Strive to build a socialist capital with advanced socialist culture with Chinese characteristics

Source: People's Daily

The party's century-long history of struggle is the history of the party's persistence in using advanced culture to lead the people to promote revolution, construction, and reform. On the new journey, the cultural self-confidence of the people of the whole country has been significantly enhanced, the demand for culture has continued to grow, and the status of cultural construction in the overall situation of modernization has become more prominent. Comrade Xi Jinping made an important instruction to build Beijing into a "capital of advanced socialist culture with Chinese characteristics" during his research in Beijing in 2010. The Beijing Municipal Party Committee adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and incorporates the enhancement of the functions of the national cultural center into the core essence of the development of the capital in the new era, highlighting the great energy of cultural soft power in promoting high-quality development. The city's propaganda and cultural system has deeply studied and implemented the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, drawn wisdom and strength from the century-old party history, adhered to self-confidence, self-improvement, integrity and innovation, and did a good job in the cultural development of the capital with a high degree of cultural consciousness, and strived to build an advanced cultural capital of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Feel the power of truth from the century-old party history and build a highland for the study and dissemination of marxism in contemporary China

The century-old party history has eloquently proved that the reason why the Communist Party of China can and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good is, in the final analysis, because of Marxism. Marxism has profoundly changed China, and China has greatly enriched Marxism. More than a hundred years ago, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, and others took the Red Chamber of Peking University as the main front to study and disseminate Marxism. Over the past one hundred years and more, Beijing has witnessed the course of our party's struggle to integrate the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, the course of struggle in which the party has led the people to achieve great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention under the guidance of Marxist scientific theory, and the course of struggle of the party in using Marxism as a sharp ideological weapon to promote self-revolution. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as the main representative, have answered China's questions, the world's questions, the people's questions, and the times' questions in a timely manner, proceeding from new realities, founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, realized a new leap in the sinification of Marxism, and guided the Chinese nation to usher in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. Practice has proved that the party's establishment of Comrade Xi Jinping's core position as the core of the Party Central Committee and the core of the whole Party, and the establishment of the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, reflect the common aspirations of the whole Party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and are of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era and to the historical process of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Beijing has entered a new stage of promoting the development of the capital. General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Beijing 10 times and delivered important speeches to Beijing 17 times, which has pointed out the direction for doing a good job in the work of the capital. The Party Central Committee has given Beijing the strategic positioning of the "four centers" and given the capital new major opportunities and major missions. From holding major celebrations of historical landmark significance, to supporting Beijing to build a comprehensive demonstration zone and pilot free trade zone for the expansion and opening up of the national service industry, to supporting Beijing to build an international science and technology innovation center, a global digital economy benchmark city, and an international consumption center city, the development of the capital has continuously made new historic achievements, vividly demonstrating the truth power of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era.

Embarking on a new journey, we must unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds, guide practice, and promote work, deepen the study and implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, make good use of the results of party history study and education, guide cadres and the masses to deeply study and understand the party's innovative theory, enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve "two safeguards", and resolutely defend the "two establishments". Enhance the pertinence of theoretical study, focus on the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, the spirit of important instructions and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, use theoretical sobriety to ensure political firmness, use theoretical construction to drive innovation capacity building, enhance the political ability, strategic vision, and professional level of party members and cadres in the city, and transform scientific theories into a powerful force for observing the era, grasping the era, and leading the times. Pay attention to the profundity of theoretical research, give full play to the advantages of the Beijing Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, deepen research and interpretation around major theoretical and practical issues, and launch high-quality research results. Highlight the vividness of theoretical propaganda, create a "light cavalry" for theoretical propaganda, carry out red propaganda at the revolutionary memorial site, expand the channel carrier of theoretical dissemination on the Internet, tell the stories and changes around us, and let the scientific theories written in the hearts of the people guide the people's journey of struggle.

Feel the mission of the original heart from the history of the party in the past century, and draw the largest concentric circles for the new journey of forging ahead and building a new era of meritorious service

The century-old party history has enlightened us that the people are the greatest strength for the party to govern and rejuvenate the country. The fundamental reason why our party has been able to develop and grow under such a weak and small situation and to be reborn again and again in the face of all kinds of difficulties and dangers is that it has always kept its original mission in mind and faithfully practiced the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, thus winning the heartfelt support of the people. In the course of a hundred years of struggle, the party's propaganda and ideological work has always taken root in the people, insisted that people should focus their work on wherever they are, and guided people to unswervingly follow the road and move forward unhindered by wind and rain. Entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly insight into the profound changes in the "two overall situations" and the profound adjustment of the communication pattern, deeply grasped the great struggle with many new historical characteristics, emphasized the need to unify thinking and gather forces as the central link of propaganda and ideological work, clarified the party's news and public opinion work responsibilities and missions, personally planned and deployed the integrated development of the media, promoted the continuous improvement of the credibility of the guiding force of news and public opinion, played the triumphant song of the new era, and condensed the majestic force of the new journey.

How to properly follow the party's mass line in the new era, put the party's propositions on the hearts and minds of the masses, embody the voice of the masses in the party's decision-making, and strengthen the faith, conviction, and confidence of the cadres and masses is the examination paper of the times that we must answer well. We insist on focusing on the center, serving the overall situation, and doing a good job in publicizing major themes. Closely follow the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the development strategy of the capital, focus on adhering to the correct orientation, accurately grasping the policy, embodying the purpose of the people, and improving the ability to guide, innovate the media studio mechanism led by backbone reporters, do a good job of planning important issues, make good use of the new media new position, move people with emotion, convince people with reason, improve the level of news release and the effectiveness of news reports, sing the main melody, and enhance the spirit. Adhere to accurate positioning, give full play to advantages, accelerate the in-depth integration and development of the media, further strengthen user awareness, give full play to the advantages of brand columns such as "One Step Forward" and "I Do Practical Things for the Masses", convert offline high-quality content into online traffic, and convert online user stickiness into offline reading rates and ratings. Adhere to aggregation functions and collaborative governance, and improve the ability of all-media services. Strengthen the construction of media platforms at all levels, do a better and stronger district-level financial media center "one-end general office" function, establish a full-media communication system that covers the whole society and benefits all users, responds to social concerns face-to-face and key-to-key, and effectively serves the overall situation of reform, development, and stability.

Feel the spiritual strength from the century-old party history, and build the best city with social atmosphere and moral customs

The party's century-old history of struggle shows that only a political party with a great spirit can lead the people to win great struggles and create great causes. The party's spiritual genealogy and glorious traditions are our precious spiritual wealth and a powerful spiritual driving force that encourages us to forge ahead courageously. As one of the first cities to spread Marxism and found the Communist Party organization, Beijing has witnessed many major events and major activities in the course of revolution, construction and reform on the mainland, and the cadres and masses have always had profound feelings of home and country and glorious revolutionary traditions. Today, the enthusiasm of the citizens of the capital for loving the party, the country, and socialism is even greater. At the meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, more than a thousand college, middle, and primary school students in the capital issued a sonorous oath in Tiananmen Square on behalf of contemporary teenagers: "Please rest assured that the party will have me." Spanning a hundred years, red has always been the distinctive background color of the capital land.

Inheriting the red gene and continuing the red blood is the duty and mission of the capital of a big socialist country. We must carry forward the fine traditions, vigorously promote the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, build the first good district that carries forward the core values of socialism, and create a city with the best social atmosphere and moral customs. Cultivate the spiritual background with red blood, do a good job in the protection of revolutionary cultural relics with heart and soul, protect, manage, and make good use of the three major revolutionary cultural relics theme areas of the early Beijing revolutionary activities of the Communist Party of China, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the establishment of New China, and vigorously build a patriotic education highland. In the study and education of party history, Beijing has highlighted the key group of young people, given full play to the role of red resource education, and let the enthusiasm of young students continue to burst forth. We will do a good job in the fundamental plan of succeeding others, educate people with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, unite people with the party's ideals and beliefs, cultivate people with the core values of socialism, inspire people with the historical mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, guide young people in the new era to listen to the party, follow the party, and let the red gene be passed on from generation to generation. Lead the social trend with the power of example, constantly polish the "Beijing model" brand, adhere to the combination of selecting major models and recommending good people around you, launch more amiable and lovely, credible and learnable advanced models and the most beautiful strivers, carry out the "learn from the example I act" activity, carry forward the power of the role model, let the positive energy fill the society and warm the capital. Add color to livable cities with the new wind of the times, adhere to the first good standard to promote the creation of civilized urban areas throughout the territory, and improve the level of refined governance of megacities. Deepen and expand the practice of civilization and volunteer service in the new era, mobilize all parties to create and build together, promote the formation of ideological concepts, spiritual outlook, civilized customs, and behavioral norms that meet the requirements of the new era, and actively create a national model city of civilization.

Feel the cultural power from the century-old party history, and highlight the style of the times when Chinese culture is self-confident and self-reliant

In the course of a century of struggle, the party has advanced with the times to put forward cultural programs, cultural goals, and cultural policies, embarked on a path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, and promoted the Chinese civilization to glow with new vigor in the process of modernization. In the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has emphasized strengthening cultural self-confidence, adhering to the position of Chinese culture, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding traditional culture, profoundly expounding the fundamental requirements of promoting the "two combinations" of Marxism in China, deepening the understanding of the regularity of socialist cultural construction, and leading cultural construction to present a vivid scene of vigorous development in the process of integrity and innovation. Beijing regards the construction of a national cultural center as a strategic task for the development of the capital in the new era, forming a good pattern of promoting cultural construction with the strength of the whole city, promoting the interplay of traditional culture and modern civilization, and the complementarity of historical context and fashion creativity.

Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence, and is the most basic, deepest and most lasting force in the development of a country and a nation. As a national cultural center, Beijing adheres to the standard of first kindness, carries forward the spirit of initiative, strives to serve the whole country and lead the country in cultural construction, and provides strong cultural support for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Promote the protection of historical and cultural cities with "one axis and three belts". Vigorously strengthen the revitalization and utilization of Beijing's history and culture, refine and display the cultural essence of Contemporary value and world significance in China's excellent traditional culture, promote the overall protection of the old city by promoting the protection of the central axis, enrich the cultural functions of the old city, protect and build the Great Wall Cultural Belt, the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, and the Xishan Yongdinghe Cultural Belt, do a good job in digitizing and protecting cultural heritage, let the ancient cultural relics come alive, let the cultural essence be passed on, and further polish the golden business card of Beijing's history and culture. With "big drama to see Beijing" to lead the creation of literary and artistic masterpieces. Closely following major themes and important nodes, we will deeply implement the project of fine cultural products, comprehensively create a cultural business card of "looking at Beijing in a big drama", use hard work with heart and affection, produce fine works, and write the literary and artistic creations that embody the style of the capital into the history of national rejuvenation and in the journey of the people's struggle. With the "City of Books" and "City of Museums" to build a rich supply of high-quality cultural products. Promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of physical bookstores, run key theme reading activities well, and improve the quality and level of digital reading. Guide social forces to set up museums, promote the opening of "quasi-museums" to the society, and better conserve the cultural heritage of the city. Strengthen the construction of new public cultural spaces, promote the coverage of public cultural service facilities, the quality of service content, the diversification of supply subjects, and the intelligentization of service methods, and create more "cultural homes" that the masses are satisfied with. Enhance cultural soft power with "science and technology empowering culture and empowering cities with culture". Give full play to the two major advantages of Beijing's science and technology and culture, on the one hand, consolidate the multi-departmental coordination mechanism to promote the integration of culture and science and technology, deeply implement the digital strategy of the cultural industry, focus on cultural creation, cultural exchanges, cultural dissemination and other key points, develop market players, create application scenarios, build docking platforms, continuously strengthen the leading effect of the development of new cultural formats in Beijing, and promote digital content to become the main support of the cultural industry. On the other hand, we will expand enabling methods such as creative design and copyright services, strengthen the cultivation of institutions such as design exhibitions and cultural consulting, and promote the full integration of cultural industries into supply-side structural reforms. Focus on enriching the cultural connotation of the industry, highlighting the cultural characteristics and cultural connotation of products and services, enhancing the added value of the industry and the competitiveness of products; focusing on enhancing the charm of cultural consumption, optimizing the institutional environment and business environment, creating a unique cultural experience, and promoting and leading new cultural needs. Firmly use the carrier of the cultural industry park, around the city's 98 cultural parks, implement a number of measures to promote the high-quality development of the cultural industry park, strengthen policy innovation, improve service methods, gather high-quality resources, improve the industrial ecology, improve the level of operation, improve the industrial chain, ecological chain, and value chain of the park, and promote the quality and efficiency of the cultural industry with the construction of the park.

Feel the feelings of the world from the century-old party history, and create the primary window to show the world a credible, cute and respectable image of China

In the course of a century of struggle, our party has always paid attention to carrying out foreign propaganda and cultural exchanges, taken the initiative to publicize China's ideas, vividly told Chinese stories, and made positive contributions to the cause of peace and progress of mankind. Entering a new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed to promote the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, vigorously promote international cooperation in fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic and responding to climate change, and clarify to the world that the Chinese Dream is closely related to the beautiful dreams of the people of all countries, and China's development will inject more vitality and bring more opportunities to the common development of all countries in the world, triggering positive repercussions from the international community. China is moving closer to the center of the world stage, and the world needs to understand the real three-dimensional and comprehensive China more than ever.

As the capital of the great motherland, Beijing is the primary window to show China to the world and shoulders an important responsibility in promoting Sino-foreign exchanges and exchanges. It is necessary to dig deep into the ideological, spiritual and cultural forces behind China's development achievements, show the world China's propositions, Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions, and promote Sino-foreign exchanges and exchanges. It is necessary to build a narrative system, adhere to the guidance of the promotion of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and focus on the development strategies of humanistic Beijing, science and technology Beijing, and green Beijing, and show the unique charm of Beijing to build the capital of the great socialist motherland, the capital of a big country moving towards the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the world-class harmonious and livable capital. Combined with the hosting of major events such as the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, make good use of the cultural resources of the "City of The Two Olympics" to create a Beijing urban image resource platform and enhance the appeal and persuasiveness of Beijing's story. It is necessary to innovate the discourse system, adhere to the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches as the fundamental follow-up, based on the Chinese civilization that has lasted for thousands of years, focus on the mainland's concept of development, civilization, security, human rights, ecology, international order and global governance, refine new concepts, new categories and new expressions that integrate China and foreign countries, enhance the ability to speak out on major issues, and strive to improve international discourse. It is necessary to expand the communication system, give full play to Beijing's advantages such as frequent foreign exchanges, the gathering of international institutions, the concentration of Chinese and foreign media, and the great influence of Internet platforms, and strive to make good use of all aspects of resources and forces to carry out international communication. Adhere to internal and external linkage, special and collaborative cooperation, adhere to globalization, regionalization, and focused communication, and continuously expand the international circle of friends. Improve the mechanism of people-to-people exchanges, innovate cultural exchange methods, and comprehensively use mass communication, group communication, interpersonal communication and other methods to promote people-to-people communication.

(The author is a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and director of the Propaganda Department) People's Daily ( 2022.01.21 09 edition)