Qu Qingshan, Dean of the Central Party History and Literature Research Institute: Leading the Party History and Literature Work in the New Era with the Party's Innovative Theory

From January 22 to 23, 2024, the National Party History and Documentation Department Principal Meeting was held in Beijing. Qu Qingshan, director of the Central Institute of Party History and Literature, attended the meeting and made a work report, which is part of the report.

To do a good job in party history and documentation, scientific methods of thinking and working methods are extremely important. The world outlook and methodology of "six must adhere to" run through Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is the new "common language" and "common method" of the whole party. it is the "golden key" and "master key" for us to study and solve problems, and provides us with a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide for doing a good job in party history and literature work in the new era. We must firmly grasp the requirements of the "six must adhere to", understand the law, understand the direction, learn methods, and increase wisdom, and strive to create a new situation in party history and literature work in the new era.

1. Uphold the People First and Stand the People's Position on Party History and Documentary Work
The people's nature is the essential attribute of Marxism. Adhering to the people first is the fundamental value position of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. For more than one hundred years, our party has always kept in mind its original mission, abided by its nature and purpose, insisted on doing everything for the people and relying on the people for everything. It has written a glorious history of glory for thousands of years and formed a great theory of advancing with the times. The party history and literature work takes the party's history and theory as the work content and research object, and its foundation and source are the practical activities of the people. The party spirit and the people's character are fundamentally consistent, and the narrative argument for the party and the endorsement of the people are fundamentally consistent. The majority of party history and literature workers must firmly establish a people-centered work orientation and research orientation, closely integrate personal academic pursuits with the needs of the party and the people, take the initiative to worship the people as teachers, learn from the people, and be a good student first. Be a good teacher, get rid of the academic research of being high and widowed, and truly turn the party's history and theory into the people's knowledge and the people's theory. It is necessary to face the needs of the people, reflect the aspirations of the people, actively respond to the party's historical and theoretical issues of general concern to the people, and provide spiritual nourishment for the people with vivid and touching stories and profound and simple truths in the party's history. It is necessary to get through political discourse, academic discourse, and popular discourse, strive to make political discourse life-oriented and academic discourse popular, and make good use of the expressions that the people like to hear and see to clarify the party's history and theory. let the materialist view of history and the correct view of party history be widely established among the people, and let the party's innovative theory "fly into the homes of ordinary people".
2. insist on self-confidence and self-reliance, and strengthen the initiative spirit of doing a good job in party history and literature work
Faith, faith, faith, it is vital at all times. Self-confidence and self-reliance are the inherent spiritual characteristics of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The work of party history and literature is related to the establishment of history for the party, "passing on scriptures and preaching", to building the party ideologically, to strengthening the party theoretically, to educating people with history, to inheriting the red gene, and to continuing the red blood. It is not a dispensable work, but a very important work. To deepen the party's innovative theoretical research and promote the modernization of Marxism in China, the party history and literature department is an important front army; to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, the party history and literature department shoulders an important mission; To defend the ideological position and consolidate the party's cultural leadership, the party history and literature department are duty-bound. The vast number of party history and literature workers should further improve their political position, enhance their historical initiative, constantly boost their self-confidence in doing a good job and the spirit of starting a business, and comprehensively enhance their ability and level of performing their duties and responsibilities, so as to win glory for one domain and add luster to the overall situation. It is necessary to focus on the "two combinations" article, give full play to the unique advantages of the party's history and the party's theoretical research, and work hard to promote the party's innovative theoretical research to explain the systematization, study physics and chemistry, and use the party's history and theory Research leadership and discourse power, and continuously consolidate and strengthen the party's cultural leadership. It is necessary to focus on the biggest politics of promoting Chinese-style modernization, strengthen the thinking and summary of major theoretical and practical issues, use Chinese principles to summarize Chinese experience, upgrade Chinese experience to Chinese theory, and continue to expand the breadth and depth of Chinese-style modernization research. Provide ideological and cultural support for comprehensively promoting the building of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation.
3. adhere to the integrity of innovation, to ensure that the party history and literature work in the right direction with the times
Keeping integrity and innovation is the distinct theoretical character of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Only by keeping the right can we not lose our way and make subversive mistakes, and only by innovation can we grasp and lead the times. Maintaining integrity and innovation complement each other, reflecting the dialectical unity of change and invariance, inheritance and development, principle and creativity. For the work of party history and literature, it is necessary to strengthen the foundation and consolidate the roots, adhere to the beliefs, positions, directions, and principles of the road, but also to adapt to the development of the times, understand changes and respond to changes, and bravely create ideas, systems, mechanisms, and methods. New path. The majority of party history and literature workers must thoroughly study and master the party's basic theories, basic lines, and basic strategies, in-depth study and master the party's three historical resolutions, and consciously follow Comrade Xi Jinping in terms of political stance, political direction, political principles, and political roads. The Party Central Committee at the core maintains a high degree of consistency to prevent the phenomenon of "out of alignment" and "out of alignment. It is necessary to persist in not forgetting the original and continuing the tradition, make full use of the rich accumulation of the party's history and theoretical research for a long time, and fully carry forward the fine style of the older generation of party history and literature workers. turn it into a powerful momentum to promote high-quality development of work from a higher starting point. It is necessary to combine "not forgetting the ancestors" with "saying new things again", and be good at making new interpretations that are innovative and eye-catching under the premise of fairness, substance, and evidence. Launch more high-quality research results with the characteristics of original innovation or integrated innovation. It is necessary to deepen the understanding of the regularity of party history and literature work under the new situation, actively adapt to the information technology revolution and the change of communication pattern, and promote the innovation of work concepts, contents, carriers, forms, methods and means. In particular, it is necessary to actively explore new ways to carry out party history publicity and education with new carriers such as short videos, improve the scientific research management system and reward and incentive mechanism, and innovate the training mode of party history and literature cadres, encourage local party history and literature departments to carry out work creatively based on their own endowments and regional characteristics, and constantly open up new situations in their work.
4. Adhering to Problem Orientation and Enhancing the Targeted Effectiveness of Party History and Literature Work
Adhering to the problem orientation is the distinctive style of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Problems are the voice of the times, and answering and guiding the solution of problems is the fundamental task of theory. Problems are also the starting point and power source of innovation. Only by constantly studying and solving the problems in progress and "growing troubles" can we promote the party history and literature work to break through the bottleneck constraints and achieve innovative development. The majority of party history and literature workers must strengthen their awareness of problems, and strive to answer in-depth questions about China, the world, the people, and the times from the combination of theory and practice, history and reality, domestic and international, and through historical theory The combination profoundly reveals the great achievements, accumulated valuable experience, and ideological crystallization of our party's leadership of the people. It is necessary to strengthen investigation and research, make good use of General Secretary Xi Jinping's five-character formula of "deep, practical, detailed, accurate, and effective" investigation and research, go deep into the front line of the grassroots and the actual work, objectively and comprehensively reflect the situation, truly and accurately analyze problems, and make scientific and reasonable suggestions, Don't say layman's words, don't make empty comments, don't make subjective assumptions, and don't generalize. It is necessary to keep the blade inward, comprehensively examine the problems restricting the high-quality development of party history and literature work, especially the "old and difficult" problems accumulated for a long time, deeply analyze the specific manifestations, causes and crux of the problems, put forward new ideas, new ideas and new methods to solve the problems, and constantly strengthen and improve the work in making up for the weak points, fixing the bottom plate, and strengthening the weak points.
5. Adhering to the Concept of System and Improving the Overall Synergy of Party History and Document Work
Adhering to the concept of system is the basic ideological method and working method of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. All things are interrelated and interdependent. Only by observing things from the perspective of universal connection, comprehensive system and development and change can we grasp the law of development of things. The work of party history and literature is not a single work, but a systematic project involving many aspects, levels and elements. The majority of party history and literature workers must adhere to the concept of system, and continuously improve strategic thinking, historical thinking, dialectical thinking, system thinking, innovative thinking, rule of law thinking, bottom line thinking, and extreme thinking capabilities, so as to achieve forward-looking thinking, overall planning, and integrity Promote. It is necessary to closely follow the functional orientation, correctly handle the relationship between the performance of the functions of the research department and the performance of the functions of the work department, and correctly handle the relationship between the main business work and the extended business work. It can not only calm down to engage in research, but also move to vigorously grasp management and coordination, and combine doing more to lay the foundation and benefit the long-term with strengthening the transformation and utilization of research results. It is necessary to consolidate and deepen the achievements of institutional reform, give full play to the comprehensive advantages of the party's historical and theoretical research, open up the work of party history research, document editing, book compilation, publicity and education, and further strengthen the integration of research forces and resources. we will strive to make new progress in the construction of the work pattern of big party history. It is necessary to consciously use the concept of system in the research work, treat the party's history and theory from a comprehensive, developmental, and connected perspective, absorb and learn from the useful experience and methods of historical research at all times and in all countries, and continuously improve the scientific level of party history and literature research.
6. persist in keeping the world in mind and expand the broad vision of party history and literature work.
Persisting in the world is the great vision and realm of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. It is also a party that seeks progress for mankind and great peace for the world. In order to match the party's history and literature work with the pattern and bearing of our party as the largest Marxist ruling party in the world, we must also have a broad vision and broad mind with a broad mind and a broad mind. The vast number of party history and literature workers should keep in mind the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes unseen in the world in a century, expand the world dimension and international vision of the modernization of Marxism in China, consciously examine the party's more than 100 years of struggle in the process of world socialist development, and profoundly reveal the new changes and characteristics of contemporary socialism and capitalism. Profoundly reveal the achievements and reasons why China leads the development of world socialism, it profoundly reveals the secret of why the Communist Party of China can, why Marxism works, and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good. It is necessary to do a good job in foreign publicity, fully grasp the thinking habits and acceptance methods of political parties and people in various countries, and use a way that they can understand, remember, and feel to tell the story of China, the story of the Communist Party of China, the story of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the story of party leaders, so as to guide the international community to establish a correct "view of the Communist Party of China" and "view of China". It is necessary to strengthen comparative research, in-depth study of the laws of the rise and fall of world political parties, success or failure, and in-depth study of the experiences and lessons of countries around the world in dealing with major risks and challenges, so as to provide historical reference and useful enlightenment for our party to solve the unique problems of major parties and consolidate its long-term ruling position.

It is a great responsibility and a glorious mission to do a good job in party history and literature in the new era. Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, strengthen confidence, unite as one, work hard, and move forward courageously, so as to comprehensively promote Chinese-style modernization. Make new and greater contributions to the building of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation!

Source: Research on the History of the Communist Party of China