Deeply Grasping the “Second Integration” with Systematization and Theoretical Refinement as the Focal Point

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping, applying the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method, has deeply reflected on a series of major theoretical and practical issues concerning propaganda, ideology, and cultural work. He has profoundly answered fundamental questions such as what banner to raise, what path to follow, what principles to uphold, and what goals to achieve in China’s cultural construction in the New Era [n], and has systematically addressed the major课题 of what kind of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics to uphold and develop in the New Era and how to uphold and develop it, thereby forming Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture has deepened our Party’s understanding of the laws governing the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, enriched and developed Marxist cultural theory, and pointed the way forward, established basic principles, and provided scientific methods for the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the New Era, constituting a complete and logically rigorous system of scientific theory. To deeply study and thoroughly comprehend Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, an important aspect lies in deeply grasping the “Second Integration” [n] with systematization and theoretical refinement as the focal point, and by scientifically grasping the relationships between upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, between the soul and the roots, and between the “substance” and the “function,” to truly achieve thorough study and deep understanding.

党的十八大以来，习近平总书记运用马克思主义立场观点方法，深刻思考宣传思想文化工作的一系列重大理论和实践问题，深刻回答了新时代我国文化建设举什么旗、走什么路、坚持什么原则、实现什么目标等根本问题，系统回答了新时代坚持和发展什么样的中国特色社会主义文化、怎样坚持和发展中国特色社会主义文化的重大课题，形成了习近平文化思想。习近平文化思想深化了我们党对中国特色社会主义文化建设规律的认识，丰富和发展了马克思主义文化理论，为新时代中国特色社会主义文化建设指明了前进方向、确立了基本原则、提供了科学方法，构成系统完整、逻辑严密的科学理论体系。深学细悟习近平文化思想，一个重要方面在于以体系化学理化为着力点深刻把握“第二个结合”，通过科学把握守正与创新、魂脉和根脉、“体”与“用”的关系，切实做到学深悟透。

The “Second Integration” Points Out the Necessary Path for Upholding and Developing Socialist Culture with Chinese Characteristics

“第二个结合”为坚持和发展中国特色社会主义文化指明必由之路

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “On the profound foundation of over 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, opening up and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, and integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the fine traditional Chinese culture, is the necessary path.” Xi Jinping Thought on Culture examines the major课题 of upholding and developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics within the historical process of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, conducts holistic research and systematic planning for cultural construction within the overall cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and guides and promotes the two-way interaction between practical innovation and theoretical innovation in cultural construction. As a major innovative viewpoint of this important thought, the “Second Integration” points out the necessary path for upholding and developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics and provides the guideline for building a socialist cultural power.

习近平总书记指出：“在五千多年中华文明深厚基础上开辟和发展中国特色社会主义，把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际、同中华优秀传统文化相结合是必由之路。”习近平文化思想把坚持和发展中国特色社会主义文化这一重大课题置于马克思主义中国化时代化的历史进程之中进行考察，在中国特色社会主义事业全局中对文化建设进行整体研究、系统谋划，指引和推动文化建设实践创新和理论创新的双向互动。作为这一重要思想的重大创新观点，“第二个结合”为坚持和发展中国特色社会主义文化指明了必由之路，为建设社会主义文化强国提供了遵循。

Enriching and Developing Marxist Cultural Theory. The “Second Integration” profoundly summarizes the historical experience of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times and represents a deep grasp of the laws governing the development of Chinese civilization. Marxism holds that culture is a reflection of a given society’s economy and politics and in turn exerts a tremendous influence on that society’s economy and politics. Different ethnic groups have formed and passed on their respective cultures through long-term social production practices, and in the process of cultural inheritance and exchange, they continuously achieve cultural self-renewal, self-improvement, and self-transcendence. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes that the fine traditional Chinese culture is the crystallization and essence of the wisdom of Chinese civilization, the root and soul of the Chinese nation, and the foundation on which we stand firm amidst global cultural currents. The “Second Integration” profoundly reveals the high degree of compatibility between Marxism and the fine traditional Chinese culture, clearly puts forward the epochal proposition of promoting their “organic integration,” and profoundly points out that the result of “integration” is mutual achievement, making Marxism Chinese and the fine traditional Chinese culture modern, and making the new culture formed through “integration” the cultural form of Chinese-path modernization. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture profoundly elucidates the basic conditions, realization paths, and great significance of the “Second Integration,” achieving the enrichment and development of Marxist cultural theory.

丰富和发展了马克思主义文化理论。“第二个结合”深刻总结马克思主义中国化时代化的历史经验，是对中华文明发展规律的深刻把握。马克思主义认为，文化是一定社会经济和政治的反映，又给予一定社会的经济和政治以巨大影响。不同民族在长期社会生产实践中形成并传承了各自的文化，又在文化传承和交流中不断实现文化的自我更新、自我完善、自我超越。习近平总书记强调，中华优秀传统文化是中华文明的智慧结晶和精华所在，是中华民族的根和魂，是我们在世界文化激荡中站稳脚跟的根基。“第二个结合”深刻揭示了马克思主义和中华优秀传统文化之间的高度契合性，鲜明提出推动两者“有机结合”的时代命题，深刻指明“结合”的结果是互相成就，让马克思主义成为中国的，中华优秀传统文化成为现代的，让经由“结合”而形成的新文化成为中国式现代化的文化形态。习近平文化思想深刻阐明了“第二个结合”的基本条件、实现路径和重大意义，实现了对马克思主义文化理论的丰富和发展。

An Inevitable Requirement for Continuously Adapting Marxism to the Chinese Context and the Needs of the Times. Marxism is a product of its era and develops with the progress of the times. As the essence of the spirit of the times, Marxism can only demonstrate its scientific truth transcending time and geography, and can only be used to observe China’s reality, solve China’s problems, and guide China’s practice, by integrating with China’s specific realities and with the fine traditional Chinese culture. From the day of its founding, our Party has been both an active leader and practitioner of China’s advanced culture and a faithful inheritor and promoter of the fine traditional Chinese culture. Over more than a hundred years, our Party has connected the ideological essence of Marxism with the essence of the fine traditional Chinese culture, and integrated it with the common values that the people use daily without conscious awareness. In various historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, it has carried out creative transformation and innovative development of the philosophical thought, humanistic spirit, value concepts, and moral norms contained in the fine traditional Chinese culture, continuously advancing the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture deeply grasps the historical process and practical experience of our Party in advancing the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, creatively puts forward the major viewpoint of the “Second Integration,” and provides a profound cultural foundation for Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times and for socialism with Chinese characteristics. Adhering to the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with the fine traditional Chinese culture embodies the inevitable requirement of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, embodies the high degree of cultural consciousness and cultural confidence of the Communist Party of China in the historical process of advancing the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and provides scientific ideological guidance for cultural creation in practical creation and cultural progress in historical progress.

不断推进马克思主义中国化时代化的必然要求。马克思主义是时代的产物，并随着时代的发展而发展。作为时代精神的精华，马克思主义只有同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合，才能彰显其超越时代和地域的科学真理性，才能用中国化时代化的马克思主义观照中国现实、解决中国问题、指导中国实践。我们党从成立之日起，既是中国先进文化的积极引领者和践行者，又是中华优秀传统文化的忠实传承者和弘扬者。百余年来，我们党把马克思主义思想精髓同中华优秀传统文化精华贯通起来、同人民群众日用而不觉的共同价值观念融通起来，在革命、建设、改革各个历史时期，对中华优秀传统文化蕴含的哲学思想、人文精神、价值理念、道德规范等进行创造性转化、创新性发展，不断推进马克思主义中国化时代化。习近平文化思想深刻把握我们党推进马克思主义中国化时代化的历史进程和实践经验，创造性提出“第二个结合”的重大观点，为中国化时代化的马克思主义、为中国特色社会主义提供了深厚的文化根基。坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化相结合，体现了马克思主义中国化时代化的必然要求，体现了中国共产党在推进马克思主义中国化时代化历史进程中的高度文化自觉和文化自信，为在实践创造中进行文化创造、在历史进步中实现文化进步提供了科学思想指引。

An Inherent Requirement for the Flourishing and Development of Socialist Culture with Chinese Characteristics. The development and progress of a nation are often marked and supported by the flourishing development of its culture, and often bring about great cultural development and prosperity. Socialist culture with Chinese characteristics originates from the fine traditional Chinese culture nurtured by the over 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization, is forged from the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture created by the Party leading the people in revolution, construction, and reform, and is rooted in the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture deeply grasps the laws of the development of Chinese civilization and the laws of the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, profoundly elucidates that the “Second Integration” gives the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics a broader and deeper historical dimension, and expands the cultural foundation of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is precisely in the historical process of the “Second Integration” that socialist culture with Chinese characteristics is increasingly flourishing and developing, becoming a powerful spiritual force inspiring the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to forge ahead courageously. To further flourish and develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, persist in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with the fine traditional Chinese culture, expand a broader cultural space for exploring future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovation, and provide a powerful spiritual force for advancing the great cause of building a strong country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

繁荣发展中国特色社会主义文化的内在要求。一个民族的发展进步，往往以文化上的繁荣发展为标识和支撑，也往往带来文化的大发展、大繁荣。中国特色社会主义文化，源自于中华民族五千多年文明历史所孕育的中华优秀传统文化，熔铸于党领导人民在革命、建设、改革中创造的革命文化和社会主义先进文化，植根于中国特色社会主义伟大实践。习近平文化思想深刻把握中华文明发展规律和中国特色社会主义文化建设规律，深刻阐明“第二个结合”让中国特色社会主义道路有了更加宏阔深远的历史纵深，拓展了中国特色社会主义道路的文化根基。正是在“第二个结合”的历史进程中，中国特色社会主义文化日益繁荣发展，成为激励全党全国各族人民奋勇前进的强大精神力量。在新的历史条件下进一步繁荣发展中国特色社会主义文化，必须坚持以习近平文化思想为引领，坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化相结合，为探索面向未来的理论和制度创新拓展更广阔的文化空间，为推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业提供强大精神力量。

Continuously Advancing the “Second Integration” in the Process of Upholding Fundamental Principles and Breaking New Ground

在守正创新中不断推进“第二个结合”

As a comprehensive accumulation of human social life, the formation and development of culture reflect the regular characteristics of the organic unity of tradition and modernity, inheritance and innovation. To better shoulder the new cultural mission, we must continuously advance the “Second Integration” with the integrity and锐气 of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and in this process, continue the Chinese cultural lineage and write the contemporary chapter of Chinese culture. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture adheres to the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method, deeply perceives the general laws of human cultural development and the special laws of socialist cultural construction, profoundly reveals the principal contradictions and the principal aspect of contradictions in cultural inheritance and development, and profoundly points out the important relationships that should be properly handled in cultural inheritance and development, providing the “golden key” for continuously advancing the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with the fine traditional Chinese culture in the process of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground.

作为人类社会生活的综合性积淀，文化的形成和发展体现了传统与现代、继承与创新有机统一的规律性特征。更好担负起新的文化使命，必须以守正创新的正气和锐气不断推进“第二个结合”，在这一过程中赓续中华文脉、谱写中华文化当代华章。习近平文化思想坚持马克思主义立场观点方法，深刻洞察人类文化发展的一般规律和社会主义文化建设的特殊规律，深刻揭示了文化传承发展中的主要矛盾和矛盾的主要方面，深刻指明了文化传承发展中应处理好的重要关系，为在守正创新中不断推进马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化相结合提供了“金钥匙”。

Handle the relationship between upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Cultural development is a movement process of developing through inheritance and innovating through development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “For cultural development, upholding fundamental principles ensures that we do not lose ourselves or our direction, while breaking new ground enables us to grasp the times and lead the times.” In consolidating cultural subjectivity through the “Second Integration” [n3] and exploring theoretical and institutional innovation oriented toward the future, it is necessary to deeply recognize that upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground are two sides of the same coin, mutually reinforcing, presenting a dialectical unity of change and constancy, inheritance and development, principle and creativity. Among them, upholding fundamental principles is the prerequisite, and breaking new ground is the driving force. To uphold fundamental principles, we must always take Marxism as the fundamental guiding ideology for building the Party and the country, for rejuvenating the Party and the country; adhere to the Party’s cultural leadership and the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation; adhere to the “correctness” of the socialist path, the “correctness” of the socialist system, and the “correctness” of socialist culture; and adhere to the spiritual essence and energy of righteousness, justice, positivity, and forward direction contained in fine traditional Chinese culture. To promote breaking new ground, we must take Marxism as the guide and the main body, and on this basis innovate ideas, discourse, mechanisms, and forms; use Marxism to activate the vital excellent factors in fine traditional Chinese culture and endow them with new contemporary connotations; inject the great spirit and rich wisdom of the Chinese nation into Marxism at a deeper level; and achieve an organic connection between tradition and modernity. Only by using upholding fundamental principles to forge the soul and consolidate the foundation for breaking new ground, and using breaking new ground to inject vitality into upholding fundamental principles, can we continuously promote the integration and interpenetration of the essence of Marxism with the cream of fine traditional Chinese culture, guiding the correct direction, opening up broad space, and providing strong impetus for promoting the Party’s theoretical innovation, for promoting the renewal and modern transformation of Chinese civilization, and for scaling the peak of human thought and culture.

处理好守正与创新的关系。文化发展是一个在继承中发展、在发展中创新的运动过程。习近平总书记指出：“对文化建设来说，守正才能不迷失自我、不迷失方向，创新才能把握时代、引领时代。”在“第二个结合”中巩固文化主体性，探索面向未来的理论和制度创新，需要深刻认识守正与创新是一体两面、相辅相成的，呈现变与不变、继承与发展、原则性与创造性的辩证统一。其中，守正是前提，创新是动力。坚持守正，就要始终把马克思主义作为立党立国、兴党兴国的根本指导思想，坚守党的文化领导权和中华民族的文化主体性，坚守社会主义道路之“正”、制度之“正”、文化之“正”，坚守中华优秀传统文化中正气、正义、正面、正向的精神实质和能量。推动创新，就要以马克思主义为指导、为主体，在此基础之上创新思路、话语、机制、形式，用马克思主义激活中华优秀传统文化中富有生命力的优秀因子并赋予新的时代内涵，将中华民族的伟大精神和丰富智慧更深层次地注入马克思主义，实现传统与现代的有机衔接。只有以守正为创新凝心铸魂，以创新为守正注入活力，才能不断推动马克思主义精髓同中华优秀传统文化精华融会贯通，为推动党的理论创新，为推动中华文明的生命更新和现代转型，为攀登人类思想文化高峰指引正确方向、开辟广阔空间、提供强劲动力。

Handle the relationship between breaking new ground and integration. Persistently advancing the “Second Integration” while upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and continuously promoting cultural innovation and creation through the “Second Integration,” the key is to correctly understand and handle the relationship between breaking new ground and integration, to achieve innovation through integration, and to better realize integration through innovation. Chinese culture has a long history, and Chinese civilization is extensive and profound. The concepts contained therein, such as the world is for all, the people are the foundation of the state, governing with virtue, discarding the old and embracing the new, appointing people on their merits, harmony between man and nature, unremitting self-improvement, embracing all with virtue, stressing good faith and harmony, and being friendly with neighbors, are important manifestations of the worldview, view of the world, view of society, and view of morality accumulated by the Chinese people in their long-term production and life. They are highly compatible with the value propositions of scientific socialism. To better advance the “Second Integration,” it is necessary to deeply excavate and elucidate the essence of fine traditional Chinese culture, deeply analyze, keenly grasp, and actively explore the integration points, integration mechanisms, and integration paths of the basic principles of Marxism with fine traditional Chinese culture, continuously enrich and enhance the content and form of Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times with fine traditional Chinese culture, effectively achieve promoting innovation through integration and enhancing integration through innovation, promote the flourishing development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics while upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and make Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times more imbued with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese manner.

处理好创新与结合的关系。在守正创新中坚持推进“第二个结合”，在“第二个结合”中持续推动文化创新创造，关键是要正确认识和处理创新与结合的关系，在结合中实现创新，通过创新更好实现结合。中华文化源远流长，中华文明博大精深，其中蕴含的天下为公、民为邦本、为政以德、革故鼎新、任人唯贤、天人合一、自强不息、厚德载物、讲信修睦、亲仁善邻等，是中国人民在长期生产生活中积累的宇宙观、天下观、社会观、道德观的重要体现，同科学社会主义价值观主张具有高度契合性。更好推进“第二个结合”，就要深入挖掘阐发中华优秀传统文化精华，深刻剖析、敏锐把握、积极探索马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化的结合基点、结合机理、结合路径，不断以中华优秀传统文化充实和丰富中国化时代化马克思主义的内容与形式，切实做到在结合中推动创新、在创新中增进结合，在守正创新中推动中国特色社会主义文化繁荣发展，让中国化时代化的马克思主义更具中国特色、中国风格、中国气派。

Continuously advance the “Second Integration” while adhering to the soul vein and the root vein

在坚守魂脉和根脉中不断推进“第二个结合”

In promoting cultural innovation and creation in the process of world modernization, it is inevitable to involve how to view and handle cultural relations such as tradition and modernity, the local and the foreign. How to resolve the “dispute between the ancient and the modern, the Chinese and the Western” [n4] is not only an important historical issue in China’s modernization process since modern times but also a major contemporary issue in advancing Chinese-path modernization and shouldering the new cultural mission. Promoting cultural innovation and creation and building a socialist cultural power through the “Second Integration” is neither building castles in the air nor working behind closed doors. It must rely on a deep and stable historical and cultural foundation, maintain a firm cultural self in the exchange and mutual learning of world civilizations, and clearly understand the question of “who I am, where I come from, and where I am going,” so as to discriminate in inheritance and adhere in integration.

在世界现代化进程中推动文化创新创造，不可避免会涉及如何看待和处理传统与现代、本土与外来等的文化关系问题。如何破解“古今中西之争”，既是近代以来中国在推进现代化进程中的重要历史课题，也是推进中国式现代化、担负起新的文化使命的重大时代课题。在“第二个结合”中推动文化创新创造、建设社会主义文化强国，既不是建空中楼阁，也不是闭门造车，必须依托于深厚稳固的历史文化根基，在世界文明交流互鉴中保持文化意义上坚定的自我，搞清楚“我是谁、从哪里来，向何处去”的问题，做到在继承中有所鉴别、在交融中有所坚守。

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “The major proposition of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times itself determines that we must never abandon the soul vein of Marxism, nor must we abandon the root vein of fine traditional Chinese culture.” The “soul vein” and “root vein” here profoundly point out the foundation and prerequisite for promoting the Party’s theoretical innovation, grasp the essence and core, the substance and key of promoting cultural innovation and creation, and highlight the new height and new realm of the Chinese Communists in the New Era’s understanding of Marxism and fine traditional Chinese culture. To promote the Party’s theoretical innovation through the “Second Integration” and to uphold and develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, it is necessary to adhere to the soul vein of Marxism and the root vein of fine traditional Chinese culture. The soul vein and the root vein are in a dialectical unity. To safeguard the soul vein and the root vein, we must always adhere to the guidance of Marxism, use the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method to distinguish the essence and dross, the advanced and backward in traditional culture, inherit the content to be “promoted,” criticize the elements to be “discarded,” and draw spiritual nourishment from the “essence” and “advanced”; we must consciously use fine traditional Chinese culture to enrich the cultural life of Marxism, continuously promote the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and enhance the people’s awareness and recognition of Marxism.

习近平总书记强调：“马克思主义中国化时代化这个重大命题本身就决定，我们决不能抛弃马克思主义这个魂脉，决不能抛弃中华优秀传统文化这个根脉。”这里的“魂脉”和“根脉”，深刻指明了推动党的理论创新的基础和前提，抓住了推动文化创新创造的本质和核心、实质和关键，彰显了新时代中国共产党人对马克思主义、对中华优秀传统文化认识的新高度、新境界。在“第二个结合”中推动党的理论创新，坚持和发展中国特色社会主义文化，必须坚守好马克思主义这个魂脉，坚守好中华优秀传统文化这个根脉，魂脉与根脉是辩证统一的关系。守好魂脉和根脉，就要始终坚持以马克思主义为指导，运用马克思主义的立场观点方法鉴别传统文化的精华与糟粕、先进与落后，继承要“扬”的内容，批判要“弃”的要素，从“精华”和“先进”之中汲取精神养分；就要自觉用中华优秀传统文化充实马克思主义的文化生命，不断推进马克思主义中国化时代化，提升人民群众对马克思主义的认知度、认同度。

Xi Jinping Thought on Culture profoundly points out that for any culture to stand firm and go far, to have leading power, cohesive power, shaping power, and radiating power, it must have its own subjectivity. With cultural subjectivity, there is a firm cultural self, cultural confidence has a fundamental support, the Communist Party of China has a strong cultural force to lead the times, the Chinese nation and the Chinese people have a solid cultural foundation for national identity, and Chinese civilization has distinct cultural characteristics for exchange and mutual learning with other world civilizations. Continuously advancing the “Second Integration” while adhering to the soul vein and the root vein, and resolving the “dispute between the ancient and the modern, the Chinese and the Western” through the “Second Integration,” is precisely to consolidate the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation. We must take the scientificity and truth, the people-centeredness and practicality, the openness and contemporaneity of Marxism as the theoretical base point, and take the outstanding continuity, innovativeness, unity, inclusiveness, and peacefulness of Chinese civilization as the cultural origin point. Through the two-way convergence and mutual achievement of the base point and the origin point, let Marxism become Chinese and contemporary, let fine traditional Chinese culture become modern and global, fully demonstrate the distinctive characteristics, deep wisdom, and unique contributions of Chinese culture in world cultural exchange and mutual learning, and continuously consolidate the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation.

习近平文化思想深刻指明，任何文化要立得住、行得远，要有引领力、凝聚力、塑造力、辐射力，就必须有自己的主体性。有了文化主体性，就有了文化意义上坚定的自我，文化自信就有了根本依托，中国共产党就有了引领时代的强大文化力量，中华民族和中国人民就有了国家认同的坚实文化基础，中华文明就有了和世界其他文明交流互鉴的鲜明文化特性。在坚守魂脉和根脉中不断推进“第二个结合”，在“第二个结合”中破解“古今中西之争”，就是为了巩固中华民族的文化主体性。要以马克思主义的科学性和真理性、人民性和实践性、开放性和时代性为理论基点，以中华文明突出的连续性、创新性、统一性、包容性、和平性为文化原点，在基点与原点的双向奔赴、相互成就中，让马克思主义成为中国的、时代的，让中华优秀传统文化成为现代的、世界的，在世界文化交流互鉴中充分彰显中华文化的鲜明特质、深层智慧和独特贡献，不断巩固中华民族的文化主体性。

Continuously advance the “Second Integration” in the process of understanding the substance and applying it, integrating substance and application

在明体达用、体用贯通中不断推进“第二个结合”

Culture is manifested both in concrete material forms and in abstract theoretical forms. The inheritance and development of culture has both distinct theoretical and practical characteristics. As a theoretical summary of the practical experience of the Party’s cultural leadership in the New Era, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture originates from practice and guides practice, is tested in practice and continuously develops. It both clarifies what it is and why it is, and points out what to do and how to do it; it both deploys the task of “crossing the river” and guides the solution to the problem of “the bridge or the boat”; it has both innovations and breakthroughs in cultural theoretical viewpoints and deployments and requirements in the layout of cultural work; it has both macro-level overall guidance and points out practical paths at the specific level, manifesting the theoretical quality and open characteristic of “understanding the substance and applying it, integrating substance and application.” [n5]

文化，既表现为具体的物质形态，也表现为抽象的理论形态，文化传承发展既具有鲜明的理论性，也具有鲜明的实践性。作为新时代党领导文化建设实践经验的理论总结，习近平文化思想源于实践又指导实践，在实践中得到检验并不断发展，既阐明是什么、为什么，又指明做什么、怎么做，既部署“过河”的任务，又指引解决“桥或船”的问题，既有文化理论观点上的创新和突破，又有文化工作布局上的部署和要求，既有宏观层面的整体指导，又指明具体层面的实践路径，彰显了“明体达用、体用贯通”的理论品质和开放特征。

From the dimension of the “Second Integration,” Xi Jinping’s cultural thought creatively proposes combining the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s fine traditional culture; it proposes that the “Second Integration” is a profound summation by our Party of the historical experience of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and is another ideological emancipation, enabling us to fully utilize the precious resources of China’s fine traditional culture within a broader cultural space, exploring theoretical and institutional innovations oriented toward the future; it points out that the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics has been forged under the guidance of Marxism and also emerged from the more than five thousand years of Chinese civilization, and that the “Second Integration” has endowed the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics with a more expansive and profound historical depth, expanding the cultural foundation of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics… These major innovative viewpoints, from the epistemological level, profoundly clarify the major question of what the “Second Integration” is, elevating our Party’s understanding of the laws governing the development of Chinese civilization and the laws governing the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics to a new height.

从“第二个结合”的维度看，习近平文化思想创造性提出把马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化相结合；提出“第二个结合”是我们党对马克思主义中国化时代化历史经验的深刻总结，是又一次的思想解放，让我们能够在更广阔的文化空间中，充分运用中华优秀传统文化的宝贵资源，探索面向未来的理论和制度创新；指出中国特色社会主义道路是在马克思主义指导下走出来的，也是从五千多年中华文明史中走出来的，“第二个结合”让中国特色社会主义道路有了更加宏阔深远的历史纵深，拓展了中国特色社会主义道路的文化根基……这些重大创新观点，从认识论层面深刻阐明了什么是“第二个结合”的重大问题，把我们党对中华文明发展规律和中国特色社会主义文化建设规律的认识提升到新的高度。

Xi Jinping’s cultural thought, focusing on the goal of building a socialist cultural power, profoundly observes a series of theoretical and practical issues in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the New Era, directly confronts key issues in cultural inheritance and development, and emphasizes the necessity of adhering to adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s fine traditional culture, facilitating the localization of foreign cultures, and continuously cultivating and creating socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for the New Era. It insists that under the guidance of Marxism, we must truly make the past serve the present, make foreign things serve China, make dialectical choices, weed through the old to bring forth the new, and achieve an organic connection between tradition and modernity… These major innovative viewpoints, from the methodological level, profoundly clarify the practical requirements for advancing the “Second Integration,” drawing a clear blueprint for advancing the “Second Integration” and building a socialist cultural power. To deeply advance the “Second Integration” on the new journey, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thought, achieve the integration of learning and thinking, apply what we have learned, and unify knowledge and action. In the process of “understanding the substance and applying its function, integrating substance and function,”[6]6 “Understanding the substance and applying its function, integrating substance and function” (明体达用、体用贯通) is a classical Chinese philosophical formulation, here used to describe the unity of theoretical understanding and practical application in the context of cultural integration. we must promote a better combination of the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s fine traditional culture, and strive to create a new situation in propaganda, ideology, and cultural work in the New Era.

习近平文化思想着眼于社会主义文化强国建设的奋斗目标，深刻洞察新时代中国特色社会主义文化建设中一系列理论和实践问题，直面文化传承发展中的关键问题，强调必须坚持马克思主义中国化时代化，推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化、创新性发展，促进外来文化本土化，不断培育和创造新时代中国特色社会主义文化，要在马克思主义指导下真正做到古为今用、洋为中用、辩证取舍、推陈出新，实现传统与现代的有机衔接……这些重大创新观点，从方法论层面深刻阐明了推进“第二个结合”的实践要求，为推进“第二个结合”、建设社会主义文化强国擘画了清晰蓝图。在新征程上深入推进“第二个结合”，必须坚持以习近平文化思想为引领，做到学思贯通、学以致用、知行合一，在“明体达用、体用贯通”中推动马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化实现更好结合，奋力开创新时代宣传思想文化工作新局面。

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