Fully Unleash the Important Role of Culture in Building the Chinese Nation’s Shared Spiritual Homeland

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his 2026 New Year message: “We nourish our spiritual homeland with culture.” This important statement highlights the value goals of Marxism and the rich wisdom of Chinese civilization, contains the profound philosophy that a flourishing culture means a flourishing nation and a strong culture means a strong nation, highly summarizes the great achievements of China’s cultural construction since the New Era, and clarifies the practical requirements for further developing and prospering socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the New Era. Deeply grasping the intrinsic connection between nourishing the spiritual homeland with culture and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and promoting cultural prosperity and flourishing at a new starting point, have important theoretical value and practical significance for doing a good job in all aspects of cultural construction during the 15th Five-Year Plan period [n1], better shouldering the new cultural mission of the New Era, and solidly advancing the building of a culturally strong nation.

习近平总书记在二〇二六年新年贺词中指出：“我们以文化滋养精神家园。”这一重要论述彰显了马克思主义的价值目标和中华文明的丰富智慧，包含着文化兴则国家兴、文化强则民族强的深刻哲理，高度概括了新时代以来我国文化建设的伟大成就，明确了进一步繁荣发展新时代中国特色社会主义文化的现实要求。深入把握以文化滋养精神家园与实现中华民族伟大复兴的内在关联，在新起点上推动文化繁荣兴盛，对于做好“十五五”时期文化建设领域各项工作，更好担负起新时代新的文化使命，扎实推进文化强国建设，具有重要理论价值和实践意义。

Nourish the Spiritual Homeland with Culture, Forge a Solid Spiritual Foundation for Realizing the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation

以文化滋养精神家园，为实现中华民族伟大复兴筑牢精神之基

Culture concerns the foundation and destiny of a nation; realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation inevitably requires the prosperity and flourishing of Chinese culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Build the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland.” The spiritual homeland is a spiritual-cultural system composed of elements such as cultural experience, psychological states, and value concepts. It is a concentrated reflection of a nation’s value orientation and national spiritual temperament, and also an important carrier for individuals’ spiritual belonging. Nourishing the spiritual homeland with culture, drawing from culture the nutrients for national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and people’s happiness, is an inevitable requirement for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

文化关乎国本和国运，实现中华民族伟大复兴必然要求中华文化繁荣兴盛。习近平总书记指出：“构筑中华民族共有精神家园。”精神家园是由文化体验、心理状态和价值观念等要素构成的精神文化系统，是国家价值取向、民族精神气质的集中反映，也是个人精神归属的重要载体。以文化滋养精神家园，从文化中汲取国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福的养分，是实现中华民族伟大复兴的必然要求。

Culture sustains a nation’s political identity and stable operation, laying a spiritual foundation for building a great modern socialist country. As an important spiritual bond that unites social members and sustains national identity, culture enhances a nation’s overall strength by constructing political identity and providing a value foundation, thereby laying a solid foundation for building a great modern socialist country. Culture can strengthen national identity. National identity, constructed with culture as its core, is the foundation of people’s sense of belonging to a nation and an important source of a nation’s centripetal force and cohesion. The abstract concept of a nation needs to be transformed into concrete and perceptible objects of identification through a series of symbolic symbols, cultural activities, ceremonies and rituals, historical education, and other forms. For example, the ritual experience of raising the national flag and playing the national anthem helps to clarify the identity belonging of Chinese people through cultural activities and strengthen individual national identity. Culture establishes a core value system for national operation. Culture provides individuals with basic behavioral norms and a sense of right and wrong, good and evil, helping to maintain national stability and promote development. The ethical morals such as “loyalty” and “filial piety” revered in traditional Chinese society, as well as the core socialist values advocated in the New Era, all subtly shape people’s value concepts through cultural carriers such as books, films, operas, and music, forming a broad value consensus. As a nation’s soft power, culture is an important component of comprehensive national power. With the accelerated evolution of changes unseen in a century, competition between nations has transcended a simple comparison of economic and military strength and is also manifested as a deep-seated contest of cultural power. The appeal and influence of culture are increasingly becoming an important part of a nation’s comprehensive strength.

文化维系国家的政治认同与稳定运行，为社会主义现代化强国建设奠定精神基础。文化作为凝聚社会成员、维系国家认同的重要精神纽带，通过构建政治认同、提供价值基础增强国家的整体实力，为建设社会主义现代化强国奠定坚实基础。文化能够增强国家认同。以文化为内核构建的国家认同，是人们对国家产生归属感的根基，也是一个国家向心力和凝聚力的重要来源。抽象的国家概念需要通过一系列象征符号、文化活动典礼仪式、历史教育等形式，转化为具体可感的认同对象。比如，升国旗、奏国歌的仪式体验等，有助于通过文化活动的形式明确中国人的身份归属，强化个体的国家认同。文化为国家运行确立核心价值体系。文化为个体提供基本的行为规范和善恶是非观，有助于维护国家稳定与促进发展。中国传统社会推崇的“忠”“孝”等伦理道德与新时代倡导的社会主义核心价值观，皆通过书籍、影像、戏曲、音乐等文化载体潜移默化地塑造人们的价值观念，形成广泛的价值共识。文化作为国家软实力，是综合国力的重要组成部分。随着百年变局加速演进，国与国之间的竞争已经超越单纯的经济和军事实力对比，也体现为深层次的文化实力博弈，文化的吸引力和感召力日益成为国家综合实力的重要组成部分。

Culture endows a nation with a unique soul and vibrant bloodline, providing spiritual momentum for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. By shaping common identity markers and forming a spiritual core, culture injects a unique spiritual temperament into a nation, endowing it with soul, emotion, and vitality. Chinese culture has shaped the unique spiritual personality of the Chinese nation and also provided it with a unique identity marker. The Qin dynasty’s “unified script, unified axle length for carriages, unified weights and measures, unified conduct and ethics” [n2] initiated the development of China as a unified multi-ethnic nation. Common language and script, myths and legends, and historical allusions gave birth to the unique customs, thinking patterns, value orientations, and behavioral norms of the Chinese nation. For example, customs such as tomb-sweeping during Qingming Festival and moon-viewing during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and allusions such as “sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall” [n3] and “serving the country with utmost loyalty” [n4], constitute the common cultural memory of the Chinese nation, contributing to the building of the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland. Culture endows the sustainable development of the Chinese nation with a powerful spiritual core. The survival wisdom, artistic creations, etc., accumulated by the Chinese people over a long history, through long-term cultural inheritance, have strengthened the historical depth and continuity of Chinese civilization, endowing the Chinese nation with a strong spiritual core and inner resilience. This is the solid support for the Chinese nation to move from deep crisis to great rejuvenation, to pass on its heritage from generation to generation despite tremendous historical changes, and to stand tall among the nations of the world. The creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture in the New Era allow the cultural bloodline of the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland to flow forever, continuously revitalizing it and providing sustained creative vitality for the Chinese nation to scale new heights amidst the changes of the times.

文化赋予民族独特的灵魂和鲜活的血脉，为中华民族永续发展提供精神动能。文化通过塑造共同的身份标识、形成精神内核等，为一个民族注入独特的精神气质，赋予该民族以灵魂、情感和生命力。中华文化塑造了中华民族独特的精神个性，也为中华民族提供了独特的身份标识。秦国“书同文，车同轨，量同衡，行同伦”，开启了中国统一的多民族国家发展的历程。共同的语言文字、神话传说和历史典故，孕育了中华民族特有的风俗习惯、思维模式、价值取向和行为准则。比如，清明祭祖、中秋赏月等习俗，卧薪尝胆、精忠报国等典故，构成了中华民族共同的文化记忆，为塑造中华民族共有精神家园添砖加瓦。文化为中华民族永续发展赋予强大精神内核。中华儿女在漫长历史中积累的生存智慧、艺术创造等，经过长期的文化传承，加强了中华文明的历史纵深感和连续性，赋予中华民族强大的精神内核和内在韧性，这是中华民族从深重危机走向伟大复兴、历经沧桑巨变依然薪火相传，巍然屹立于世界民族之林的坚实支撑。中华优秀传统文化在新时代的创造性转化、创新性发展，让中华民族共有精神家园的文化血脉永续流淌，使之不断焕发生机，为中华民族在时代变局中勇攀新的高峰提供持续的创造活力。

Culture responds to the ultimate questions about the meaning and value of life, anchoring a spiritual home for individuals to find their place in the world. Through education and edification, aesthetic enjoyment, and the endowment of meaning, culture enables individuals to create and enrich their spiritual world. Culture is the core mechanism for individuals to achieve socialization and value formation. Individuals learn language to cognize and understand the world, learn historical allusions to distinguish good from evil, learn poetry and songs to cultivate their temperament, and participate in festivals and ceremonies to enhance cultural identity… Culture subtly shapes an individual’s thinking patterns, emotional modes, value concepts, and behavioral norms, enabling the individual to smoothly integrate into society and establish their own value coordinates. Culture provides individuals with aesthetic enjoyment and spiritual space. Art forms such as music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and intellectual exercises such as investigating things to acquire knowledge and logical reasoning, help to enhance an individual’s spiritual cultivation and spiritual realm, opening up an independent and vast spiritual world for the individual, making the spiritual homeland rich and complete. When facing life’s tests such as setbacks and difficulties, the meaning explanation and spiritual encouragement provided by culture become an important support for individuals to settle their body and mind and clarify the value of life. For example, the striving spirit of “As Heaven’s movement is ever vigorous, so must a gentleman ceaselessly strive along” [n5] inspires individuals to work hard and strive upward; the wisdom of “Tao follows the way of nature” [n6] enlightens individuals to follow the trend and conform to nature; the concept of “compassion for all beings” guides individuals to harbor kind thoughts and care for all living beings. Throughout history, generations of Chinese people have relied on the rich resources of Chinese culture to cultivate their minds, find their place in the world, and enlighten their wisdom. It is precisely the countless individuals who nourish their spiritual homeland with culture that jointly lay the cultural foundation for the enduring spirit of the Chinese nation and the prosperity of the country.

文化回应关于人生意义和价值的终极追问，为个体安身立命锚定精神归宿。文化通过教化浸润、审美享受与意义赋予，使个体得以造就并丰盈自己的精神世界。文化是个人实现社会化与价值塑型的核心机制。个体通过学习语言来认知和理解世界，通过学习历史典故分辨善恶，通过学习诗词歌赋陶冶性情，通过参与节庆典礼增强文化认同……文化在潜移默化中塑造了个体的思维方式、情感模式、价值观念和行为准则，使个体能够顺利融入社会并确立自己的价值坐标。文化为个体提供审美享受与精神空间。琴棋书画、诗词歌赋等艺术形式，格物致知、逻辑推理等思维锻炼，有助于提升个体的精神修养与精神境界，为个体开辟独立而广阔的精神世界，让精神家园具有丰富性与完整性。在面对挫折困境等人生考验时，文化提供的意义解释与精神鼓舞，成为个体安顿身心、明确人生价值的重要依托。比如，“天行健，君子以自强不息”的奋斗精神，激励个体奋发向上、努力拼搏；“道法自然”的处世智慧，启发个体顺势而为、顺应自然；“慈悲为怀”的理念，引导个体心存善念、关怀众生。古往今来，一代代中国人凭借丰富的中华文化资源涵养心性、安身立命、启迪智慧。正是千千万万个体以文化滋养精神家园，共同奠定了中华民族精神历久弥新、国家繁荣昌盛的文化基石。

Nourishing the Spiritual Homeland with Socialist Culture with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Demonstrates Practical Power

以新时代中国特色社会主义文化滋养精神家园展现实践伟力

Since the New Era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, on the basis of deeply grasping the accelerated evolution of the “two overall situations” [n7] and the strategic needs of Chinese-path modernization, has always adhered to the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological domain, rooted itself in the profound and extensive Chinese civilization, conformed to the development trend of information technology, nourished the spiritual homeland with socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a New Era, produced a series of fruitful practical achievements, and opened a new chapter in the construction of socialist culture.

新时代以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央在深刻把握“两个大局”加速演进和中国式现代化建设战略需求的基础上，始终坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位，植根博大精深的中华文明，顺应信息技术发展潮流，以新时代中国特色社会主义文化滋养精神家园，产生了一系列丰硕的实践成果，开启了社会主义文化建设的新篇章。

General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “We must persist in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, inherit and develop fine traditional Chinese culture, promote the localization of foreign cultures, and constantly cultivate and create a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a New Era.” Socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a New Era takes Xi Jinping Thought on Culture as its guide, adheres to the people-centered fundamental position and the development direction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, holds fast to the soul of Marxism and the roots of fine traditional Chinese culture, and persists in upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. It possesses powerful ideological guiding force, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence. Among these, ideological guiding force is manifested in guiding practice with scientific theory, ensuring that the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era advances along the correct development direction; spiritual cohesion is manifested in enhancing the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation and building the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland; value appeal is manifested in cultivating and practicing the core socialist values, enabling the entire people to be of one heart and one mind, united and striving forward; international influence is manifested in enhancing the communication power and influence of Chinese civilization and raising China’s discursive power. Socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a New Era nourishes the people’s spiritual homeland, meets the people’s cultural needs, strengthens the people’s spiritual strength, cultivates an open, inclusive, self-confident, and self-reliant spiritual temperament, and injects powerful spiritual momentum into the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, the Chinese people have jointly painted a vivid practical picture of nourishing the spiritual homeland with socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a New Era.

习近平总书记指出：“我们必须坚持马克思主义中国化时代化，传承发展中华优秀传统文化，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。”新时代中国特色社会主义文化坚持以习近平文化思想为引领，坚持以人民为中心的根本立场和中国特色社会主义文化发展方向，坚守马克思主义魂脉、中华优秀传统文化根脉，坚持守正创新，具有强大的思想引领力、精神凝聚力、价值感召力、国际影响力。其中，思想引领力体现为以科学理论指导实践，确保新时代中国特色社会主义事业沿着正确发展方向前进；精神凝聚力体现为提升中华民族凝聚力和向心力、构筑中华民族共有精神家园；价值感召力体现为培育和践行社会主义核心价值观等，使全体人民同心同德、团结奋进；国际影响力体现为提升中华文明传播力影响力、提升我国话语权等。新时代中国特色社会主义文化滋养人民精神家园，满足人民文化需求，增强人民精神力量，涵养开放包容、自信自强的精神气质，为新时代中国特色社会主义事业注入强大精神动能。在习近平文化思想指引下，中国人民共同绘就了以新时代中国特色社会主义文化滋养精神家园的生动实践图景。

Flourish literary and artistic endeavors, produce more fine works, and consolidate the value foundation of the spiritual homeland. An important vehicle for nourishing the spiritual homeland with socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a New Era is excellent literary and artistic works. The core socialist values are the concentrated embodiment of contemporary Chinese spirit and the ideological and moral foundation for uniting Chinese strength. Using excellent literary and artistic works that the masses enjoy to promote the core socialist values, gradually internalizing them into the value consensus of the entire people, plays an important role in building the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland. For example, the TV series *Minning Town*, the film *I Am What I Am*[8]8 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Conference to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War” (September 3, 2015)., the radio drama *China’s BeiDou*, and other fine works that display the features of the era and depict the picture of rejuvenation reflect the self-confident and self-reliant spiritual outlook of the Chinese people and enhance the emotional identification of the Chinese nation, becoming an important source for nourishing the spiritual homeland. In literary and artistic creation, elevating the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation and scaling the heights of literature and art with firm cultural confidence can effectively enhance the cohesion and appeal of the core socialist values, fundamentally consolidating the value foundation of the spiritual homeland.

繁荣文艺事业，推出更多精品力作，筑牢精神家园的价值根基。以新时代中国特色社会主义文化滋养精神家园，一个重要载体是优秀文艺作品。社会主义核心价值观是当代中国精神的集中体现，是凝聚中国力量的思想道德基础。以人民群众喜闻乐见的优秀文艺作品弘扬社会主义核心价值观，使之不断内化为全体人民的价值共识，对构筑中华民族共有精神家园具有重要作用。比如，电视剧《山海情》、电影《我本是高山》、广播剧《中国北斗》等一批展现时代风貌、描绘复兴画卷的精品力作，反映了中国人民自信自立的精神面貌、增强了中华民族的情感认同，成为滋养精神家园的重要源泉。在文艺创作中高扬中华民族的文化主体性，以坚定的文化自信勇攀文艺高峰，能够有效增强社会主义核心价值观的凝聚力、感召力，从根本上筑牢精神家园的价值根基。

Improve the quality and efficiency of cultural services, meet the people’s expectations for a better life, and expand the coverage of the spiritual homeland. Improving the quality, efficiency, and inclusive sharing of cultural services is a key path to continuously expanding the coverage of the spiritual homeland and promoting common prosperity in the people’s spiritual life. Innovatively implementing cultural projects benefiting the people, promoting the standardization and equalization of basic public cultural services, basically completing a six-tier public cultural service system covering urban and rural areas, and building quality cultural life circles tailored to local conditions have opened up the “last kilometer” of cultural services and effectively guaranteed the people’s basic cultural rights and interests. Leveraging the internet and digital technology breaks the temporal and spatial limitations of traditional cultural services, attracting more people to participate in spiritual and cultural activities through interactive and immersive experiences, extending the boundaries of the spiritual homeland into virtual space. Fully unleashing the principal role of the people in cultural construction, promoting the participation of social forces in public cultural services, and realizing the transformation from “passive acceptance” to “active creation” of public cultural services and cultural products have promoted cultural co-construction and sharing. Inclusive, shared, quality-oriented cultural services effectively enhance the people’s cultural well-being, forming a broad spiritual homeland that provides rich nourishment.

文化服务提质增效，满足人民群众对美好生活的期待，拓展精神家园的覆盖广度。文化服务的提质增效与普惠共享是不断拓展精神家园覆盖广度、促进人民精神生活共同富裕的关键路径。创新实施文化惠民工程，促进基本公共文化服务标准化均等化，基本建成覆盖城乡的六级公共文化服务体系，因地制宜构建品质文化生活圈等，打通了文化服务的“最后一公里”，有力保障了人民基本文化权益。借助互联网与数字技术，打破传统文化服务的时空限制，以交互式、沉浸式体验吸引更多群众参与精神文化活动，将精神家园的边界拓展至虚拟空间。充分发挥人民群众在文化建设中的主体作用，推动社会力量参与公共文化服务，实现从“被动接受”到“主动创造”公共文化服务和文化产品的转变，促进了文化共建共享。普惠共享、质量并举的文化服务有力增进人民的文化福祉，形成了提供丰厚滋养的广阔精神家园。

Deeply empower cultural innovation, promote high-quality economic development, and consolidate the material foundation of the spiritual homeland. Culture and economy influence and interact with each other. Deeply empowering high-quality economic development with culture can consolidate the indispensable material foundation for nourishing the spiritual homeland. Deeply tapping into the economic value of culture, using cultural innovation as a driving engine for developing new quality productive forces, and promoting the deep integration of cultural resources, creative elements, and the entire industrial chain can give rise to the vigorous development of new business forms such as digital culture, creative design, and cultural tourism integration, creating emerging cultural industry clusters. In 2025, enterprises above the designated size in the national culture and related industries achieved operating revenue of 15.2135 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.0451 trillion yuan over the previous year, a growth of 7.4%. Using cultural innovation to boost the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, enhancing the cultural added value and market competitiveness of industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism, helps optimize the economic structure and provides sustained momentum for high-quality economic development. Relying on market mechanisms to create a rich variety of high-quality cultural products and services can better meet the people’s growing multi-level spiritual and cultural needs, activate domestic demand potential through cultural consumption, and in turn support the construction of the spiritual homeland. In the process of deeply empowering economic development with culture, cultural resources are continuously transformed into economic value, forming a favorable pattern of mutual integration and promotion between culture and economy, exploring a new paradigm for the coordinated development of material civilization and cultural-ethical progress, and laying a solid material foundation for the spiritual homeland.

文化创新深度赋能，推动经济高质量发展，夯实精神家园的物质基础。文化与经济相互影响、相互作用。以文化深度赋能经济高质量发展，能为滋养精神家园夯实不可或缺的物质基础。深入挖掘文化的经济价值，将文化创新作为发展新质生产力的驱动引擎，推动文化资源、创意要素与全产业链深度融合，能够催生数字文化、创意设计、文旅融合等新业态蓬勃发展，打造文化新兴产业集群。2025年，全国规模以上文化及相关产业企业实现营业收入152135亿元，比上年增加10451亿元，增长7.4%。以文化创新助推传统产业转型升级，提升制造业、农业和旅游业等产业的文化附加值与市场竞争力，有助于优化经济结构，为经济高质量发展提供持续动能。依托市场机制打造丰富多样的高品质文化产品与服务，能更好满足人民群众日益增长的多层次精神文化需求，以文化消费激活内需潜力，反哺精神家园建设。在文化深度赋能经济发展过程中，文化资源持续转化为经济价值，形成文化与经济互融互促的良好格局，探索出物质文明与精神文明协调发展新范式，为精神家园奠定坚实的物质根基。

Promote cultural prosperity and flourishing at a new starting point, injecting more powerful spiritual strength into building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation.

在新起点上推动文化繁荣兴盛，为强国建设、民族复兴注入更为强大的精神力量

Cultural prosperity and flourishing is an important hallmark of Chinese-path modernization and a prerequisite for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The “15th Five-Year Plan” period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. At this new historical starting point, we must unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate minds and forge

文化繁荣兴盛是中国式现代化的重要标志，是实现中华民族伟大复兴的前提。“十五五”时期是基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期。在新的历史起点上，我们要坚持不懈用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想凝心铸魂，以习近平文化思想为指引，不断繁荣发展新时代中国特色社会主义文化，持续滋养精神家园，为强国建设、民族复兴注入更为强大的精神力量。

Continuously cultivate and practice the core socialist values, and consolidate the foundation of the spiritual home. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “As long as we continuously cultivate and practice the core socialist values, and always inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, we will certainly be able to build the spiritual home of the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and solidify the ideological foundation for the united struggle and indomitable advance of the Chinese people.” [8]8 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Conference to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War” (September 3, 2015). The widespread recognition and earnest practice of the core socialist values are the key to凝聚中国力量 (coalescing China’s strength) and building the spiritual home; they can consolidate the ideological foundation of the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual home. We must uphold the guiding role of Marxism in the ideological domain, perfect the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding role in the ideological domain, strengthen the awareness of ideological positions, continuously reinforce the Party’s overall leadership over ideological construction, enhance the cohesive and guiding force of socialist ideology, continuously build Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and develop and strengthen mainstream values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture. Focusing on cultivating a new generation capable of shouldering the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must strengthen the promotion of advanced models and moving stories of practicing the core socialist values across various industries and fields, fully unleash the guiding role of the core socialist values in national education, the creation of cultural-ethical progress, and the production, creation, and dissemination of spiritual and cultural products, integrate the core socialist values into all aspects of social development, and continuously raise the people’s ideological awareness, moral standards, and cultural-ethical attainment. Strengthen educational guidance, practical cultivation, and institutional safeguards, use legal means to drain the muddy and dredge the clear, to support the upright and suppress the evil, [9]9 “Drain the muddy and dredge the clear, support the upright and suppress the evil” (激浊扬清、扶正祛邪) is a Chinese four-character idiom pair meaning to eliminate the bad and promote the good, and to uphold righteousness while eliminating evil influences. guide all the people to consciously practice the core socialist values, and gradually internalize them into people’s emotional identification and behavioral habits.

不断培育和践行社会主义核心价值观，夯实精神家园的基石。习近平总书记强调：“只要不断培育和践行社会主义核心价值观，始终继承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化，我们就一定能够建设好全国各族人民的精神家园，筑牢中华儿女团结奋进、一往无前的思想基础。”对社会主义核心价值观的普遍认同和切实践行是凝聚中国力量、构筑精神家园的关键所在，能够夯实中华民族共有精神家园的思想基础。要坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位，完善马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度，强化阵地意识，不断加强党对意识形态建设的全面领导，增强社会主义意识形态的凝聚力和引领力，不断构筑中国精神、中国价值和中国力量，发展壮大主流价值、主流舆论和主流文化。以培养担当民族复兴大任的时代新人为着眼点，加强宣传各行业、各领域践行社会主义核心价值观的先进典型、感人故事等，充分发挥社会主义核心价值观对国民教育、精神文明创建、精神文化产品创作生产传播的引领作用，把社会主义核心价值观融入社会发展各方面，不断提高人民思想觉悟、道德水平和文明素养。强化教育引导、实践养成、制度保障，运用法治手段激浊扬清、扶正祛邪，引导全体人民自觉践行社会主义核心价值观，使之逐渐内化为人们的情感认同和行为习惯。

Continue to advance the “Second Integration”[10]10 The “Second Integration” (第二个结合) refers to the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s fine traditional culture, as distinct from the first integration of Marxism with China’s concrete realities. It was formally proposed by Xi Jinping in 2023. and perpetuate the roots of the spiritual homeland. The Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland has been formed on the deep foundation of more than five thousand years of Chinese civilization; its roots lie in fine traditional Chinese culture. The “Second Integration” profoundly reveals the high degree of compatibility between Marxism and fine traditional Chinese culture, and points out the fundamental path for flourishing and developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the New Era and for perpetuating the roots of the Chinese nation’s shared spiritual homeland. It is necessary to handle well the relationship between the soul of Marxism and the roots of fine traditional Chinese culture. On the one hand, use the light of Marxist truth to activate the contemporary vitality of fine traditional Chinese culture, stimulating its contemporary value and practical functions; on the other hand, continuously consolidate the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, using fine traditional Chinese culture to provide rich cultural nourishment and historical depth for adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, so that Marxism takes on Chinese characteristics, a Chinese style, and a Chinese manner. Handle well the relationship between upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground: both uphold the “correctness” of the socialist path, the “correctness” of theory, the “correctness” of institutions, and the “correctness” of culture, ensuring the correct direction of cultural development; and advance cultural innovation, fully stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture.

持续推进“第二个结合”，赓续精神家园的根脉。中华民族共有精神家园，是在五千多年中华文明深厚基础上形成的，其根脉在于中华优秀传统文化。“第二个结合”深刻揭示了马克思主义与中华优秀传统文化的高度契合性，为繁荣发展新时代中国特色社会主义文化，赓续中华民族共有精神家园的根脉指明了根本路径。要处理好马克思主义魂脉与中华优秀传统文化根脉的关系。既运用马克思主义的真理之光激活中华优秀传统文化的当代生命力，激发中华优秀传统文化的时代价值和现实功能；又不断巩固中华民族的文化主体性，以中华优秀传统文化为马克思主义中国化时代化提供丰厚文化滋养和历史底蕴，使马克思主义呈现出中国特色、中国风格、中国气派。处理好守正与创新的关系，既坚守社会主义道路之“正”、理论之“正”、制度之“正”、文化之“正”，确保文化建设的正确方向；又推进文化创新，充分激发全民族文化创新创造活力，推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化、创新性发展。

Vigorously develop cultural programs and the cultural industry, enriching the substance of the spiritual homeland. Vigorously developing cultural programs and the cultural industry is an important way and means of nourishing the spiritual homeland, and an inevitable requirement for meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the people in the New Era and safeguarding their cultural rights and interests. It is necessary to grasp well the relationship between ideological attributes and industrial attributes, and between social benefits and economic benefits, adhere to the forward direction of advanced socialist culture, and put social benefits first. Take a firm stand on the side of the people, focus on better meeting the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life, implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, strive to optimize the supply of public cultural services, and enable the people to enjoy a more substantial, richer, and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life. Adhere to a people-centered orientation in cultural creation, enhance the capacity for original cultural creation, promote the creation of high-quality works in fields such as journalism and publishing, radio, film and television, and literature and art, make the creation and production of excellent works the central link in literary and artistic work, and bring forth works that resonate deeply with the people and are worthy of the times. Use cultural creativity, technological innovation, and industrial integration to cultivate new drivers of development, continuously improve the cultural industry system, perfect the cultural market system, promote high-quality development of the cultural industry, and make the cultural industry a new bright spot for stimulating domestic demand, promoting employment, invigorating the market, and boosting confidence. Actively seize the opportunities presented by information technology development, promote deep integration of culture and technology, empower the high-quality development of cultural programs and the cultural industry through digitalization, and carry out the modernization, popularization, and international dissemination of cultural classics and cultural heritage. Take the promotion of deep integration of culture and tourism as the main line, accelerate the building of a strong tourism country, enrich the supply of high-quality tourism products, improve the quality of tourism services, and enable the tourism industry to better serve a better life, promote economic development, and nourish the spiritual homeland.

大力发展文化事业和文化产业，丰盈精神家园的内涵。大力发展文化事业和文化产业是滋养精神家园的重要方式和手段，是满足新时代人民精神文化需求、保障人民文化权益的必然要求。要把握好意识形态属性和产业属性、社会效益和经济效益的关系，坚持社会主义先进文化前进方向，把社会效益放在首位。站稳人民立场，围绕更好满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要，实施公共文化服务提质增效行动，着力优化公共文化服务供给，让人民享有更加充实、更为丰富、更高质量的精神文化生活。坚持以人民为中心的创作导向，提升文化原创能力，推动新闻出版、广播影视、文学艺术等领域精品创作，把创作生产优秀作品作为文艺工作的中心环节，推出深入人心、无愧于时代的作品。以文化创意、科技创新、产业融合培育新发展动能，不断健全文化产业体系，完善文化市场体系，推动文化产业高质量发展，使文化产业成为拉动内需、促进就业、活跃市场、提振信心的新亮点。主动把握信息技术发展机遇，推进文化与科技深度融合，以数字化赋能文化事业、文化产业高质量发展，对文化经典和文化遗产进行现代化、通俗化转化和国际化传播。以推进文旅深度融合为主线，加快建设旅游强国，丰富高品质旅游产品供给，提高旅游服务质量，让旅游业更好地服务美好生活、推动经济发展与滋养精神家园。

Promote cultural exchange and mutual learning, expanding the scope of the spiritual homeland. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We need to deepen exchanges and mutual learning, build a spiritual homeland of harmony in diversity with an inclusive mind, and treat diverse cultures with an attitude of appreciation, mutual learning, and mutual reference.”[11]11 Xi Jinping, speech at a meeting marking the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, June 28, 2024. Only by promoting cultural exchange and mutual learning, incorporating things of diverse nature, and drawing on a wide range of strengths can we form an open and inclusive cultural pattern and cultural atmosphere, and build a confident and open spiritual homeland. Adhere to not forgetting the original, absorbing foreign things, and facing the future: both strengthen cultural confidence, hold a high degree of identification with fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, and unequivocally oppose cultural nihilism and historical nihilism; and seek wisdom and draw nourishment from different civilizations with an attitude of equality, respect, and inclusiveness, learn from and borrow all outstanding achievements of human civilization, and provide continuous nourishment for forging new brilliance in Chinese culture. Strengthen the capacity for international communication, build a strategic communication system with distinct Chinese characteristics, and continuously enhance the influence of international communication, the appeal of Chinese culture, the affinity of China’s image, the persuasiveness of Chinese discourse, and the power to guide international public opinion. Accelerate the construction of Chinese discourse and Chinese narrative systems, use Chinese theories to explain Chinese practice, use Chinese practice to elevate Chinese theories, create new concepts, new categories, and new expressions that connect China and the rest of the world, more fully and vividly present Chinese stories and the ideological and spiritual power behind them, let Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese experience take root in people’s hearts, and enable the international community to become more familiar with and recognize the credible, lovable, and respectable image of China.

促进文化交流互鉴，拓展精神家园的范围。习近平总书记指出：“我们要深化交流互鉴，以包容的胸怀构建和而不同的精神家园，用欣赏、互学、互鉴的态度对待多种文化”。唯有促进文化交流互鉴，兼收并蓄、博采众长，才能形成开放包容的文化格局和文化气象，构筑自信、开放的精神家园。坚持不忘本来、吸收外来、面向未来，既要坚定文化自信，对中华优秀传统文化、革命文化、社会主义先进文化高度认同，旗帜鲜明地反对文化虚无主义和历史虚无主义；又要以平等、尊重、包容的心态从不同文明中寻求智慧、汲取营养，学习和借鉴人类社会一切优秀文明成果，为铸就中华文化新辉煌提供持续滋养。加强国际传播能力建设，构建具有鲜明中国特色的战略传播体系，不断提高国际传播影响力、中华文化感召力、中国形象亲和力、中国话语说服力、国际舆论引导力。加快构建中国话语和中国叙事体系，用中国理论阐释中国实践，用中国实践升华中国理论，打造融通中外的新概念、新范畴、新表述，更加充分、鲜明地展现中国故事及其背后的思想力量和精神力量，让中国智慧、中国方案、中国经验深入人心，让国际社会更加熟知和认同可信、可爱、可敬的中国形象。

(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, Zhejiang University)

（作者为浙江大学马克思主义学院教授）