cultural living room" around the people. ”, there are currently more than 33,500 in the country.
Reform is the driving force behind the prosperity of literature and art and the development of culture. We must firmly grasp the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in the cultural field, deepen the reform of the cultural system, put social benefits first, promote the standardization and equalization of public cultural services, promote the integrated construction of urban and rural public cultural service systems, and make the results of cultural development more More and more fairness will benefit all people.
Rely closely on the magic weapon of integrity and innovation to continuously stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity——
The cultural relics collected in museums and the words written in ancient books have become "alive", and the "cultural and creative style" and "poetry craze" are quietly rising... New technologies, new methods and new concepts make traditional culture full of vitality and nourish the people's beautiful new life. Life.
The archaeological "square cabin" restored by naked-eye 3D technology was photographed in the new Sanxingdui Museum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Xi
Only by staying upright can we not lose ourselves or lose our direction; only by being innovative can we grasp the times and lead the times. In October 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out during an inspection trip to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi: "We must continue to hold the excellent traditional culture passed down by our ancestors, keep pace with the times, and let it carry forward."
In the new era and the new journey, building a culturally powerful country is facing new situations and new tasks. We must uphold the righteousness and vigor of innovation, innovate ideas and methods, innovate discourse systems, innovate technical means, innovate systems and mechanisms, and constantly explore and answer the challenges of the development of the times and the needs of the people. New topics raised by cultural construction.