The road to self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, and institutional self-confidence in the road to strengthening socialism with Chinese characteristics is, in the final analysis, firm cultural confidence. Culture reflects deep spiritual pursuit and persistence. Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader, and deeper confidence. It is a more basic, deeper, and more lasting force. Strengthening cultural self-confidence is related to the rise and fall of the national power, cultural security, and the independence of the national spirit. Not only should there be a firm road, theory, and system self-confidence, but also a firm cultural confidence.
A firm culture and self-confidence cannot be separated from the recognition and application of the history of the Chinese nation. In every historical period, the Chinese nation has left innumerable monumental works. The achievements made by the Chinese nation are so brilliant that the Chinese nation has a culturally confident attitude. We should feel extremely proud of this and should feel extremely confident about it. The excellent traditional Chinese culture bred in the development of civilization over 5,000 years, the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture bred in the great struggle of the party and the people, and the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, represent the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation. By vigorously carrying forward the socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, strengthening cultural self-confidence, and strengthening the recognition of Chinese culture can we enhance the recognition of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We can only follow our own path. With a deep historical background, it has extremely strong forward momentum.
Culture is an important force for the survival and development of the nation. Since the party’s 18th National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to the building of socialist culture and has convened important conferences such as the national conference on propaganda and ideological work. Comrade Xi Jinping has delivered an important speech and has given many directions on cultural construction and ideological fields. fundamental and global issues are deployed. Over the past five years, great achievements have been made in the building of socialist culture. The mainstream ideology has been consolidated and developed. The main melody has become louder, positive energy has become stronger, and the awareness of the position has increased significantly. “Xi Jinping’s excerpts on the construction of socialist culture” carefully reflects the important ideas of Comrade Xi Jinping on socialist cultural construction and the importance of profound cultural understanding and ideological work in the new situation. It also strengthens cultural confidence and accelerates the construction of society. It is of great guiding significance for a culturally-strong country to realize the goal of “two hundred years of struggle” and realize the Chinese dream of a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Prospering socialist literature and art, developing cultural undertakings and cultural industries, raising the country’s cultural soft power, and telling Chinese stories well are important tasks in building a socialist cultural country. Promote the overall prosperity of cultural undertakings and the rapid development of cultural industries. Without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there will be no socialist modernization.
Comrade Xi Jinping’s rich expositions on the construction of socialist culture profoundly answer a series of major issues of cultural construction under the new historical conditions, embodying our party’s strategic thinking and scientific understanding of the law of the development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, to promote cultural development. It indicates the direction of progress and provides fundamental compliance. More firmly establish the “four consciousnesses” and firm “four confidences”, adhere to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, promote the great development and prosperity of socialist culture, continue to create new glories in Chinese culture, and make the Chinese people more confident, A more self-reliant gesture stands in the forest of the nations of the world.