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"Seeking Truth" magazine published General Secretary Xi Jinping's important article "Strengthening Cultural Confidence and Building a Socialist Cultural Power"
The 12th issue of "Seeking Truth" published on June 16 published an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, "Strengthen Cultural Confidence and Build a Socialist Cultural Power."
The article emphasizes that culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Culture is prosperous, culture is strong and the nation is strong. Without a high degree of cultural self-confidence and cultural prosperity, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We must adhere to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, and build a socialist cultural power.
The article points out that cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence, and a more basic, deeper and more lasting force. To strengthen self-confidence in the road, theory and system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is, in the final analysis, to strengthen cultural self-confidence. To strengthen cultural self-confidence is a major issue related to the rise and fall of national fortune, cultural security and the independence of national spirit.
The article points out that culture is an important force for the survival and development of a nation. The Chinese nation has encountered countless difficulties and hardships in the course of thousands of years of historical changes, but we have all survived and come through. One of the most important reasons is that generations of Chinese people have cultivated and developed unique, broad and profound Chinese culture, which has provided strong spiritual support for the Chinese nation to overcome difficulties and survive.
The article points out that the socialist culture with Chinese characteristics originates from the excellent traditional Chinese culture nurtured by the Chinese nation's more than 5000 years of civilization, and is cast in the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture created by the people under the leadership of the party in revolution, construction, and reform. rooted in the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics is to take Marxism as the guidance, adhere to the stand of Chinese culture, base on the reality of contemporary China, and combine the conditions of the times to develop a national, scientific and popular socialist culture oriented to modernization, the world and the future, and to promote the coordinated development of socialist spiritual civilization and material civilization. We must persist in serving the people and socialism, let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, persist in creative transformation and innovative development, and constantly create new glories of Chinese culture.
Source: Xinhua