Mao Zedong’s Historic Contributions to China’s Cultural Construction and Their Contemporary Significance

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the symposium commemorating the 130th anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong’s birth: “Comrade Mao Zedong was a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist, and theorist, a great pioneer in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, and a great founder of China’s socialist modernization cause.” In the practice of uniting and leading the Chinese people in revolution and construction, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, explored and practiced the cause of China’s cultural construction. This exploration and practice embodied a distinct Chinese style, Chinese manner, and Chinese characteristics, charting the path, laying the foundation, and establishing the confidence for the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the New Era to shoulder new cultural missions and lead socialist cultural construction. It constitutes an important source for the formation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture.

习近平总书记在纪念毛泽东同志诞辰一百三十周年座谈会上的讲话中指出：“毛泽东同志是伟大的马克思主义者，伟大的无产阶级革命家、战略家、理论家，是马克思主义中国化的伟大开拓者、中国社会主义现代化建设事业的伟大奠基者。”在团结和带领中国人民进行革命和建设的实践中，以毛泽东同志为主要代表的中国共产党人对中国文化建设事业的探索和实践，体现着鲜明的中国风格、中国气派和中国特色，为新时代中国共产党担当新的文化使命、领导社会主义文化建设探明了路径、打下了基础、奠定了自信，是习近平文化思想形成的重要源流。

Adhering to Marxism and Establishing the Direction of China’s Cultural Construction

坚持马克思主义，确立中国文化建设方向

At the historical juncture when the nation was humiliated, the people suffered, and civilization was covered in dust, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, firmly chose to be guided by Marxism, anchoring the direction of change and development for China’s “new culture.” Comrade Mao Zedong, based on the realistic premise of China’s specific conditions and in light of the objective historical conditions of China’s revolution and construction, correctly treated traditional Chinese culture, absorbed the diverse cultures of other nations, and led the great practice of China’s new cultural construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the symposium commemorating the 130th anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong’s birth: “Comrade Mao Zedong led the people in opening the historical process of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context. Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary practice. The basic tenets of Marxism possess universal applicability, but they can only demonstrate their powerful truth when combined with the concrete realities of each country.”

在国家蒙辱、人民蒙难、文明蒙尘的历史关口，以毛泽东同志为主要代表的中国共产党人，坚定选择以马克思主义为指导，锚定了中国“新文化”的变革发展方向。毛泽东同志立足中国具体实际的现实前提、结合中国革命和建设的客观历史条件，正确对待中国传统文化，吸收其他民族的多样文化，领导了中国新文化建设的伟大实践。习近平总书记在纪念毛泽东同志诞辰一百三十周年座谈会上的讲话中指出：“毛泽东同志带领人民开创了马克思主义中国化的历史进程。没有革命的理论，就没有革命的实践。马克思主义基本原理具有普遍适用性，只有同各国实际相结合才能显示出强大的真理力量。”

During the period of the New Democratic Revolution, Comrade Mao Zedong recognized that the innovative development of Chinese culture could not be separated from the guidance of scientific theory, so he insisted on using Marxism to direct the orientation of China’s cultural construction. Comrade Mao Zedong scientifically analyzed the imperialist culture and semi-feudal culture existing in Chinese society during the New Democratic Revolution, calling them “very intimate brothers” and stating that “this kind of reactionary culture serves imperialism and the feudal class and must be overthrown.” [1]1 Mao Zedong, “On New Democracy” (January 1940), *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*, Vol. 2, p. 695. For Chinese culture to be reborn, “without overthrowing this kind of thing, no new culture can be established.” [2]2 Ibid. While contemplating and exploring what kind of culture China should build and how to build it, Comrade Mao Zedong also clearly stated in *On New Democracy*: “Because the politics, economy, and culture of New Democracy are all led by the proletariat, they all contain socialist factors, and these are not ordinary factors but decisive ones.” [3]3 Ibid., p. 704. Faced with the constant interweaving and collision of various cultural trends in old China, Comrade Mao Zedong had already clearly recognized that the leader of China’s cultural construction would inevitably be the advanced organization of the proletariat—the CPC—and the guiding ideology for China’s cultural construction would inevitably be the scientific theory of the proletariat—Marxism.

新民主主义革命时期，毛泽东同志认识到中国文化的创新发展离不开科学理论的指导，所以他坚持以马克思主义指引中国文化建设的方向。毛泽东同志科学分析了新民主主义革命时期中国社会所存在的帝国主义文化和半封建文化是“非常亲热的两兄弟”“这类反动文化是替帝国主义和封建阶级服务的，是应该被打倒的东西”。中国文化要想新生，“不把这种东西打倒，什么新文化都是建立不起来的”。在思考和探索中国应该建设什么样的文化、怎样建设文化时，毛泽东同志在《新民主主义论》中也明确指出：“新民主主义的政治、经济、文化，由于其都是无产阶级领导的缘故，就都具有社会主义的因素，并且不是普通的因素，而是起决定作用的因素。”面对旧中国各类文化思潮的不断交织碰撞，毛泽东同志已经清晰地认识到，中国文化建设的领导者必将是无产阶级的先进组织——中国共产党，中国文化建设的指导思想也必然是无产阶级的科学理论——马克思主义。

After the founding of New China, the national, scientific, and mass culture led by the proletariat was gradually established and consolidated its dominant position in the field of Chinese culture. Comrade Mao Zedong explicitly emphasized the need to guard against the influence of various non-Marxist ideologies on China’s cultural construction, arguing that “poisonous weeds, non-Marxist and anti-Marxist things, can only be placed in a position of being ruled.” [4]4 Mao Zedong, “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party’s National Conference on Propaganda Work” (March 1957), *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*, Vol. 5, p. 412. Faced with certain erroneous tendencies existing among intellectuals, Comrade Mao Zedong proposed that “it is very necessary to advocate the study of Marxism among intellectuals.” [5]5 Ibid., p. 408.

新中国成立后，无产阶级所领导民族的科学的大众的文化已经逐步确立并巩固了在中国文化领域的主导地位。毛泽东同志明确强调要警惕非马克思主义的各种思想对中国文化建设的影响，认为“毒草，非马克思主义和反马克思主义的东西，只能处在被统治的地位”。面对知识分子中所存在的一些错误倾向，毛泽东同志提出，“在知识分子当中提倡学习马克思主义是很有必要的”。

Comrade Mao Zedong scientifically analyzed the relationship between Marxism and Chinese culture. Marxism does not replace Chinese culture but guides its creative transformation and innovative development. In *The German Ideology*, Marx and Engels pointed out: “History is nothing but the succession of the separate generations, each of which exploits the materials, capital funds, and productive forces handed down to it by all preceding generations; thus, on the one hand, each generation continues the inherited activity under completely changed circumstances, and, on the other hand, modifies the old circumstances by a completely changed activity.” [6]6 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, *The German Ideology* (1845–1846), *Marx Engels Collected Works*, Vol. 5, p. 50. Comrade Mao Zedong absorbed and applied this law and principle of historical development. In a conversation with British journalist Gunther Stein, he pointed out: “Inheriting China’s past thought and accepting foreign thought does not mean unconditional copying, but must be adopted according to specific conditions to make them suitable for China’s reality.” [7]7 Mao Zedong, “Interview with Gunther Stein” (July 1944), *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*, Vol. 3, p. 192.

毛泽东同志科学分析了马克思主义与中国文化之间的关系，马克思主义不是要取代中国文化，而是指引中国文化的创造性转化、创新性发展。在《德意志意识形态》中，马克思、恩格斯指出：“历史不外是各个世代的依次交替。每一代都利用以前各代遗留下来的材料、资金和生产力；由于这个缘故，每一代一方面在完全改变了的环境下继续从事所继承的活动，另一方面又通过完全改变了的活动来变更旧的环境。”毛泽东同志吸收并运用这一历史发展的规律和法则，在同英国记者斯坦因的谈话中指出：“继承中国过去的思想和接受外来思想，并不意味着无条件地照搬，而必须根据具体条件加以采用，使之适合中国的实际。”

History has proven that the CPC has always stood on the Marxist position, inheriting and developing the fine traditional Chinese culture. This has enabled traditional culture to be thoroughly transformed, to continue developing in line with the needs of the times, and has enabled Marxism to be localized in a way that fits the connotations and characteristics of Chinese culture, providing theoretical support and practical guidance at the source for realizing Chinese-path modernization.

历史证明，中国共产党始终站在马克思主义的立场上，对中华优秀传统文化进行继承与发展，使传统文化脱胎换骨得以符合时代需求接续发展，使马克思主义得以契合中国文化内涵和特色进行本土化发展，为实现中国式现代化提供了源头上的理论支持与实践指引。

Responding to the Call of the Times and Shouldering the Historical Mission of Advancing China’s Cultural Construction

响应时代呼唤，肩负起推进中国文化建设的历史使命

Comrade Mao Zedong actively participated in the debates of China’s New Culture Movement. [8]8 The New Culture Movement (mid-1910s to 1920s) was an intellectual and cultural movement in China that promoted modernisation, science, democracy, and vernacular literature, criticising traditional Confucian values. Following the successive failures of revolutions led by the peasantry, the landlord class, and the bourgeoisie to save the nation from subjugation and ensure its survival, China’s advanced intellectuals began to gradually push the Chinese revolution from the level of material instruments to the level of institutions and then to the deeper level of culture. Faced with the constraints imposed by China’s old feudal culture on its development, Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out incisively that the old culture “has been passed down for five thousand years to the present day, its roots are deep, its knots are firm, and without great force it is difficult to uproot and clear it away.” [9]9 Mao Zedong, “Letter to Xiao Zisheng” (July 1917), *Mao Zedong’s Early Manuscripts*, p. 73. Comrade Mao Zedong eagerly hoped to replace the old culture with a new culture to save the nation and its people from dire straits. When he initiated the Cultural Book Society in Hunan, he stated: “Not only Hunan, but the whole of China still lacks a new culture.” [10]10 Mao Zedong, “Manifesto of the Cultural Book Society” (July 1920), *Mao Zedong’s Early Manuscripts*, p. 498. Therefore, when editing the inaugural issue of the *Xiangjiang Review*, he stated clearly at the outset: “This newspaper takes propagating the latest trends of thought as its main purpose.” [11]11 Mao Zedong, “Inaugural Statement of the *Xiangjiang Review*” (July 1919), *Mao Zedong’s Early Manuscripts*, p. 292. From his youth, Comrade Mao Zedong began to devote himself to the revolution of criticizing old ideas and propagating new culture, awakening the people’s consciousness, and “fundamentally transforming the thought of the entire nation.” [12]12 Mao Zedong, “Letter to Li Jinxi” (August 1920), *Mao Zedong’s Early Manuscripts*, p. 554.

毛泽东同志积极投身中国新文化运动的争鸣之中。随着农民阶级、地主阶级和资产阶级领导的一次次救亡图存革命的失败，中国的先进知识分子开始逐渐推动中国革命从器物层面到制度层面再到更深的文化层面。面对中国旧的封建文化对中国发展的制约，毛泽东同志一针见血地指出，旧文化“五千年流传到今，种根甚深，结蒂甚固，非有大力不易摧陷廓清”。毛泽东同志迫切地期待以新文化取代旧文化，挽救国家民族于水深火热之中，他在湖南发起文化书社时指出：“不但湖南，全中国一样尚没有新文化。”因此，毛泽东同志在主编《湘江评论》创刊号时，开宗明义指出“本报以宣传最新思潮为主旨”。青年时期的毛泽东即开始投身于批判旧思想、宣传新文化的革命之中，开启民众觉悟，从“根本上变换全国之思想”。

In the process of China’s revolution and construction, Comrade Mao Zedong led the CPC to shoulder the historical mission of cultural construction, clearly stating: “Establishing a new culture for the Chinese nation—this is our goal in the cultural field.” [13]13 Mao Zedong, “On New Democracy” (January 1940), *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*, Vol. 2, p. 706. He actively promoted cultural construction not only among Communists but also among intellectuals and the masses. Faced with the remnants of old ideas among intellectuals, Comrade Mao Zedong demanded that “literary and artists probably also need to go through a process of tempering” [14]14 Mao Zedong, “Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” (May 1942), *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*, Vol. 3, p. 866. and that cultural creations should be “good works, truly Marxist, truly socialist realist works.” [15]15 Ibid., p. 870. Comrade Mao Zedong deeply understood that the essence of cultural construction is to serve the people, to make cultural education serve the revolutionary war and class struggle, to link education with labor, and to enable the broad masses of the Chinese people to become people who enjoy civilization and happiness.

在中国革命和建设过程中，毛泽东同志带领中国共产党肩负起文化建设的历史使命，明确指出：“建立中华民族的新文化，这就是我们在文化领域中的目的。”不仅在共产党人之中，在知识分子和民众之间，毛泽东同志也积极推动文化建设。面对知识分子中存在的旧思想残留，毛泽东同志要求“文学艺术家恐怕也要经历一个锻炼的过程”，文化创作“要好的、真正马克思主义的、真正社会主义现实主义的作品”。毛泽东同志深刻认识到文化建设的本质是为人民服务的，在于使文化教育为革命战争与阶级斗争服务，在于使教育与劳动联系起来，在于使广大中国民众都成为享受文明幸福的人。

Comrade Mao Zedong’s theoretical innovations and practical creations in cultural construction during China’s revolutionary and construction periods not only promoted the continuous innovation, creation, and progress of Chinese culture, established the development path of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, and opened up a path for China’s new cultural construction, but also demonstrated a rich development of Marxist cultural theory. Their distinct Chinese style and Chinese manner, overall, clarified the thinking and laid the foundation for the continuous enrichment and development of China’s socialist cultural theory.

毛泽东同志在中国革命、建设时期的文化建设理论创新和实践创造，既推动中国文化的不断创新创造、前进发展，确立了马克思主义中国化的发展道路、开辟了中国新文化建设路径，也展现出对马克思主义文化建设理论的丰富发展，其鲜明的中国风格和中国气派在总体上为中国社会主义文化理论的不断丰富和发展明确了思路、奠定了基础。

The CPC, as the representative of the direction of advanced culture, continuing to promote cultural prosperity, build a strong cultural country, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation from a new starting point is the Party’s new cultural mission in the New Era. The new cultural mission and the tasks of cultural construction highlight the Party’s historical responsibility to promote the prosperity of Chinese culture and create a new form of human civilization.

中国共产党作为先进文化发展方向的代表，在新的起点上继续推动文化繁荣、建设文化强国、建设中华民族现代文明，是党在新时代新的文化使命。新的文化使命和文化建设任务，彰显了我们党促进中华文化繁荣、创造人类文明新形态的历史担当。

Achieving the “Three Adherences” and Opening Up the Practical Path for China’s Cultural Construction

做到“三个坚持”，开辟中国文化建设的实践路径

The Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, adhered to “serving the people and serving socialism,” adhered to “letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” and adhered to “creative transformation and innovative development,” thereby opening up the practical path for China’s cultural construction.

以毛泽东同志为主要代表的中国共产党人，坚持“为人民服务、为社会主义服务”、坚持“百花齐放、百家争鸣”、坚持“创造性转化、创新性发展”，开辟了中国文化建设的实践路径。

Comrade Mao Zedong distinctly proposed that China’s new culture must serve the masses of the people. During the period of the New Democratic Revolution, he explicitly stated that the New Democratic culture “should serve the more than 90 percent of the toiling masses of workers and peasants in the whole nation and gradually become their culture,” and further pointed out that the new culture both serves the people and originates from the people; only when culture is closely integrated with the masses can it obtain the driving force for continuous development, for “the masses are the inexhaustible source of revolutionary culture.” [16]16 This passage is from Mao Zedong’s “On New Democracy” (1940), where he elaborates on the class character and mass orientation of the new culture.

毛泽东同志鲜明地提出中国的新文化必须为人民群众服务。在新民主主义革命时期，他明确提出新民主主义文化“应为全民族中百分之九十以上的工农劳苦民众服务，并逐渐成为他们的文化”，并进一步指出新文化既服务于人民，也来源于人民，文化只有和群众紧密结合，才能获取不断发展的动力，“须知民众就是革命文化的无限丰富的源泉”。

Comrade Mao Zedong put forward important guidelines for China’s cultural construction. After the founding of New China, in order to uphold and develop Marxism and promote the flourishing of socialist culture, he proposed the important guideline of “letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend.” [17]17 “Letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend” (the “Two Hundreds” guideline) was a policy announced by Mao in 1956 to encourage diversity in artistic and academic expression, though its implementation was later curtailed during political campaigns. In April 1956, at an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, he proposed: “Letting a hundred flowers bloom” in matters of art and “letting a hundred schools of thought contend” in matters of scholarship should become the guideline for developing science and enriching literature and art in our country. He believed: “The guideline of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is not only a good method for developing science and art, but, by extension, it is also a good method for carrying out all our work.” The “Two Hundreds” guideline provided a broad stage for China’s cultural construction, continuously promoted the emancipation of people’s ideas and concepts, and provided a steady stream of intellectual support and spiritual sustenance for China’s socialist construction.

毛泽东同志为中国文化建设提出了重要方针。新中国成立后，为坚持和发展马克思主义，促进社会主义文化的繁荣发展，他提出“百花齐放、百家争鸣”的重要方针。1956年4月，他在中共中央政治局扩大会议上提出：艺术问题上的“百花齐放”，学术问题上的“百家争鸣”，应该成为我国发展科学，繁荣文学艺术的方针。他认为：“百花齐放、百家争鸣这个方针不单是使科学和艺术发展的好方法，而且推而广之，也是我们进行一切工作的好方法。”“双百”方针为中国文化建设提供了广阔的舞台，不断推动着人们思想观念的解放，为中国社会主义建设提供源源不断的智力支持和精神支撑。

The practical path of Comrade Mao Zedong’s cultural construction consistently implemented and applied the Marxist stand, viewpoint, and method, conforming to the objective laws of China’s cultural development. It not only developed Marxist cultural theory but also enabled us to break free from the shackles of outdated traditions, escape the constraints of rigid models, and find a new, independent path for developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics suited to China’s national conditions. Through Comrade Mao Zedong’s exploration and pioneering efforts, Marxism became the scientific guiding ideology that revitalized and energized fine traditional Chinese culture, guiding the progress and innovation of China’s cultural construction.

毛泽东同志的中国文化建设实践路径，始终贯彻运用了马克思主义的立场观点方法，符合中国的文化发展客观规律，不仅发展了马克思主义的文化理论，也使我们得以解除陈旧传统禁锢、摆脱刻板模式束缚，找到独立自主的、适合中国国情的中国特色社会主义文化发展新道路。在毛泽东同志的探索开辟下，马克思主义成为中华优秀传统文化焕发生机活力的科学指导思想，指引着中国文化建设的前进创新。

Promoting the Integration of Theory and Practice, Laying the Foundation for Confidence in China’s Cultural Construction

推动理论与实践相结合，奠定中国文化建设的自信

Comrade Mao Zedong’s theoretical and practical contributions to China’s cultural construction took root and developed in the fertile soil of fine traditional Chinese culture, were achieved through the scientific guidance of Marxist theory and the great practice of the Communist Party of China, and have been continuously carried forward in the historical process of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, forming a basic, extensive, and profound confidence in cultural construction. Comrade Mao Zedong insisted that China’s cultural construction must be deeply rooted in the national soil and always maintained firm confidence in the national culture. He not only recognized that the innovative development of the old culture required the guidance of Marxism as a scientific theory but also explicitly proposed that cultural construction must adhere to national characteristics; the universal truth of Marxism can only be useful “when it is combined with the specific characteristics of the nation and given a certain national form,” and “Chinese culture should have its own form, that is, the national form.”

毛泽东同志对中国文化建设的理论与实践贡献，在中华优秀传统文化的文明沃土中生根发展、因马克思主义理论的科学指导和中国共产党的伟大实践得以成就、在中国特色社会主义和中华民族伟大复兴的历史进程中不断赓续，形成了基础的、广泛的、深厚的文化建设自信。毛泽东同志坚持中国的文化建设必须深深植根于民族的土壤中，始终坚定对民族文化的自信。他不仅看到了旧文化的创新发展需要马克思主义这一科学理论的指导，而且明确提出文化建设必须坚持民族特色，马克思主义的普遍真理只有“和民族的特点相结合，经过一定的民族形式，才有用处”“中国文化应有自己的形式，这就是民族形式”。

With a high degree of cultural confidence, Comrade Mao Zedong fully absorbed and integrated all achievements of human civilization, enriching and promoting China’s cultural construction. He believed that regarding foreign cultures, “whatever is useful to us today should be absorbed,” taking foreign progressive culture “as raw material for our own cultural food.” At the same time, he opposed the advocacy of “wholesale Westernization,” noting that “in the past, China suffered greatly from the formalistic absorption of foreign things.” China’s contemporary new culture also developed from the old culture of ancient times; it is necessary to respect history and traditional culture, rather than severing the country’s own history and its own national traditional culture.

毛泽东同志以高度的文化自信充分兼容并蓄人类社会一切文明成果，丰富推动中国文化建设。他认为对待外来文化，“凡属我们今天用得着的东西，都应该吸收”，将外国的进步文化“作为自己文化食粮的原料”。与此同时，他反对“全盘西化”的主张，“形式主义地吸收外国的东西，在中国过去是吃过大亏的”。中国现时的新文化也是从古代的旧文化发展而来，必须尊重历史，尊重传统文化，而不是割断本国历史，割断本民族传统文化。

Comrade Mao Zedong’s confidence in and scientific attitude toward Chinese culture laid the profound foundation and fine tradition of the Communist Party of China’s cultural confidence. The CPC’s cultural confidence has been consistently upheld and has grown ever stronger through more than a century of struggle, becoming a profound cultural force driving China’s development.

毛泽东同志对中国文化的自信和科学态度奠定了中国共产党文化自信的深厚底蕴和优良传统。中国共产党的文化自信在百余年奋斗历程中坚持始终、历久弥新，成为推动中国发展的深厚文化力量。

On the new journey of the New Era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, focusing on the new situations, new circumstances, and new problems in the field of propaganda, ideology, and culture, has made a series of important expositions from an overall and strategic perspective, guiding historic achievements in propaganda, ideology, and cultural work in the New Era and forming Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. [18]18 Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is a component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, formally articulated at a national conference on propaganda, ideology, and culture in October 2023. This marks that our Party’s understanding of the laws governing the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics has reached a new height, indicating that the Party’s historical confidence and cultural confidence have reached a new height. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the opening ceremony of the Tenth National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Ninth National Congress of the China Writers Association: “Strengthening cultural confidence is a major issue concerning the rise and fall of the nation’s fortunes, cultural security, and the independence of the national spirit.” Strengthening cultural confidence, building a culturally strong country, advancing the development of modern Chinese culture, and creating a new form of human civilization are the cultural consciousness that the Communist Party of China must possess.

新时代新征程，习近平总书记着眼宣传思想文化领域的新形势新情况新问题，站在全局和战略高度，作出一系列重要论述，指引新时代宣传思想文化工作取得历史性成就，形成了习近平文化思想。这标志着我们党对中国特色社会主义文化建设规律的认识达到了新高度，表明党的历史自信和文化自信达到了新高度。习近平总书记在中国文联十大、中国作协九大开幕式上的讲话中指出：“坚定文化自信，是事关国运兴衰、事关文化安全、事关民族精神独立性的大问题。”坚定文化自信，建设文化强国，推进中华民族现代文化发展，建设人类文明新形态，是中国共产党必须具备的文化自觉。

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the symposium commemorating the 130th anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong’s birth: “The best way to commemorate Comrade Mao Zedong is to continue to advance the cause he pioneered.” The CPC’s series of pioneering explorations in China’s cultural construction have not only provided powerful ideological weapons and scientific action guides for promoting the cultural prosperity of socialism with Chinese characteristics and building a culturally strong country but have also provided strong spiritual motivation and intellectual support for Chinese-path modernization, becoming an inexhaustible civilizational force for building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

习近平总书记在纪念毛泽东同志诞辰一百三十周年座谈会上的讲话中指出：“对毛泽东同志的最好纪念，就是把他开创的事业继续推向前进。”中国共产党对中国文化建设的一系列开创性探索，不仅为推动中国特色社会主义的文化繁荣、建设文化强国提供了强大思想武器和科学行动指南，更为中国式现代化建设提供了强大的精神动力和智力支持，成为建设中华民族现代文明、实现中华民族伟大复兴源源不断的文明力量。

(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a researcher at the Center for Literary Hermeneutics, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

（作者系中国社会科学院大学马克思主义学院教授、中国社会科学院大学文学阐释学中心研究员）

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