On the afternoon of October 28th, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held its 17th collective study on building a cultural power. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, emphasized during the study session that we must anchor the strategic goal of building a cultural power by 2035, adhere to the fundamental guiding ideology of Marxism, root ourselves in the vast and profound Chinese civilization, follow the trend of information technology development, continuously develop a new era of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics that has strong ideological leadership, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence, continuously enhance the spiritual strength of the people, and build a solid cultural foundation for the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Comrade Wang Bo, Vice President and Professor of Peking University, gave a lecture on this issue and put forward work suggestions. Comrades from the Central Political Bureau listened attentively to the explanation and had discussions.
Xi Jinping delivered an important speech after listening to explanations and discussions. He pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have consistently placed cultural construction in a prominent position in governing the country, made a series of major deployments, formed the cultural ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and promoted the historic achievements of cultural construction in the process of rectifying the root cause and innovating. The construction of a socialist cultural power has taken solid steps.
Xi Jinping emphasized the need to steadfastly follow the path of developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. Adhere to the leadership of the Party, enhance the governance capacity in the cultural field under the conditions of informatization, and build a solid foundation for the Party's governance and the masses in terms of ideology, spirit, and culture. Adhere to the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the ideological field, fully implement the cultural ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and develop a socialist culture that is oriented towards modernization, the world, and the future, and is scientifically popular among the nation. Adhere to the guidance of socialist core values, continuously build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and develop and strengthen mainstream values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture.
Xi Jinping pointed out that efforts should be made to stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creation of the whole nation. Adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, prioritize social benefits, unify social benefits with economic benefits, take stimulating innovation and creativity as the central link in deepening cultural system and mechanism reform, and accelerate the improvement of cultural management system and production and operation mechanism. Focusing on enhancing cultural originality ability, improving the production services, guidance, and organizational mechanisms of literary and artistic creation, nurturing and nurturing a group of deeply rooted classics of the times, and building a new peak of Chinese culture. Actively creating a good cultural ecology, fully promoting academic democracy and literary democracy, supporting writers, artists, experts and scholars to root themselves in life and devote themselves to creation, and promoting the sustained vitality of cultural innovation and creation. Explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology, achieve digital empowerment and information transformation of cultural construction, and transform cultural resource advantages into cultural development advantages.
Xi Jinping emphasized that we must always adhere to the principle of cultural construction focusing on and rooted in people. Focusing on meeting the diverse, multi-level, and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs of the people, enhancing the supply capacity of cultural services and products, and strengthening the people's sense of cultural acquisition and happiness. Pay attention to the role of culture in nurturing the mind and character, and cultivate the spirit and temperament of the whole nation to be full of vigor and vitality. Respect the laws of talent growth, improve talent selection, cultivation, utilization, and incentive mechanisms that are in line with the characteristics of the cultural field, create a favorable policy environment for recognizing, valuing, and loving talents, and build a large-scale, structurally reasonable, and innovative high-level cultural talent team.
Uphold the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and take good care of, promote, and develop the treasures of Chinese civilization that have gone through vicissitudes. Deeply explore and expound the spiritual connotation of excellent traditional Chinese culture, activate the excellent factors in Chinese traditional culture with Marxism and endow them with new era connotations, and develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Upholding the spirit of respecting history and loving culture, adhering to the principles of protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, we will promote systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage. Establish a sound system and mechanism for the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, and accelerate the improvement of the legal system.
Promote the reconstruction of the international communication pattern, innovate online publicity, and build a multi-channel and three-dimensional external communication pattern. Proactively promote China's propositions, spread Chinese culture, and showcase China's image. Widely carry out diverse forms of international cultural exchange and cooperation. Be more proactive in learning from and drawing on all the excellent achievements of human civilization, and create a batch of cultural achievements that blend ancient and modern, and connect China and foreign countries.
Xi Jinping emphasized that building a cultural powerhouse is a common task of the entire Party and society. We need to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over propaganda, ideological and cultural work, and improve the leadership and management system and mechanism for cultural construction. Party committees and governments at all levels should effectively strengthen organizational leadership, do a good job in cadre allocation, talent cultivation, resource investment, etc., mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all parties, and gather a strong force for the construction of a cultural power.