On December 1, on the occasion of the 38th "International Volunteer Day", the opening ceremony of the 2023 Shanghai New Era Civilization Practice Volunteer Service Season was held at the New Era Civilization Practice Center in Pudong New Area.
The event was co-sponsored by the Office of the Shanghai Spiritual Civilization Construction Committee, the Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Work Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Shanghai Volunteer Association, the Shanghai Volunteer Service Public Welfare Association, the Pudong New Era Civilization Practice Center, the Shanghai Media Group, and the Shanghai Radio and Television Station.
Photo courtesy of the Municipal Civilization Office (the same below).
Pan Min, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, Director of the Municipal Civilization Office, and President of the Municipal Volunteer Association, attended the launching ceremony and pointed out in his speech that we should concentrate on casting our souls and strive to consolidate the spiritual foundation of Chinese-style modernization. Focusing on the primary political task of arming the whole party and educating the people with the party's innovative theories, we will continue to innovate popular communication methods, improve the popular participation mechanism, open up the path of differentiated services, promote the party's innovative theories into the brain and heart, and undertake the mission of building the best practice place for cultural thought. It is necessary to enrich the carriers and strive to create a practical sample of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement. Deepen the construction of "one circle, one belt, one group and one park" in the practice of civilization, create more effective carriers of civilized practice that are close to reality, close to the masses, and close to life, so that the public can feel the ubiquity of civilization from the subtleties, and consciously internalize the core socialist values into spiritual pursuits and externalize them into concrete actions. It is necessary to benefit the people and strive to promote the common prosperity of the people's spiritual life. Focusing on education, medical care, support for the elderly, childcare, disability assistance and other areas of people's livelihood, strengthen the two-way empowerment of digital technology and spiritual civilization, explore new ways of inclusive sharing, promote the new integration of urban and rural civilization, and help people's cities have more warmth and quality of life.
The 100 activities lasted for three months, and the "Six I Practice" was hot at the grassroots level.
Since 2019, when Shanghai launched the construction of the New Era Civilization Practice Center, the "Shanghai New Era Civilization Practice Volunteer Service Season" has been carried out for five consecutive years. During the three-month service season each year, the city carries out an average of 150,000 sessions, more than 170,000 volunteers participated, and more than 4.5 million people were served. The whole city has gathered strength by building a platform, integrating resources through linkage, resonating at the same frequency online and offline, and benefiting the masses through volunteer services, so that the new style and new look of the times can be touched and felt, and the city's spiritual character has become a weathered person, creating a life scene of "everyone gets up and acts, helps each other everywhere, and empathizes and resonates all the time".
Today, the three-month volunteer service season for the practice of civilization in the new era was launched again, and the whole city will focus on the theme of "I practice the theory of communication", "I practice the soul of concentrating", "I practice the self-cultivation of citizens", "I practice the promotion of new style", "I practice the cultivation of culture", "I practice the volunteer service" and other "six I practice" themes, and widely carry out the civilization practice activities that the masses like to see. In the early stage, the Municipal Civilization Office collected more than 220 characteristic activities of civilization practice in the city, selected and released 100 key activities to the city, covering theoretical lectures, theme party classes, popular science experience, crossing the digital divide, humanistic walking, civilized pet raising, safety education, caring for autistic children and empty nesters and other activities, integrating civilized practice into daily life scenes, so that citizens can draw spiritual strength from personal experience, interactive experience, and touching around them.
Even the position, even the activity, even the service, the digital map "one click three links".
This year, the Municipal Civilization Office, Dongfang.com, and the Municipal Institute of Surveying and Mapping jointly created an online and offline integration map of Shanghai's new era civilization practice and Lei Feng's volunteer service, which was launched on the occasion of the arrival of this passionate and wonderful civilization practice volunteer service season. In the future, citizens can consult the digital map through their mobile phones, accurately locate the civilized practice around them and learn from Lei Feng's volunteer service positions, and learn about the civilized practice activities around them in real time through the online search function, so as to participate in the activities they are interested in nearby, so that the civilized practice of volunteer service is within reach. The physical paper map will also be distributed to the city's civilized practice and volunteer service ** position for the public to read.
Create a model of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement practice.
Since October this year, the Municipal Spiritual Civilization Office, together with the Xinmin Evening News, has named and awarded 35 new era civilization practice and volunteer service demonstration centers in the city on the basis of the previous naming and awarding of the city's 35 new era civilization practice and volunteer service demonstration centers, with the theme of "urban civilization practice sample", and organized and carried out the first wind collection action of the new era civilization practice and volunteer service demonstration center in the city.
Up to now, the volunteer service team of Xinmin Evening News "Chunyan Action" has gone deep into Pudong, Changning, Jinshan, Putuo, Jing'an and other districts, and refined the experience models of "one center and one brand" such as "opening up and leading, great beauty Pudong", "condensing Changning and beautiful homeland", "Houde Jinshan Lishang Coast", "Shanmei Putuo vitality Suhe", "excellent urban area Jing'an has a fan", as well as "integrating Huayang red power" and "government-enterprise linkage 'Tao' Ran Zhiyuan" and other "one center and one brand" experience models, vividly presenting a new atmosphere of civilized practice in Shanghai. At the event site, the phased results of the Shanghai New Era Civilization Practice and Volunteer Service Demonstration Center were released. During the next civilized practice volunteer service season, the "Chunyan Action" volunteer service team will go deep into the grassroots to conduct interviews, continue to dig out the stories around the masses, form unique propaganda, tell the wonderful stories of "civilized practice in Shanghai" from different angles, and help build a Shanghai sample of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, and build a best practice place for cultural thought.
"Civilized practice heart gathering" goes deep into the masses, and the theory is disseminated to the ground and hot to gather popularity.
This year, in order to better serve the city's Xi and implement the theme education of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Civilization Office has innovated to create the brand of "Civilized Practice Heart Gathering", and extensively carried out popular and popular dissemination of the party's innovative theories Excellent ideological and political course tour activities. This is a new platform for gathering the wisdom and strength of the majority of volunteers, using propaganda, sketches, recitations, dances, songs, operas and other forms of cultural performance that the masses like to see, to open up the "last mile" of theoretical propaganda and popularization. Up to now, it has toured 9 times, and has been widely welcomed and praised by all walks of life and grassroots people. At the event site, a special event in Pudong was held, and a letter of thanks was issued to the representatives of the tour team who have actively participated in the creation and performance of the "Civilized Practice Heart Gathering" since the beginning of this year.
At the event site, the representatives of the 2023 "Best Partner of Shanghai Volunteer Association" and "Shanghai Volunteer Service Public Welfare Association Help Volunteer Good Partner" were also awarded, and a supply and demand docking agreement for the sinking of high-quality resources in the municipal civilized practice was signed.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Guo Jianfeng.