Consolidating the Grassroots Foundation of Chinese-Path Modernization through New-Era Civilized Practice

New-era civilized practice is an important vehicle for propaganda, ideology, and cultural work to reach the grassroots, connect with the masses, and serve practice, and it is also a crucial lever for advancing cultural-ethical progress to achieve tangible results at the grassroots level. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes, “On the new journey of the New Era, cultural-ethical progress must take on a new look and achieve new accomplishments,” and “we must coordinate the promotion of civilized cultivation, civilized practice, and civilized creation, and advance the integrated development of urban and rural cultural-ethical progress.” The key to deepening and solidifying new-era civilized practice lies in upholding the Party’s leadership, firmly taking the people’s standpoint, strengthening the grassroots orientation, and comprehensively advancing the integration of ideological guidance, organizational consolidation, venue integration, volunteer services, and institutional mechanisms. This unifies the tasks of propagating among the masses, educating the masses, guiding the masses, and serving the masses, thereby continuously consolidating the grassroots foundation of Chinese-path modernization in the process of rallying people’s hearts and strength, fostering civilized new customs, and serving national governance.

新时代文明实践是宣传思想文化工作深入基层、联系群众、服务实践的重要载体，也是推进精神文明建设在基层落地见效的重要抓手。习近平总书记强调，“新时代新征程，精神文明建设要有新气象新作为”，“要统筹推动文明培育、文明实践、文明创建，推进城乡精神文明建设融合发展”。促进新时代文明实践走深走实，关键在于坚持党的领导、站稳人民立场、强化基层导向，统筹推进思想引领、组织整合、阵地融合、志愿服务和机制建设，把宣传群众、教育群众、引导群众、服务群众统一起来，在凝聚人心力量、涵育文明新风、服务国家治理中不断夯实中国式现代化的基层基础。

In Ideological Guidance, Forge the Spiritual Foundation

在思想引领中筑牢精神根基

The primary task of new-era civilized practice is to unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge souls and consolidate hearts, and to promote the Party’s innovative theories to take root at the grassroots level. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes, “We must innovate in means of dissemination and modes of discourse, so that the Party’s innovative theories ‘fly into the homes of ordinary people.’” [1]1 This is a well-known quote from Xi Jinping, often used to emphasize the need for accessible and popularized dissemination of Party theory. This important exposition indicates that theoretical propaganda is not simply a process of transmission from documents to meeting venues, or from books to lecture platforms. Rather, it requires combining the Party’s innovative theories with the masses’ lives, grassroots practice, and real concerns, making them the ideological guide for the masses to understand the times, comprehend policies, and participate in practice. The closer theoretical propaganda gets to the grassroots, the more it must adhere to the unity of political nature, ideological nature, and mass character. Grand themes must be explained within the perceptible life scenarios of the masses, using concrete facts to illustrate theory and using changes around them to clarify principles. Only when the Party’s innovative theories are linked to the masses’ life experiences, local development changes, and grassroots public affairs can they be transformed into an ideological force that is understandable, identifiable, and actionable, thereby forging a spiritual foundation for Chinese-path modernization.

新时代文明实践的首要任务，是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，推动党的创新理论在基层落地生根。习近平总书记强调，“要加强传播手段和话语方式创新，让党的创新理论‘飞入寻常百姓家’”。这一重要论述表明，理论宣传不是简单从文件到会场、从书本到讲台的传递过程，而是要把党的创新理论同群众生活、基层实践和现实关切结合起来，使之成为群众认识时代、理解政策、参与实践的思想指引。理论宣传越到基层，越要坚持政治性、思想性和群众性相统一，把宏大主题放到群众可感知的生活场景中来阐释，用具体事实说明理论，用身边变化阐明道理。党的创新理论只有同群众生活经验、地方发展变化和基层公共事务联系起来，才能转化为可理解、可认同、可践行的思想力量，从而为中国式现代化筑牢精神根基。

To strengthen ideological guidance, the key is to make theoretical propaganda accurate, profound, thorough, and vivid. First, build a strong grassroots propaganda team by organizing grassroots cadres, theoretical propagandists, civilized practice volunteers, exemplary figures, cultural backbone personnel, and converged media workers, enhancing their political grasp, theoretical interpretation, and mass communication capabilities. Second, stay close to grassroots realities, focusing on the masses’ concerns such as employment and income growth, rural revitalization, public services, and transforming outdated customs. Explain policy principles within specific contexts and theoretical logic within real changes, allowing the masses to feel the practical power of theory through events, people, and changes around them. Third, optimize discourse expression through forms such as courtyard meetings, bench meetings, civilized practice lecture halls, cultural propaganda, and micro-videos. Transform abstract principles into expressions the masses can understand, are willing to hear, and can remember, integrating theoretical propaganda with grassroots cultural activities, public deliberation, and volunteer actions.

增强思想引领，关键要把理论宣传讲准、讲深、讲透、讲活。一是建强基层宣讲队伍，把基层干部、理论宣讲员、文明实践志愿者、先进典型人物、文艺骨干和融媒体工作者等力量组织起来，提升政治把握、理论阐释和群众沟通能力。二是贴近基层现实，聚焦就业增收、乡村振兴、公共服务、移风易俗等群众关切，把政策道理讲到具体情境中，把理论逻辑讲到现实变化中，让群众从身边事、身边人、身边变化中感受理论的实践力量。三是优化话语表达，通过院坝会、板凳会、文明实践讲堂、文艺宣讲、微视频等形式，把抽象道理转化为群众听得懂、愿意听、记得住的表达，把理论宣讲同基层文化活动、公共议事和志愿行动结合起来。

In County-Level Coordination, Consolidate Work Synergy

在县域统筹中凝聚工作合力

The county level is the key tier for civilized practice to move from venue construction to systemic operation. Grassroots propaganda, ideology, and cultural work involves theoretical dissemination, cultural supply, venue construction, volunteer services, and grassroots governance. Without unified coordination, problems such as resource dispersion and activity duplication easily arise. New-era civilized practice differs from general cultural service activities; its deeper value lies in transforming the Party’s advantages in leadership, organization, and mass work into the sustained operational capacity of grassroots society. Through county-level coordination, resources scattered across different departments, platforms, and spaces are organized, forming a grassroots work pattern that connects top and bottom, links left and right, and stays close to the masses, providing organizational support for Chinese-path modernization.

县域是文明实践从阵地建设走向体系运行的关键层级。基层宣传思想文化工作涉及理论传播、文化供给、阵地建设、志愿服务和基层治理等方面，如果缺乏统一协调，容易出现资源分散、活动重复等问题。新时代文明实践不同于一般性文化服务活动，其深层价值在于把党的领导优势、组织优势和群众工作优势转化为基层社会的持续运行能力。通过县域统筹，把分散在不同部门、不同平台、不同空间中的资源组织起来，形成贯通上下、联动左右、贴近群众的基层工作格局，为中国式现代化提供组织依托。

Strengthening county-level coordination hinges on the scientific and effective allocation of various resources. Reinforce unified leadership by county-level Party committees, improve the three-tier linkage mechanism of civilized practice centers, institutes, and stations, and clarify the chain of responsibility with county-level coordination, township-level organization, and village-community implementation. Enhance departmental coordination by incorporating resources from propaganda, organization, civil affairs, education, culture, agriculture and rural affairs, trade unions, the Communist Youth League, and women’s federations into the civilized practice work framework, forming project lists around theoretical propaganda, cultural benefits for the people, care and assistance, rural civility, and grassroots governance. Promote the sinking of resources by introducing high-quality cultural, educational, medical, legal, and social resources to the grassroots, avoiding resources remaining at the county platform and activities staying at the centralized exhibition level. Improve project-based operational methods by implementing list management, regular scheduling, and tracking feedback for matters with concentrated mass demand, urgent grassroots feedback, and obvious practical effects.

加强县域统筹，关键在于科学有效配置各类资源。强化县级党委统一领导，健全文明实践中心、所、站三级联动机制，明确县级统筹、乡镇组织、村社落实的责任链条。加强部门协同，把宣传、组织、民政、教育、文化、农业农村、工会、共青团、妇联等方面资源纳入文明实践工作框架，围绕理论宣讲、文化惠民、关爱帮扶、乡风文明、基层治理等内容形成项目清单。推动资源下沉，把优质文化资源、教育资源、医疗资源、法律服务和社会力量引入基层，避免资源停留在县级平台、活动停留在集中展示。完善项目化运行方式，对群众需求集中、基层反映迫切、实际效果明显的事项，实行清单管理、定期调度、跟踪反馈。

In Integrated Linkage, Weave a Dense Communication Network

在融合联动中织密传播网络

For new-era civilized practice to achieve effective coverage and sustained impact at the grassroots level, a communication network that is broad in coverage, smooth in operation, and close to the masses is indispensable. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes, “We must solidly build county-level converged media centers to better guide and serve the masses.” [2]2 County-level converged media centers (县级融媒体中心) are integrated media platforms established at the county level in China to consolidate local news, information, and service resources. Civilized practice centers are close to the scene, focusing on organizational mobilization, value guidance, and practical service; county-level converged media centers connect platforms, focusing on content production, information release, and public opinion guidance. The two support each other, integrate and link up, enabling information transmission, service provision, and mass feedback to flow through at the grassroots level, thereby thickening the mass foundation for Chinese-path modernization.

新时代文明实践要在基层形成有效覆盖和持续影响，离不开覆盖广泛、运行顺畅、贴近群众的传播网络。习近平总书记强调，“要扎实抓好县级融媒体中心建设，更好引导群众、服务群众”。文明实践中心贴近现场，重在组织动员、价值引领和实践服务；县级融媒体中心连接平台，重在内容生产、信息发布和舆论引导。二者相互支撑、融合联动，促使信息传递、服务供给和群众反馈在基层贯通起来，为中国式现代化厚植群众基础。

Advancing venue integration focuses on coordinated operation. Promote coordination between civilized practice centers and county-level converged media centers in agenda setting, jointly planning themes around the propaganda of the Party’s innovative theories, key grassroots work, the masses’ real needs, and local development achievements, so that online content dissemination and offline practical activities support each other. Coordinate in content production by transforming typical figures, vivid stories, and mass experiences from civilized practice into grassroots-accessible content forms such as short videos, graphic reports, and micro-lectures. Coordinate in activity organization by relying on offline venues such as civilized practice institutes and stations, cultural squares, farmhouse bookstores, and village broadcasts for face-to-face exchanges, while also using digital channels such as client apps, WeChat public accounts, short video platforms, and community groups to improve information reach efficiency. Coordinate in feedback and response by promptly aggregating mass comments, grassroots demands, and activity feedback, promoting the formation of a closed loop in content dissemination, mass organization, cultural services, and governance response.

推进阵地融合，重点在协同运行。推动文明实践中心与县级融媒体中心在议题设置上协同，围绕党的创新理论宣传、基层重点工作、群众现实需求和地方发展成就共同策划主题，使线上内容传播与线下实践活动相互支撑。在内容生产上协同，把文明实践中的典型人物、鲜活故事、群众经验转化为短视频、图文报道、微宣讲等基层易接受的内容形态。在活动组织上协同，既依托文明实践所站、文化广场、农家书屋、乡村广播等线下阵地开展面对面交流，也运用客户端、微信公众号、短视频平台、社区群等数字渠道提升信息抵达效率。在反馈回应上协同，及时汇总群众留言、基层诉求、活动反馈，推动内容传播、群众组织、文化服务和治理回应形成闭环。

In Volunteer Services, Stimulate the Power of the Subjects

在志愿服务中激发主体力量

New-era civilized practice takes volunteer service as its basic form, integrating theoretical propaganda, care and assistance, cultural benefits for the people, environmental improvement, neighborhood mutual aid, and emergency services into the daily lives of the masses. This allows the core socialist values to be fully embodied in public services and social participation. Volunteer service combines value guidance with concrete actions, helping to foster civilized customs and enhance governance vitality in grassroots society, thereby gathering civilizational strength for Chinese-path modernization.

新时代文明实践以志愿服务为基本形式，把理论宣讲、关爱帮扶、文化惠民、环境整治、邻里互助、应急服务等内容融入群众日常生活，使社会主义核心价值观在公共服务和社会参与中得到充分体现。志愿服务把价值引导同具体行动结合起来，有助于在基层社会涵育文明风尚、增强治理活力，为中国式现代化汇聚文明力量。

To make volunteer service substantive, it is necessary to connect mass needs with mass participation. First, adhere to a demand-oriented approach, focusing on real needs such as “the elderly and children,” [3]3 “一老一小” (the elderly and children) is a standard Chinese policy shorthand for the two key demographic groups requiring social care and services. disadvantaged groups, public culture, rural civility, environmental governance, and emergency mutual aid, designing normalized, precise, and sustainable service projects. Second, expand the volunteer service team, leveraging the exemplary and leading role of Party members and cadres while also attracting teachers, doctors, cultural workers, veterans, and returning youth to participate, forming a grassroots volunteer force that combines specialized and general personnel with complementary advantages. Third, improve service methods, avoiding equating volunteer service simply with centralized activities or temporary condolences, and instead embedding it into village and community public affairs, neighborhood mutual aid networks, and the daily lives of the masses. Fourth, respect the masses’ wishes, guiding them to participate in service design, activity organization, and effect feedback, and improving normalized channels for mass participation in civilized practice.

做实志愿服务，要把群众需求和群众参与贯通起来。一是坚持需求导向，围绕“一老一小”、困难群体、公共文化、乡风文明、环境治理、应急互助等现实需要，设计常态化、精准化、可持续的服务项目。二是壮大志愿服务队伍，既发挥党员干部示范带动作用，也吸纳教师、医生、文艺工作者、退役军人、返乡青年等参与其中，形成专兼结合、优势互补的基层志愿力量。三是改进服务方式，避免把志愿服务简单等同于集中活动、临时慰问等，而要推动其嵌入村社公共事务、邻里互助网络和群众日常生活。四是尊重群众意愿，引导群众参与服务设计、活动组织和效果反馈，完善群众参与文明实践的常态化渠道。

In Practical Exploration, Perfect Long-Term Mechanisms

在实践探索中健全长效机制

New-era civilized practice values normality and emphasizes practical results. Perfecting long-term mechanisms requires embedding civilized practice into the daily operation of grassroots propaganda, ideology, and cultural work and grassroots governance, so that it neither arises from a one-time activity nor ceases with the end of a phased task.

新时代文明实践贵在常态、重在实效。健全长效机制，需要把文明实践嵌入基层宣传思想文化工作和基层治理的日常运行之中，使其不因一时活动而起、不随阶段任务而止。

To improve long-term mechanisms, we must summarize in practice and refine through operation. Improve the demand-discovery mechanism: grasp the concerns of the masses through visits and contacts, solicitation of demands, consultative deliberation, hotline platforms, and community group feedback, transforming the needs of the masses into the content supply and work priorities of civilized practice. Improve the dynamic-response mechanism: allocate propaganda teams, cultural resources, volunteer forces, and public services according to the actual conditions of different villages and communities, different groups, and different stages, avoiding a mismatch between supply and demand. Improve the operational mechanism: continue to deepen mature projects, promptly adjust activities with mediocre effects, and institutionalize practices that enjoy high recognition from the masses and can be replicated and promoted. Improve the evaluation and feedback mechanism: do not simply measure effectiveness by the number of activities, the scale of on-site participation, or the volume of media dissemination; instead, assess whether ideological consensus is more consolidated, whether civilized customs are continuously cultivated, whether the concerns of the masses are addressed, and whether grassroots governance is markedly improved.

健全长效机制，要在实践中总结、在运行中完善。完善需求发现机制，通过走访联系、征集需求、协商议事、热线平台、社区群反馈等方式掌握群众关切，把群众需求转化为文明实践的内容供给和工作重点。完善动态响应机制，根据不同村社、不同群体、不同阶段的实际情况，配置宣讲队伍、文化资源、志愿力量和公共服务，避免供需错位。完善运行机制，对成熟项目持续做深，对效果一般的活动及时调整，对群众认可度高、可复制可推广的做法在制度层面固化下来。完善评价反馈机制，不简单以活动数量、现场规模、传播声量衡量成效，而要看思想共识是否更加凝聚、文明风尚是否持续涵育、群众关切是否得到回应、基层治理是否明显改善。

On the new journey of the New Era, comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization has its foundation at the grassroots and its strength in the people. Looking to the future, we must continue to deepen the construction of New-Era civilized practice, allowing the Party's innovative theories to take root at the grassroots, mainstream values to be widely promoted at the grassroots, and civilized customs to become prevalent at the grassroots, thereby providing an unceasing impetus for building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation with a solid, stable, and vibrant grassroots foundation.

新时代新征程，以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业，基础在基层，力量在人民。面向未来，要持续深化新时代文明实践建设，让党的创新理论在基层落地生根、主流价值在基层广泛弘扬、文明风尚在基层蔚然成风，以坚实稳固、充满活力的基层基础，为强国建设、民族复兴注入不竭动力。

(Author: Li Dingyi, specially appointed researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and assistant researcher at the Institute of Journalism and Communication)

（作者：李丁一，系中国社会科学院习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心特约研究员、新闻与传播研究所助理研究员）