Original title: Undertake a new cultural mission in the new era.
**In his speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, the general secretary pointed out that "it is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point." In the important instructions on the propaganda, ideological and cultural work, the general secretary further emphasized that the propaganda, ideological and cultural work should be carried out "around the new cultural mission of continuing to promote cultural prosperity, building a cultural power, and building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point". To promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, we have clarified the new tasks and goals of our cultural construction and development in the new era and new journey from multiple dimensions of social development, national strategy, and civilization construction, and highlighted the important innovation of cultural thought.
Promoting cultural prosperity from a new starting point is an inevitable requirement for the comprehensive development and progress of socialism with Chinese characteristics. **The general secretary pointed out that "socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great cause of all-round development and progress, and without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there will be no socialist modernization." "As socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era, the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into a contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. In this regard, it is necessary to vigorously develop the productive forces to meet the people's growing material needs, and at the same time to provide a more solid material guarantee for the overall planning and realization of the needs of other aspects; It is also necessary to strengthen cultural construction, promote cultural prosperity, directly meet the people's growing, constantly enriching and diversified spiritual and cultural needs, and provide the necessary cognitive foundation, cultural literacy and value guidance for the people to better understand and grasp, construct and realize the democracy, rule of law, fairness and justice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, better recognize and effectively solve a series of problems such as security and environment in the exploration and development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, better implement the new development concept, and promote high-quality development. Psychological dependence and intellectual support. Only in this way can we further strengthen the building of spiritual civilization, consolidate and enhance the building of material civilization, promote and realize the construction of political, social, and ecological civilizations, and ensure the comprehensive development and progress of the overall layout of the "five-in-one" socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Building a cultural power at a new starting point is an inevitable choice to fulfill the party's central task, build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and realize the second centenary goal. To build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and then build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, it is necessary to continue to promote the construction of a socialist cultural power. In the exploration of Chinese-style modernization, we should continue to promote the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific practice and with China's excellent traditional culture, and promote the integration of China's excellent traditional culture with revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture in creative transformation and innovative development. In this way, it will not only continuously enhance the soft power of national culture, but also continuously enhance the influence of Chinese culture; It not only ensures that Chinese modernization always adheres to the position of Chinese culture and adheres to its own path, but also injects Chinese wisdom, establishes Chinese values, provides Chinese reference and makes Chinese contributions to the inclusiveness, mutual learning and equal treatment of the world's modern multicultural values, and the joint efforts to build a community with a shared future for mankind with other countries in the world.
Building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point is the inevitable direction of opening up Chinese-style modernization, exploring and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, and creating a new form of human civilization on the basis of the profound accumulation of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. History and reality have proved that in the face of the challenge of world modernization, China cannot reject modernization, but must integrate into the torrent of modernization, but as a China with a history of millions of years of human history, 10,000 years of cultural history, and more than 5,000 years of civilization history, and as a China nourished and infiltrated by a Chinese civilization with outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, and peace, its modernization will not and cannot abandon and sever its own long cultural traditions and rich civilization accumulation. Completely copy and reverse the development path and civilization form of other countries' modernization. On the basis of our own cultural traditions and civilization accumulation, we must explore and open up our own unique path to modernization, and shape and construct our own modern civilization form. At this time, Marxism entered China, and through the sustained efforts of the Chinese Communists, it continuously promoted and realized the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, thereby promoting and promoting a deeper dialogue and integration between China's excellent traditional culture and modern civilization, exploring and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, and shaping and generating the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. The modern civilization of the Chinese nation not only inherits the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization, but also integrates modern forces into it to sustain and create its modern life. At the same time, it also injects Chinese characteristics into modern civilization, highlights and proves that modern civilization can have multi-dimensional forms and can coexist in harmony, and highlights and highlights the unique advantages of scientific socialism in constructing modern civilization, so as to contribute to the development of world modernization and the construction and improvement of new forms and patterns of human civilization.
In short, from the perspective of horizontal social development, we should promote cultural prosperity in the all-round development and progress of socialism with Chinese characteristics; From the perspective of vertical modern national construction, we should build a cultural power in the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way; From the perspective of a more far-reaching historical depth and a broader level of civilization shaping facing the world, the construction of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation under the guidance and promotion of the "two combinations" and the creation and practice of a new form of human civilization constitute a new cultural mission that we should undertake in the new era.
To undertake this cultural mission at a new historical starting point, we first need to strengthen our cultural self-confidence, insist on starting from historical materialism, on the basis of continuously deepening the scientific understanding of the laws of human historical development, especially the laws of modern development, based on the great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, and constantly establish and strengthen the Chinese nation's main consciousness and independent spirit of inheriting its own cultural traditions and opening up its own modern civilization, always adhere to the position of Chinese culture, always adhere to our own path, and always adhere to seeking truth from facts. Proceeding from reality, we should constantly test and calibrate our own development direction and development goals, and constantly promote ourselves to continue to move forward along the right path.
Secondly, we should uphold openness and inclusiveness, look at the excellent achievements of learning from all advanced civilizations with a confident and equal attitude, understand different civilizations, especially the different choices of modern civilizations, with a broad and open mind, and in exchanges and mutual learning with various civilizations, in the integration of China and foreign countries, and through the ancient and modern, we will not only enhance the cohesion and appeal of our own cultural civilization, but also enhance the dissemination and influence of foreign cultural civilization.
Finally, to uphold integrity and innovation, we must not only unswervingly uphold the soul of Marxism, but also adhere to the unseverable roots of China's excellent traditional culture, and constantly discover new ideas, new discourses, new mechanisms, and new forms of civilization construction and cultural construction in the process of continuing to promote the "two combinations". In fact, only by being confident in our own culture can we treat and learn from the achievements of other cultures and civilizations with a more open and inclusive attitude, and only by actively learning from the achievements of other cultures and civilizations can we more enhance the determination to adhere to our own culture and the vitality of innovation and creation, so as to keep the root and soul of our own culture and civilization, and better base ourselves on our own practice, develop and innovate in continuous self-reflection and questioning, and in continuous dialogue and exchanges, so as to turn this new cultural mission into reality.
This paper is the phased achievement of the special commissioned project of the Fujian Provincial Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, "Research on Continuing to Promote Cultural Prosperity, Building a Cultural Power, and Building the Modern Civilization of the Chinese Nation at a New Historical Starting Point".
Authors: Xue Xiujun and Liu Cuifeng, Fujian Provincial Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era).
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