Civilization is the unremitting pursuit of mankind and one of the goals of building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power in an all-round way. Building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation is an important content of the supreme leader’s cultural thought and a new cultural mission that our party must shoulder in the new era. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put forward the requirement of building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation, pointed out the direction of development and progress of the Chinese nation from the height of civilization development, and further inspired the enthusiasm and motivation of people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to forge ahead.
Write a chapter of the times in the development and progress of Chinese civilization
Chinese civilization has a long history, with at least 5,000 years of development history. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Chinese civilization has a long history and is profound. It is the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, the foundation of contemporary China culture, the spiritual bond that maintains Chinese people all over the world, and the treasure of cultural innovation in China." We have every reason to be proud of the great achievements of Chinese civilization, and we should also carefully protect the precious resources left by our ancestors with a high sense of historical responsibility. Chinese civilization has come from the depths of history and will continue to move towards a new future. Engels pointed out that "the world is not a collection of established things, but a collection of processes, in which all seemingly stable things are in constant change of generation and extinction, just like their ideological images or concepts in our minds. In this change, despite all kinds of superficial contingency and temporary retrogression, the forward development will eventually be realized." This tells us that the whole world, whether it is natural matter or human itself, whether it is social life or ideology, exists as a process in the final analysis. Numerous processes are intertwined, one after another; Countless processes have followed one after another, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new. Therefore, there can never be anything absolute or eternal in the world.
Everything is like this, and so is human civilization. The development of human civilization is always on the road. The past is on the road, the present is on the road, and the future is still on the road. There have been glories in the past, which does not mean that all are glories. Just because the past was brilliant does not mean that the present and the future will be brilliant forever. A survey of Chinese civilization is also a process that is always on the road. The history of more than 5,000 years is long enough, but from the perspective of astronomy, it is just a blink of an eye. The length of time can explain many problems, but it is not the fundamental criterion to judge the quality of a civilization. The key lies in whether it has strong internal vitality, is always in the forefront of the times, and represents the fundamental interests of the people. History is advancing, and so is Chinese civilization. The contemporary culture of China has integrated Chinese excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture. The development of various undertakings in Socialism with Chinese characteristics has written a new chapter in Chinese civilization. But this chapter is not over, but we should continue to write. The historic changes in the new era and the opportunities and challenges faced by China require us to keep writing new chapters, big chapters and long chapters of Chinese civilization, and to write them more beautifully and better, so that Chinese civilization will glow with new glory on the basis of condensing the achievements of cultural construction and other construction.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point, we should strengthen our cultural self-confidence, stick to our own path, base ourselves on the great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, sum up China’s experience with China Theory, upgrade China’s experience to China Theory, and realize spiritual independence. We should uphold openness and tolerance, adhere to the modernization of Marxism in China, inherit and develop Chinese excellent traditional culture, promote the localization of foreign cultures, and constantly cultivate and create Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture in the new era. We should persist in upholding integrity and innovation, continue the historical context and write contemporary Chinese chapters with integrity and spirit of integrity and innovation. Building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation is an important answer to the questions of China, the world, the people and the times under the new situation. Facing the future, our party should unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in China to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization and strive to achieve the goal of the second century. Clear goals and clear vision. All aspects of China’s social life should be modernized, and Chinese civilization must also write a new chapter of the times.
Constantly enrich and develop new forms of human civilization.
Civilization is the achievement and symbol of cultural development. Civilization comes from culture. The accumulated achievements of all cultures are collectively called civilization. The Communist Party of China (CPC) has gone through an unusual course in understanding China culture and Chinese civilization. As early as May 1943, our Party emphasized that the Communist Party of China (CPC) people are the inheritors of all the best traditions of our nation in culture, ideology and morality, and they regard all these excellent traditions as something connected with their own flesh and blood, and will continue to carry them forward. After the reform and opening up, our party has placed cultural construction and civilization construction in a more important position. The Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that socialist spiritual civilization is an important feature of socialism and an important manifestation of the superiority of the socialist system. The Sixth Plenary Session of the Twelfth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Sixth Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China also devoted themselves to the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and made important arrangements. In the new era, our Party has promoted the overall layout of "five in one" and the strategic layout of "four comprehensive" in a coordinated way, and on the basis of building a well-off society in an all-round way, led the people to advance towards the goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way.
To build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modernization power, we should promote economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction as a whole. Correspondingly, we should comprehensively improve China’s material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization. In a certain sense, all these constructions will ultimately come down to deep-seated civilization and progress. This kind of civilization is the inheritance and continuation of more than 5,000 years of traditional civilization. With the development of society, it is constantly being updated, developed, transformed and created, always keeping up with the pace of the times and full of the breath of the times. This kind of civilization is embodied not only in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, but also in the construction and achievements in economic, political, cultural, social and ecological fields. It is a holistic civilization form that includes and reflects the all-round development and progress of China society.
In the new era and new journey, the central task of our party is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in China to build a socialist modernization power in an all-round way, realize the goal of the second century, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization. Creating a new form of human civilization is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization. Modernization and civilization are inseparable. The so-called modernization is a process of change in the development of human society since the industrial revolution. Its main content is the development of industrialization, accompanied by progress in the rule of law. To the present age, modernization is further reflected in the continuous strengthening of informationization and intelligence, and accompanied by the process of economic globalization. It is a historical trend for the world to turn to "modernization", but the content of the turn to "modernization" is different in different periods. What the future will be can only be answered by the future. Looking at its essence through various phenomena of "modernization" so far, the so-called modernization can be said to be a movement process of human civilization around the world based on the law of unbalanced development. From a vertical perspective, the transformation from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization is a kind of progress, and the transformation from traditional industrialization to informationization and intelligence is also a kind of progress. This kind of development and progress is endless. From a horizontal perspective, the development of civilizations in different regions and countries is unbalanced. At every particular moment, there are always some types or countries of civilization.It is at a relatively advanced level, that is, the "modern" level, while others must constantly catch up and strive to reach a more advanced level, that is, turn to "modernization". The so-called modernization is such a broad picture and historical process that you chase after me and constantly surpass.
Chinese modernization, in the final analysis, is a process of civilization development, including economic, political, cultural, social and ecological development and achievements, which embodies the development and progress of Chinese civilization under the new historical conditions. We are building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, that is, in the process of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization, we will push the Chinese civilization to achieve new development with greater strength, larger scale and higher standards.
Self-reliance and self-improvement in the interaction with world civilization
Chinese civilization does not exist and develop in isolation. Even though it has been developed and continued mainly by its own internal factors for a long time, both the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization have been involved in a mighty process of modernization and globalization since human history was transformed from national history to world history. The development of world civilization is a process. From walking upright to drilling wood for fire, from the development of language to the invention of characters, from the rise of cities to the establishment of countries, from worshipping gods to respecting human nature … … Nodes and processes in world history have connected a long chapter of human civilization. In the meantime, there are blood and fire, poetry and painting, violence and power, wisdom and dreams. The history of world development is essentially a history of the development and progress of human civilization in twists and turns, and world civilization is also a process of constantly defeating barbarism with civilization and beast with humanity. Despite all kinds of obstacles and twists and turns, world civilization is finally moving forward.
The development of world history also tells us that the development of human civilization is the combination of generality and individuality, unity and diversity. Human civilization has basic elements, principles and requirements, and also has many common values, but the specific contents and forms of these elements, principles and requirements and common values will be very different. For example, almost all types of civilizations have spoken and written languages, which are used to exchange ideas, spread information and inherit culture. This is common, but the composition and forms of spoken and written languages are different, so translation must be used as an intermediary to communicate normally. Therefore, generality and individuality are inseparable, and unity and diversity coexist. The development of human civilization must deal with the relationship between diversified civilization types. Facts have proved that human civilization does not have an innate standard model, nor does it have unity before diversity, but it produces commonness in personality and unity in diversity. Only by adhering to communication and blending can different civilizations jointly promote the development and progress of human civilization.
In 2013, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put forward the idea of promoting the building of a community of human destiny. This important idea faced the most important issues in the world today, pointed out the direction for countries to deal with their mutual relations, and also put forward China’s proposal and China’s plan for the development of human civilization. The Chinese nation is an important member of the world family, and Chinese civilization is an important part and unique type of world civilization. Chinese civilization once had a far-reaching influence on the world, and it also drew rich nutrition from the world civilization. Chinese civilization and world civilization are interrelated, influenced and interacted. The development of Chinese civilization cannot be separated from the world, and the development of world civilization cannot be separated from China. The process of China’s development and progress is, to a great extent, a two-way interaction between China and the world, and a process of collision, learning and integration between Chinese civilization and other civilizations in the world. The more China develops, the more it needs to talk to the world, learn from the world, and strengthen communication and exchanges with the outside world with a more confident, modest, frank and rational attitude.
Chinese civilization has a long history of its own, with a unique ideological system and firm values, profound language and rich cultural connotations. Therefore, it has gone through more than 5,000 years without interruption. Especially after experiencing the revolutionary storm and the tempering test of reform and opening up, Chinese civilization has new blood and new bones and muscles. Therefore, although it has been tested by various storms from time to time, it can still stand tall and brave. Under the background of the accelerated evolution and in-depth interaction of the "two overall situations", China’s reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and the management of the party, country and army are also facing a series of new major issues, and human society is also facing many common problems that need to be solved urgently. China’s question, the question of the world, the question of the people and the question of the times are more complicated and difficult than in the past. Only a truly continuous, innovative, unified, inclusive and peaceful civilization can play a strong cohesive and leading role when the wind and rain strike, and can always stand firm when the wind and rain are fierce. The more we face risks and challenges, the more we accept various tests, the more we must strengthen the construction of Chinese civilization, and the more we must enhance our resilience in communication and integration with world civilizations. Only by stepping into the sea of world civilization, showing advantages in comparison, distinguishing strengths and weaknesses in comparison, learning from others’ strengths in communication and improving in integration can Chinese civilization truly stand on its own two feet.
How to understand and deal with the relationship between China and the world is not only related to the future and destiny of the Party and the country, but also to building a socialist modern country and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way. It is also an important embodiment of the values and civilization level of a country and a nation, and an important symbol to measure the maturity of a country and a nation. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed, "We should broaden our theoretical horizons, learn from and draw lessons from all outstanding achievements of human civilization with an open mind, and learn from them in ‘ The sum of human knowledge ’ Draw on excellent ideological and cultural resources to innovate and develop the party’s theory, and form a theoretical pattern of inclusiveness and learning from others. " We should firmly establish a grand view of history, grasp the development context and correct trend of world history with a broader vision and a longer-term vision, recognize the great logical trend of China’s social development and human social development, and grasp the historical evolution and practical requirements of Chinese modernization.
The task of building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation is glorious and arduous, and it is necessary to highlight the characteristics of China, establish a world vision, consolidate the foundation of China and show the world mind. We should have distinctive features, broad vision, solid foundation and broad mind, so that we can truly stand on the commanding heights of the times and lead the trend of world civilization. Therefore, we must always pay attention to the changes of the world trend, keep a close eye on the forefront of the development of world civilization, embrace everything, be honest and innovative, learn from each other’s civilizations, and constantly improve the quality and level of modern Chinese civilization. To build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, we should persist in carrying forward the concept of civilization of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and tolerance, understand the understanding of different civilizations on the value connotation with a broad mind, respect the people of different countries’ exploration of their own development paths, transcend the gap between civilizations with civilized exchange, transcend the conflict of civilizations with mutual learning, transcend the superiority of civilizations with civilized coexistence, carry forward the common values of all mankind contained in Chinese civilization, and promote the construction of a community of human destiny. We should base ourselves on the land of China, tell the story of Chinese civilization well, and show the world a credible, lovely and respectable image of China. We should make it clear what kind of civilization and country China is, China people’s world view, world view, social view and moral view, show the long history and humanistic details of Chinese civilization, and make the world understand China, China people, the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese nation. Only in such a broad vision and height of the times, can Chinese civilization resonate with the times, walk with the world, show itself in comparison, and March forward courageously in challenges, can we truly achieve "Thousands of blows are still strong, and the wind is east, west, north and south. "
(This article Source: Economic Daily Author: Li Zhongjie, academic advisor of Beijing Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center)
