The Beijing Daily (October 24) published an article by Wang Xuebin, a Professor of the
Department of Literature and History Teaching and Research of the Party School of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), and the
Chief Expert of the Central Party School's innovative project "Research on Chinese Civilization
and Chinese Roads", captioned "Deep understanding of "promoting cultural self-confidence
and self-improvement". It highlighted the important role of culture, saying "Culture is the soul
of a country and a nation, as well as the soul of national governance. In his report to the 20th
National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly
stated that we should promote cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, and create a new
brilliance of socialist culture, adhere to letting a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of
thought contend, adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, take the core
values of socialism as the guide, develop advanced socialist culture, carry forward
revolutionary culture, inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture, meet the growing spiritual
and cultural needs of the people, and consolidate the whole party". It said "From now on, the
central task of the Communist Party of China is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups
in the country to build a powerful modern socialist country in an all-round way, achieve the
goal of the second century of struggle, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of
the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernisation. There is no doubt that if the development
path of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics is not followed and cultural selfconfidence is not enhanced, there will be no prosperity and development of socialist culture
and no socialist modernisation. Therefore, only by placing cultural construction in the process
of realising the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, in the process of promoting Chinesestyle modernisation, in the process of coordinating all aspects of the party and the state in all
fields, and in the process of creating new brilliance of socialist culture, can we make full use
of its role and achieve its goals". The article added that "To implement new development
concepts, build a new development pattern, and promote high-quality development, culture is
an important fulcrum. We must further develop and expand the cultural industry." It stressed
that "culture is an important soft power" and "Stories provide lasting and profound spiritual
power for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind".
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