Adhere to the "two combinations" to better undertake the new cultural mission

　　It is the only way to open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the profound foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization and to integrate the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture. The "two combinations" are the regular understanding that our party has drawn in the course of exploring the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is the fundamental way for us to promote the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is contemporary Chinese Marxism and Marxism in the 21st century, which has achieved a new leap in the Sinicization of Marxism and the modernization of Marxism. As the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Xi Jinping Cultural Thought provides a powerful ideological weapon and a scientific action guide for doing a good job in publicizing ideological and cultural work in the new era and new journey and undertaking a new cultural mission. At the new historical starting point, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, consciously adhere to the "two combinations", and make new contributions to continuing to promote cultural prosperity, building a cultural power, and building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point.

　　Xi Jinping's cultural thought is a major achievement of the "two combinations".

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "If there is no Chinese civilization of 5,000 years, where is there any Chinese characteristics? If it were not for Chinese characteristics, how could we have such a successful path of socialism with Chinese characteristics today? "The history of the Communist Party of China is a history of constantly advancing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and it is a history of constantly advancing theoretical innovation and theoretical creation. Looking back at the history of the party's theoretical exploration, both positive and negative experiences show that the "two combinations" are the fundamental way to promote the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Xi Jinping's cultural thought adheres to the soul of Marxism and the root of China's excellent traditional culture, which is a major achievement of the "two combinations", which not only has the innovation and breakthrough in cultural theory, but also the deployment requirements of cultural work layout.

　　It is a major achievement in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality. Marxism is not a study in the study, but is highly related to practice, constantly tested in the process of guiding practice and solving problems, and innovatively developed in the process of promoting the development of practice. Engels noted: "Marx's whole world view is not a doctrine, but a method. It does not provide ready-made dogmas, but rather a starting point for further research and a methodology for such research. "The basic tenets of Marxism must be closely integrated with the specific realities of various countries in order to play a guiding role in practice. It is precisely by integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with the concrete reality of China's revolution, construction, and reform that the Chinese communists have made a series of major theoretical achievements in the Sinicization of Marxism and the modernization of the times. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era has summarized the fresh experience of the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and is a glorious example of the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality. Xi Jinping Cultural Thought is the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, a theoretical summary of the practical experience of the Party's leadership in cultural construction in the new era, guiding the mainland's propaganda, ideological and cultural undertakings to make historic achievements in the process of purifying the source, keeping integrity and innovating, and showing great power in the construction of socialist culture in the mainland. To deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, better undertake the new cultural mission, and constantly open up a new situation in the propaganda, ideological and cultural work in the new era, it is necessary to deeply understand that Xi Jinping Cultural Thought is a constantly unfolding and open ideological system, which will be continuously enriched and developed with the deepening of practice.

　　It is a major achievement in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Although the excellent traditional Chinese culture and Marxism were born in different historical time and space, they have a high degree of compatibility with each other. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "After Marxism was introduced into China, the idea of scientific socialism was warmly welcomed by the Chinese people, and finally took root in the land of China and blossomed. As the crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese civilization, the excellent traditional Chinese culture contains the ideological content of the world for the public, the people for the state, the government for morality, the reform of the old and the new, the meritocracy, the unity of nature and man, self-improvement, virtue, faithfulness and harmony, and good-neighborliness, which are integrated with Marxism. Specifically, in terms of values, the ideal of Datong society in the excellent traditional Chinese culture is highly consistent with the ideal of communist society envisioned by Marxism. In terms of the way of thinking, the simple dialectical thinking of "blessings and misfortunes depend on each other" and "things must be opposed" in the excellent traditional Chinese culture are intrinsically consistent with the Marxist materialist dialectics; In terms of behavior, the "unity of knowledge and action", "practice and practice" and "application to the world" in the excellent traditional Chinese culture have something in common with the practical views of Marxism, such as "subjective view is objective", "practice determines understanding" and "theory is linked with practice". To thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, it is necessary to deeply understand that the "second combination" is another emancipation of the mind and a profound grasp of the law of the development of Chinese civilization, so that we can make full use of the precious resources of China's excellent traditional culture in a broader cultural space and explore future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations.

　　"Combination" has created a new cultural life form that is organically unified

　　Xi Jinping's cultural thought is an ideological system with rich connotations, which has made original contributions to Marxist cultural theory, among which the major innovative views on the "second combination" have profoundly revealed the law of the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, making Marxism Chinese, China's excellent traditional culture modern, and making the new culture formed through "combination" a cultural form of Chinese-style modernization, allowing us to grasp the ideological and cultural initiative, and effectively act on the road, theory and system.

　　The Communist Party of China is not only a firm believer and practitioner of Marxism, but also a faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture. In his important speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly elaborated on the "second combination", highlighting the great significance of the "second combination". The Chinese civilization has provided a historical basis and cultural connotation for China's specific reality, and integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality will inevitably require a deeper integration with the Chinese civilization and China's fine traditional culture. Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture have stimulated and achieved each other, consolidated our cultural subjectivity in the new era, and created a new cultural life.

　　In the specific process of the "second combination," on the one hand, Marxism has activated the vitality of the Chinese civilization and enabled the excellent traditional Chinese culture to burst out with powerful spiritual power. The October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China with the sound of a cannon, and the light of truth activated the genes of Chinese civilization, which opened up a new face, realized the leap from tradition to modernity, and developed the modern form of Chinese civilization. On the other hand, the excellent traditional Chinese culture has enriched the cultural life of Marxism and provided rich historical and cultural nourishment for the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Since the beginning of the new era, our party has shown a new atmosphere and new deeds in promoting Marxism to take root in China's history and culture. For example, General Secretary Xi Jinping combined the Marxist view of nature with the idea of the unity of nature and man in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and proposed to build a modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature; Combining the Marxist theory of world history and the idea of community with the idea of harmony and harmony of all nations and the great harmony of the world of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the idea of building a community with a shared future for mankind is proposed. Wait a minute. The integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with the fine traditional Chinese culture has consolidated our cultural subjectivity. We should profoundly understand that "China" and "China" are not only a geographical designation, but also a historical and cultural concept. A nation without cultural self-confidence cannot stand, stand unstable, and cannot go far; A nation that loses its cultural subjectivity will be lost in the smoke of history. With cultural subjectivity, there is a firm self in the cultural sense, the Communist Party of China has a strong cultural force to lead the times, the Chinese nation and the Chinese people have a solid cultural foundation of national identity, and Chinese civilization has a distinctive cultural characteristic of exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations in the world. This cultural subjectivity is manifested in the conscious pursuit of the continuity of the development path of Chinese civilization and the self-determination of "where China is going". The establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the most powerful embodiment of this cultural subjectivity. From the perspective of the concept of history and civilization, the "second combination" fundamentally solves the problem of cultural subjectivity in contemporary China, truly creates a new cultural life that belongs to our time, and embodies the style of the era of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement in the new era.

　　We must also profoundly understand that the basic tenets of Marxism can be integrated with the fine traditional Chinese culture and are inseparable from the outstanding characteristics of the Chinese civilization. The Chinese civilization is the only great civilization in the world that has continued to develop in the form of a state, and has outstanding continuity. Only by understanding China from the perspective of its long-standing historical continuity can we understand ancient China, modern China and future China, and unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the dialectical unity of the theoretical logic of scientific socialism and the historical logic of China's social development. The Chinese civilization is a civilization that innovates the old and brings forth the new, keeps pace with the times, and constantly strives for self-improvement, and has outstanding innovation. The Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people to carry forward the great innovative spirit of the Chinese nation, to keep the right and not to keep the old, to respect the past and not to go back to the past, not to be afraid of new challenges, and to have the courage to accept new things, thus successfully realizing the modern transformation of Chinese civilization. The Chinese civilization is a unified civilization that is pluralistic and unified, inwardly cohesive, united and concentrated, and has outstanding unity. The tradition of great unification of the Chinese civilization has laid a profound historical and cultural foundation for safeguarding the unity of the mainland as a multi-ethnic state, safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and realizing the great unity of the Chinese nation. The Chinese civilization is a civilization of pluralism, inclusiveness, and open exchange, with outstanding inclusiveness. The convergence of Chinese civilization from diverse cultures into a common culture has fundamentally determined the historical orientation of the Chinese nation's exchanges, exchanges and blending, the harmonious pattern of the coexistence of various religious beliefs in China, and the open-mindedness of Chinese culture to the eclectic world civilization. The Chinese civilization advocates the unity of the group and itself, and advocates the harmony of transportation, symbiosis, and the preservation of Taihe, which has outstanding peace. We firmly stand on the right side of history and the progress of human civilization, hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win results, seek our own development while firmly safeguarding world peace and development, and better safeguard world peace and development through our own development. As an important part of Xi Jinping's cultural thought, it fully shows that our party's historical self-confidence and cultural self-confidence have reached a new height, and that our party's consciousness of promoting cultural innovation in inheriting China's excellent traditional culture has reached a new height.

　　Undertake a new cultural mission and accelerate the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics

　　In the new era and new journey, the philosophical and social science front should adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, take the actual situation of the mainland as the starting point of research, explain China's path, interpret China's practice, and construct China's theory, accelerate the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, build China's independent knowledge system, and better undertake the new cultural mission.

　　Strengthen the party's overall leadership over philosophical and social science work. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a Marxist political party with a high degree of cultural consciousness and the courage to undertake cultural missions. To thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, it is necessary to uphold the Party's leadership over ideological work, adhere to the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the ideological field, and strengthen the Party's overall leadership over philosophical and social science work. It is necessary to consciously implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in the entire process of philosophical and social science research in all aspects, strengthen the refutation of erroneous trends of thought, and ensure the correct political orientation, academic orientation, and value orientation.

　　Strengthen systematic research and physical and chemical interpretation. Promoting the systematization of theories and the study of physics and chemistry is an intrinsic requirement and an important way for theoretical innovation. The development of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is a process of continuous enrichment and expansion and continuous systematization, learning and physics, and Xi Jinping Cultural Thought is a constantly expanding and open ideological system, which will be continuously enriched and developed with the deepening of practice. It is necessary to continue to strengthen the study, research, and interpretation of Xi Jinping's cultural thought, work true learning, true understanding, true belief, and true application, work deepening internalization and transformation, and work systematic research, academic and physical interpretation, and academic expression.

　　To build a Chinese school of philosophy and social sciences. In order to win the future, win dignity, and move steadily and prosperously, contemporary Chinese academics must strengthen cultural self-confidence, follow their own path in the construction of discipline system, academic system and discourse system, base themselves on the great historical practice of the Chinese nation and contemporary practice, summarize Chinese experience with Chinese principles, elevate Chinese experience to Chinese theory, and achieve spiritual independence. It is necessary to continuously absorb the essence of China's excellent history and culture, enhance the ability of academic originality, promote interdisciplinary integration, construct China's independent knowledge system, build a Chinese school of philosophy and social sciences, and constantly promote knowledge, theory and method innovation, so that the study of modern civilization of the Chinese nation can fully reflect Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style.

　　Tell the story of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. The modern civilization of the Chinese nation is both Chinese and global, providing spiritual nourishment for the people of Chinese and dedicating ideology and wisdom to the people of the world. We should base ourselves on China and face the world, refine and display the spiritual identity and cultural essence of Chinese civilization, accelerate the construction of Chinese discourse and Chinese narrative system, carry out equal dialogue and exchanges with the international academic community, and clearly and loudly express the voice of Chinese academics themselves. It is necessary to strengthen the capacity of international communication, improve the ability to shape the country's image and influence international public opinion, and enhance the international discourse power.

　　The modern civilization of the Chinese nation is a socialist civilization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, a civilization rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the subjectivity of Chinese culture, and a civilization that draws on and absorbs all the outstanding achievements of human civilization. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, implement the spirit of the National Conference on Propaganda, Ideological and Cultural Work, strengthen historical and cultural self-confidence, adhere to the "two combinations", bravely undertake cultural missions, and contribute wisdom and strength to the construction of a socialist cultural power and the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

　　Author: Gao Xiang (President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

　　Source: People's Daily (October 31, 2023 09 edition)