【Daily Habits】Better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength

Xi Jinping: We must adhere to Marxism, firmly establish the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, cultivate and practice the core values of socialism, continuously enhance the leading power and discourse power in the ideological field, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding traditional culture, inherit the revolutionary culture, develop advanced socialist culture, not forget the original, absorb foreign countries, and face the future, better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and provide spiritual guidance for the people.

This passage is from general secretary Xi Jinping's report at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 18, 2017.

Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for building our party and country, and to better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, we must adhere to the guidance of Marxism as the direction. Marxism has set the goal for the courageous and resolute march of the Chinese people, and this goal is to liberate man from the inevitable kingdom of material and spirituality, get rid of the passive state of spirit, and realize the complete liberation of man, including spiritual liberation.

The century-old history of the party is that under the guidance of Marxism, the party has led the Chinese people to continuously gain spiritual initiative and spiritual liberation, and better build the history of the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength. In the new era, we must continue to persist in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, constantly promote theoretical innovation on the basis of practice, continue to develop contemporary Chinese Marxism and Marxism in the 21st century, and let Marxism show a stronger and more convincing force of truth in China.

When culture is prosperous, the country is prosperous, and if the culture is strong, the nation is strong. Culture is the soul of a country and a nation, and cultural products are the physical carriers of the Chinese spirit, Chinese values and Chinese strength. In the new era, we should actively promote the supply-side reform of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, emphasize the spiritual attributes and value attributes of cultural products, comprehensively prosper cultural information transmission services, cultural and artistic services, and cultural leisure and entertainment services, gradually standardize the emerging cultural production with "Internet +" as the main pattern, and promote the unification of meeting the people's cultural needs and building the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength by providing the people with diversified and personalized cultural products with profound thinking, exquisite art, and excellent production.

Sports is an important symbol of social development and human progress, a landmark cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and an important embodiment of the Chinese spirit, Chinese values and Chinese strength. Providing a strong spiritual force of cohesion for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the true charm and highest value of sports. The Winter Olympic Dream meets the Chinese Dream, the Beijing Winter Olympics is not only a competition in ice and snow sports, but also an important opportunity to show China's image, invigorate the national spirit, and strengthen the confidence of a strong country, let us work together to the future, cheer for the Beijing Winter Olympics, and contribute to the rejuvenation of the nation.

Special Expert of this issue: Wang Weiguo, School of Marxism, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Source: CCTV