The person in charge of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cultural Reform answered reporters' questions on the "Outline of the National Cultural Development and Reform Plan during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period"

Original title: To lay a more solid ideological and cultural foundation for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation

Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the outline of the National Plan for Cultural Development and Reform during the 13th five-year Plan period. The person in charge of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cultural System Reform and Development accepted an exclusive interview with reporters on the "Outline.
 

Question: Please introduce the main background and significance of the "Outline.

Answer: General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to cultural construction, emphasizing that the cultural movement is linked to the national movement, and the cultural context is connected with the national context. The prosperity of a country and a nation is always supported by cultural prosperity. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation requires Chinese culture. Conditions for development and prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping successively attended a series of symposiums on national propaganda and ideological work, literature and art work, news and public opinion work, network security and information work, and philosophy and social science work, and delivered important speeches and made profound expositions. it has pointed out the way forward for us and provided a fundamental follow. In the past few years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the propaganda and cultural field has raised the banner of reform, grasped the correct orientation, focused on development themes, and determined to innovate. The important basic institutional framework in the cultural field has been basically established, and cultural undertakings have been fully prosperous. The vitality of the cultural industry has increased, and the inheritance and promotion of excellent traditional culture has further created a vivid scene of cultural prosperity and development in my country.
 

The "13th Five-Year Plan" period is the decisive stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and it is also a critical period for promoting cultural prosperity and development. In order to adapt to the new situation, new tasks, and new requirements, we will thoroughly implement the central government's overall plan for deepening the reform of the cultural system and prospering the development of socialist culture, and transform General Secretary Xi Jinping's new expositions on propaganda, ideological and cultural work since the 18th National Congress into cultural development The working ideas and task requirements of reform continue to maintain a good momentum of cultural development and reform, and continue to create a new situation in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, in conjunction with the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, and the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other relevant departments, the "Outline" was investigated and compiled.

Question: Please talk about the main content and basic characteristics of the "Outline.

Answer: The "Outline" is a special plan for the implementation of the "Proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" and the "Outline of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the People's Republic of China National Economic and Social Development" in the field of propaganda and culture. It is also an important program and follow-up to guide cultural development and reform during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. In addition to the preamble, it is divided into thirteen parts. The first part is the overall requirements, which clarifies the guiding ideology, principles, objectives and tasks of cultural development and reform during the 13th five-year Plan period. Parts II to XII deploy work in 11 areas, in turn, it is to strengthen ideological and theoretical construction, improve the level of public opinion guidance, cultivate and practice socialist core values, prosper the creation and production of cultural products, speed up the construction of modern public cultural service system, improve the modern cultural market system and modern cultural industry system, inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, improve the level of cultural openness, promote the reform and innovation of the cultural system, strengthen the construction of cultural talents, and improve and implement cultural and economic policies, at the same time, a series of columns and projects have been listed, covering all aspects of cultural construction. The thirteenth part is for the organization and implementation, and puts forward clear requirements for all relevant departments in various regions to implement the plan.

The "Outline" fully implements the spirit of the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the Eighteenth Central Committee, and thoroughly implements the spirit of General Secretary Jinping's series of important speeches and new ideas, new ideas, and strategies for governing the country. Grasp the following points: First, strengthen cultural self-confidence. General Secretary Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasized that cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader, and deeper self-confidence, and a more basic, deeper, and more lasting force. The "Outline" upholds the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, practices the "four consciousnesses", strengthens the "four confidences", adheres to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, and vigorously promotes the development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture. The second is to lead by the new development concept. The new development concept is the baton to lead the cultural development and reform. The outline runs through the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. Based on the reality of China's cultural development and reform, it adheres to the problem orientation, identifies the weak links, strengthens the system design and innovation, and strives to promote various work to adapt to the new situation, form new mechanisms and realize new progress. Three is to pay attention to the convergence of supporting. The "Outline" further refines and specifies the major tasks of cultural construction in the national "13th Five-Year Plan. At the same time, the "Outline" is fully connected with the relevant important documents issued by the Party Central Committee and the State Council in recent years, and is also effectively connected with the "13th Five-Year Plan" of the culture, press, publication, radio, television, and Internet information departments to ensure the continuous and coordinated advancement of various tasks. Fourth, focus on operability and effectiveness. The "Outline" focuses on major tasks to take root, clarifies effective work, and proposes a number of important projects, constructions, actions or activities that need to be promoted, leading and driving cultural development and reform to a higher level.
 

Question: Please talk about the guiding ideology and main objectives of the Outline.

Answer: The "Outline" clarifies the guiding ideology for cultural development and reform during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. Its core content can be summarized as: hold high the "one banner", that is, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and adhere to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", and the scientific development concept as guidance, in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and new ideas, new ideas and strategies for governing the country; centering on the "two layouts", that is, closely focusing on the overall planning and promotion of the "five in one" overall layout and coordinating the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategy Layout; strengthen the "four consciousnesses", that is, effectively enhance political awareness, overall awareness, core awareness, and alignment awareness; clarify the "six persistence", that is, adhere to the socialist core values as the guide, adhere to the direction of advanced socialist culture, adhere to the development path of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the combination of rule of law and rule of virtue, adhere to the people-centered development thought and work orientation, adhere to put social benefits in the first place, and unify social and economic benefits. Serving the "two centenary goals" is to build Chinese spirit, Chinese value, Chinese strength and Chinese contribution, to lay a more solid ideological and cultural foundation for the realization of the "two centenary" goals and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It should be said that this guiding ideology is not only a summary of the experience of cultural development and reform led by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, but also a fundamental guide for cultural development and reform in the next few years. It should run through all aspects and fields of my country's cultural construction.

The "Outline" establishes the main goals of cultural development and reform during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period from eight aspects: theoretical construction, literary creation, media construction, public culture, cultural industry, traditional culture, cultural opening, and cultural system reform. These goals are both qualitative and quantitative, both expected and binding. They have their own emphasis and are interrelated. The general consideration is to link up with the overall goal of comprehensively deepening the reform, so as to ensure that the socialist cultural system with Chinese characteristics will be more mature and stereotyped by 2020.

Question: The "13th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for my country to build a well-off society in an all-round way. Please talk about the main initiatives in the area of cultural development and reform.

A: Building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020 is our party's solemn commitment and the common aspiration of 1.3 billion Chinese people. A well-off society in an all-round way is a well-off society with "five in one" and a well-off society in an all-round way. The "Outline" further clarifies the task of cultural well-off. In terms of the construction of socialist core values, it is emphasized to deepen and expand mass spiritual civilization creation activities, deepen the construction of civic morality, strengthen and improve mass ideological and political work, continuously promote the systematization of learning and practice, enhance self-confidence in values, and improve national quality. Enhance people's spiritual strength. In terms of the creation and production of cultural products, it is emphasized to increase support for original boutiques that have exemplary and leading roles, and launch more masterpieces that spread contemporary Chinese values, reflect the spirit of Chinese culture, and reflect the aesthetic pursuit of the Chinese people. Provide more high quality spiritual food. In the construction of the public cultural service system, it emphasizes the improvement of the public cultural service network, promotes the co-construction and sharing of public cultural facilities at the grassroots level, innovates the operating mechanism of public cultural services, and effectively protects the cultural rights and interests of the people. Considering that the old and young border poor areas are the "shortcomings" and "weaknesses" of cultural construction, the "Outline" emphasizes the need to combine the national poverty alleviation strategy to carry out cultural targeted poverty alleviation. In the development of the cultural industry, it is emphasized to increase the intensity of supply-side structural reforms, promote the "Internet" and "culture", develop new cultural formats, expand and guide cultural consumption, and continue to meet the diverse, multi-level and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs of the people.

Q: What are the work considerations for the implementation of the Outline?

Answer: The Central Leading Group for Cultural Reform attaches great importance to the implementation of the "Outline" and has made comprehensive arrangements for the implementation of the "Outline" by various localities and departments. The Office of the Leading Group, in conjunction with relevant departments, formulated the "Outline" division of labor plan, and divided various tasks into various departments. In accordance with the requirements of the Outline, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Culture, and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television have prepared or are preparing departmental plans. Most provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have also prepared and issued local plans. All relevant departments will follow the division of responsibilities. Effectively implement policies on financial security, taxation policies, cultural technology, cultural finance, cultural trade, and cultural construction land security, do a good job in the implementation and protection of key projects. The office of the leading group will timely carry out the mid-term supervision of the implementation of the outline.

May 08, 2017 Source: Xinhua News Agency