The Theoretical Implications and Practical Value of Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Cultivating People through Culture

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed the importance of cultivating people through culture and educating people through culture, focusing on the significant role of culture in talent cultivation and the modernization of national governance. Creatively absorbing the essence of Marxist cultural thought, the heritage of fine traditional Chinese culture, and the experience of the Communist Party of China in cultural construction, he has made important discourses on doing a good job of cultivating people through culture under the new circumstances. These discourses profoundly reveal the internal logic, basic principles, and practical paths of Xi

党的十八大以来，习近平多次强调以文化人、以文育人的重要性，注重文化在人才培养和国家治理现代化中的重要作用，创造性地吸收马克思主义文化思想精髓、中华优秀传统文化底蕴和中国共产党文化建设经验，就新形势下做好文化育人工作作出了重要论述。深刻揭示习近平关于文化育人重要论述的内在理路、基本原则和实践路径等，形成意蕴丰富的文化育人内容体系，为新形势下开展文化育人工作明确了重要旨向，提出了更高的战略定位，提供了根本遵循。

I. The Ideological Origins of Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Cultivating People through Culture

一、习近平关于文化育人重要论述的思想渊源

Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultivating people through culture are an organic integration of Marxist cultural thought, fine traditional Chinese culture, and the experience of the Communist Party of China in cultural construction. Supported by cultural confidence and aimed at fostering virtue through education, they provide a solid theoretical foundation and practical pathway for cultivating a new generation capable of shouldering the mission of national rejuvenation.

习近平关于文化育人重要论述是马克思主义文化思想、中华优秀传统文化、中国共产党文化建设经验的有机融合。它以文化自信为支撑，以立德树人为目标，为培养担当民族复兴大任的时代新人提供了坚实的理论基础和实践路径。

1. The theoretical foundation of Marxist cultural thought. Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultivating people through culture are a concrete manifestation of Marxist cultural thought in the present era. First, Marxism reveals the intrinsic connection between culture and human existence, holding that culture is the essential defining characteristic of human society. Through practical interaction with nature and society, human beings continuously create and accumulate a rich and diverse culture. It can be said that human beings are not only practical beings but also cultural beings. On this basis, Xi Jinping points out that “culture is ‘humanization,’” and that “human beings, in essence, are cultural beings, not ‘materialized’ beings” [1]1 The 18th National Congress of the CPC was held in 2012 and marks the beginning of the New Era under Xi Jinping’s leadership. (p. 150). Second, Marxism reveals the class character of culture. Marx emphasizes: “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” [2]2 The 18th National Congress of the CPC was held in 2012 and marks the beginning of the Xi Jinping era. (p. 178). Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has issued a series of important instructions on ideological work, stressing the need to “focus on building a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power” [3] and to firmly grasp the leadership, management, and discursive power over ideological work. Third, Marxism holds that culture possesses both inheritance and development. Culture is a product of human history, constantly evolving and developing with social change; any culture is always the result of continuous innovation on the basis of specific traditions. Therefore, when approaching historical culture, Xi Jinping examines it within the context of historical evolution and overall development, advocating that it be treated with discernment and inherited through critical selection.

1. 马克思主义文化思想的理论基础。习近平关于文化育人重要论述是马克思主义文化思想在当今时代的具体呈现。其一，马克思主义揭示了文化与人的存在的内在关联，认为文化是人类社会特有的本质规定性。人在与自然和社会的互动实践中，不断创造、积淀了丰富多彩的文化。可以说，人既是实践的存在，也是文化的存在。基于此，习近平指出，“文化即‘人化’”，而“人，本质上就是文化的人，而不是‘物化’的人”[1]（P150）。其二，马克思主义揭示了文化的阶级属性。马克思强调：“统治阶级的思想在每一时代都是占统治地位的思想。”[2]（P178）党的十八大以来，习近平对意识形态工作作出一系列重要指示，强调要“着力建设具有强大凝聚力和引领力的社会主义意识形态”[3]，必须牢牢掌握意识形态工作的领导权、管理权、话语权。其三，马克思主义认为文化具有继承性与发展性。文化是人类历史的产物，随着社会的变迁而不断演变和发展，任何一种文化总是在特定传统的基础上不断创新的结果。因此，在对待历史文化的时候，习近平将其置于历史的演变和总体发展中加以审视，认为要有鉴别地加以对待，有扬弃地予以继承。

2. The profound foundation of fine traditional Chinese culture. In China, the idea of cultivating people through culture can be traced back to the *Book of Changes* (*Zhou Yi*), which states: “Observing the patterns of humanity, so as to transform and complete the world.” [n1] Culture has the important function of education and enlightenment. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has placed great emphasis on using culture to transform and cultivate people, focusing on harnessing the power of culture to promote the development of individuals, society, and the state. Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultivating people through culture are deeply rooted in the fertile soil of fine traditional Chinese culture, extensively absorbing its advanced elements. Combining this with the practice of talent cultivation and governance, he has creatively put forward many new ideas, viewpoints, and judgments, fully activating the educational vitality of fine traditional Chinese culture. First, fine traditional Chinese culture provides beneficial inspiration for people to understand and transform the world. Xi Jinping has repeatedly noted that fine traditional Chinese culture is rich in ideological resources, and making good use of these resources can help people establish correct worldviews, outlooks on life, and values, thereby correctly understanding and transforming the world. Second, fine traditional Chinese culture provides beneficial insights for governance. Over its long development, the Chinese nation has accumulated rich experience in governance and created a political civilization that leads the world. As Xi Jinping profoundly points out: “Fine traditional Chinese culture is our deepest cultural soft power and the cultural soil in which socialism with Chinese characteristics is rooted” [4]. Third, fine traditional Chinese culture provides beneficial inspiration for moral construction. “Emphasizing moral construction is an important characteristic of Chinese culture and a fine tradition of the Chinese nation; the ancients left behind a wealth of ideological and moral resources in this regard” [5]. Xi Jinping has frequently cited classical texts and drawn on historical precedents on various occasions, placing great emphasis on excavating, applying, and elucidating the ideological and moral resources of fine traditional Chinese culture to serve the development of the Party and the state’s undertakings.

2. 中华优秀传统文化的深厚底蕴。在我国，文化育人的思想，最早可以追溯到《周易》中提出的“观乎人文，以化成天下”。文化具有教育、教化的重要功能。自古以来，中华民族就高度重视以文化人、以文育人，注重发挥文化的力量，促进个人、社会和国家的发展。习近平关于文化育人重要论述深深扎根于中华优秀传统文化的丰厚土壤，广泛吸收中华优秀传统文化的先进因子，结合人才培养和治国理政实践，创造性地提出了许多新思想新观点新论断，充分激活中华优秀传统文化的育人生命力。其一，中华优秀传统文化为人们认识世界和改造世界提供有益启迪。习近平多次提到中华优秀传统文化富含丰富的思想元素，利用好这些思想文化资源，能够帮助人们树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观，进而正确地认识世界和改造世界。其二，中华优秀传统文化为治国理政提供有益启示。在长期的发展过程中，中华民族积累了丰厚的治国理政经验，创造了世界领先的政治文明。正如习近平深刻指出：“中华优秀传统文化是我们最深厚的文化软实力，也是中国特色社会主义根植的文化沃土。”[4]其三，中华优秀传统文化为道德建设提供有益启发。“重视道德建设是中国文化的重要特性，也是中华民族的优良传统，古人在这方面留下了十分丰富的思想道德资源。”[5]习近平多次在不同场合引经据典、援古证今，十分注重挖掘、运用和阐发中华优秀传统文化中的思想道德资源，使之为党和国家事业发展服务。

3. The sublimation of the CPC’s experience in cultural construction. The CPC has always attached great importance to cultural construction. Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultivating people through culture inherit, develop, and sublimate the Party’s valuable experience in cultural construction over more than a century. First, upholding the Party’s leadership and grasping cultural leadership. The CPC has always emphasized comprehensive leadership over cultural construction, viewing it as an important guarantee for consolidating the Party’s governing and mass base. From cultural propaganda during the New Democratic Revolution period, to cultural education during the Socialist Revolution and Construction period, and then to building a strong socialist culture in the New Era, the Party has always firmly grasped the leadership, management, and discursive power over ideological work. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee has, through a series of institutional arrangements and strategic deployments, established the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological domain, further clarifying the principles and direction of cultivating people through culture. Second, adhering to a people-centered view of culture. In different historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, the CPC has always adhered to a people-centered view of culture. Xi Jinping has further deepened this concept, emphasizing that cultivating people through culture must meet the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs, and through propaganda, ideological, and cultural work such as education guidance, cultural creation, and news and public opinion, elevate the people’s ideological realm and civilizational quality. This people-centered concept of cultural construction has laid a solid mass foundation for Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultivating people through culture. Third, inheriting and promoting the fine tradition of advanced culture. The CPC has always focused on inheriting and promoting advanced culture, emphasizing that through the influence of excellent culture and the guidance of advanced thought, it cultivates socialist builders and successors with firm ideals, convictions, and noble moral qualities. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has stressed on various occasions the

3. 中国共产党文化建设经验的升华。中国共产党历来重视文化建设工作。习近平关于文化育人的重要论述继承、发展和升华了中国共产党百余年文化建设的宝贵经验。其一，坚持党的领导，掌握文化领导权。中国共产党始终重视对文化建设的全面领导，将其视为巩固党的执政基础和群众基础的重要保障。从新民主主义革命时期的文化宣传，到社会主义革命和建设时期的文化教育，再到新时代的文化强国建设，党始终牢牢掌握意识形态工作的领导权、管理权和话语权。党的十八大以来，党中央通过一系列制度安排和战略部署，确立了马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位，进一步明确了文化育人的原则和方向。其二，坚持以人民为中心的文化观。在革命、建设、改革的不同历史时期，中国共产党始终坚持以人民为中心的文化观。习近平进一步深化这一理念，强调文化育人要满足人民日益增长的精神文化需求，通过教育引导、文化创作、新闻舆论等宣传思想文化工作，提升人民的思想境界和文明素养。这种以人民为中心的文化建设理念，为习近平关于文化育人重要论述奠定了坚实的群众基础。其三，传承和弘扬先进文化的优良传统。中国共产党历来注重传承和弘扬先进文化，强调通过优秀文化的熏陶和先进思想的引领，培养具有坚定理想信念和高尚道德品质的社会主义建设者和接班人。党的十八大以来，习近平先后在不同场合中强调，要更加注重以文化人、以文育人，发展社会主义先进文化，更有力地推进中国特色社会主义文化建设。

II. The Main Connotations of Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Cultural Education

二、习近平关于文化育人重要论述的主要内涵

Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultural education are the theoretical crystallization of the Party’s practical experience in leading cultural development in the New Era. They possess rich connotations, which can be elaborated upon mainly from the following aspects.

习近平关于文化育人重要论述是新时代党领导文化建设实践经验的理论结晶，具有丰富的内涵，主要可以从以下几个方面进行阐述。

1. Give play to the value of culture and strengthen the function of education. “‘Cultural education’ – ‘culture’ is the key to the success or failure of education,”[6] and what kind of culture is used to educate people is the core question of Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultural education. Xi Jinping points out: “The Chinese nation has formed a broad and profound fine traditional culture over several thousand years; the revolutionary culture forged by our Party leading the people in the course of revolution, construction, and reform, together with the advanced socialist culture, provide a deep strength for the construction of ideological and political courses.”[7] It can be said that the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, including fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, is the foundation and important vehicle for implementing cultural education, and together they constitute the rich connotation and practical basis of cultural education. First, fine traditional Chinese culture is the root. The values and spiritual world of the Chinese people are deeply rooted in the fertile soil of fine traditional Chinese culture, which is an important resource for cultural education. As Xi Jinping points out, “Strive to use all the spiritual wealth created by the Chinese nation to educate people through culture and cultivate people through culture.”[8] Second, revolutionary culture is the spiritual driving force. Revolutionary culture contains rich revolutionary traditions and red genes. “Revolutionary tradition education must start from childhood, focusing both on imparting knowledge and strengthening emotional cultivation, so that red genes permeate the blood and enter the heart, guiding the vast number of young people to establish a correct worldview, outlook on life, and value system”[9] (p. 26). This discourse clarifies the important significance of strengthening the education and inheritance of revolutionary culture. Third, advanced socialist culture is the orientation of the times. Advanced socialist culture was nurtured in the great struggle of the Party and the people; it has accumulated the deepest spiritual pursuits of the Chinese nation. Guided by Marxism, based on the reality of contemporary China, and adhering to the stance of Chinese culture, Xi Jinping has repeatedly made important explanations on promoting, carrying forward, and developing advanced socialist culture. Fourth, outstanding cultural achievements from the world are a beneficial supplement. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has emphasized on many different occasions that Chinese civilization upholds a broad and inclusive spirit, and should actively absorb, learn from, and draw on all outstanding achievements of human civilization.

1. 发挥文化价值，强化育人功能。“‘文化育人’，‘文化’是育人成败的关键”[6]，而以何种文化育人，这是习近平关于文化育人重要论述的核心问题。习近平指出：“中华民族几千年来形成了博大精深的优秀传统文化，我们党带领人民在革命、建设、改革过程中锻造的革命文化和社会主义先进文化，为思政课建设提供了深厚力量。”[7]可以说，包括中华优秀传统文化、革命文化和社会主义先进文化在内的中国特色社会主义文化是落实文化育人的基础和重要载体，共同构成了文化育人的丰富内涵和实践基础。其一，中华优秀传统文化是根基。中国人的价值观和精神世界，深深扎根于中华优秀传统文化的沃土之中，中华优秀传统文化是文化育人的重要资源。正如习近平指出，“努力用中华民族创造的一切精神财富来以文化人、以文育人”[8]。其二，革命文化是精神动力。革命文化蕴涵丰富的革命传统和红色基因。“革命传统教育要从娃娃抓起，既注重知识灌输，又加强情感培育，使红色基因渗进血液、浸入心扉，引导广大青少年树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观”[9]（P26）。这一论述明确了加强革命文化教育传承的重要意义。其三，社会主义先进文化是时代导向。社会主义先进文化是在党和人民的伟大斗争中孕育而成的，它积淀了中华民族最深层的精神追求。习近平以马克思主义为指导，立足当代中国现实，坚守中华文化立场，多次就推动弘扬和发展社会主义先进文化作出重要阐释。其四，世界优秀文化成果是有益补充。党的十八大以来，习近平在不同场合中多次强调，中华文明秉持着开放包容的博大气象，应积极主动吸收、学习、借鉴人类创造的一切优秀文明成果。

2. Focus on the new generation of the era and fulfill the mission of education. Cultivating a new generation of the era capable of shouldering the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the educational goal of the New Era. Creating a new generation of the era requires the cultivation of culture. First, consolidate the foundation of ideals and convictions for the new generation of the era. The primary requirement for the new generation of the era we are currently cultivating is to have firm ideals and convictions. Cultivating a new generation of the era with firm ideals and convictions cannot be separated from the strong support of culture. Xi Jinping points out: “

2. 聚焦时代新人，落实育人使命。培养担当民族复兴大任的时代新人，是新时代的育人目标。造就时代新人，需要文化的培育。其一，筑牢时代新人理想信念根基。当前我们要培养的时代新人，首要的是要具有坚定的理想信念。培养具有坚定理想信念的时代新人，离不开文化的强力支撑。习近平指出：“没有中华优秀传统文化、革命文化、社会主义先进文化的底蕴和滋养，信仰信念就难以深沉而执着。”[10]高校通过推进中华优秀传统文化教育，挖掘革命文化的育人内涵，开展社会主义先进文化教育，充分发挥文化的育人力量和育人优势。其二，铸就时代新人高尚道德品质。习近平在北京大学师生座谈会上指出：“要把立德树人的成效作为检验学校一切工作的根本标准，真正做到以文化人、以德育人，不断提高学生思想水平、政治觉悟、道德品质、文化素养，做到明大德、守公德、严私德。”[11]（P7）这一论述明确了提升人的道德品质是文化育人的重点。其三，巩固时代新人文化主体性。2023年6月，习近平在文化传承发展座谈会上对新时代新的文化使命提出了新要求。对此，要更加注重以文化人、以文育人。在文化教化、浸润、熏陶中培养时代新人，厚植时代新人的文化底色，使之充分认识自身在文化传承发展中的历史使命和时代责任，进一步坚定时代新人的文化自信。

3. Integrating multi-party coordination and improving the education system. By grasping the characteristics and laws of cultural education under the new situation, Xi Jinping has profoundly elaborated on improving the multi-party coordinated cultural education system. First, upholding the Party’s overall leadership. The Communist Party of China is the主体 [n1] of implementing cultural education work, and Party leadership is an important guarantee for the success of cultural education work. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has deeply recognized the status and role of propaganda

3. 整合多方协同，完善育人体系。习近平通过把握新形势下文化育人的特点和规律，对完善多方协同的文化育人体系进行了深刻阐述。其一，坚持党的全面领导。中国共产党是落实文化育人工作的主体，党的领导是文化育人工作取得成功的重要保证。党的十八大以来，习近平深刻认识新时代宣传思想文化工作的地位作用，从全局和战略高度出发，把坚持党的领导贯彻到文化育人的各个方面各个环节，确保文化育人始终沿着正确方向前进。其二，发挥学校基础性功能。习近平先后在全国高校思想政治工作会议、学校思想政治理论课教师座谈会等会议上提出注重以文化人、以文育人。学校是文化传承发展的重要场所，要充分发挥文化引领、文化传承、文化创新的积极作用，加强校园文化建设，丰富文化实践，着力提高学生的综合素质和文化修养。其三，拓展文化育人场域。文化对人的影响是整体性的，要深化文化育人的系统性。2017年12月，教育部发布了《高校思想政治工作质量提升工程实施纲要》，正式确立了包括文化育人在内的“十大”育人体系，协调文化育人与课程育人、科研育人、实践育人、网络育人之间的关系，汇集多场域育人要素，凝聚多主体文化力量，把文化贯穿于育人的各个环节。其四，繁荣文艺创作，推动文艺创新。优秀文艺作品，植根于深厚的历史文化土壤与人民生活实践，具有独特的育人魅力与价值。为此，习近平多次强调文艺是铸造灵魂的工程，应重视优秀文艺作品丰富人们精神世界，增强人们精神力量的涵育功能。

III. The Practical Value of Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Cultural Education

三、习近平关于文化育人重要论述的实践价值

Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultural education scientifically elucidate the basic laws of cultural education, condensing wise reflections and profound insights on talent cultivation and national governance. They provide a powerful ideological weapon and a scientific guide to action for carrying out cultural education work under the new circumstances and for shouldering the new cultural mission.

习近平关于文化育人重要论述科学地阐释了文化育人的基本规律，凝结着对人才培养和国家治理的睿智思考和深刻洞见，为做好新形势下文化育人工作、担负起新的文化使命提供了强大思想武器和科学行动指南。

1. They provide a guide to action for strengthening and improving ideological and political education. Ideological and political education is not only a political phenomenon but also a cultural one; it possesses a cultural character. As an important means of cultural education, ideological and political education plays a significant role in cultural inheritance, development, and innovation. On May 11, 2024, when issuing important instructions on the construction of ideological and political courses in schools, Xi Jinping emphasized, “Take the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture as the foundation of strength.” [12] This statement clarifies the clear orientation of empowering ideological and political courses with advanced culture and positions culture’s important role in the construction of these courses through the concept of a “foundation of strength.” Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has successively delivered relevant discourses on multiple important occasions, clearly stating that strengthening and improving ideological and political education must fully utilize cultural resources and highlight the advantages of cultural education. These discourses have greatly enriched and developed the understanding of the laws governing ideological and political education. They are of great significance and value for enhancing the cultural strength of ideological and political education, exploring the endogenous driving forces for its sustained development, and effectively shouldering the cultural mission entrusted to ideological and political education in the New Era.

1. 为加强和改进思想政治教育提供了行动指南。思想政治教育不只是一种政治现象，同时也是一种文化现象，具有文化性。作为文化育人的重要方式，思想政治教育在文化传承、发展、创新中发挥着重要作用。2024年5月11日，习近平在对学校思政课建设作出重要指示时强调，“以中华优秀传统文化、革命文化和社会主义先进文化为力量根基”[12]，这一论述明确了先进文化赋能思政课的鲜明导向，并以“力量根基”定位了文化在思政课建设中的重要作用。党的十八大以来，习近平先后在多个重要场合发表相关论述，明确加强和改进思想政治教育要充分运用文化资源，彰显文化育人优势。这些论述极大地丰富和发展了对思想政治教育的规律性认识，对于增强思想政治教育的文化力量，探索思想政治教育持续发展的内生动力，切实担负起新时代赋予思想政治教育的文化使命具有十分重要的意义和价值。

2. It provides the fundamental guidance for cultural education work under the new circumstances. Forging the soul and educating people, establishing virtue and nurturing talent, and transforming people through culture are the core contents of education work in the New Era. Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultural education are grounded in the new practices of the New Era, revolve around the fundamental question of “what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them,” adhere to the basic principles of education while upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, employ entirely new perspectives and scientific methods, deepen the essential characteristics of cultural education through Party leadership, define the developmental orientation of cultural education through the new cultural mission of the New Era, and scientifically answer a series of major theoretical and practical issues in advancing cultural education work under the new circumstances. This points the direction for carrying out cultural education practices with Chinese characteristics and provides specific practical pathways and methodological guidance. In the process of systematic planning, Xi Jinping has fully elaborated on cultural education work from such aspects as strengthening leadership over ideology, cultivating and promoting the core socialist values, inheriting fine traditional Chinese culture, promoting revolutionary culture, developing advanced socialist culture, flourishing literary and artistic creation, and developing cultural undertakings and cultural industries. In terms of concrete deployment, it paints a three-dimensional and vivid picture of talent cultivation, by constructing a three-dimensional, multi-dimensional education pattern, pooling the joint forces of multiple subjects, multiple fields, and online and offline education, and bringing into play the functions of cultural value guidance, cohesion and integration, normative restraint, and capacity enhancement.

2. 为新形势下文化育人工作提供了根本遵循。铸魂育人、立德树人、以文化人，是新时代育人工作的核心内容。习近平关于文化育人的重要论述立足于新时代新实践，围绕着“培养什么人、怎样培养人、为谁培养人”这一根本性问题，并在守正创新中坚持育人基本原则，运用全新的视野和科学的方法，以党的领导深化了文化育人的本质特征，以新时代新的文化使命厘定了文化育人的发展方位，科学地回答了新形势下推进文化育人工作的一系列重大理论与实践问题。这为展开具有中国特色的文化育人实践指明了方向，提供了具体的实践路径和方法论指导。在系统谋划的过程中，习近平从强化意识形态领导权、培育和弘扬社会主义核心价值观、传承中华优秀传统文化、弘扬革命文化、发展社会主义先进文化、繁荣文艺创作、发展文化事业和文化产业等方面，对文化育人工作作出充分阐述。在具体部署方面，则描绘出一幅立体生动的人才培养图景，通过构建立体、多维的育人格局，凝聚多主体、多场域、线上与线下育人合力，发挥文化价值引领、凝聚整合、规范约束、能力提升的功能。

3. It provides directional guidance for advancing Chinese-path modernization. Amid the worldwide modernization dilemma of imbalance between material civilization and cultural-ethical progress, Xi Jinping, from a cultural and humanistic perspective, has repeatedly pointed out that Chinese-path modernization is a modernization in which material civilization and cultural-ethical progress are coordinated. Xi Jinping regards Chinese-path modernization as a holistic and systematic project, treating culture as an important element running through the entire practical process of Chinese-path modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC [n2], a series of activities in cultural-ethical progress, such as the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture, the cultivation and practice of the core socialist values, the flourishing development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, the creation of outstanding literary and artistic works, and the continuation and promotion of the national spirit and the spirit of the times, have vividly demonstrated the profound power of culture in acting upon social development and civilizational progress, manifested a new landscape of continuously meeting the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, and provided an unceasing source of ideological guarantees, spiritual motivation, and intellectual support for the advancement of Chinese-path modernization. It can be seen that Xi Jinping’s important discourses on cultural education, taking the cultivation of comprehensively developed people as their focal point, closely integrate cultural education with talent cultivation and the modernization of national governance, contain profound humanistic implications and spiritual and cultural pursuits, and provide comprehensive directional guidance for exploring a Chinese-path modernization with deep cultural connotations.

3. 为推进中国式现代化提供了方向指引。在物质文明与精神文明失衡的世界性现代化难题中，习近平立足于文化和人文视角多次指出，中国式现代化是物质文明和精神文明相协调的现代化。习近平把中国式现代化作为一个整体性、系统性的工程，将文化视为贯穿中国式现代化实践过程的重要内容。党的十八大以来，中华优秀传统文化的传承与发展、社会主义核心价值观的培育和践行、文化事业和文化产业的繁荣发展、优秀文艺作品的创作、民族精神和时代精神的赓续与弘扬等一系列精神文明建设活动，它们生动地展示了文化作用于社会发展、文明进步的深刻力量，彰显了不断满足人民群众日益增长的精神文化需求的全新景观，为中国式现代化的推进提供了源源不断的思想保证、精神动力和智力支持。可见，习近平关于文化育人的重要论述以培育全面发展的人为着眼点，将文化育人与人才培养、国家治理现代化紧密结合，蕴含着深刻的人文意蕴和精神文化追求，为探索具有深厚文化内涵的中国式现代化提供了全面的方向指引。

(Author biographies: Wang Guijuan, doctoral candidate at the School of Marxism, Hunan University; Luo Zhongyou, professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Educational Science, Hunan University, and the School of Marxism, Hunan University)

（作者简介：王桂娟，湖南大学马克思主义学院博士研究生；罗仲尤，湖南大学教育科学研究院，湖南大学马克思主义学院教授、博士生导师）

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