Inauguration Ceremony of the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Thought and Culture and Academic Symposium on “Enhancing Cultural Soft Power, Building a Cultural Powerhouse” Held at Shenzhen University on 29 May 2014

On the morning of 29 May, the inauguration ceremony of the “Institute of Contemporary Chinese Thought and Culture,” jointly established by the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shenzhen University, and the academic symposium on “Enhancing Cultural Soft Power, Building a Cultural Powerhouse” were held with great ceremony in the International Conference Hall of Shenzhen University.

5月29日上午，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院与深圳大学联合成立的“当代中国思想文化研究所”揭牌仪式暨“提高文化软实力，建设文化强国”学术研讨会在深圳大学国际会议厅隆重举行。

Leaders, experts, and scholars attending this symposium included: Deng Chundong, President and Party Secretary of the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Jiang Tanyu, Party Secretary of Shenzhen University; Li Fengliang, Vice President of Shenzhen University; Deputy Director Li Ruiqi and Section Chief Yang Jian of the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee; Gong Yun, Chief Researcher of the Innovation Project of the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Zheng Chengjun, Director of the Institute of Contemporary China at Beijing Language and Culture University; Professor Pan Yi of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Chen Jinlong, Dean of the School of Marxism at South China Normal University; Li Hui, Dean of the School of Social Science Education at Sun Yat-sen University; Liu Shexin, Dean of the School of Ideological and Political Education at South China University of Technology; Wu Chongqing, Honorary Editor-in-Chief of *Open Times* and Professor of the Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Modernization at Sun Yat-sen University; and Tian Qibo, Director of the Social Science Department of Shenzhen University. In addition, relevant faculty and graduate students from Shenzhen University, as well as journalists from *People’s Daily*, *Guangming Daily*, *Chinese Social Sciences Today*, and other news media, also attended this symposium.

出席本次研讨会的领导、专家和学者有：中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院院长、党委书记邓纯东，深圳大学党委书记江潭瑜，深圳大学副校长李凤亮，深圳市委宣传部李瑞琦副部长、杨建处长，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院创新工程首席研究员龚云，北京语言文化大学当代中国研究所所长郑承军，香港理工大学应用社会科学系教授潘毅，华南师范大学马克思主义学院院长陈金龙，中山大学社会科学教育学院院长李辉，华南理工大学思想政治学院院长刘社欣，《开放时代》名誉主编、中山大学马克思主义哲学与现代化研究所教授吴重庆，深圳大学社会科学部主任田启波等。此外，深圳大学相关教师、研究生以及《人民日报》、《光明日报》、《中国社会科学报》等新闻媒体记者也出席了此次研讨会。

The participating experts and scholars, drawing on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on thought and culture and combining them with China’s current realities, elaborated on the importance of enhancing cultural soft power and the path choices for building a cultural powerhouse. They pointed out that it is necessary to take General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on thought and culture as guidance, vigorously promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and keep pace with the times to create new brilliance for Chinese culture.

与会专家学者根据习近平总书记有关思想文化重要论述并结合我国当前的实际阐述了提高文化软实力的重要性和建设文化强国的路径选择，指出要以习近平总书记关于思想文化的重要论述为指导，大力弘扬中华优秀传统文化，与时俱进地创造中华文化新的辉煌。

The participating experts held that thought is the soul of a nation, culture is the lifeblood of a nation, and thought and culture are the spiritual home of the people. To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it is inevitably necessary to realize the rejuvenation of the excellent thought and culture of the Chinese nation. Culture is increasingly becoming an important source of national cohesion and creativity and an important factor in competition in comprehensive national power.

与会专家认为，思想是民族的灵魂，文化是民族的血脉，思想文化是人民的精神家园。实现中华民族伟大复兴，必然要实现中华民族优秀思想文化复兴。文化越来越成为民族凝聚力和创造力的重要源泉、越来越成为综合国力竞争的重要因素。

Realizing the unification of the country is an important task of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. How, under the grand framework of “one country, two systems,” [1]1 “One country, two systems” (一国两制) is a constitutional principle first proposed by Deng Xiaoping for the reunification of China, under which Hong Kong and Macao maintain their capitalist systems and ways of life while the rest of China practices socialism. to enable thought and culture to play an important spiritual bond role in realizing and maintaining national unification is a major issue in advancing national unification and national rejuvenation.

实现国家的统一，是实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦的重要任务。如何在“一国两制”的大架构下，使思想文化在实现和维护国家统一中发挥着重要的精神纽带作用，是推进国家统一和民族复兴的重大课题。

Shenzhen is the window of China’s reform and opening up, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, where Chinese and Western thought and culture converge and clash with exceptional intensity. Against the backdrop of great ideological activity, great conceptual collision, and great cultural integration, exploring the experience of using contemporary Chinese thought and culture in Shenzhen to enhance overseas Chinese identity has important theoretical and practical significance.

深圳是中国改革开放的窗口，毗邻港澳，中西方思想文化交汇碰撞异常激烈。在思想大活跃、观念大碰撞、文化大交融的背景下，探讨在深圳用当代中国思想文化增强海外中国认同的经验，具有重要的理论意义和现实意义。

The joint establishment of the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Thought and Culture by the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shenzhen University can leverage the advantages of the Academy of Marxism as a strong bastion of Marxism and Shenzhen University’s position at the forefront of reform and opening up, its proximity to Hong Kong and Macao, and its close ties with overseas communities. Together, they can explore the laws of using contemporary mainstream Chinese thought and culture to enhance overseas Chinese identity, thereby strengthening national identity, identity with excellent Chinese culture, and identity with the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院与深圳大学共同成立当代中国思想文化研究所，可以发挥马研院作为马克思主义坚强阵地和深圳大学处于改革开放前沿、毗邻港澳、与海外联系密切的优势，共同探讨以当代中国主流思想文化增强海外中国认同的规律，增进国家认同、中华优秀文化认同和实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦的认同。

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