Keeping pace with the times has a long history. 19 10 At the beginning of this year, Cai Yuanpei wrote the History of Ethics in China. In view of the situation that China's ideological and cultural circles clung to the remnants and stood still, Cai Yuanpei pointed out that "Western learning keeps pace with the times" by comparing Chinese and western cultures. He summarized the inspirational sayings such as "keep pace with the times", "keep pace with the times" and "keep pace with the times" scattered in China's ancient books as "keep pace with the times".

Keeping pace with the times is established as the content of the party's ideological line, which makes the party's ideological line present a distinct era. It is clear to the whole party that to comprehensively promote the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must grasp the changes of the times, keep up with the pace of the times, and always stand at the forefront of the times.

Adhering to the party's ideological line, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times, its essence is to understand, grasp and follow the objective law of things' development with innovative spirit and scientific attitude.

Keeping pace with the times strengthens the innovative connotation of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, and embodies the new requirements of the development and change of the times for all theories and work of the party to be creative.

To fully grasp the spiritual essence of keeping pace with the times, we must understand the dialectical unity relationship between keeping pace with the times and emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, and then understand the internal relationship of embodying the times, grasping the regularity and being creative.