Advanced Socialist Culture

The advanced socialist culture is the ideological and spiritual banner of Marxist political parties. It is guided by Marxism and takes the core values of socialism as the soul. It is a national, scientific, and popular culture oriented towards the modernization, the world, and the future. The advanced socialist culture is rooted in the excellent Chinese traditional culture, formed and developed in the great practice of our Party uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups in the country to carry out revolution, construction and reform. It represents the trend of the times and the requirements of historical development, and occupies a leading position among diverse cultural concepts and social thoughts. The advanced socialist culture closely focuses on achieving the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the requirements of building a harmonious socialist society, promotes the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and establishes a new concept of cultural development, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, blazing new trail, continuously satisfying the increasing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, improving the ideological, moral, scientific and cultural qualities of the whole nation, and promoting the all-round development of people and the overall progress of society.

In contemporary China, the advanced socialist culture represented by the Communist Party of China is based on the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, focuses on the forefront of the world’s scientific and cultural development, and continuously develops a healthy, progressive and colorful socialist culture with Chinese style and Chinese characteristics. Since the founding of New China, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh CPC Central Committee, Comrade Deng Xiaoping conscientiously summarized the problems in the exploration of China’s socialist road, combined with the basic principles of Marxism, put forward the great theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and formed a complete scientific system that penetrates philosophy, political economy, scientific socialism and other fields, and covers economics, politics, science and technology, education, culture, ethnicity, military, diplomacy, united front, Party building, etc., which is an advanced culture that conforms to China’s national conditions and represents the fundamental interests of the Party and the people. The “Decision on Several Major Issues in Deepening the Reform of the Cultural System and Promoting the Great Development and Prosperity of Socialist Culture” adopted at the 6th Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee, fully recognized the historic significance and necessity of actively promoting the great development and prosperity of socialist advanced culture, and put forward the goals and requirements of adhering to the development path of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics and striving to build a country with a strong socialist culture. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the construction of advanced socialist culture, emphasized the excavation and interpretation of Chinese excellent traditional culture, established a people-centered work-oriented thinking, and continued to promote the reform and innovation of advanced socialist culture.

The advanced socialist culture is a powerful spiritual support for China's economic and social development and an important source of national cohesion and centripetal force. As a value concept, it shapes people’s ways of thinking and behavioral norms, and forms a common moral foundation in the whole society; as an ideal and belief, it indicates the ideals and goals that people strive for; as a spiritual bond, it unifies people’s thinking, maintains national unity, and safeguards national stability.

The construction of advanced socialist culture has a great stimulating and promoting effect on promoting the national spirit and forming national cohesion. The excellent Chinese traditional culture has cultivated the national character and patriotism such as industriousness and stamina, frugality in household management, and defying brutal suppression, and has played an important role in the development, progress, stability and unity of the Chinese nation historically. At the moment, the realization of the Chinese Dream for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, is also inseparable from the cohesion and motivation role of advanced culture. The construction of socialist advanced culture is the leading project of building a country with a strong socialist culture. The construction of advanced socialist culture is of great and far-reaching significance for winning new victories in building a well-off society in all respects and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The construction of socialist advanced culture is an important guarantee for promoting scientific development and promoting social harmony. Similarly, the construction of advanced socialist culture is also a strategic choice for safeguarding national cultural security and enhancing national cultural soft power and the international influence of Chinese culture.