National Social Science Fund Major Project “Research on Building a Socialist Ideology with Strong Cohesion and Leading Power” Proposal Report Meeting Held

Meeting site

会议现场

On the afternoon of July 24, the proposal report meeting for the National Social Science Fund major project “Research on Building a Socialist Ideology with Strong Cohesion and Leading Power,” which interprets and elaborates the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC [1]1 The Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC was held in November 2021 and adopted a landmark resolution on the Party’s major achievements and historical experience over its century of struggle., was held at the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The project’s chief expert is Researcher Zhu Jidong, Director of the Mao Zedong Thought Research Office at the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Executive Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the National Cultural Security and Ideological Construction Research Center. Invited experts attending the meeting as members of the project proposal expert guidance group included: Researcher Xin Xiangyang, Party Secretary of the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Professor Hou Huiqin, Director of the National Cultural Security and Ideological Construction Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Professor Ai Silin, Dean of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Tsinghua University; Professor Liu Shulin, School of Marxism, Tsinghua University; Professor Wang Shuyin, former Dean of the School of Marxism, Beijing Normal University; Professor Kang Peizhu, School of Marxism, Peking University; Professor Wang Yonggui, Director of the Socialist Ideology Research Center, Nanjing Normal University; and Professor Jiang Yingchun, Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University.

7月24日下午，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院毛泽东思想研究室主任、国家文化安全与意识形态建设研究中心常务副主任兼秘书长朱继东研究员担任首席专家的研究阐释党的十九届六中全会精神国家社科基金重大项目“建设具有强大凝聚力和引领力的社会主义意识形态研究”开题报告会在中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院举行。中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院党委书记辛向阳研究员、中国社会科学院国家文化安全与意识形态建设研究中心主任侯惠勤教授、清华大学习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院院长艾四林教授、清华大学马克思主义学院刘书林教授、北京师范大学马克思主义学院原院长王树荫教授、北京大学马克思主义学院康沛竹教授、南京师范大学社会主义意识形态研究中心主任王永贵教授、南京大学哲学系姜迎春教授等开题专家指导组专家应邀出席会议。

Researcher Xin Xiangyang, Party Secretary of the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院党委书记辛向阳研究员

Researcher Xin Xiangyang first, on behalf of the host institution, the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, extended sincere congratulations to Researcher Zhu Jidong for the successful approval of his National Social Science Fund major project and warmly welcomed the guidance of the project proposal expert group members. He stated that the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has always attached great importance to ideological work. This project is of significant importance for further deepening fundamental theoretical research on ideology and advancing ideological work in a thorough and substantive manner. It should systematically summarize the practical experience and theoretical achievements of ideological work, promote the active transformation of fundamental ideological theory research into applied policy recommendations. The Institute of Marxism attaches great importance to and strongly supports this project.

辛向阳研究员首先代表主办单位中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院，对朱继东研究员的国家社科基金重大项目获得立项表示衷心祝贺，并对开题专家指导组专家的光临指导表示热烈欢迎。他表示，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院历来高度重视意识形态工作，此项课题对于进一步深化意识形态基础理论性研究，推进意识形态工作走深走实具有重要意义，应系统总结意识形态工作的实践经验和理论成果，推动意识形态基础理论研究积极转化为应用对策建议，马克思主义研究院对此项课题高度重视、大力支持。

Researcher Zhu Jidong, Director of the Mao Zedong Thought Research Office at the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Executive Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the National Cultural Security and Ideological Construction Research Center

中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院毛泽东思想研究室主任、国家文化安全与意识形态建设研究中心常务副主任兼秘书长朱继东研究员

Chief Expert Researcher Zhu Jidong, on behalf of the research team, reported to the experts on the main content and research approach of the project proposal, and provided a detailed explanation of the overall framework, the logical relationships between the general project and sub-projects, key points, difficulties, and innovations.

首席专家朱继东研究员代表课题组向专家汇报了课题论证的主体内容和研究思路等，并就课题的总体框架，总课题、子课题之间相互逻辑关系，重点难点和创新之处等进行了详细的说明。

Meeting scene

会议场景

The experts of the project proposal guidance group extended sincere congratulations to Researcher Zhu Jidong for the successful approval of his National Social Science Fund major project, believing that this project holds significant value and importance both theoretically and practically. They highly praised the project’s design, research approach, and research plan. Subsequently, each expert delivered guiding remarks in turn, offering many valuable suggestions.

开题专家指导组专家对朱继东研究员的国家社科基金重大项目获得立项表示衷心祝贺，认为这个课题无论从理论还是实践上都具有重要价值和意义，并对课题的设计、研究思路、研究计划等给予了高度评价。随后，各位专家先后进行指导发言，提出了很多宝贵的指导建议。

Meeting scene

会议场景

Researcher Xin Xiangyang suggested strengthening research on the challenges posed by social stratification to ideology, the challenges posed by the market economy to ideology, the moral hazard issues of institutions, how the construction of the three major systems [2]2 The “three major systems” refer to the disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics. reflects ideological influence and cohesion, and how to protect comrades who dare to take a clear stance in the construction of the main online ideological battlefield. He emphasized that the research must be highly targeted, focus on developing good policy recommendations, and pay attention to compiling materials during the research process.

辛向阳研究员建议加强对社会分层对意识形态挑战、市场经济对意识形态的挑战、制度的道德风险问题、三大体系建设如何体现意识形态影响力凝聚力、网络意识形态主阵地建设中如何保护好敢于亮剑的同志等方面研究，注意研究要具有很强的针对性，着力研究出好的对策建议，并在研究过程中注重资料汇编。

Professor Hou Huiqin, Director of the National Cultural Security and Ideological Construction Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

中国社会科学院国家文化安全与意识形态建设研究中心主任侯惠勤教授

Professor Hou Huiqin stressed the need to grasp key points and highlight priorities, suggesting that the scope could be appropriately narrowed to delve deeper and focus on issues. Building an ideology with strong cohesion and leading power is both a consistent adherence and an effective response to the new situation and new challenges of realizing the Party’s second centenary goal [3]3 The “second centenary goal” is to build China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the 21st century, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.. It is necessary to seriously study what the new contradictions, new problems, and new challenges are. He recommended that the research team focus its in-depth research on why it is necessary to propose building a socialist ideology with cohesion and leading power, the new challenges faced in building such an ideology, and how to build it.

侯惠勤教授强调要抓好重点、突出重点，可以适当收缩，更深入地聚焦、思考问题。建设具有强大凝聚力引领力的意识形态，既是一贯的坚持，也是实现党的第二个百年奋斗目标新形势新挑战的有效应对，要认真研究新矛盾、新问题、新挑战是什么。建议课题组重点从为什么要提出建设具有凝聚力和引领力的社会主义意识形态、建设具有凝聚力和引领力的社会主义意识形态面临的新挑战、如何建设具有凝聚力和引领力的社会主义意识形态等方面重要深入研究。

Professor Ai Silin, Dean of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Tsinghua University

清华大学习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院院长艾四林教授

Professor Ai Silin suggested that the research team must address the major issues we currently face. It should not only conduct theoretical research but also combine it with policy research. At the same time, domestic and international aspects should be integrated. How socialist ideology can play a better role globally also requires in-depth study, especially how Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era can better play a leading role in the world. Currently, ideological struggle is intense. For China to move to the center of the world stage in the next twenty to thirty years, it will rely not only on material strength but also on the leading power of ideology and values.

艾四林教授建议课题组一定要解决我们现在要面对的一些重大的问题，既要进行理论研究，还要注重与对策研究结合起来。同时要把国内国外两方面结合起来，社会主义意识形态如何能够在世界范围内更好地发挥作用也要深入研究，特别是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想怎么能够更好地在世界上发挥引领作用。现在意识形态斗争激烈，我们国家未来二三十年要走向世界舞台中央，不是光靠物质实力，还要靠意识形态和价值观的引领力才能实现。

Professor Wang Shuyin, former Dean of the School of Marxism, Beijing Normal University

北京师范大学马克思主义学院原院长王树荫教授

Professor Wang Shuyin suggested that the project research should have a focus. He noted that applying for a project differs from conducting research; when actually researching after approval, the question is how to complete the task. There are two ways to complete a project: one is “doing the assignment,” and the other is “doing the work.” Doing the assignment means how to fulfill the requirements of the topic, such as the required internal reference reports, articles, research reports, and books—in other words, completing the tasks. However, for this project, merely completing the tasks is insufficient; one must “do the work” and have priorities.

王树荫教授建议项目研究要有侧重点。要注意申报项目和做研究不同，申报下来进行实际研究的时候是我们怎么去完成任务。完成项目有两种办法，一种叫做题，一种叫做事。做题就是要怎么完成这个题目，要求的内参、文章、研究报告、著作等，也就是完成任务。但是对这个项目来讲，完成任务是不够的，而是要做事，要有重点。

Professor Liu Shulin, School of Marxism, Tsinghua University

清华大学马克思主义学院刘书林教授

Professor Liu Shulin suggested focusing research on several key areas: addressing practical difficulties, identifying regular patterns for focused study, discovering problems through reviewing historical development practices, treating online ideology as a key focus, paying attention to the lessons of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the use of the theory of class struggle and class analysis methods.

刘书林教授建议从面向解决实际难题、注意寻找一些规律性的内容进行重点研究、通过梳理历史发展的实践来发现问题、将网络意识形态作为一个重点、注意苏联东欧的教训、关于阶级斗争的学说和阶级分析方法的使用等几个方面重点展开研究。

Professor Kang Peizhu, School of Marxism, Peking University

北京大学马克思主义学院康沛竹教授

Professor Kang Peizhu suggested in-depth research on how to properly handle the relationship between ideological work and economic construction. It is necessary to deeply recognize the important role of ideological work; the failure of socialism in the Soviet Union was due to abandoning the guiding role of Marxism in the ideological field. At the same time, attention should be paid to constructing the realization path of socialist ideology, gaining psychological recognition from different levels of the masses in ideological work, and striving to achieve subtle influence.

康沛竹教授建议深入研究如何处理好意识形态工作与经济建设之间的关系。要深刻认识到意识形态工作的重要作用，苏联社会主义的失败是在意识形态领域放弃马克思主义指导地位。同时注意构建社会主义意识形态的实现路径的问题，要在意识形态工作中获得不同层次的群众的心理认同，在意识形态工作中努力做到潜移默化。

Professor Wang Yonggui suggested focusing on strengthening research on foundational theoretical issues. Besides adhering to the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method, we must also strengthen in-depth research on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Research should closely revolve around the ideological cohesion and leading power proposed by the 19th National Congress of the CPC [4]4 The 19th National Congress of the CPC was held in October 2017; it formally established Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the Party’s guiding ideology., combined with the Party’s century of experience, especially the experience of the first decade of the New Era [5]5 The “New Era” refers to the period beginning with the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, under the leadership of Xi Jinping., as the basis for the argument. Secondly, constructive exposition is needed, along with attention to critical research and emphasis on practicality.

王永贵教授建议重点加强立论性问题研究。除了遵循马克思主义的立场观点方法以外，我们还要加强对习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的深入研究，紧紧围绕党的十九大提出的意识形态凝聚力、引领力，结合我们党的百年经验，特别是新时代的十年的经验展开研究，作为立论的基础。其次是建构性论述，同时注意批判性研究，还要重视实践性。

Professor Jiang Yingchun suggested that the research team should focus on studying some important judgments concerning ideology from the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC. These mainly include: in the area of cultural-ethical progress, the comprehensive and fundamental transformation of the situation in China’s ideological field since the 18th National Congress of the CPC [6]6 The 18th National Congress of the CPC was held in November 2012, marking the start of Xi Jinping’s leadership and the New Era.; firmly safeguarding national political security, institutional security, and ideological security; and the significant shift favorable to socialism in the historical evolution and contest between the two ideologies and two social systems of socialism and capitalism worldwide. The research team should conduct deepening research on these points.

姜迎春教授建议课题组应当对党的十九届六中全会中关于意识形态的一些重要的论断进行重点研究，主要有文化建设方面党的十八大以来我国意识形态领域形势发生全局性、根本性转变，坚定维护国家政权安全、制度安全，意识形态安全，世界范围内社会主义和资本主义两种意识形态、两种社会制度的历史演进及其较量发生了有利于社会主义的重大转变等。课题组应有深化性研究。

Professor Hou Huiqin, head of the project proposal expert guidance group, concluded in his summary remarks that this proposal seminar was very successful, precisely because the expert group members participating in the discussion were all very dedicated. In the next step, the research team must highlight key points, highlight the theoretical and practical issues it must resolve, carefully sort them out, and firmly grasp the key and difficult issues that must be addressed. The research team should strive to combine short-term and long-term benefits, recognize that this task is arduous and the road is long, and hope to use this project as a starting point for sustained in-depth research.

开题专家指导组组长侯惠勤教授最后在总结讲话中指出，这次开题研讨会非常成功，成功在于来参加研讨的专家组成员都是非常尽心尽力的。下一步，课题组要突出重点，突出自己必须要解决的理论和实践问题，认真梳理，要把必须解决的重点、难点问题把握住。课题组尽量争取把短期效益和长期效益结合起来，要感到这个任务是任重道远，希望把这个课题作为一个开端，持续深入研究下去。

Researcher Zhu Jidong finally expressed his deep gratitude for the meticulous guidance provided by the expert steering group at the inaugural meeting. He stated that he and the project team members would earnestly study and absorb the valuable guidance from the experts, focus on key points, refine the plan, and approach the research with the attitude of undertaking a cause, striving to complete the project successfully and make greater contributions to the ideological cause of the Party and the state.

朱继东研究员最后非常感谢开题专家指导组专家的精心指导，表示一定会和课题组的同志们一起认真学习、吸收专家们的宝贵指导意见，抓住重点、完善计划，以干事业的态度努力完成好课题研究，努力为党和国家的意识形态事业做出更多更大的贡献。

Group photo

合照

The heads of each sub-project and over 30 project team members participated in the inaugural report meeting through a combination of online and offline methods.

各个子课题负责人和30多名课题组成员通过线上线下相结合的方式参加了开题报告会。

(Written by: Xu Mohan, Liu Aitong, Li Jianxin, Zhu Jidong)

（撰稿：许莫晗、刘爱彤、李建鑫、朱继东）