Introduction: The successful convention of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made the teachers and students of the whole schooljubilant and inspired. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, further unify thinking, and build consensus, the PublicityDepartment of the Party Committee has set up a special column “Implementing the Spirit of the 20th National Congress·Remarks”, inviting experts and scholars from the school to interpret the report, exchange understanding, and share experience, leading teachers and students to deeply understand the spirit of the 20th National Congress, internalize it in their hearts, externalize it in their actions, and forge ahead with vigor and courage to build a world-class normal university and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Professor Sun Chengwu of the Faculty of Marxism
Standing at a new starting point for marching toward the second centenary goal in the new era, the 20th CPC National Congress made new major strategic arrangements for cultural construction, profoundly expounded the general objectives, tasks, basic principles, and strategic measures of the Party’s cultural construction in the new era and new journey, and defined the cultural mission of the CPC in the new era and new journey.
It put forward the general goal and task of the Party’s cultural construction in the new era and new journey.
The overall goal and task of cultural construction are put forward on the basis of an overall grasp of cultural construction, which is related to the trend of cultural development. During the period of the democratic revolution, the Chinese Communists represented by Mao Zedong put forward the general goal and task of “building a new culture of the Chinese nation”, that is, the new democratic culture, in cultural construction in light of the basic national conditions of semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism and the specific reality of the Chinese revolution. In the new period of reform and opening up, and socialist modernization, with the continuous development of the socialist cultural construction under the leadership of the Party, the goals and tasks of socialist cultural construction have become increasingly clear, and the Party’s understanding of this issue has been deepening. In the 21st century, proceeding from the overall situation of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Party Central Committee has successively put forward the general goal and task of promoting the great development and prosperity of socialist culture, enhancing the country’s cultural soft power, and building a strong socialist cultural country in terms of cultural construction. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has examined the issue of cultural construction from the strategic perspective of comprehensively building a modern socialist power in light of the new situation facing China’s cultural development in the new era. At a new starting point for marching toward the second centenary goal, the 20th CPC National Congress clearly put forward the general goal of cultural construction to promote cultural self-confidence and self-improvement and create a new glory of socialist culture. Under this general goal, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stressed the need to “develop a national, scientific, and popular socialist culture oriented to modernization, the world, and the future, stimulate the vitality of the whole nation’s cultural innovation and creation, and enhance the spiritual strength to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” This not only clarifies the important position and role of cultural construction in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in general, but also specifically expounds the fundamental tasks and requirements of cultural construction in the new era and new journey, reflecting the scientific understanding of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core on the reality of China’s cultural construction in the new era and the scientific grasp of the law of cultural development, and the long-term strategic vision and strategic thinking in cultural construction.
It expounded the basic policy of the Party’s cultural construction in the new era and new journey.
The policy of cultural construction serves the Party’s central work and the realization of cultural strategic goals and tasks. After the Socialist Transformation was basically completed in 1956, Mao Zedong put forward at the right time the basic principles of socialist cultural construction, such as “A hundred schools of thought contend”, and “serving the past for the present and foreign for China” in accordance with the new situation and new tasks facing China’s cultural construction during the socialist period. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, in the great practice of leading reform and opening up, and socialist modernization, the Party put forward the orientation of “culture serving the people and serving socialism” and the principle of “establishing two civilizations”. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has further enriched and developed the Party’s basic policy on socialist cultural construction in accordance with the new characteristics of China’s economic and social development in the new era and the new issues facing cultural construction. On the basis of emphasizing the adherence to the “two directions” and the “double hundred policy” of culture, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that it is necessary to “adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, take the socialist core values as the guide, develop advanced socialist culture, carry forward revolutionary culture, and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture”. This is the cultural construction policy put forward based on the new era and a new starting point, and in the great practice of building a strong socialist cultural country, the Party’s cultural construction policy has once again advanced with the times.
It clarified the strategic measures for the Party’s cultural construction in the new era and new journey.
Strategic measures for cultural construction are necessary means and ways to achieve the strategic goals and tasks of cultural construction, and are the concrete implementation of the principles and policies for cultural construction. Based on the specific reality of China’s cultural construction in the new era, the 20th CPC National Congress adapted to the new requirements of cultural construction in the new era and new journey, and regarded the construction of a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power, the extensive practice of socialist core values, the improvement of the civilization level of the whole society, the prosperous development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, and the enhancement of the influence of the dissemination of Chinese civilization as important strategic measures for cultural construction, and comprehensively planned the main content and basic path of cultural construction in the new era and new journey, which is of great value and significance to building a strong socialist cultural country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through cultural construction.
(From News Center, translated by Wei Jia, revised by Liu Lixin)