Better Fulfilling the Cultural Mission of the New Era

Culture concerns the foundation and destiny of a nation; it is the soul of a country and a people. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, standing at the strategic and historical height of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and facing the new situation of constantly changing world conditions, national conditions, and Party conditions, has insisted on placing cultural development in a prominent position in governance, put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new judgments, made a series of major deployments, promoted historic achievements in cultural development through clarifying the origins and upholding integrity and innovation, and taken solid steps toward building a socialist cultural power. We must persist in arming our minds, guiding practice, and advancing work with Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought, and deeply understand that this is an inevitable requirement for studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and comprehensively advancing the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era.

文化关乎国本、国运，是一个国家、一个民族的灵魂。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央站在实现中华民族伟大复兴的战略和历史高度，面对世情、国情、党情不断变化的新形势，坚持把文化建设摆在治国理政突出位置，提出了一系列新思想新观点新论断，作出一系列重大部署，推动文化建设在正本清源、守正创新中取得历史性成就，社会主义文化强国建设迈出坚实步伐。我们要坚持用习近平文化思想武装头脑、指导实践、推动工作，深刻领会这是学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想、全面推进新时代中国特色社会主义事业的必然要求。

Deeply Understanding the Great Significance of Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought

深刻理解学习贯彻习近平文化思想的重大意义

Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought is the theoretical summary of the Party’s practical experience in leading cultural development in the New Era, a major achievement in adhering to the Two Integrations and promoting innovation in Marxist cultural theory, constituting the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and providing a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide for doing a good job in propaganda, ideology, and cultural work on the new journey of the New Era, promoting cultural prosperity, and building a cultural power.

习近平文化思想是新时代党领导文化建设实践经验的理论总结，是坚持“两个结合”、推进马克思主义文化理论创新的重大成果，构成了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的文化篇，为做好新时代新征程宣传思想文化工作、推动文化繁荣、建设文化强国提供了强大思想武器和科学行动指南。

First, Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought has great political significance. The Communist Party of China is a Marxist party with a high degree of cultural consciousness and cultural confidence. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, from the strategic height concerning the future and destiny of the Party, the long-term stability and security of the country, and the cohesion and centripetal force of the national spirit, has deeply understood and grasped the important position and role of propaganda, ideology, and cultural work, attached great importance to the important role of cultural development in the overall situation, set the direction, planned the layout, clarified the origins and upheld integrity and innovation, promoted a comprehensive and fundamental change in the situation in the ideological sphere, significantly enhanced the cultural confidence of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, made their spiritual outlook more vigorous and uplifted, greatly enhanced the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation, provided a solid ideological guarantee for creating a new situation in the cause of the Party and the country in the New Era, and injected a more proactive spiritual force for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The historic achievements in cultural development are an important manifestation of the great transformations in the New Era, and the strong historical consciousness and proactive spirit aroused among the Chinese people are a notable sign of the great transformations in the New Era.

第一，习近平文化思想具有重大政治意义。中国共产党是具有高度文化自觉和文化自信的马克思主义政党。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央从事关党的前途命运、事关国家长治久安、事关民族精神凝聚力和向心力的战略高度，深刻认识把握宣传思想文化工作的重要地位和作用，高度重视文化建设在全局中的重要作用，举旗定向、谋篇布局，正本清源、守正创新，推动意识形态领域形势发生全局性、根本性转变，全党全国各族人民文化自信明显增强、精神面貌更加奋发昂扬，中华民族凝聚力和向心力极大提升，为新时代开创党和国家事业新局面提供了坚强思想保证，为实现中华民族伟大复兴注入了更为主动的精神力量。文化建设取得的历史性成就是新时代伟大变革的重要体现，中国人民焕发出的强烈历史自觉和主动精神是新时代伟大变革的显著标志。

Mastering ideological leadership is the foundation for mastering all leadership. Only the attraction and cohesion in the ideological and spiritual spheres are intrinsic, strong, and lasting. Therefore, building a solid foundation for the Party’s governance and mass base in ideology, spirit, and culture is a major matter concerning the future and destiny of the Party and the country. Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought concerns the overall situation of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, which is precisely the manifestation of its great political significance.

掌握思想领导是掌握一切领导的基础。只有思想上精神上的吸引力和凝聚力，才是内在的强大的持久的。因此，在思想上、精神上、文化上筑牢党的执政基础和群众基础，这是事关党和国家前途命运的大事。习近平文化思想关乎强国建设、民族复兴的大局，这正是其重大政治意义的体现。

Second, Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought has great theoretical significance. In the practice of leading and promoting cultural development in the New Era, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and deployed, attended a series of important meetings, delivered a series of important speeches, made a series of important instructions, creatively put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new judgments, and formed extremely rich theoretical achievements. In October 2023, the Party Central Committee held the National Conference on Propaganda, Ideology, and Cultural Work, which formally proposed and systematically expounded Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought. The formation of Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought marks that our Party’s understanding of the laws of socialist cultural development has reached a new height, indicates that our Party’s historical confidence and cultural confidence have reached a new height, and is an important milestone in China’s cultural development.

第二，习近平文化思想具有重大理论意义。在引领和推动新时代文化建设的实践中，习近平总书记亲自谋划部署，出席一系列重要会议，发表一系列重要讲话，作出一系列重要指示，创造性提出一系列新思想新观点新论断，形成了极为丰富的理论成果。2023年10月，党中央召开全国宣传思想文化工作会议，正式提出并系统阐述了习近平文化思想。习近平文化思想的形成，标志着我们党对社会主义文化建设规律的认识达到了新高度，表明我们党的历史自信、文化自信达到了新高度，是中国文化建设的重要里程碑。

Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought is a major achievement in adhering to the Two Integrations and promoting innovation in Marxist cultural theory. This thought, adhering to proceeding from the objective reality and rich practice of China’s cultural development, both inherits and innovates Marxist cultural theory and absorbs and develops important values and concepts from fine traditional Chinese culture, such as literature conveying the Way, culture transforming people, family-country sentiment, moral education, humanistic cultivation, and the coexistence of civilizations, deepening the understanding of the laws of socialist cultural development, the development of Chinese civilization, and the progress of human civilization with a broad historical depth and civilizational perspective. At the same time, Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought comprehensively expounds the position and role, goals and tasks, principles and policies, strategic paths, and practical requirements of cultural development in the New Era, puts forward major innovative viewpoints such as adhering to the Party’s cultural leadership, promoting the coordinated development of material civilization and cultural-ethical progress, adhering to the Two Integrations, shouldering the cultural mission of the New Era, and strengthening cultural confidence, and also plans a series of strategic deployments such as improving the work system for arming the entire Party, educating the people, and guiding practice with the Party’s innovative theories, fully implementing the responsibility system for ideological work, deepening the reform of the cultural system and mechanism, comprehensively promoting the construction of a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation, and strengthening the capacity for international communication. It has both innovative breakthroughs in cultural theory and layout and deployment in cultural work, forming a scientific system that understands the essence and applies it, integrating substance and function.

习近平文化思想是坚持“两个结合”、推动马克思主义文化理论创新的重大成果。这一思想，坚持从中国文化建设的客观实际和丰富实践出发，既继承和创新了马克思主义文化理论，又吸收和发展了中华优秀传统文化中关于文以载道、以文化人、家国情怀、道德教化、人文素养、文明共生等重要价值理念，以宏阔的历史纵深和文明视野深化了对社会主义文化建设、中华文明发展、人类文明进步的规律性认识。同时，习近平文化思想全面阐述了新时代文化建设的地位作用、目标任务、方针原则、战略路径、实践要求，提出了坚持党的文化领导权、推动物质文明和精神文明协调发展、坚持“两个结合”、担负新时代的文化使命、坚定文化自信等重大创新观点，也规划了健全用党的创新理论武装全党、教育人民、指导实践工作体系，全面落实意识形态工作责任制，深化文化体制机制改革，全面推进中华民族共有精神家园建设，加强国际传播能力建设等一系列战略部署，既有文化理论上的创新突破，又有文化工作上的布局部署，是一个明体达用、体用贯通的科学体系。

Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought is the theoretical summary of the Party’s practical experience in leading cultural development in the New Era, enriching and developing Marxist cultural theory, constituting the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide for doing a good job in propaganda, ideology, and cultural work on the new journey of the New Era, promoting cultural prosperity, and building a cultural power. It must be persistently implemented and continuously enriched and developed.

习近平文化思想是新时代党领导文化建设实践经验的理论总结，丰富和发展了马克思主义文化理论，构成了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的文化篇，为做好新时代新征程宣传思想文化工作、推动文化繁荣、建设文化强国提供了强大的思想武器和科学行动指南，必须长期坚持贯彻、不断丰富发展。

Third, Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought has great practical significance. The era is the mother of thought, and practice is the source of theory. Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought emerged against the background of the interweaving and mutual influence of the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the changes unseen in a century in the world, formed in the historical process of the profound interaction between theoretical innovation and practical innovation in the cultural development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, originating from practice and guiding and promoting the continuous development of practice.

第三，习近平文化思想具有重大实践意义。时代是思想之母，实践是理论之源。习近平文化思想是在中华民族伟大复兴战略全局和世界百年未有之大变局相互交织、相互影响的时代背景下产生的，是在中国特色社会主义文化建设理论创新和实践创新深刻互动的历史进程中形成的，源自实践又指导和推动实践不断向前发展。

Facing the new situation of the exchange, interaction, and confrontation of various ideological and cultural currents worldwide, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core deeply grasps the laws of the development of human civilization, deeply perceives the historic changes in the relationship between China and the world, both adhering to the position and subjectivity of Chinese culture amidst the global cultural turbulence and promoting the implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among human civilizations. Facing the new task of how to achieve civilizational rejuvenation and cultural progress in the great historical tide of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and how to promote civilizational renewal and create a new form of human civilization on the basis of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core comprehensively grasps the past, present, and future of the Chinese nation, combines the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with fine traditional Chinese culture, endowing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with deeper cultural connotations and broader civilizational dimensions. Based on the reality of the transformation of the principal contradiction in Chinese society and focusing on the reality that the construction of a cultural power has entered a new stage, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core deeply grasps the inherent laws of the cultural development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adheres to the people-centered work orientation, revolves around raising the banner, gathering the people’s hearts, educating new people, revitalizing culture, and displaying the image, building a socialist cultural power, continuously meeting the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs, and providing a powerful spiritual driving force for building Chinese-path modernization with coordinated development of material civilization and cultural-ethical progress. Facing the new characteristics of current social ideology and culture, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core deeply grasps the extreme importance of ideological work, establishes and adheres to the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological sphere, insists on leading cultural development with core socialist values, and continuously consolidates the common ideological foundation for the united struggle of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country.

面对世界范围内各种思想文化交流交融交锋的新形势，以习近平同志为核心的党中央深刻把握人类文明发展规律，深刻洞察中国和世界关系的历史性变化，既在世界文化激荡中坚守中华文化立场和文化主体性，又推动落实全球文明倡议、促进人类文明交流互鉴。面对如何在中华民族伟大复兴的历史大潮中实现文明复兴、文化进步，如何在五千多年中华文明基础上推动文明更新、创造人类文明新形态的新课题，以习近平同志为核心的党中央全面把握中华民族的过去、现在、未来，把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合，赋予中华民族伟大复兴更为深刻的文化内涵和更为宽广的文明维度。立足我国社会主要矛盾转变的实际，着眼文化强国建设进入新阶段的现实，以习近平同志为核心的党中央深刻把握中国特色社会主义文化建设的内在规律，坚持以人民为中心的工作导向，围绕举旗帜、聚民心、育新人、兴文化、展形象，建设社会主义文化强国，不断满足人民日益增长的精神文化需求，为建设物质文明和精神文明协调发展的中国式现代化提供强大精神动力。面对当前社会思想文化呈现出的新特点，以习近平同志为核心的党中央深刻把握意识形态工作的极端重要性，确立并坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度，坚持用社会主义核心价值观引领文化建设，不断巩固全党全国各族人民团结奋斗的共同思想基础。

Effectively Transforming Learning Outcomes into a Powerful Driving Force for Promoting High-Quality Development in Cultural Construction

切实把学习成效转化为推动文化建设高质量发展的强大动力

The leap in theory must ultimately be embodied in answering practical questions and leading practical development; it is necessary to continuously enhance the ability to use cultural thinking and cultural methods to solve practical problems. The theoretical innovation we are undertaking is theoretical innovation on the basis of practice; we must persist in discovering truth and developing truth in practice, and use practice to realize truth and test truth. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture has drawn up a new blueprint for the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the New Era, establishing and forming a profound and extensive scientific cultural theoretical system, constituting the planning map, roadmap, and construction blueprint for advancing the construction of a cultural power in the New Era. It is both a major work deployment and a major strategic thought.

理论的飞跃归根到底要体现在回答实践问题、引领实践发展上，要不断提升运用文化思维和文化方式解决实际问题的能力。我们正在进行的理论创新是实践基础上的理论创新，必须坚持在实践中发现真理、发展真理，用实践来实现真理、检验真理。习近平文化思想擘画了新时代中国特色社会主义文化建设新蓝图，创立形成了一个博大精深的科学文化理论体系，构成了新时代推进文化强国建设的规划图、路线图和施工图，既是重大工作部署，也是重大战略思想。

First, persist in the Party’s comprehensive leadership over cultural construction, persist in being people-centered, and persist in taking the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics. We must enhance the capacity for governance in the cultural field under the conditions of informatization, and consolidate the Party’s governing foundation and mass foundation in terms of ideology, spirit, and culture. Uphold the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological domain, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, and develop a socialist culture that is national, scientific, and popular, oriented toward modernization, the world, and the future. Persist in being guided by core socialist values, continuously build Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and develop and strengthen mainstream values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture.

第一，坚持党对文化建设的全面领导，坚持以人民为中心，坚持走好中国特色社会主义文化发展道路。我们要提升信息化条件下文化领域治理能力，在思想上、精神上、文化上筑牢党的执政基础和群众基础。坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度，全面贯彻习近平文化思想，发展面向现代化、面向世界、面向未来的，民族的科学的大众的社会主义文化。坚持以社会主义核心价值观为引领，不断构筑中国精神、中国价值、中国力量，发展壮大主流价值、主流舆论、主流文化。

Second, persist in deeply comprehending the essence of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. It is necessary to deeply grasp the scientific truth value contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, thoroughly understand its basic spirit and core essence, and strive to achieve deep study and thorough understanding, and have it clearly in mind; deeply grasp the powerful spiritual strength manifested by Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, consolidate the foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of the spirit, and steady the helm of thought, so as to better shoulder the cultural mission of the New Era and better build Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength; deeply grasp the broad cultural sentiment filled by Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, deepen understanding of China’s historical and cultural traditions from a broader field and wider dimension, and deepen understanding of advancing civilizational renewal and creating new forms of human civilization; deeply grasp the distinct practical character displayed by Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, closely combine it with the strategic goals and key tasks of cultural construction in the New Era, closely combine it with the prominent issues facing China’s cultural development, consciously implement this thought in all aspects and the entire process of propaganda, ideology, and cultural work, and effectively transform the results of study into a powerful driving force for promoting high-quality development of cultural construction.

第二，坚持深刻领悟习近平文化思想的精髓所在。要深刻领会习近平文化思想蕴含的科学真理价值，吃透基本精神、核心要义，力求做到学深悟透、了然于胸；深刻领会习近平文化思想彰显的强大精神力量，筑牢信仰之基、补足精神之钙、把稳思想之舵，更好担负起新时代的文化使命，更好构筑中国精神、中国价值、中国力量；深刻领会习近平文化思想充盈的博大文化情怀，从更宽领域、更广维度加深对我国历史文化传统的理解，对推进文明更新、创造人类文明新形态的认识；深刻领会习近平文化思想展现的鲜明实践品格，紧密结合新时代文化建设的战略目标和重点任务，紧密结合我国文化发展面临的突出问题，自觉把这一思想贯彻落实到宣传思想文化工作各方面和全过程，切实把学习成效转化为推动文化建设高质量发展的强大动力。

Third, persist in vigorously stimulating the creative and innovative vitality of the entire nation’s culture. Persist in putting social效益 first, unifying social效益 and economic效益, and take stimulating creative and innovative vitality as the central link in deepening the reform of the cultural system and mechanism, and accelerate the improvement of the cultural management system and production and operation mechanism. Focus on improving the capacity for original cultural creation, improve the working mechanisms for the production, service, guidance, and organization of literary and artistic creation, nurture and bring forth a batch of era classics that deeply resonate with the people, and build a new peak of Chinese culture. Actively create a good cultural ecology, fully promote academic democracy and literary and artistic democracy, support writers, artists, and experts and scholars in taking root in life and concentrating on creation, and promote the continuous release of cultural creative and innovative vitality. Explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology, realize digital empowerment and informatization transformation of cultural construction, and transform cultural resource advantages into cultural development advantages. At the same time, it is also necessary to deepen the reform of the network management system, integrate the functions of network content construction and management, and promote the integrated management of news propaganda and online public opinion.

第三，坚持着力激发全民族文化创新创造活力。坚持把社会效益放在首位、社会效益与经济效益相统一，把激发创新创造活力作为深化文化体制机制改革的中心环节，加快完善文化管理体制和生产经营机制。围绕提高文化原创能力，改进文艺创作生产服务、引导、组织工作机制，孕育催生一批深入人心的时代经典，构筑中华文化的新高峰。积极营造良好文化生态，充分发扬学术民主、文艺民主，支持作家、艺术家和专家学者扎根生活、潜心创作，推动文化创新创造活力持续迸发。探索文化和科技融合的有效机制，实现文化建设数字化赋能、信息化转型，把文化资源优势转化为文化发展优势。同时，也要深化网络管理体制改革，整合网络内容建设和管理职能，推进新闻宣传和网络舆论一体化管理。

Fourth, persist in cultural construction focusing on people and landing on people, and cultivate a high-quality cultural construction talent team. It is necessary to enhance the capacity to supply cultural services and cultural products, and enhance the people’s sense of cultural gain and happiness. Attach importance to the role of culture in nourishing the will and cultivating sentiment, and cultivate the whole nation’s uplifting and vigorous spiritual temperament. At the same time, the foundation and core of cultural creative innovation lie in the talent team. It is necessary to respect the laws of talent growth, improve the talent selection, training, use, and incentive mechanisms that conform to the characteristics of the cultural field, create a good policy environment for recognizing, valuing, and loving talent, and build a high-level cultural talent team that is large in scale, reasonable in structure, and sharp in innovation.

第四，坚持文化建设着眼于人、落脚于人，培养高质量的文化建设人才队伍。要提升文化服务和文化产品供给能力，增强人民群众文化获得感、幸福感。重视发挥文化养心志、育情操的作用，涵养全民族昂扬奋发的精神气质。同时，文化创新创造的基础和核心在于人才队伍。要尊重人才成长规律，完善符合文化领域特点的人才选拔、培养、使用、激励机制，营造识才、重才、爱才的良好政策环境，建设一支规模宏大、结构合理、锐意创新的高水平文化人才队伍。

Fifth, persist in continuously enhancing the country’s cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture. Cultural soft power and influence are related to the enhancement of comprehensive national power. It is necessary to promote the reconstruction of the international communication pattern, innovate in carrying out online external propaganda, and build a multi-channel, three-dimensional external communication pattern. It is necessary to establish a mechanism for implementing the Global Civilization Initiative, more actively promote China’s propositions, spread Chinese culture, and display China’s image. Widely carry out various forms of international people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation. More actively and proactively learn from and draw on all the outstanding achievements of human civilization, create a batch of cultural achievements that integrate the ancient and the modern, and synthesize China and the foreign, and work together with the international community to strive to create a new situation of people-to-people exchanges, cultural integration, and mutual understanding among nations, so that the garden of world civilizations is colorful and vibrant.

第五，坚持不断提升国家文化软实力和中华文化影响力。文化软实力和影响力关乎综合国力的提升。要推进国际传播格局重构，创新开展网络外宣，构建多渠道、立体式对外传播格局。要建设全球文明倡议践行机制，更加主动地宣介中国主张、传播中华文化、展示中国形象。广泛开展形式多样的国际人文交流合作。更加积极主动地学习借鉴人类一切优秀文明成果，创造一批熔铸古今、汇通中外的文化成果，同国际社会一道，努力开创世界各国人文交流、文化交融、民心相通新局面，让世界文明百花园姹紫嫣红、生机盎然。

Online editor: Tongxin

网络编辑：同心