Take on a new cultural mission at a new historical starting point.
【Thoroughly study and implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.】
Author: Tang Aijun (researcher of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center of New Era, the supreme leader of Central Party School [National School of Administration], and professor of Marxism Institute)
Propaganda and ideological and cultural work is related to the future and destiny of the party, the long-term stability of the country, the national cohesion and centripetal force, and it is an extremely important work. Recently, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions on propaganda and ideological and cultural work, stressing that we should "focus on the new cultural mission of continuing to promote cultural prosperity, building a cultural power and building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point, strengthen cultural self-confidence, uphold openness and tolerance, and persist in being upright and innovative" and "provide strong ideological guarantee, strong spiritual strength and favorable cultural conditions for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way". Strengthen cultural self-confidence, focus on cultural subjectivity and originality, and emphasize the need to continuously strengthen the internal driving force of cultural development and realize spiritual independence; Adhering to openness and tolerance, focusing on cultural openness and absorption, emphasizing the need to continuously improve the ability to absorb foreign learning and absorb beneficial results in exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations; Adhere to the integrity and innovation, focus on cultural continuity and innovation, and emphasize the need to continue the historical context and write contemporary Chinese chapters in the dialectical unity of inheritance and development. Strengthening cultural self-confidence, upholding openness and tolerance, and persisting in integrity and innovation, all of which have their own emphases and are interrelated, together constitute the basic principles for better shouldering new cultural missions at a new historical starting point.
Strengthen cultural self-confidence
Cultural self-confidence is more basic, broader and deeper, and it is the most basic, deepest and lasting force in the development of a country and a nation. After thousands of years, Chinese civilization has been endless, and it has been enduring for a long time. This is a miracle in the history of human civilization, and it is also the foundation of our nation’s firm cultural confidence. After modern times, the Chinese civilization, which was in deep crisis, was rejuvenated again in the "profound chemical reaction" with Marxism, and it was full of new vitality in the process of modernization, which provided a powerful ideological force for solving the civilized problems in the modern world. Facing the future, we should constantly strengthen our historical self-confidence and cultural self-confidence in the process of deeply understanding our own historical traditions and devoting ourselves to building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
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Uphold openness and tolerance
The vastness of Chinese civilization benefits from the open attitude and tolerant mind of Chinese culture since ancient times. To a great extent, the long history and comprehensive understanding of Chinese civilization are due to its inclusive cultural character. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that Chinese civilization has never used a single culture to replace multiculturalism, but multiculturalism has converged into a common culture to resolve conflicts and build consensus. The reason why the vast ethnic groups with great internal differences can be integrated into a pluralistic Chinese nation lies in the fact that Chinese cultural identity transcends local culture, blood lineage, religious beliefs, etc., thus being extremely inclusive. The more tolerant, the more recognized and maintained, and the more continuous it will be.
To better shoulder the new cultural mission at a new historical starting point, we must uphold openness and tolerance, and learn from all the outstanding achievements of civilization created by mankind more actively. Hegel once said that the reason why Greek civilization can create its independent and prosperous period is that it has its own original culture and foreign culture from the eastern world, and has carried out the exercise of combining the two cultures. "The exercise of cultural combination" is a kind of civilized exchange and mutual learning, and its core performance is to learn and absorb excellent foreign cultures. Civilization needs metabolism, getting rid of the old and getting rid of the new. Self-enclosed, static and rigid will inevitably slide to decline. In the long historical process, the Chinese nation has been learning from others’ good things, turning them into its own and forming its own national characteristics.
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The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that whether it is to enhance the cohesion and appeal of advanced culture at home or to enhance the influence of Chinese civilization abroad, it is inseparable from the integration of China and foreign countries and the integration of ancient and modern times. After long-term efforts, we are more qualified to solve the "dispute between ancient and modern China and the West" than any previous era, and we are more in urgent need of a batch of cultural achievements that fuse ancient and modern China and the West. This important exposition points out the road map and methodology of continuing to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point: in the ideological process of breaking the "dispute between ancient and modern China and the West", casting new glory in Chinese culture. To achieve this goal, we must not forget the original, absorb foreign countries and face the future, promote the modernization of Marxism in China, inherit and develop Chinese excellent traditional culture, promote the localization of foreign cultures, and constantly cultivate and create Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture in the new era.
坚持守正创新
坚持守正创新，既是最高领袖新时代中国特色社会主义思想的世界观和方法论的重要内涵，也是推动文化繁荣、建设文化强国、建设中华民族现代文明的基本原则。对文化建设来说，守正才能不迷失自我、不迷失方向，创新才能把握时代、引领时代。
“本根不摇则枝叶茂荣”。守正，守的是马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度。没有马克思主义的指导，文化建设就会失去灵魂、迷失方向。守正，守的是“两个结合”的根本要求。“两个结合”既指明了推进党的理论创新的根本途径，也明确了继续推动文化繁荣、建设文化强国、建设中华民族现代文明的根本方向。必须继续推进“两个结合”，特别是要在将马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化相结合的基础上，推动新时代文化建设，造就一个有机统一的新的文化生命体，让马克思主义成为中国的，中华优秀传统文化成为现代的，让经由“结合”而形成的新文化成为中国式现代化的文化形态。守正，守的是中国共产党的文化领导权和中华民族的文化主体性。丧失文化领导权，丢失文化主体性，不会有文化的繁荣兴盛，也不会有中华民族伟大复兴。
Innovation creates new ideas, new discourses, new mechanisms and new forms, that is, under the guidance of Marxism, we can truly make the past serve the present, make foreign things serve China, dialectically choose and bring forth the new, and realize the organic connection between tradition and modernity. An important breakthrough in cultural construction in the new era is to realize cultural innovation and creation in the benign interaction between tradition and modernity. In the past, some people had misunderstandings about tradition and the relationship between tradition and modernity, and the outstanding performance was tradition — The thinking mode of modern dichotomy. Tradition is often regarded as the opposite of modernity, and it is a "surplus" outside modernization. Everything that does not belong to modernity is labeled as tradition: understanding tradition as backward, ignorant and rigid, and understanding modernity as progressive, civilized and developing. In fact, tradition and modernity are not simply antagonistic or fractured. In many aspects, they are compatible and interact with each other. Under certain conditions, tradition and modernity "give each other": Chinese-style modernization gives Chinese civilization modern strength, and Chinese civilization gives Chinese-style modernization a profound foundation. As the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized, Chinese modernization is to continue the modernization of ancient civilization, not to eliminate it. It is a modernization that grows from the land of China, not the modernization of other countries; It is the result of the renewal of civilization, not the product of the fracture of civilization. Chinese-style modernization is the new life of the old country of the Chinese nation, which will surely promote the rejuvenation of Chinese civilization.To build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation and create a new glory of Chinese culture is to achieve a cultural breakthrough and a great renewal of civilization in the process of blending, changing and shaping tradition and modernity.
Upholding integrity and innovation complement each other, which embodies the dialectical unity of change and invariance, inheritance and development, principle and creativity. Cultural construction in the new era should be upright, not complacent, but need to develop constantly and keep pace with the times; To innovate, we must never cut off the soul vein of Marxism and the root vein of Chinese excellent traditional culture. To shoulder the new cultural mission, we must adhere to the unity of integrity and innovation, innovate in integrity and develop in innovation, and continue the historical context and write contemporary Chinese chapters with the integrity and spirit of integrity and innovation.