Understand The Profound Meaning Of President Xi’s Congratulatory Letter From Three Dimensions
Nov 27, 2023
“China Studies is the study of historical China as well as the study of contemporary China.” On November 24, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the World Congress of China Studies·Shanghai Forum. In his congratulatory letter, President Xi pointed out that only by tracing the origins of history can we understand the real world, only by tracing the foundation of culture can we identify today's China, and only by mutual learning among civilizations can we achieve common progress.
As China increasingly moves to the center of the world stage, how to understand ancient China, understand modern China, and grasp future China on a deeper level is not only an eternal concern of the Chinese people, but also a long-term pursuit of experts and scholars from all over the world. CCTV's "Lianbo+" allows you to understand the profound thoughts in Chairman Xi's congratulatory letter from three dimensions.
Only by tracing back to the origins of history can we understand the real world. Exploring the origins of civilization provides an important source for us to understand China from its long historical continuity and the extensive and profound Chinese civilization. It provides strong support for us to enhance our historical consciousness and strengthen our cultural confidence.
On October 28, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Yin Ruins located on the north and south banks of the Huan River in the northwest suburbs of Anyang City, Henan Province. The General Secretary entered the Yin Ruins Museum and carefully observed the unearthed cultural relics such as bronzes, jades, oracle bone inscriptions. He pointed out that the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed from the Yin Ruins preserved for us writings dating back 3,000 years and pushed forward the history of Chinese letters by about 1,000 years. He emphasized that excellent traditional culture should be better inherited through cultural relic excavation, research and protection.
On July 26, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the new Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan. In the exhibition hall, the General Secretary frequently stopped to see the front view, and walked slowly around the display cabinets to inspect the details of the cultural relics. He said with emotion: "After seeing it, the national pride doubled, five thousand years of Chinese civilization, and I am even more looking forward to more." The discovery and excavation of the long-lasting Chinese civilization.”
In 2002, the Chinese Civilization Origin Discovery Project was officially launched. After more than 20 years of continuous efforts by several generations of scholars, the research results of major projects such as the Chinese Civilization Discovery Project have demonstrated my country's millions of years of human history, 10,000 years of cultural history, and more than 5,000 years of civilization history. The Chinese Civilization Discovery Project proposes a definition of civilization and identifies China's plan to enter a civilized society, making original contributions to the study of the origins of world civilization.
On March 15, 2023, President Xi Jinping proposed the global civilization initiative at the high-level dialogue between the Communist Party of China and world political parties. He pointed out that today, when the future and destiny of all countries are closely linked, tolerance, coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in promoting the modernization process of human society and prospering the garden of world civilizations.
A series of home diplomacy such as the Shanghai International Import Expo, the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, and the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations tell the world China's story and introduce China's experience; the Beijing Winter Olympics, Hangzhou Asian Games, and Chengdu Universiade amazed the world and showed it to the world. Chinese culture embraces all rivers and embraces the world with its grace and magnanimity.
Today's China sings the Chinese story with the voice of culture, builds value consensus with the soul of culture, and promotes the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind through mutual learning among civilizations. The time-honored excellent traditional Chinese culture has further promoted the harmonious coexistence of Chinese civilization and the civilizations of other countries in the new era.
