New Era, New Cultural Mission
Jun 05, 2023
On June 2, a symposium on cultural inheritance and development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping attended and delivered an important speech, emphasizing that "it is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a culturally powerful country, and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point."
"New cultural mission in the new era" is a new request and a new direction pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Trees are thousands of feet tall and have roots, and water flows thousands of miles with sources.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always thought deeply about the internal connection between Chinese civilization and socialism with Chinese characteristics:
"If there is no 5,000-year Chinese civilization, how can there be any Chinese characteristics? If it is not Chinese characteristics, how can we have the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics that is so successful today?"
From the Forbidden City in Beijing to the Xi'an Museum in Shaanxi; from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu, to the Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan; The general secretary's "cultural footprint" spreads all over the country.
Just before this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping successively inspected the National Edition Museum of China and the Chinese Academy of History. At the symposium, the general secretary made a profound summary of the five outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization: continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, and peace, and emphasized that "the outstanding continuity of Chinese civilization fundamentally determines that the Chinese nation must go own way".
Two years ago, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhu Xiyuan in Mount Wuyi, Fujian, he clearly pointed out that special attention should be paid to excavating the essence of the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, combining the promotion of excellent traditional culture with Marxist standpoints and methods, and unswervingly following The road of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Looking forward to the future, we will strengthen our cultural confidence, shoulder our mission, and work hard to create a new culture that belongs to our era and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation.


