The Decade of Splendid Achievements in Chinese Philosophy and Social Sciences

Virtue and achievement are grand; thought provides the navigation. On May 17, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on philosophy and social sciences and delivered an important speech (hereinafter referred to as the “Speech”), which profoundly elucidated the great significance, status, and role of philosophy and social sciences, scientifically answered a series of fundamental, principled, and strategic questions concerning the long-term development of China’s philosophy and social sciences, systematically outlined the grand blueprint for accelerating the construction of Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and pointed out the direction of progress and provided the fundamental guidance for the flourishing development of contemporary Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Over the past ten years, guided by the spirit of the “Speech,” China’s philosophy and social sciences community has held high the banner, centered on serving Chinese-path modernization, explored laws, pursued truth, passed on civilization, and promoted theoretical innovation and academic prosperity. A new academic landscape brimming with passion, vitality, and dynamism has thus taken shape. Practice has proven that for contemporary Chinese philosophy and social sciences to possess its own dignity and to win a brilliant future, it must firmly advance along the direction guided by the spirit of the “Speech.”

德业盛大，思想领航。2016年5月17日，习近平总书记主持召开哲学社会科学工作座谈会并发表重要讲话（以下简称《讲话》），深刻阐明了哲学社会科学的重大意义、地位和作用，科学回答了事关我国哲学社会科学事业长远发展的一系列根本性、原则性、战略性问题，系统擘画了加快构建中国哲学社会科学的宏伟蓝图，为当代中国哲学社会科学的繁荣发展指明了前进方向，提供了根本遵循。10年来，在《讲话》精神指引下，我国哲学社会科学界高举旗帜，围绕服务中国式现代化，探索规律，追求真理，传承文明，推动理论创新与学术繁荣，一个洋溢着激情、充满生机与活力的学术新局面由此形成。实践证明：当代中国哲学社会科学要拥有自己的尊严，要赢得辉煌的未来，必须沿着《讲话》精神指引的方向坚定前行。

Thought Provides the Navigation

思想领航

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “A country without advanced natural sciences cannot be at the forefront of the world, and a country without flourishing philosophy and social sciences cannot be at the forefront of the world either.” Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has personally planned and personally guided China’s philosophy and social sciences cause. In the history of academic development in the New Era, the “Speech” holds important milestone significance. In the subsequent ten years, General Secretary Xi Jinping, in accordance with the changes and developments in the situation, has delivered a series of important speeches and made a series of important instructions and directives around the specific progress in various fields and aspects of philosophy and social sciences work. These important speeches and important instructions and directives, together with the “Speech,” constitute the academic chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture.

习近平总书记指出：“一个没有发达的自然科学的国家不可能走在世界前列，一个没有繁荣的哲学社会科学的国家也不可能走在世界前列。”党的十八大以来，习近平总书记站在推动中华民族伟大复兴的战略全局高度，亲自谋划、亲自指导我国哲学社会科学事业。在新时代中国学术发展史上，《讲话》具有重要的里程碑意义。此后10年，习近平总书记根据形势发展变化，围绕哲学社会科学工作各领域、各方面的具体推进情况，发表了一系列重要讲话，作出一系列重要指示批示。这些重要讲话和重要指示批示，和《讲话》一道，构成了习近平文化思想的学术篇。

Uphold and consolidate the guiding position of Marxism, forging the soul and establishing the foundation for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Adhering to the guidance of Marxism is the fundamental hallmark that distinguishes contemporary Chinese philosophy and social sciences from other philosophy and social sciences. On this fundamental issue concerning the way of the world and the human heart, General Secretary Xi Jinping has taken a clear-cut stand. Not only has

坚持和巩固马克思主义指导地位，为中国哲学社会科学立心铸魂。坚持以马克思主义为指导，是当代中国哲学社会科学区别于其他哲学社会科学的根本标志。在这一关系世道人心的根本问题上，习近平总书记旗帜鲜明，不但主持召开系列专题会议，对马克思主义理论研究和建设工程多次作出重要指示批示，而且面对中外思潮的相互激荡，指导学术界举旗亮剑、激浊扬清，捍卫马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位。习近平总书记强调“对待马克思主义，不能采取教条主义的态度，也不能采取实用主义的态度”“坚持问题导向是马克思主义的鲜明特点”，为新时代中国学术指明了前进方向。

Inheriting and promoting fine traditional Chinese culture, ensuring that China’s philosophy and social sciences have deep roots and luxuriant foliage. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “Chinese culture, which has stretched on for several thousand years, is the deep foundation for the growth and development of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics.” Since the New Era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, with his heart tied to the nation’s fortunes and his feelings linked to the cultural lineage, has personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted the establishment of the Chinese Academy of History and the China National Archives of Publications and Culture, issuing a series of important directives and instructions on inheriting and promoting fine traditional Chinese culture. In particular, on June 2, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the Symposium on Cultural Heritage and Development and delivered an important speech, profoundly elucidating the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization, incisively revealing the great significance of the “Two Integrations,” and sounding the clarion call of the era to “better shoulder the new cultural mission” and “jointly strive to create a new culture belonging to our time.” This is a profound and extensive Marxist cultural declaration, indicating that our Party’s understanding of the laws of cultural development, of traditional Chinese culture, and of the cultural mission of the New Era has reached a new height, presenting the historical responsibility and cultural mission of contemporary Chinese philosophy and social sciences more clearly before people’s eyes.

传承弘扬中华优秀传统文化，确保中国哲学社会科学根深叶茂。习近平总书记指出：“绵延几千年的中华文化，是中国特色哲学社会科学成长发展的深厚基础。”新时代以来，习近平总书记心系国运，情牵文脉，亲自谋划、亲自部署、亲自推动成立中国历史研究院、中国国家版本馆，就传承弘扬中华优秀传统文化作出一系列重要指示批示。特别是2023年6月2日，习近平总书记出席文化传承发展座谈会并发表重要讲话，深刻阐明了中华文明的突出特性，精辟揭示了“两个结合”的重大意义，发出了“更好担负起新的文化使命”“共同努力创造属于我们这个时代的新文化”的时代强音。这是一篇博大精深的马克思主义文化宣言，表明我们党对文化发展规律的认识、对中华传统文化的认识、对新时代文化使命的认识达到了新的高度，将当代中国哲学社会科学的历史重任、文化担当，更加清晰地呈现在人们面前。

Advocating for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, leading Chinese scholarship to the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “We must not only let the world know about ‘China on the tip of the tongue,’ but also let the world know about ‘China in scholarship,’ ‘China in theory,’ and ‘China in philosophy and social sciences,’ letting the world know about ‘China in development,’ ‘China in openness,’ and ‘China contributing to human civilization.’” General Secretary Xi Jinping has presided over collective study sessions of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to research strengthening the construction of our country’s international communication capacity, and has also delivered speeches on multiple important international occasions, advocating for exchanges and dialogue among civilizations, encouraging Chinese and foreign scholars to promote mutual learning among civilizations through academic dialogue and to advance civilizational progress through knowledge innovation. Under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the international communication capacity of Chinese scholarship has been significantly enhanced, and dialogue between Chinese and foreign civilizations has continued to deepen, providing more ideologically sound theoretical support and more innovative intellectual support for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

倡导文明交流互鉴，引领中国学术走向世界。习近平总书记指出：“我们不仅要让世界知道‘舌尖上的中国’，还要让世界知道‘学术中的中国’、‘理论中的中国’、‘哲学社会科学中的中国’，让世界知道‘发展中的中国’、‘开放中的中国’、‘为人类文明作贡献的中国’。”习近平总书记主持中共中央政治局集体学习，研究加强我国国际传播能力建设，还在多个重要国际场合发表演讲，倡导文明交流和对话，鼓励中外学者以学术对话推动文明互鉴，以知识创新促进文明进步。在习近平总书记引领下，中国学术国际传播能力显著增强，中外文明对话持续深入，为构建人类命运共同体提供了更具思想性的学理支撑、更具创新性的智力支持。

Strengthening and improving the Party’s leadership over the work of philosophy and social sciences, fostering a positive academic ecosystem. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: “The cause of philosophy and social sciences is an important cause of the Party and the people; the front of philosophy and social sciences is an important front of the Party and the people.” General Secretary Xi Jinping has poured deep affection and placed high hopes on the vast ranks of philosophy and social science workers, emphasizing that “we must care for, cultivate, and make good use of this contingent,” “we must conscientiously implement the Party’s policy towards intellectuals,” “achieving full political trust, active ideological guidance, creating conditions for work, and caring for and attending to their lives, doing more practical things, good deeds, and solving difficult problems for them,” and demanding that “leading cadres must treat philosophy and social sciences with a scientific attitude, respecting the hard work and research results of philosophy and social science workers.” General Secretary Xi Jinping has also encouraged philosophy and social science workers to solve the problem of academic conduct, promoting the formation of a fine academic atmosphere that esteems excellence, rigorous scholarship, emphasizes integrity, and stresses responsibility, creating a clean and upright, mutually learning, and positive academic ecosystem.

加强和改善党对哲学社会科学工作的领导，营造积极向上的学术生态。习近平总书记强调：“哲学社会科学事业是党和人民的重要事业，哲学社会科学战线是党和人民的重要战线。”习近平总书记对广大哲学社会科学工作者倾注深情、寄予厚望，强调“我们要把这支队伍关心好、培养好、使用好”“要认真贯彻党的知识分子政策”“做到政治上充分信任、思想上主动引导、工作上创造条件、生活上关心照顾，多为他们办实事、做好事、解难事”，要求“领导干部要以科学的态度对待哲学社会科学，尊重哲学社会科学工作者的辛勤付出和研究成果”。习近平总书记还激励哲学社会科学工作者解决好学风问题，推动形成崇尚精品、严谨治学、注重诚信、讲求责任的优良学风，营造风清气正、互学互鉴、积极向上的学术生态。

Brilliant Achievements

辉煌成就

Engels pointed out: “Since history has also received a materialist explanation, a new path of development has also been opened up here.” Following the direction charted by the *Speech*, our country’s philosophy and social sciences cause has ushered in the best period of development in history, achieving a series of notable accomplishments, presenting a vibrant vitality with a comprehensive leap in ideological guiding power, academic creativity, practical explanatory power, and international influence, contributing academic wisdom to the successful advancement and expansion of Chinese-path modernization.

恩格斯指出：“自从历史也得到唯物主义的解释以后，一条新的发展道路也在这里开辟出来了。”沿着《讲话》指引的方向，我国哲学社会科学事业迎来历史上最好的发展时期，取得一系列显著成就，呈现出思想引领力、学术创造力、现实阐释力、国际影响力全面跃升的蓬勃生机，为中国式现代化的成功推进和拓展贡献了学术智慧。

The research, interpretation, and deepening of the Party’s innovative theories have been continuously advanced, and the guiding position of Marxism has been further consolidated. Over the past ten years, the philosophy and social sciences front has adhered to the guidance of Marxism, taking the promotion of the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the primary task, taking the deepening of research on the basic theories of Marxism and the history of academic thought as the foundational project, and running the Party’s innovative theories through all fields and the entire process of Chinese philosophy and social sciences research. Volumes one through five of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China* and volumes one and two of *Selected Readings of Xi Jinping’s Works* have been published; the construction of research centers (academies) for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era has been advanced with high quality, achieving full coverage of research on the Party’s innovative theories by field; a number of national-level research projects have been organized and implemented around the research and interpretation of the Party’s innovative theories; “Book Houses of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Works

党的创新理论研究阐释持续深化，马克思主义指导地位更加巩固。10年来，哲学社会科学战线坚持以马克思主义为指导，把推进习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想体系化学理化研究阐释作为首要任务，把深化马克思主义基本理论和学术思想史研究作为基础工程，把党的创新理论贯穿到中国哲学社会科学研究各领域全过程。出版《习近平谈治国理政》第一卷至第五卷，《习近平著作选读》第一卷、第二卷，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心（院）建设高质量推进，党的创新理论分领域思想研究全覆盖；围绕党的创新理论研究阐释，组织实施一批国家级研究课题；建设海外“习近平总书记著作书屋”，举办“习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想海外研究国际论坛”，党的创新理论研究在海内外渐成显学。马克思主义理论研究和建设工程深入实施，《马列主义经典作家文库》《马藏》等先后出版；马克思主义对哲学社会科学的引领作用更加彰显，学者对马克思主义立场观点方法的运用更加自觉自如；马克思主义学院建设蓬勃发展，高校思政课教师队伍实现数量倍增、素质提升和保障强化，年轻学子在党的创新理论滋养下茁壮成长。

The construction of the disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system has been advanced in depth, and the foundation for building an independent knowledge system has become more solid. Over the past ten years, we have taken the construction of the disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system as the main direction of attack, deeply implemented the innovation project for philosophy and social sciences, enhanced the subjectivity and originality of philosophy and social sciences, and accelerated the construction of an independent knowledge system for China’s philosophy and social sciences. The disciplinary system has become more systematic and complete, with an all-round, all-field, and all-element disciplinary system for philosophy and social sciences basically taking shape. Emerging and interdisciplinary disciplines such as the study of the history and building of the Communist Party of China, discipline inspection and supervision, area and country studies, national security studies, humanistic economics, and borderland studies have gradually arisen, and disciplines of “cold and rare” studies [1]1 “Cold and rare” disciplines (冷门绝学) refer to specialized fields of study that are less popular or have few practitioners but are considered crucial for preserving cultural heritage, such as ancient philology, paleography, or minority languages. with important cultural value and significance for transmission have received key support. The construction of the textbook system, as a solid support for the disciplinary system, has achieved fruitful results, and the construction of important information platforms such as the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Documentation Center has been comprehensively advanced. At the same time, the academic community has gradually formed a number of analytical paradigms with Chinese characteristics, deeply researching and elucidating a batch of original and iconic concepts such as new quality productive forces and cultural subjectivity. The discourse system has become more vivid and lively, with original and iconic concepts such as Chinese-path modernization, whole-process people’s democracy, and a community with a shared future for mankind profoundly influencing the international academic community and becoming “golden keys” for international scholars to enter the knowledge hall of China in the New Era.

学科体系、学术体系、话语体系建设纵深推进，构建自主知识体系的基础更加坚实。10年来，我们以学科体系、学术体系、话语体系建设为主攻方向，深入实施哲学社会科学创新工程，增强哲学社会科学的主体性、原创性，加快构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系。学科体系更加系统完备，全方位、全领域、全要素的哲学社会科学学科体系基本形成，中共党史党建学、纪检监察学、区域国别学、国家安全学、人文经济学、边疆学等新兴学科、交叉学科逐渐兴起，具有重要文化价值和传承意义的冷门绝学学科得到重点扶持。作为学科体系坚实支撑的教材体系建设取得丰硕成果，国家哲学社会科学文献中心等重要信息化平台建设全面推进。与此同时，学术界逐渐形成一批具有中国特色的分析范式，深入研究阐释新质生产力、文化主体性等一批原创性概念、标识性概念；话语体系更加生动鲜活，中国式现代化、全过程人民民主、人类命运共同体等原创性概念、标识性概念深刻影响国际学术界，成为国际学者步入新时代中国知识殿堂的“金钥匙”。

The unique role in serving Chinese-path modernization and national rejuvenation has become more prominent, and the practical significance of serving the country through scholarship and applying knowledge to governance has become more pronounced. Over the past ten years, the philosophy and social sciences community has earnestly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important directive to “adhere to a people-centered research orientation,” [2]2 “Adhere to a people-centered research orientation” (坚持以人民为中心的研究导向) is a directive from Xi Jinping emphasizing that research in philosophy and social sciences should serve the interests and needs of the people. brimming with feelings for the family and the country and serving national rejuvenation. Scholars have closely followed the pulse of the times, responded to the concerns of the times, focused on major practical issues such as implementing the new development concept, advancing common prosperity, developing new quality productive forces, forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, strengthening China’s borderland governance, high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, putting forward a series of insightful views and launching a batch of practical and effective research results. A multi-level, institutionalized mechanism for providing advice and suggestions has been established from the central to local levels, and the good practice of strengthening scientific decision-making and valuing expert opinions has become increasingly prevalent.

服务中国式现代化和民族复兴的独特作用更加彰显，学术报国、经世致用的实践意义更加突出。10年来，哲学社会科学界认真学习贯彻习近平总书记“坚持以人民为中心的研究导向”重要指示精神，饱含家国情怀，服务民族复兴。学者们紧扣时代脉搏，回应时代关切，聚焦贯彻新发展理念、推进共同富裕、发展新质生产力、铸牢中华民族共同体意识、加强中国边疆治理、高质量共建“一带一路”、推动构建人类命运共同体等重大现实问题，提出一系列真知灼见，推出一批务实管用的研究成果；建立从中央到地方的多层次、制度化的资政建言机制，加强科学决策、重视专家意见的良好风尚日益浓厚。

The subjectivity of Chinese scholarship has been unprecedentedly enhanced, and Sino-foreign academic exchanges have entered a new period of equal mutual learning. When the nation prospers, culture flourishes. Over the past ten years, with the significant improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength and international status, the cultural confidence of philosophy and social science workers has been unprecedentedly enhanced. Scholars adhere to the stance of Chinese culture and cultural subjectivity, consciously excavate new materials and propose new viewpoints from the magnificent practice of modernization and from the long and vast historical depths of the Chinese nation, and strive to build a knowledge system with distinct Chinese characteristics. A batch of high-quality works representing the academic spirit and cognitive level of China in the New Era have been disseminated overseas. We insist on both basing ourselves on the country’s actual conditions and opening the door to conduct research, participating in international academic exchanges and dialogues with a broad vision, a broad mind, and an equal and confident attitude. China is becoming an important force in global academic governance. This is a remarkable historical transformation, marking a milestone in the history of China’s academic development since modern times.

中国学术主体性空前增强，中外学术交流进入平等互鉴新时期。国运兴，则文运昌。10年来，随着我国综合国力和国际地位的显著提升，哲学社会科学工作者的文化自信空前增强。学者们坚守中华文化立场和文化主体性，自觉从波澜壮阔的现代化建设中、从中华民族悠久浩瀚的历史文化深处发掘新材料、提出新观点，努力构建具有鲜明中国特色的知识体系，一批能够代表新时代中国学术精神和认识水平的精品力作在海外传播。我们坚持既立足本国实际，又开门搞研究，以宽广的视野、博大的胸怀、平等自信的姿态，参与到国际学术交流和对话中来，中国正在成为全球学术治理的重要力量。这是一个了不起的历史性转变，在近代以来中国学术发展史上具有里程碑意义。

The talent team for philosophy and social sciences has continued to grow, and its structure has become increasingly perfected. Over the past ten years, a group of famous masters with solid theoretical foundations have walked at the forefront of academic progress, bravely setting the trend and leading the way. A large number of young talents have stood out and grown robustly under the care of the Party and government. The construction of talent teams for “cold and rare” disciplines and interdisciplinary fields has been significantly strengthened. “From generation to generation, talents emerge,” [3]3 “From generation to generation, talents emerge” (江山代有才人出) is a classical Chinese poetic line from the Qing dynasty poet Zhao Yi, celebrating the continuous emergence of talented individuals across eras. and Chinese scholarship has successors. The academic literacy of the people has continuously improved, and popular scholarship is becoming a new ecology of universal scholarship in the digital intelligence era. As a new thing, popular scholarship calls for and promotes professional knowledge to step out of the “ivory tower.”

哲学社会科学人才队伍持续壮大、结构日臻完善。10年来，一批理论功底扎实的名家巨匠走在学术进步的前列，勇开风气，引领潮流；大批青年才俊在党和政府关怀下脱颖而出、茁壮成长；绝学人才、跨学科人才队伍建设明显加强。“江山代有才人出”，中国学术后继有人。人民群众学术素养持续提升，大众学术正在成为数智时代全民化学术新生态。作为新生事物，大众学术呼唤着、推动着专业知识走出“象牙塔”。

While fully affirming the achievements, we are also soberly aware that, compared with the ardent expectations and requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Party Central Committee, and compared with the practical needs of the great practice of Chinese-path modernization, contemporary Chinese philosophy and social sciences still have a considerable gap. Whether it is the quality of the team or the quality of the results, whether it is the innovation capability or the academic ecology, there is considerable room for improvement. Chinese scholarship in the New Era has a mission on its shoulders and a long way to go.

在充分肯定成绩的同时，我们也清醒认识到：同习近平总书记和党中央的殷切期望与要求相比，和中国式现代化伟大实践的现实需要相比，当代中国哲学社会科学还存在较大差距。无论是队伍素养，还是成果质量；无论是创新能力，还是学术生态，都有较大的提升空间。新时代中国学术使命在肩，任重道远。

Valuable Experience

宝贵经验

Ten years of exploration, extraordinary achievements. Looking back on this academic journey full of passion and poetry, there is much experience worth summarizing.

10年探索，成就非凡。回顾这一洋溢着激情、充满了诗意的学术征程，有不少经验值得总结。

The Party’s innovative theory is the banner and soul of China’s philosophy and social sciences in the New Era. Looking back at the history of human scholarship, it is not difficult to find that all scientific activities, especially theoretical and academic exploration, have never been aimless wandering, but a rational process with a stance, goals, and norms. Adhering to the guidance of Marxism is the most fundamental conclusion drawn from the development of Chinese scholarship since the May Fourth Movement. [4]4 The May Fourth Movement (1919) was an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal cultural and political movement in China that promoted modern thought, including the introduction and spread of Marxism. By mastering Marxism, Chinese scholarship has fundamentally grasped its own future. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the Marxism of contemporary China and the Marxism of the twenty-first century. For Chinese scholarship in the New Era to achieve sublimation and win a bright future commensurate with the times, it must unswervingly take the Party’s innovative theory as its banner and soul, and adhere to and strengthen the Party’s leadership over the work of philosophy and social sciences. Only in this way can our independent knowledge system stand firm, act correctly, and go far.

党的创新理论是新时代中国哲学社会科学的旗帜和灵魂。回望人类学术历史不难发现：所有的科学活动，特别是理论和学术探索，从来不是漫无目的地徘徊游荡，而是有立场、有目标、有规范的理性过程。坚持以马克思主义为指导，是五四运动以来中国学术发展得出的最根本的结论。掌握了马克思主义，中国学术就从根本上掌握了自己的未来。习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想是当代中国马克思主义、二十一世纪马克思主义。新时代中国学术要实现升华，赢得与时代相称的光明前景，必须毫不动摇地以党的创新理论为旗帜和灵魂，坚持和加强党对哲学社会科学工作的领导。只有这样，我们的自主知识体系才能立得住、行得正、走得远。

Promoting theoretical innovation is the only way for the flourishing development of China’s philosophy and social sciences. The cause of human scholarship has always been a process of advancing through exploration. Without innovation, scholarship has no vitality, let alone a future. We certainly must inherit excellent academic traditions, but the purpose of inheritance is sublimation, not rigid adherence. The precious character of Marxist theory is to keep pace with the times. Among all forms of human scholarship, Marxist scholarship has the broadest vision, the broadest mind, the least prejudice, the greatest ability to draw wisdom and nourishment from all progressive ideas and civilizational achievements, and the greatest ability to determine the direction of progress and draw the impetus for progress through the combination of theory and practice, history and reality. Building an independent knowledge system for China’s philosophy and social sciences requires scholars to explore boldly, innovate boldly, and promote academic progress and civilizational sublimation with scientific achievements full of wisdom and inspiration.

推动理论创新是中国哲学社会科学繁荣发展的必由之路。人类学术事业从来都是一个在探索中开拓前进的过程。没有创新，学术就没有生机，更谈不上未来。我们当然要传承优秀学术传统，但传承的目的是升华而不是固守。马克思主义理论的宝贵品格是与时俱进。在人类各种学术形态中，马克思主义学术视野最开阔，胸怀最宽广，最没有门户之见，最善于从一切进步思想和文明成果中汲取智慧和营养，最善于通过理论和实践、历史和现实的结合，确定前进方向，汲取进步动力。构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系，需要学者大胆探索，大胆创新，以饱含智慧灵感的科学成果助推学术进步、文明升华。

Serving China’s practice is the sacred mission of China’s philosophy and social sciences in the New Era. Feelings for the family and the country and applying knowledge to governance are a profound, long-standing, and consistent fine tradition of Chinese scholarship. The view that regards philosophy and social science research as a cold, mechanical process without emotion is a distortion and desecration of the academic spirit and humanistic tradition. Looking at the history of human scholarship, the most epoch-making outstanding achievements all contain humanistic feelings, face social reality directly, and bear the mission of the times. Chinese-path modernization has explored a brand-new development path, created a magnificent picture that Western modernization has never achieved, and there are a large number of new practical issues that need to be answered theoretically, a large number of deep-seated hot and difficult issues that need to be explained and resolved, and constantly emerging practical experiences that need theoretical generalization and elevation. Philosophy and social science workers must consciously throw themselves into the torrent of the times of Chinese-path modernization, and strengthen research on issues of overall, strategic, forward-looking, and law-like nature. Drawing wisdom and strength for theoretical innovation from the great practice of the people transforming the world is our responsibility and mission, and it is also the only way to promote academic leaps.

服务中国实践是新时代中国哲学社会科学的神圣使命。家国情怀、经世致用，是中国学术深厚、悠久、一以贯之的优良传统，那种把哲学社会科学研究视为没有情感的冰冷的机械过程的观点，是对学术精神和人文传统的曲解和亵渎。纵观人类学术史，最具时代意义的优秀成果，无一不饱含人文情怀，直面社会现实，承担时代使命。中国式现代化探索出了一条崭新的发展道路，创造了西方现代化从未实现的壮丽图景，有大量新的实践课题需要从理论上作出回答，大量深层次的热点难点问题需要释疑解惑，不断涌现的实践经验需要理论概括和提升。哲学社会科学工作者必须自觉投身到中国式现代化的时代洪流中，加强对全局性、战略性、前瞻性和规律性问题研究。从人民群众改造世界的伟大实践中，汲取理论创新的智慧和力量，这是我们的责任和使命，也是推动学术跨越的不二之途。

Creating an excellent academic ecology is the basic prerequisite for achieving academic progress. Philosophy and social science research is a serious scientific undertaking that requires the support of feelings, morality, and norms. It is necessary to create an academic ecology full of righteousness, openness and inclusiveness, and the pursuit of truth and pragmatism. The Chinese academic community in the New Era must promote the scientific spirit, strictly observe scientific norms, and encourage scholars to adhere to the unity of being a person, doing things, and doing scholarship. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of research integrity, and through the combination of soft constraints and hard measures, promote scholars to have backbone, results to have quality, and the hall of learning to have dignity.

营造优良学术生态是实现学术进步的基本前提。哲学社会科学研究是严肃的科学事业，需要情怀、道德和规范的加持。要营造一个正气充盈、开放包容、求真务实的学术生态。新时代的中国学术界要弘扬科学精神，严守科学规范，激励学者坚持做人做事做学问相统一。要加强科研诚信建设，通过软约束和硬措施相结合，推动学者有风骨、成果有品位、殿堂有尊严。

Steadfastly Moving Forward

坚定前行

Marx once lamented: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” The world today is the most complex in human history and also the fastest-changing. Our country’s development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities coexist with risks and challenges, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors are increasing. A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, represented by artificial intelligence, is affecting all areas of production and life at an unprecedented speed. Philosophy and social science workers must follow the direction indicated by the spirit of the “Speech” [5]5 The “Speech” refers to Xi Jinping’s speech at a forum on philosophy and social science work on May 17, 2016, which laid out the guiding principles for the field., cherish valuable experience, consciously conduct scholarship from the commanding heights of history and the times, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and create new brilliance for Chinese academia.

马克思曾感叹：“哲学家们只是用不同的方式解释世界，而问题在于改变世界。”当今世界，是人类有史以来最复杂的世界，也是变化最快的世界。我国发展进入战略机遇和风险挑战并存、不确定难预料因素增多的时期，以人工智能为代表的新一轮科技革命和产业变革正以空前速度影响生产生活各领域。哲学社会科学工作者必须沿着《讲话》精神指引的方向，珍惜宝贵经验，自觉站在历史和时代的制高点做学问，加快构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系，创造中国学术新辉煌。

Supporting and serving the construction of an independent knowledge system with Chinese schools of thought. Constructing an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences is the development direction of contemporary Chinese academia. Strengthening the cultivation and construction of schools of thought is a necessary prerequisite and support for achieving this grand goal. Ancient Chinese academic culture has a long and profound tradition of schools of thought, and Marxist academia has valuable experience in cultivating and developing schools of thought. We must take the Party’s innovative theory as guidance, inherit the Chinese academic lineage, base ourselves on Chinese practice, adhere to the Chinese spirit, and, with problem horizons, research paradigms, academic concepts, and theoretical discourses that have distinct Chinese characteristics, forge Chinese schools of philosophy and social sciences with subjectivity, originality, and explanatory power. This will provide knowledge support for constructing an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences and provide academic confidence for Chinese scholars to engage in equal dialogue and exchange with the international academic community.

以中国学派支撑、服务自主知识体系建设。构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系，是当代中国学术的发展方向。加强学派培育和建设，是实现这一宏伟目标的必要前提和支撑。中国古代学术文化具有悠久、深厚的学派传统，马克思主义学术具有培育、发展学派的宝贵经验。我们必须以党的创新理论为指导，传承中国学脉，立足中国实践，坚守中国精神，以具有鲜明中国特色的问题视域、研究范式、学术概念、理论话语，打造具有主体性、原创性和解释力的哲学社会科学中国学派，为构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系提供知识支撑，为中国学者和国际学界展开平等对话、交流提供学术底气。

Engaging in and leading the new trend of the technological revolution. “Science is a revolutionary force that drives history forward.” Every major change in science and technology brings about an update in thought methods and knowledge systems. Currently, the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, represented by artificial intelligence, has profoundly changed the objects, methods, and boundaries of philosophy and social science research, and is and will continue to deeply reshape the trends and forms of academic research. Looking to the future, philosophy and social science workers must unhesitatingly plunge into the torrent of the era’s transformation, promote systematic changes in research methods, research tools, and organizational forms, explore new research models of human-machine collaboration, and, on the basis of adhering to humanistic spirit and value judgment, achieve the organic unity of technological empowerment and theoretical innovation. They must attach great importance to the profound impact of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, represented by artificial intelligence, on lifestyles, governance methods, and international relations, and conduct forward-looking research. They must actively guide and regulate the development of popular academia, explore knowledge expression and dissemination methods oriented toward the public, and enrich and enhance the level of popular academia.

投身、引领科技革命新潮流。“科学是一种在历史上起推动作用的、革命的力量”，每一次科学技术的大变革，都带来思想方法、知识体系的更新。当前，以人工智能为代表的新一轮科技革命和产业变革，深刻改变了哲学社会科学研究的对象、方法与边界，正在也必将深度重塑学术研究的趋势和形态。面向未来，哲学社会科学工作者要义无反顾地投身时代变革的洪流，推动研究方法、研究工具和组织方式的系统变革，探索人机协同的新型研究模式，在坚守人文精神与价值判断的基础上，实现技术赋能与理论创新的有机统一。高度重视以人工智能为代表的新一轮科技革命和产业变革对生活方式、治理方式、国际关系等方面的深刻影响，开展前瞻性研究。积极引导、规范大众学术发展，探索面向大众的知识表达和传播方式，丰富和提升大众学术水平。

Innovating the organizational form of scientific research. In today’s world, no single discipline can solve major theoretical and practical problems by relying solely on its own strength. At the same time, academic progress is increasingly built upon the achievements of related disciplines. Breaking down disciplinary barriers and promoting interdisciplinary integration is becoming a new normal in academic development worldwide. Measures must be taken to further liberate academic productive forces, produce results and cultivate talent by promoting interdisciplinary integration. Comprehensive research platforms for multi-disciplinary joint tackling of key problems should be established, outstanding scholars should be encouraged to “take the lead by posting challenges” [6]6 “Take the lead by posting challenges” (揭榜挂帅) is a Chinese policy metaphor for openly inviting capable individuals or teams to tackle key problems, akin to a “challenge-based” recruitment system., cross-disciplinary comprehensive innovation teams should be formed, and new academic communities with rich connotations and distinctive characteristics should be built, to open up new horizons, construct new systems, cultivate new knowledge, and achieve new breakthroughs.

创新科研组织方式。当今世界，没有哪个学科单靠自己的力量就能解决重大理论和实践问题，与此同时，学术进步也越来越构筑在相关学科取得的成就基础上。打破学科壁垒，推动学科交叉融合，正在成为世界范围学术发展的新常态。要采取措施，通过推动学科交叉融合，进一步解放学术生产力，出成果出人才。搭建多学科联合攻关的综合性研究平台，鼓励优秀学者“揭榜挂帅”，组建跨学科综合创新团队，形成内涵丰富、特色鲜明的新型学术共同体，开拓新视域、建构新体系、培育新知识、实现新突破。

Upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership. The Party’s leadership over philosophy and social science work is an inevitable requirement and fundamental guarantee for the flourishing development of philosophy and social sciences in our country. At no time and under no circumstances can this be ambiguous or wavered. We must adhere to taking the Party’s political construction as the guide, further deepen the reform of the scientific research system and mechanism, and establish a modern management system and mechanism suitable for the development of Chinese philosophy and social sciences in the New Era. We must firmly grasp the fundamental element of talent, further strengthen the construction of the talent team, especially focusing on the cultivation of young talent, and strive to build a large-scale, comprehensive, and echelon-connected team of outstanding philosophy and social science talent. We must continuously optimize the academic ecology, improve evaluation and incentive mechanisms, encourage exploration, and support innovation. We must improve and perfect the scientific research integrity system to ensure that our academic community is upright and clean.

坚持和加强党的全面领导。党对哲学社会科学工作的领导，是繁荣发展我国哲学社会科学的必然要求和根本保证，在任何时候、任何情况下，都不能含糊、不能动摇。要坚持以党的政治建设为统领，进一步深化科研体制机制改革，建立适应新时代中国哲学社会科学发展的现代管理体制和机制。牢牢抓住人才这个根本，进一步加大人才队伍建设力度，特别是聚焦青年人才培养，着力建设规模宏大、种类齐全、梯队衔接的哲学社会科学优秀人才队伍。不断优化学术生态，完善评价和激励机制，鼓励探索，支持创新。健全完善科研诚信体系，确保我们的学术界风清气正。

As time passes, the seas change and the mulberry fields turn. [7]7 “The seas change and the mulberry fields turn” (沧海桑田) is a classical Chinese idiom meaning great changes over time, originally from the Daoist classic *Shenxian Zhuan* (Biographies of Immortals). Recalling the past and considering the present, “The way of governance and the way of the world flourish together; the fortunes of culture and the fortunes of the nation prosper together; this is precisely the time for it.” [8]8 This is a classical-style couplet praising the alignment of governance, culture, and national fortunes, likely a paraphrase or quotation from a traditional Chinese text. Following the direction indicated by the “Speech,” Chinese philosophy and social sciences have achieved a brilliant decade and written an academic chapter. Looking to the future, we will unswervingly continue along the direction indicated by the “Speech,” providing intellectual and wisdom support for the great cause of building a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation. As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “This is an era that needs theory and can certainly produce theory; this is an era that needs thought and can certainly produce thought. We cannot let down this era.” [9]9 This is a direct quotation from Xi Jinping’s speech at the May 17, 2016 philosophy and social science forum.

岁月更迭，沧海桑田。抚今追昔，“治道与世道并隆，文运与国运俱泰，正其时也”。沿着《讲话》指引的方向，中国哲学社会科学实现了辉煌10年，书写了学术华章。展望未来，我们将坚定不移地沿着《讲话》指引的方向走下去，为强国建设、民族复兴伟业提供思想与智慧支撑。正如习近平总书记强调的，“这是一个需要理论而且一定能够产生理论的时代，这是一个需要思想而且一定能够产生思想的时代。我们不能辜负了这个时代”。

(The author is President and Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

（作者为中国社会科学院院长、党组书记）