Philosophy and social science are an important tool for people to understand and transform the world, and an important force for promoting historical development and social progress. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has attached great importance to giving play to the important role of philosophy and social science, using social science to understand society, transform society, and carry out social revolution, and has elevated its understanding of Modern Chinese Society to a scientific level and a completely new realm. In the various historical periods of China's revolution, construction, and reform, our party has continuously promoted theoretical, practical, and institutional innovations, and promoted the cause of the party and the state from victory to victory, and the work of philosophy and social science itself has thus achieved great development. Conscientiously reviewing and summing up the successful experience of the CPC in leading the work of philosophy and social sciences can gain ideological enlightenment, theoretical armament, and action guidance, which is of great significance for doing a good job in philosophical and social science work in the new era and promoting the high-quality development of social science undertakings. These successful experiences can be summed up as "seven must be adhered to".
We must uphold the fundamental guiding position of Marxism. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Contemporary Chinese philosophy and social science are based on the entry of Marxism into China as the starting point and are gradually developed under the guidance of Marxism. Looking back at the history of the Party over the past hundred years, the formation and development process of philosophy and social science in the modern sense of our country is the process of the wide dissemination of Marxism in China, the process of integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality, the process of integrating with China's excellent traditional culture, and the process of continuously promoting the sinicization, modernization, and popularization of Marxism. The dominant position of Marxism in the field of philosophy and social science in our country is determined by the essential attributes of our party as a Marxist party, determined by the inherent laws and logic of the development of philosophy and social science, and achieved through repeated comparisons and even trial and error. History has repeatedly shown that when Marxism is upheld and developed, the cause of philosophy and social science will be full of vitality, full of vitality, and prosperity; whenever Marxism is deviated from, the cause of philosophy and social science will suffer setbacks. Adhering to the guidance of Marxism and adhering to the correct political direction, academic orientation and value orientation are the soul, lifeblood, and advantages of China's philosophy and social sciences. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st century Marxism. To adhere to the guiding position of Marxism in philosophy and social sciences in the new era, it is necessary to persist in running Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era through all disciplines and fields of philosophy and social sciences, running through all aspects of discipline construction, subject research, academic exchanges, achievement evaluation, textbook preparation, and classroom teaching, so as to build a strong ideological position of the party and write a new chapter in the development of philosophy and social sciences in the new era and new journey.
We must persist in taking the major theoretical and practical issues in the development of the cause of the party and the state as the main direction of attack. Over the past hundred years, the party has always insisted on promoting the development of philosophy and social science by studying and solving major practical problems. Under the leadership of the Party, the vast number of philosophical and social science workers have closely linked their own destiny with the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and have also promoted the prosperity of philosophy and social science while achieving fruitful results. History and reality show that philosophy and social science are an important part of the overall situation of the cause of the party and the state, and only by focusing on the center, serving the overall situation, and scientifically answering the major theoretical and practical questions raised by the development of the times can we truly make a difference and embody value. At present, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country has begun, and the opportunities and challenges facing China's development are unprecedented. This unprecedented great practice will certainly provide a strong driving force and broad space for theoretical creation and academic prosperity. Philosophical and social science workers should uphold a high sense of social responsibility, establish a strong sense of problems, take the initiative to focus on the overall situation of the development of the cause of the party and the country, focus on major theoretical and practical issues, carry out in-depth basic and applied research, and provide more theoretical supply, academic support and intellectual support for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era with high-quality theoretical achievements and pragmatic and effective countermeasures and suggestions.
We must adhere to Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that efforts should be made to build philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, and it is necessary to fully reflect Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style in terms of guiding ideology, discipline system, academic system and discourse system. In practice, China's philosophy and social sciences have made great progress in this regard, and a large number of ideological and theoretical achievements with Chinese characteristics have been formed. However, it should also be noted that at present, there is still a blind obedience phenomenon of "words must be called Greece", some deliberately imitate Western literary styles and expressions, and evaluate China with Western academic standards, and some simply apply Western theories and methods to study China's economy, society and culture, resulting in the problem of "cutting enough to be done", which has a certain negative impact on academia and society, and also restricts the healthy development of Philosophy and Social Science in China. At present, with the continuous improvement of comprehensive national strength, China is increasingly entering the center of the world stage and "can look at the world at a glance", but philosophy and social science are still relatively behind economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Backwardness will be beaten, poor will be starved, and aphasia will be scolded." "To solve the problem of being scolded, we must build a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, strive to win the right to speak internationally, and avoid using Western theories to explain China's reality." We must strengthen cultural self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, value self-confidence, absorb the strengths of all, absorb the original, learn from the outside, from the great social changes of contemporary China, from the absorption and reference of the essence of China's excellent traditional culture and the outstanding achievements of human civilization to breed more original concepts and theories, and strive to build philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, so that Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style can be fully displayed and become its distinctive symbols.
We must adhere to the people-centered research orientation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important speech on "July 1st": "Jiangshan is the people, the people are Jiangshan, and fighting and defending Jiangshan is the people's heart." "Philosophical and social science work is an important task for Bacon to cast his soul and unite people's hearts. Looking back at the course of a hundred years, we can find that the question of why people are human beings is a question of direction, fundamentality, and principle in philosophy and social science. The study of philosophy and social science must first clarify for whom the writings are written and for whom the doctrine is made, and whether they serve the minority or the vast majority. History has fully proved that philosophy and social science are for the people, originate from the people, and belong to the people, and if they are separated from the people, philosophy and social science will lose their blood, foundation and soul. Today, if the broad masses of social science workers want to make a difference, they must adhere to the people-centered research orientation, strengthen field research, go into the fields, sit on the people's kangtou, go deep into the hearts of the masses, do their best to do practical things for the masses, solve difficult problems, resolve doubts, and write their knowledge into the hearts of the masses; they must adhere to the concept of doing research for the people, take root in the masses, put social responsibility in the first place, pay attention to academic research and social effects, and realize their own value in the process of making moral statements for the people We must persist in using expressions that the masses like to hear and hear, and expressions that are easy to understand, to dispel doubts and puzzles, to clarify the truth, and to strive to introduce more research results that can withstand the tests of practice, the people, and history.
We must persist in implementing the principle of "a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contend." Adhering to the "double hundred" policy is a scientific summary of the successful experience of the party's leadership in philosophy and social sciences, an urgent need to promote the prosperity and development of philosophy and social sciences, and an inevitable requirement for following the laws of the development of philosophy and social sciences themselves and the laws of human thinking and understanding. Experience has shown that when the "double hundred" policy is adhered to well, there will be a vivid scene of blossoming flowers in China's philosophy and social sciences; on the contrary, it will hinder the development of philosophy and social sciences. Experience has also shown that power and authority are not the standards of truth, but practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and that in order to understand, defend, and develop truth in practice, it is necessary to carry out an equal, healthy, lively, and fully reasoned academic controversy. In 1978, it was through the great discussion on the standard of truth that the shackles of the "two whatevers" were broken, the nationwide Marxist ideological emancipation movement was promoted, and the ideological guidance and theoretical preparations were made for the Great Turning Point of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Striving for a new era and forging ahead into a new journey urgently requires philosophy and social sciences to achieve great development and great prosperity. We must comprehensively implement the "double hundred" policy, carry forward academic democracy, encourage exploration and innovation, advocate different viewpoints and different schools of thought to argue and discuss, advocate fully reasoned criticism and counter-criticism, respect differences, and tolerate diversity; we must correctly distinguish between academic and political issues, and we cannot treat general academic issues as political issues, nor can we treat political issues as ordinary academic issues, and truly let the correct things be protected and cared for, and let the wrong things be criticized and resisted.
We must persist in strengthening the talent support of philosophy and social science undertakings. Innovation must produce results, and it is expensive to win people. Talent is the first resource for career development, and the prosperity and development of philosophy and social sciences are inseparable from the support of talents. Looking back at history, it is precisely because a large number of outstanding talents, such as Guo Moruo, Li Da, Ai Siqi, Zhai Bozan, Fan Wenlan, Lü Zhenyu, Ma Yinchu, Fei Xiaotong, and Qian Zhongshu, have devoted themselves to the cause of philosophy and social sciences, and China's philosophy and social sciences have achieved vigorous development from scratch and from small to large. At present, in the face of the call for career development, it is especially necessary for outstanding talents to emerge and form a vivid situation of "all kinds of frost and sky competition for freedom" in the field of social sciences. It is necessary to persist in respecting labor, respecting knowledge, respecting talents, and respecting creation, strengthen the cultivation and use of outstanding talents in philosophy and social sciences, and strive to make philosophical and social science workers recognized and respected. It is necessary to implement the project of philosophical and social science talents, increase investment in talent work, and build a philosophical and social science talent system with complete types, reasonable structure, and echelon connection. It is necessary to follow the law of personnel training, innovate the talent management service system and mechanism, improve the reward and incentive system, do more practical things, do good things, and solve difficulties for them, and strive to create a good environment conducive to outstanding talents to stand out and display their talents.
We must persist in strengthening the party's leadership over philosophical and social science work. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "The key to handling China's affairs well lies in the party. "The party, the government, the military, and the people, in the east, west, south, and north, the party leads everything. Upholding the party's leadership is the fundamental prerequisite for doing a good job in all work, including philosophical and social science work. Practice has proved that strengthening and improving the party's leadership over philosophical and social science work is the fundamental guarantee for the prosperity and development of China's philosophical and social science undertakings. Only by always adhering to the party's overall leadership can we ensure the sustained and healthy development of the philosophical and social science cause; and any weakening or abandoning of the party's leadership will shake the foundation of the philosophical and social science cause, cause ideological confusion, and may also trigger social unrest. In order for the cause of philosophy and social sciences to achieve both plateaus and peaks, we must bear in mind that "the majesty of ten thousand mountains must have the main peak." It is necessary to unswervingly uphold the principle of the party managing philosophy and social sciences, strengthen the party's overall leadership over philosophical and social science work, ensure that the leadership of the development of the cause is always in the hands of those who are loyal to the party, the people, and Marxism, and ensure that philosophy and social sciences always advance along the correct track and develop in the right direction.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important speeches and instructions on the work of philosophy and social sciences, profoundly answered the major theoretical and practical issues of accelerating the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, further clarified the fundamental positioning, development goals and strategic paths of philosophy and social sciences, and pointed out the direction of progress and provided fundamental guidelines for the development of philosophy and social sciences. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on philosophy and social science work not only profoundly summarizes the basic experience of the COMMUNIST Party of China in leading the work of philosophy and social science over the past hundred years, but also puts forward a series of new requirements, new viewpoints and new theses based on the new era, which is the inheritance and development of the above "seven must be adhered to". Striving for a new era, fully drawing on and applying the successful experience of the "seven must be adhered to", it is necessary to fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on philosophy and social science work, firmly grasp the correct political direction, focus on building philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, strive to create a new situation for the prosperity and development of philosophy and social science, and gather consensus and gather strength for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. (The author is Secretary of the Party Group and Executive Vice Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Social Sciences)
(From Xinxiang Review, No. 21, 2021)
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