Bidding farewell to 2023 and embracing 2024, we have engraved new forward coordinates in the rotation of time. **The general secretary pointed out: "We must continue to carry forward the spirit of historical initiative, take advantage of the momentum, forge ahead, and take the new road of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way." "The spirit of historical initiative is a precious spiritual quality of the Chinese Communists, and it is also an important part of the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Standing on the new journey of Chinese-style modernization in the new era, the party's journalists should carry forward the spirit of historical initiative, consciously undertake the mission and task of raising the banner, gathering the hearts of the people, educating new people, revitalizing culture, and showing their image, take the initiative and forge ahead, and serve the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization with the high-quality development of the media industry.
To carry forward the spirit of historical initiative, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of the all-round communication system. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the integration strategy. In the past 10 years, the mainstream has overcome difficulties, kept integrity and innovated, and the construction of the whole communication system has been renewed. With a glorious history of 86 years, "Xinhua**" is the first national political organ newspaper founded by the Communist Party of China, in the revolutionary war years with firm historical self-confidence, a high degree of historical consciousness, strong historical initiative, holding high the banner of unity and resistance against Japan, shouldering the historical task of resisting Japan and saving the country, was praised as the party's "one front army". Entering the new era, Xinhua Newspaper, led by "Xinhua", inherits and carries forward the historical initiative spirit, and constantly promotes the construction of a full-scale communication system in which newspapers seek "deep", "complete", client clients seek "fast", and "integration", and shape a new pattern of mainstream. Firmly establish the development concept of "integrity, innovation, integration, cross-border and symbiosis", empower high-quality development with thematic management, and explore a "Xinhua path" for the construction of a new mainstream. At the beginning of the new year, the party committee of the newspaper adhered to historical thinking, grasped the historical initiative, decisively put forward the new development theme of "second entrepreneurship", established the long-term goal of building a "century-old newspaper", and promoted the main force to advance into the main battlefield in an all-round way with greater efforts, and tempered the new mainstream ** "front army" in the new era.
To carry forward the spirit of historical initiative is to build a knowledge system of journalism and communication with Chinese characteristics. Accelerating the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics is, in the final analysis, to build China's independent knowledge system and provide theoretical support for Chinese-style modernization. In this era of discipline construction, the construction of independent knowledge system has become the ambition and consensus of many scholars. Once upon a time, there was a rampant discussion of "journalism without learning", and "Westernized" communication studies were full of barriers when it came to interpreting China's experience. To construct the discipline system, academic system, and discourse system of journalism and communication with Chinese characteristics, it is necessary to jump out of the Western thinking framework and cultural context, explore local theories with explanatory and persuasive power, and truly write the best on the land of the motherland. Xinhua Press profoundly echoes the national strategy, promotes the academic transformation of Media Observation, establishes the Jiangsu Media Development Research Institute, advocates the presence, locality, systematization and scientificity of research, creates a characteristic academic highland and a new think tank highland, promotes the "breaking" and "establishment" of journalism and communication theory, and empowers the new connotation of journalism and communication to be pragmatic and first, good governance and good deeds.
To carry forward the spirit of historical initiative is to contribute the power of the media to Chinese-style modernization. Comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization is the biggest politics in the new era. Chinese modernization is the modernization of a huge population, common prosperity for all people, harmony between material civilization and spiritual civilization, harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and peaceful development. On the one hand, we need to tell the great practical stories created by Chinese-style modernization, present the people's well-being brought by Chinese-style modernization, demonstrate the CPC's commitment to the progress of mankind and the common good of the world, create a "credible, lovable and respectable" image of China, and promote the construction of a Chinese-style modernization of the news discourse community. On the other hand, in telling the story of Chinese-style modernization, we should explain the theory of Chinese-style modernization, dispel the cognitive misunderstanding of "modernization = Westernization", solve the communication dilemma of "reason cannot be said, and what is said cannot be spread", show another possibility for developing countries to modernize, and provide Chinese solutions for mankind's exploration of a better social system.
History will only favor those who are determined, forge ahead, and fight, and will not wait for those who hesitate, slacken, or fear difficulties. "In the foreseeable future, new information and communication technologies will continue to have a profound impact on the format and ecology of the field of journalism and communication, let us take the great historical initiative as the driving force, take advantage of the trend, work hard, seek success in the face of difficulties, and continue to gallop, provide first-class support for Chinese-style modernization, and tell the story of Chinese-style modernization to the world. (The frontispiece of the first issue of "Media Observation" in 2024, the author is Shuangchuanxue, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Xinhua ** Society, and Chairman of Xinhua Press Media Group).
Editor: Eric.
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