Hard power refers to explicit strength, which refers to a country's economic strength, military strength and scientific and technological strength; Popular hard power refers to tangible material strength. Soft power refers to the intangible influence released by a country relying on the attraction of political system, the appeal of cultural values and the affinity of national image.

2. Different characteristics:

Hard power can prove that soft power cannot be proved by matter.

A person's comprehensive strength can be divided into hard strength and soft strength. Hard power is tangible, while soft power is intangible. Hard power is a provable ability, such as academic qualifications and skill certificates, which reflects the level of moral character. Soft power refers to temporarily immeasurable abilities, such as thinking ability, communication ability, expression ability, cultural literacy, learning ability, teamwork ability and so on. This is the embodiment of the level of self-cultivation.

3, including different content:

For a country, hard power can include basic resources (such as land area, population and natural resources), military strength, economic strength and scientific and technological strength. Soft power includes a country's culture, values, social system and other factors that affect its development potential and attractiveness.

4, the difficulty of ascension is different:

In a sense, the promotion of a country's soft power is more difficult than its hard power. With the promotion of economic hard power, the "invisible hand" of the market can develop strongly.

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