Liu Qibao stressed during his investigation in Anhui, Jiangsu Province: Raise the work of building spiritual civilization to a new level

From April 6th to 9th, Liu Qibao, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, and Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, emphasized during a survey in Jiangsu and Anhui that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and new ideas for governance. New ideas and strategies, adhere to the people-centered development thinking, guided by socialist core values, and strengthen ideal and belief education, raise the creation of spiritual civilization to a new level.

During the investigation, Liu Qibao came to Suzhou, Jiangsu, Bengbu, Suzhou and other places in Anhui Province to deeply publicize cultural units, urban communities and park enterprises, and inspect the construction of spiritual civilization and the inheritance and development of excellent Chinese traditional culture.

Liu Qibao pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to the creation of spiritual civilization and made a series of important deployments. The creation of mass spiritual civilization has achieved fruitful results and has effectively promoted the coordinated development of the two civilizations. It is necessary to conscientiously implement the central government's guiding opinions on deepening mass spiritual civilization creation activities, focus on making up for shortcomings and improving, and comprehensively promote the creation of spiritual civilization in all aspects of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization construction and party building. It is necessary to establish a new style of civilization through creation activities, solve outstanding problems such as lack of integrity, money worship, extravagance and waste, and continuously improve the quality of the people and the level of social civilization.

Liu Qibao emphasized that it is necessary to vigorously cultivate civilized awareness in the whole society, regulate civilized behavior, and advocate civilized customs. It is necessary to strengthen integrity education, cultivate the spirit of integrity, establish and improve the incentive mechanism for trustworthiness and the punishment mechanism for dishonesty, and create a good fashion of honor and shame for dishonesty. It is necessary to carry out in-depth volunteer service to learn from Lei Feng, advocate having time to be volunteers and finding volunteers when it is difficult, so as to form a social atmosphere of upward kindness, honesty and mutual assistance. It is necessary to extensively discover and commend the good people, good deeds and righteous deeds around the masses, so as to produce a good demonstration effect. It is necessary to vigorously advocate a thrifty and simple lifestyle, start with saving a drop of water, a kilowatt-hour of electricity, and a grain of grain, continue to carry out the "CD Action", and strive to form a good social atmosphere of strict economy and opposition to waste.

Liu Qibao pointed out that it is necessary to give full play to the role of culture in the construction of spiritual civilization, promote culture to benefit the people, improve culture and people's livelihood, and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses. It is necessary to advocate reading for all, support the development of physical bookstores, create convenient conditions for the masses to read, and strive to build a scholarly society. It is necessary to inherit and develop traditional dramas and operas, national literature and music, and local cultural customs, and use Chinese excellent traditional culture to spread and promote the value of morality and goodness.

April 10, 2017 Source: People's Network-People's Daily