During the 17th collective study of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping stressed anchoring the strategic goal of building a cultural power and continuously developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

Oct 28, 2024 19:54 Source: Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 28. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conducted the 17th collective study on building a cultural power on the afternoon of October 28. When presiding over the study, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed that it is necessary to anchor the strategic goal of building a cultural power in 2035, adhere to the fundamental guiding ideology of Marxism, take root in the broad and profound Chinese civilization, conform to the development trend of information technology, and constantly develop a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era with strong ideological leadership, spiritual cohesion, value appeal and international influence, and constantly enhance the spiritual strength of the people, build a strong cultural foundation for national rejuvenation.

Comrade Wang Bo, vice president and professor of Peking University, explained this issue and put forward work suggestions. The comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee listened attentively to the explanations and held discussions.

Xi Jinping made an important speech after listening to the explanation and discussion. He pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have insisted on placing cultural construction in a prominent position in governance, made a series of major deployments, formed a new era of socialist cultural thinking with Chinese characteristics, and promoted cultural construction to achieve historical results in the rectification of the roots, integrity and innovation. With achievements, solid steps have been taken in building a socialist cultural power.

Xi Jinping stressed the need to unswervingly follow the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics. Adhere to the leadership of the party, improve the governance ability in the cultural field under the condition of informatization, and build the ruling foundation and mass foundation of the party ideologically, spiritually and culturally. We should adhere to the fundamental system of the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field, comprehensively implement the socialist cultural thought with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and develop a national, scientific and popular socialist culture oriented to modernization, the world and the future. Persist in taking the socialist core values as the guide, constantly build Chinese spirit, Chinese values and Chinese strength, and develop and strengthen mainstream values, mainstream public opinion and mainstream culture.

Xi Jinping pointed out that efforts should be made to stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation. Adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, insist on putting social benefits in the first place, unifying social and economic benefits, and stimulating innovation and creativity as the central link in deepening the reform of the cultural system and mechanism, and accelerate the improvement of the cultural management system and production and operation mechanism. Focusing on improving the ability of cultural originality, improving the production service, guidance, and organization of literary and artistic creation, nurturing and spawning a number of deeply rooted classics of the times, and building a new peak of Chinese culture. We should actively create a good cultural ecology, fully carry forward academic democracy and literary and artistic democracy, support writers, artists, experts and scholars to take root in life and devote themselves to creation, and promote the continuous burst of cultural innovation and creativity. Explore an effective mechanism for the integration of culture and science and technology, realize the digital empowerment and information transformation of cultural construction, and transform the advantages of cultural resources into cultural development advantages.

Xi Jinping stressed that we should always adhere to the cultural construction focus on people, landing on people. Focus on meeting the diverse, multi-level, and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs of the people, improve the supply capacity of cultural services and cultural products, and enhance the people's sense of cultural acquisition and happiness. Attach importance to the role of culture in nurturing the mind and sentiment, and cultivate the high-spirited spirit of the whole nation. We should respect the law of talent growth, improve the mechanism of talent selection, training, use and incentive in line with the characteristics of the cultural field, create a good policy environment for recognizing, emphasizing and loving talents, and build a high-level cultural talent team with large scale, reasonable structure and determined innovation.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to continue the Chinese context in creative transformation and innovative development. Promote the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and take good care of, promote and develop the treasures of Chinese civilization left over from the vicissitudes of life. Deeply excavate and elucidate the spiritual connotation of Chinese excellent traditional culture, use Marxism to activate the excellent factors in Chinese traditional culture and give it new connotations of the times, and develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Adhere to the awe of history and love of culture, adhere to the principles of protection first, rational use and minimum intervention, and promote the systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage. We will improve the institutional mechanisms for the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and accelerate the improvement of the legal system.

Xi Jinping stressed the need to continuously enhance the country's cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture. Promote the reconstruction of the international communication pattern, innovate and carry out network publicity, and build a multi-channel and three-dimensional external communication pattern. More actively publicize China's ideas, spread Chinese culture and display China's image. Extensively carry out various forms of international people-to-people exchanges and cooperation. More actively learn from all the outstanding achievements of human civilization, and create a batch of cultural achievements that melt ancient and modern, and connect China and foreign countries.

Xi Jinping finally stressed that building a cultural power is the common task of the whole Party and the whole society. It is necessary to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over propaganda, ideological and cultural work, and improve the leadership and management system and mechanism of cultural construction. Party committees and governments at all levels should earnestly strengthen organization and leadership, do a good job in cadre allocation, personnel training, and resource investment, mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of all parties, and gather a strong joint force for building a culturally powerful country.