The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is a programmatic document guiding China to further comprehensively deepen reform in the new journey. In order to better understand and grasp the "seven focuses" reform goals put forward in the Decision, Xinhuanet Sike launched a series of "Interpretation of the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session by Party School Experts" to deeply explore the spiritual essence and reform requirements of further comprehensive deepening reform. The "Decision" proposes to focus on building a socialist cultural power. Wang Xuebin, a professor of literature and history teaching and research department of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), made an in-depth analysis of this issue.
On June 5, 2019, people took part in the dragon boat parade on Jinjiang River in Bijiang District, tongren city, Guizhou Province, to welcome the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival (photo of drone). Xinhua News Agency (photo by Wu Weidong)
Xinhuanet Thinker: What is the significance of building a socialist cultural power for national development and national rejuvenation?
Wang Xuebin:The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese Modernization adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Decision) focuses on building a strong socialist cultural country, and puts forward the goal of deepening reform in the cultural field at present and in the future. This deployment embodies the characteristics of highlighting the goal and giving consideration to all parties, combining the total score and advancing as one.
Building a socialist cultural power is an important foundation and prerequisite for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has raised cultural construction to a new historical height, courageously explored and steadily advanced, greatly enhancing the cultural creativity of the whole nation and enhancing its cultural self-confidence. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the goal and task of building a strong cultural country and significantly enhancing the country’s cultural soft power by 2035, and made major arrangements to promote cultural self-confidence and self-improvement and create new glories of socialist culture. The specific arrangements made in the Decision of the Third Plenary Session around the construction of a cultural power can be described as timely.
Culture plays an increasingly important role in the process of Chinese modernization. In the new stage of development, culture is an important content to promote the overall layout of "five in one" and the strategic layout of "four comprehensive" in a coordinated way. We must put cultural construction in a prominent position in the overall work and more consciously use culture to lead the fashion, educate the people, serve the society and promote development.
On January 2, 2021, readers read books in a library in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Ceng Yong)
To implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern and promote high-quality development, culture is an important fulcrum. We must further develop and expand the cultural industry, strengthen cultural empowerment, and give full play to the role of culture in activating development momentum, improving development quality and promoting the optimization and upgrading of economic structure; Culture is an important factor to adapt to the historical changes of the main social contradictions in our country, meet the people’s growing needs for a better life and promote their all-round development. We must deepen the reform of the cultural system, expand the supply of high-quality culture, and let the people enjoy a richer, richer and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life. To meet the new wave of scientific and technological revolution and promote the development of quality change, efficiency change and power change, culture is an important field. We must accelerate the deep integration of culture and science and technology, better build advanced socialist culture with advanced and applicable technologies, reshape the mode of cultural production and communication, and seize the commanding heights of cultural innovation and development; Culture is an important soft power to cope with the unprecedented changes in the world, resolve new contradictions, meet new challenges and form new advantages in the complicated international environment. We must strengthen our strategic strength and tell the story of China well, so as to provide lasting and profound spiritual motivation for building a community of human destiny. Undoubtedly, all these tasks need to be gradually enhanced and finally realized by building a cultural power.
Xinhuanet Thinker: Why should we emphasize the fundamental system of adhering to the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field in building a socialist cultural power?
Wang Xuebin:Ideological work is an extremely important work of the party, and it is a work for the country and the nation. At present, there are many challenges in the ideological field. Without a strong cohesive and leading socialist ideology, other reforms and constructions in the cultural field are out of the question, which will even affect the overall strategic situation of Chinese modernization. Therefore, we must adhere to the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field, improve the ideological work responsibility system, continue to innovate the Marxist theoretical research and construction project, implement the innovation project of philosophy and social sciences, accelerate the construction of the discipline system, academic system and discourse system of philosophy and social sciences with China characteristics, and cultivate and expand the talent team of philosophy and social sciences. Vigorously promote the systematic reform of mainstream media, improve the public opinion guidance mechanism and public opinion response coordination mechanism; Continue to promote the normalization and institutionalization of ideal and belief education, and improve the institutional mechanism for cultivating and practicing socialist core values.
Xinhuanet Thinker: The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session put forward that "the system and mechanism for the development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries should be improved". What aspects do you need to exert?
Wang Xuebin:The high-quality completion of a strong socialist cultural country is inseparable from the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries. After more than ten years of hard exploration, the reform of China’s cultural system has achieved fruitful results, and at the same time, new problems arising in the development process need to be dealt with and solved in time. The "Decision" takes deepening mechanism reform as the focus of reform in this field, and puts forward "optimizing the supply mechanism of cultural services and cultural products" and "establishing a mechanism for direct access to high-quality cultural resources", which is not only conducive to solving the outstanding problem of insufficient imbalance in cultural development in various regions, but also complementary to the deployment of urban-rural integration development; It puts forward "deepening the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in the cultural field, and promoting the internal reform of cultural institutions by classification", focusing on the blocking points, difficulties and pain points of relevant units and institutions at present, and pointing out the direction of future breakthroughs.
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On November 22, 2022, tourists visited the farmers’ painting exhibition hall in Linglong Bay, Shengfeng Village, Youchegang Town, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yushe
Specifically, it is necessary to improve the level of public cultural services. We will fully prosper the press and publication, radio, film and television, literature and art, philosophy and social sciences. We will implement projects to improve the quality of literary and artistic works, promote the deep integration of media, promote the integration of urban and rural public cultural service systems, strengthen the construction of major national cultural facilities and cultural projects, and inherit and carry forward China’s excellent traditional culture.
At the same time, we should improve the modern cultural industry system. Adhere to the social benefits in the first place, social benefits and economic benefits are unified, deepen the reform of cultural system, improve cultural industry planning and policies, strengthen the construction of cultural market system, and expand the supply of high-quality cultural products. Implement the digital strategy of cultural industry, standardize the development of cultural industrial parks, and promote the integrated development of culture and tourism.
Xinhuanet Thinker: How to grasp the specific deployment of "promoting cultural prosperity and enriching people’s spiritual and cultural life" in the Decision?
Wang Xuebin:To build a strong socialist cultural country, we must always adhere to the direction of advanced socialist culture. To measure the quality and level of cultural prosperity, the most important thing is not to look at economic benefits, but to see whether we can provide more cultural products that can meet people’s cultural needs and enhance people’s spiritual strength.
The "Decision" clearly stated that "the people-centered creative orientation should be adhered to, the combination of achievements and talents, the integration of grasping works and grasping the environment should be adhered to, and the working mechanism of service, guidance and organization of literary and artistic creation should be improved", which is in line with the fundamental purpose of socialist literary and artistic work and the needs of current literary and artistic talent training and creative mechanism reform. It is put forward that "the coordination organization of cultural heritage protection and inheritance should be established, the supervision system of cultural heritage protection should be established, and the systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage should be promoted", which conforms to the general trend of promoting the in-depth development of cultural heritage protection and inheritance; Emphasis is placed on "improving the system and mechanism for the deep integration of culture and tourism", which shows that with the vigorous development of "building tourism with literature and displaying literature with tourism", it is urgent to standardize and guarantee the system and mechanism.
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This is a cultural relic excavated from Liangzhu Site exhibited in Liangzhu Museum (photo taken on April 18th, 2024). Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yushe
To sum up, many measures are aimed at improving the civilization level of the whole society, which is a very comprehensive goal. In the future, it should run through the three levels of the country, society and the public, and make efforts to improve the civilized quality of citizens, cultivate good social customs and enhance the quality of public civilization.
Xinhuanet Thinker: "Building a more effective international communication system", what aspects can we focus on?
Wang Xuebin:Based on a new historical starting point, and constantly improving the national cultural soft power, it is necessary to make Chinese culture and the values it contains go to the world, and run through all aspects of international communication and dissemination, so as to enhance the international community’s knowledge and understanding of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The "Decision" pointed out that "building a more effective international communication system" focuses on promoting the reconstruction of the international communication pattern, deepening the reform and innovation of the international communication mechanism of mainstream media, and accelerating the construction of a multi-channel and three-dimensional external communication pattern; At the same time, accelerate the construction of China discourse and China narrative system, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of international communication. In addition, we need to build a practice mechanism of global civilization initiative, expand international humanities exchanges and cooperation, build a global civilization dialogue and cooperation network, enrich cultural exchange content and expand cooperation channels.