The Inheritance and Development of News Thought and Practice in the Centennial Journey of the Communist Party of China

The struggle course of the Communist Party of China has been magnificent and brilliant, and the great victories and achievements of our party over the past century are inseparable from the support of the party's news and public opinion work. Looking back on the hundred years of the development of the party's news theory practice, and explaining its interactive relationship with the theme of the times and the party's central work in different periods, it has important enlightenment significance for the development of socialist news theory practice with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The Party's News Theory Practice and Historical Theme in the New Democratic Revolution Period
Since the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921, the party's news and public opinion work has shouldered the historical mission of organizing the people to participate in the struggle against imperialism and feudalism. The guide, the first organ newspaper created by the party, established the idea and system of the party's management of news. The Fourth National Congress of the Communist Party of China declared that "we must independently carry out our party's public propaganda and branch work outside the Kuomintang". During the period of the national revolution, the Communist Party of China expanded its influence through timely propaganda in newspapers and periodicals, and promoted the development of the national revolution and the party's work.
During the agrarian revolution, the party's news work centered on the theme of mobilizing farmers to carry out the agrarian revolution and armed struggle, and embarked on the road of independent development. Red China, as the organ newspaper of the Central Soviet Area and the Red Base Area, highlights the political attribute and class position of the party newspaper. The "Resolution of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on the Party Newspaper" promulgated in 1931 was the first special resolution of the Party Central Committee on the Party Newspaper. It pointed out: "The Party Newspaper must become the leader of the party's work and mass work, and become a powerful tool to expand the party's influence among the masses. Become the organizer of the masses." In August 1930, the publication of "Red Flag Daily"-our task "first put forward the proposition that" newspapers are tools of class struggle ", highlighting the mass nature of the party's news propaganda.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, in the face of national peril, propagating the party's comprehensive anti-Japanese line and protracted war determination, exposing the atrocities of Japanese imperialism and the Kuomintang's passive anti-Japanese and active anti-communist behavior became an important theme of the party's news and propaganda work. The party's news theory and practice have made important development. It is proposed that the party newspaper should embody the party spirit, mass nature, fighting nature and organization, and put forward the policy of "running the newspaper for the whole party. Through the rectification movement carried out in the news media during the Yan'an period, the theoretical system of the party newspaper was basically formed. In 1945, Chongqing Xinhua Daily put forward the concept of "people's nature" to further clarify that the party newspaper should speak from the standpoint of the people.
During the War of Liberation, the Party's news management became more and more perfect. Exposing the Kuomintang's conspiracy to launch a civil war and propagating the party's peaceful nation-building policy became the focus of the party's journalism before the outbreak of the civil war. With the victory of the war of liberation and the shift of the focus of the party's work from the countryside to the city, our party has strengthened the leadership and management of the news work in the newly liberated cities.
The All-round Development and Practical Theme of the Party's Journalism Theory in the Period of Socialist Revolution and Construction
After the founding of New China, news communication shouldered the mission of consolidating socialism and building socialism. The theory and practice of the Party's journalism have developed in an all-round way in the course of consolidating and building New China.
It enriches the ideological connotation of the news party spirit of "the party governing the media. Comrade Mao Zedong creatively put forward the idea of "politicians running newspapers", further emphasized the principle of party management of news, and required newspaper news to be targeted, and newspaper propaganda should be "transferred" in accordance with the central policy ". The newspaper operator needs to have political literacy, understand the policy and spirit, and conduct a comprehensive analysis of the party's relevant theories.
Strengthen the people's position of the party newspaper. In order to embody the main force of the people, the party's news work needs to closely link the interests of the people with the content of news propaganda. Comrade Mao Zedong clearly put forward the policy of "running newspapers for the whole party and running newspapers for the whole people", emphasizing that party newspaper propaganda should respond to the expectations and demands of the people, make it closer to the reality of the people's lives, and represent the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people.
Enhance the democratic vitality of news propaganda and carry out criticism and self-criticism. In July 1954, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Resolution on Improving Newspaper Work" and stated: "Whether the newspaper has fully carried out criticism, whether the criticism is correct, and whether the cadres warmly welcome and resolutely protect the bottom-up criticism of the working people, as a measure The party spirit of the newspaper, the democratic life within the party and the strength of the leadership of the party committee."
Unify the national news and publicity cause and open up the main channel for Chinese media diplomacy. In the face of the blockade and containment of Western powers, Comrade Mao Zedong proposed: "Take control of the earth so that the whole world can hear our voice", establish a variety of external propaganda channels, and form Xinhua News Agency, "People's Daily" and the Central People's Broadcasting Station is the backbone of external communication, and the external propaganda media as a non-governmental organization is the window of communication, so that the new China's external news and propaganda work has been greatly developed.
New Development and Theme of the Party's Journalism Theory and Practice in the New Period of Reform and Opening-up
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the development of the party's journalism has entered a new stage. In January 1995, the "Notice of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Forwarding the" Several Opinions of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Doing a Good Job in News and Public Opinion "pointed out:" Adhere to Comrade Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics as the fundamental guideline. "Taking economic construction as the center and serving the socialist market economy has become the theme of the party's news theory and practice development in the new era.
The party's news work should serve the party's economic construction. With the reform and opening up, taking economic construction as the center and developing socialist market economy has become the strongest voice of the times. The Party's journalistic work provides public opinion support for the establishment of a complete socialist market economic system. On the one hand, it attaches importance to the propaganda of economic construction in the field of news, and increases the propaganda and reporting of economic construction; on the other hand, it develops a diversified news industry and promotes the reform of the news system to adapt to the development of the socialist market economy.
The party's news work should take the "four basic principles" as the criterion to ensure social stability and unity. Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "Party newspapers and periodicals must unconditionally publicize the party's ideas." "In what scope and form of discussion, we must conform to the party's principles and abide by the party's decisions." "We must make our party's newspapers and periodicals the ideological center of national stability and unity."
The party's news work should "guide people with correct public opinion" and adhere to the concept of "people-oriented. In 1994, Comrade Jiang Zemin put forward the guiding principles of journalism at the National Propaganda and Ideological Work Conference, that is, "We must arm people with scientific theories, guide people with correct public opinion, shape people with a noble spirit, inspire people with excellent works, and continue Cultivate and bring up generations of new socialist people with ideals, morals, culture, and discipline". In December 2003, Comrade Hu Jintao put forward the requirement of "three closeness" in news work at the National Conference on propaganda and ideological work, that is, "persist in being close to reality, close to life, and close to the masses". In June 2008, Comrade Hu Jintao pointed out that the media "must adhere to the people-oriented principle and enhance the affinity, attraction and appeal of news reports. Adhering to the people-oriented principle is the fundamental requirement of doing a good job in news propaganda". These expositions have enriched the era connotation of the socialist news theory with Chinese characteristics.
Innovative Development and Theme of the Party's Journalism Theory and Practice in the New Era
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the party's journalism work has embarked on a new journey of innovative development of journalism theory and practice around the theme of realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the important role of news and public opinion work, and points out the direction for the development of news theory and practice with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
It profoundly explains the important position of the party's news and public opinion work. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "doing a good job in the party's news and public opinion work is related to the banner and road, to the implementation of the party's theory, line, principles and policies, to the smooth promotion of various undertakings of the party and the state, to the cohesion and centripetal force of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, and to the future and destiny of the party and the country."
The responsibilities, missions and basic policies of the Party's news and public opinion work in the new era have been clarified. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that under the conditions of the new era, the responsibility of the party's news and public opinion work is to "hold high the banner, lead the direction, focus on the center, serve the overall situation, unite the people, boost morale, become a man, unite, and clarify fallacies. Distinguish right from wrong, connect China and foreign countries, and communicate with the world. To assume this responsibility and mission, we must put the political direction in the first place, firmly adhere to the principle of party spirit, firmly adhere to the Marxist outlook on journalism, firmly adhere to the correct guidance of public opinion, and firmly adhere to positive propaganda".
Enriched the news party spirit principle thought. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "The party's news and public opinion work adheres to the principle of party spirit, and the most fundamental thing is to adhere to the party's leadership over news and public opinion work. The media sponsored by the Party and the government are the propaganda positions of the Party and the government and must be surnamed the Party. All the work of the party's news and public opinion media must reflect the party's will, reflect the party's propositions, maintain the authority of the party central committee, maintain the party's unity, and love, protect, and serve the party".
and developed the idea of unifying the party spirit and the people's nature of journalism. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the National Propaganda and Ideological Work Conference that "the party spirit and the people's character have always been consistent and unified". To adhere to the party spirit, we must "embody the will of the party, reflect the party's propositions, safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee, and safeguard the unity of the party". To adhere to the people's nature is to "turn the party's theory, line, principles and policies into the conscious actions of the people, reflect the experience created by the people and the actual situation they are facing in a timely manner, enrich the people's spiritual world, and strengthen the people's spiritual strength".
Enhance the pertinence, dominance and innovation of news and public opinion work. Facing the unstoppable development momentum of new online media, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: We must follow the laws of news dissemination and the development of emerging media, strengthen Internet thinking, adhere to the complementary and integrated development of traditional media and emerging media, and adhere to advanced technology as the support and content Construction is fundamental, and promote the deep integration of traditional media and emerging media in content, channels, platforms, operations, and management, efforts should be made to create a number of new mainstream media with various forms, advanced means and competitiveness, build several new media groups with strong strength, communication power, credibility and influence, and form a modern communication system with three-dimensional diversity and integrated development.

Source: Guangming Daily