Consolidate the foundation of a cultural power with spiritual independence

[In-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with

The prosperity of a country and a nation is always supported by the prosperity of culture. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation requires the development and prosperity of Chinese culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development: "To continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point, we must strengthen cultural self-confidence, adhere to our own path, base ourselves on the great historical practice of the Chinese nation and contemporary practice, summarize Chinese experience with Chinese principles, upgrade Chinese experience to Chinese theory, and achieve spiritual independence." This important exposition has put forward new requirements for the prosperity and development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and provides a fundamental basis for building a socialist cultural power.

Only by standing up and standing firm spiritually can we stand tall and stand tall in the torrent of history

Only by achieving spiritual independence and self-determination can we grasp the historical initiative of promoting the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. The introduction of Marxism into China and its integration with the Chinese workers' movement gave birth to the Communist Party of China, and the spirit of the Chinese changed from passive to active. Over the past 100 years and more, in the process of independently promoting the Sinicization of Marxism and the modernization of Marxism, our party has produced one theoretical achievement after another and achieved one historic leap after another. Sinicization and modernization of Marxism not only guided China's revolution, construction, and reform to achieve great success, but also enabled the spiritual outlook of the Chinese people to change from passive to active and from unconfident to self-confident. The historical experience of our party in independently promoting the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism shows that spiritual independence is an important guarantee for carrying out theoretical innovation on the basis of practice and realizing the Chinese nation's self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-reliance.

Only by achieving spiritual independence can we realize the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the crystallization and essence of the wisdom of the Chinese civilization, the rich nourishment of the revolutionary culture and the advanced socialist culture, and the foundation for us to gain a firm foothold in the turmoil of world culture. As a faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture, our party has integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China's excellent traditional culture, "creating an organic and unified new cultural life, making Marxism Chinese, China's excellent traditional culture modern, and making the new culture formed through 'integration' a cultural form of Chinese-style modernization." To continue to promote Chinese-style modernization, we must promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and this work can only be completed by the Chinese independently.

Only by achieving spiritual independence can we construct China's independent knowledge system. All the far-reaching civilizations in human history have their own unique knowledge systems. The fundamental reason why the excellent traditional Chinese culture has attracted worldwide attention is also this. China's decline in modern times has also brought about the deconstruction of the knowledge system. After more than 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially more than 40 years of reform and opening up, the national economic system, institutional system, legal system and market system with Chinese characteristics have been established. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Accelerating the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics is, in the final analysis, the construction of China's independent knowledge system. "Only by standing firmly on China's position, taking China as a mirror, basing ourselves on China's reality, solving China's problems, and realizing spiritual independence, can we build China's independent knowledge system and make Chinese philosophy and social sciences stand on their own feet in the world's academic forest.

Only by achieving spiritual independence can we resist the corrosive influence of various decadent cultures and safeguard the country's cultural and ideological security. Contemporary China is experiencing the most extensive and profound social changes in the history of the mainland, and the profound changes in the international and domestic situations have brought unprecedented complexity to the mainland's ideological field, with various ideologies and cultures agitating each other and exchanges and confrontations between different civilizations becoming more frequent. Only by maintaining spiritual independence and self-determination can we enhance our ability to integrate ideology, culture, and values, and constantly enhance the cohesion and leading force of socialist ideology; can we expand the initiative, dominance, and discourse power in the field of mainstream values, and build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation; can we keep upright and innovate while not forgetting our roots, consciously resist the ideological infiltration of Western hostile forces while absorbing foreign countries, seize the initiative in facing the future, create a modern civilization of the Chinese nation, and promote the progress of human civilization.

Spiritual independence is the historical conclusion of our party proceeding from China's reality and following its own road

The Party's centennial struggle has forged a cultural subject that has achieved spiritual independence and self-determination. Independence is the soul of the Chinese nation, an important principle for us to build the party and the country, and also a valuable experience accumulated by our party over the past century. The opening up of the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the formation of theories, the establishment of systems, and the development of culture are all the results of the Party leading the people to persist in independence and forge ahead. In this process, our party has become stronger and more powerful, and the Chinese people are full of the great spirit of creation, struggle, unity, and dreams. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The magnificent history of the development of the Chinese nation is written by the Chinese people! The broad and profound Chinese civilization is created by the Chinese people! The enduring spirit of the Chinese nation is cultivated by the Chinese people! The Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up, getting rich to becoming strong, and it is the struggle of the Chinese people!" A strong and powerful political party and hardworking and courageous people are the fundamental force for us to achieve spiritual independence and self-determination.

The continuous advancement of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism has provided a powerful force of truth for the realization of spiritual independence and self-determination. The reason why the Communist Party of China is able and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good is, in the final analysis, the practice of Marxism and the practice of Marxism in the Chinese era. For more than 100 years, in the course of leading the Chinese people in their unremitting struggle for national independence, the liberation of the people, the prosperity and strength of the country, and the happiness of the people, the party has always insisted on writing Marxism on its banner, always persisting in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, and constantly promoting the Sinicization of Marxism into the times, so that Marxism can be displayed in the world with a brand-new image, and the two ideologies of socialism and capitalism in the world can be displayed in the world. The historical evolution of the two social systems and their contest have undergone a major change in favor of socialism. The party's centennial struggle has demonstrated the strong vitality of Marxism and provided strong support for the realization of spiritual independence and self-determination.

The successful promotion of Chinese-style modernization has provided a solid material foundation for achieving spiritual independence and self-determination. Spiritual independence is built on the basis of strong hard power. Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the mainland has made achievements in economic and social development that have attracted worldwide attention, and in a few decades it has completed the industrialization process that developed countries have gone through for hundreds of years. At present, the mainland is the world's second largest economic power, the largest exporter of goods, the second largest importer of goods, the second largest country of foreign direct investment, the largest country of foreign exchange reserves, and the largest tourism market. The mainland's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, comprehensive national strength, and international influence, as well as the historic achievements and changes that have taken place in the cause of the party and the state in recent years, have provided a more solid material foundation for realizing spiritual independence, building a modern socialist power, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The flourishing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics has provided rich nourishment for the realization of spiritual independence. The various ideologies and cultures produced in the process of the formation and development of the Chinese nation record the spiritual activities, rational thinking, and cultural achievements created by the Chinese nation in its long-term struggle, and reflect the spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, the core content of which has become the cultural gene of the Chinese nation. The revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture forged by our party and the people in the course of a century of struggle are a powerful spiritual force for our party to unite and struggle and grasp the initiative in history, and represent the direction of progress of Chinese civilization. The socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, which is composed of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the revolutionary culture and the advanced socialist culture, has nurtured the Chinese characteristics of socialism and provided rich nourishment for the realization of spiritual independence and the construction of a socialist cultural power.

Summarize China's experience with Chinese principles and elevate China's experience to Chinese theory

Strengthen self-confidence in socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence, and it is the most basic, deepest and most lasting force in the development of a country and a nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Strengthening cultural self-confidence is a major issue related to the rise and fall of national fortunes, cultural security, and national spiritual independence. "To strengthen cultural self-confidence is to strengthen self-confidence in the organism of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, including the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture. The cultural foundation of Chinese-style modernization is formed by the organic combination of the soul of Marxism and the root of China's excellent traditional culture. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the root vein of the party's promotion of theoretical innovation, and the revolutionary culture and the advanced socialist culture contain the soul of Marxism. To achieve spiritual independence, it is necessary to scientifically grasp the dialectical relationship between China's excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, and promote the party's theoretical innovation with firm cultural self-confidence.

Promote the party's innovative theoretical system of chemistry, physics and chemistry. Only when theory is thorough can it convince people and play a guiding role in practice. The far-reaching influence of Marxism lies in the fact that it reveals the truth of the development of human society with profound theories and demonstrates the scientificity of its theories with a complete system. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as the latest achievement of the Party's innovative theory, is a scientific system that has been continuously enriched and improved with the development of practice. To strengthen the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, it is necessary to work systematization, learning, physics and chemistry, and thoroughly study and explain the background of the times, scientific system, spiritual essence, practical requirements, and original contributions of the Party's innovation theory. It is necessary to focus on studying and interpreting the principled theoretical achievements in the party's innovative theories, grasp the internal connections between them, and let contemporary Chinese Marxism and Marxism in the 21st century show a stronger and more convincing force of truth.

Construct China's independent knowledge system. At present, an important task of the Chinese philosophical and social science circles is to sum up China's experience with Chinese principles, deeply analyze the fundamental reasons for the historic changes that have taken place in Chinese society since the founding of the Communist Party of China, clearly explain the institutional, values, and cultural reasons behind China's success and miracles, and correct some misunderstandings and prejudices about China in the international community. It is necessary to be good at elevating China's experience to theory, explaining China's historical changes over the past century from the perspective of theory and philosophy, raising China's successful experience to the level of regularity, summarizing general principles, and building an independent knowledge system that belongs to both China and the world, so as to expand China's academic discourse, enhance China's cultural soft power, make Chinese theory a world, and demonstrate the world significance of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Strengthen research on major practical issues. At present, the changes of the world, the times, and history are accelerating, and human society is facing many common problems that need to be solved urgently. In order to innovate theories and to prosper and develop in philosophy and social sciences, the Party must adhere to the guidance of Marxism, base itself on China and keep the world in mind, conform to the times, uphold integrity and innovation, answer major questions such as "what is wrong with the world and what should we do", "where is mankind going", "what kind of modernization to achieve, and how to achieve modernization" from the perspective of combining theory and practice, comprehensively and systematically put forward scientific theories and effective countermeasures to solve practical problems, and provide Chinese solutions and contribute Chinese wisdom to the progress of human civilization.

Source: Guangming Daily

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