Building a modern country in Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a process of all-round development of economy, politics and culture, as well as a process of all-round construction of material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization. Together, they constitute three basic goals for the all-round development of China's socialist modernization.
(1) Socialist culture is an important feature of socialism.
1, Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture.
Socialist society is an all-round development society. It can not only liberate and develop productive forces through its own reform, but also create a prosperous economy, meet people's spiritual and cultural needs and create an advanced, colorful and prosperous culture that is more in line with the development direction of human society. The construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture is to develop a national, scientific and popular socialist culture facing modernization, the world and the future, with Marxism as the guide and cultivating citizens with ideals, morality, culture and discipline as the goal.
Deng Xiaoping emphasized that the socialist country we want to build should have not only a high level of material civilization, but also a high level of spiritual civilization. Only when the two civilizations are well developed can Socialism with Chinese characteristics be realized. Modernization must adhere to the all-round development of economic, political and cultural modernization. In this respect, economy is the foundation, the material basis of politics and culture, politics is the guarantee of economy and culture, culture is the reflection of economy and politics, and culture reacts on economy and politics. Economy, politics and culture interact and influence each other. Without any aspect, socialist social modernization can't be realized.
2. Socialist culture is one of the remarkable signs that distinguishes socialist society from all other social systems.
Socialist culture is a new advanced culture that meets the needs of the socialist economic foundation and critically inherits all spiritual and cultural achievements of human society. This is one of the remarkable signs that socialism is different from all other social systems. Mainly reflected in, first of all, socialist culture is based on socialist public ownership, and it is a culture that serves the people and socialism; Secondly, socialist culture is a scientific culture guided by Marxist scientific world outlook and methodology; Finally, socialist culture is the representative of advanced culture, which critically inherits and develops all the outstanding achievements of human social culture in the past and is a new stage of human cultural development.
(2) Socialist culture is an important goal of socialist construction.
1, socialist culture is a banner of socialism.
The direction of cultural construction is related to the big question of what flag a political party raises and what road it takes. China * * * production party holds high the banner of China's advanced culture. Building and carrying forward the new socialist culture and cleaning up the decadent culture left over from the old society and infiltrated from abroad have greatly liberated and inspired the broad masses of the people ideologically and spiritually, and formed great centripetal force and cohesion among the whole party and the people of the whole country.
Strengthen the construction of socialist culture, ensure the socialist direction of economic construction, and consolidate, develop and improve the socialist economic system. Without socialist ideology, there will be no consolidation, development and perfection of the socialist economic system, and there will be no modernization of socialist economic construction.
Strengthen the construction of socialist culture and promote the development of socialist democracy. The construction of socialist democratic politics is an important part of socialist modernization. To strengthen the construction of socialist democratic politics, we must strengthen the cultivation of democratic thoughts and consciousness, and strengthen the cultivation of legal thoughts and consciousness. Only by strengthening the construction of socialist culture can we improve the scientific and cultural quality of the broad masses of the people and lay a good foundation for improving democratic awareness and legal awareness.
2. Socialist modernization should have a prosperous economy and a prosperous culture.
Poverty is not socialism, and neither is spiritual and cultural poverty. Socialist cultural construction, like economic construction, is in an important position. Since the reform and opening up, our party has always attached importance to the construction of socialist culture and placed it in a very important strategic position.
Deng Xiaoping once pointed out that while building a high level of material civilization, we should improve the scientific and cultural level of the whole nation, develop a noble and colorful cultural life and build a high level of socialist spiritual civilization. Grasping the construction of material civilization and spiritual civilization on the one hand has always been an important policy of our party in leading reform, opening up and modernization. The overall layout of China's modernization is to take economic construction as the center, unswervingly carry out economic system reform, unswervingly carry out political system reform, and unswervingly strengthen spiritual civilization construction. They cooperate and promote each other, jointly develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics's economy, politics and culture, and build a prosperous, strong, democratic and civilized socialist modern country.
Second, the construction of socialist culture is an important guarantee for the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Strengthening the construction of socialist culture is to unite the will and strength of the people of the whole country, strive for the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and provide strong ideological guarantee, spiritual motivation and intellectual support for reform, opening up and modernization.
(1) Socialist culture provides ideological guarantee for socialist construction.
By adhering to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents and serving the people and socialism, we can ideologically and politically ensure that the reform, opening up and modernization drive will advance along the socialist direction. Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture is an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, an important force to unite and inspire people of all ethnic groups in China, and an ideological guarantee for socialist modernization.
If we shake or give up the guiding position of Marxism, the whole party and the people of the whole country will lose the same political direction. If the guiding ideology is diversified, it will lead to ideological confusion and social unrest. Adhering to the guiding position of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory is the ideological guarantee for our Party to represent the orientation of advanced culture and strengthen the construction of socialist culture.
(2) Socialist culture provides spiritual impetus for socialist construction.
The prosperity of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation must have strong national cohesion and spiritual motivation. Socialism with Chinese characteristics's modernization drive and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation need to unite the strength of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country and make joint efforts. It is an important historical mission of socialist cultural construction to carry forward national spirit, cultivate national cohesion and provide spiritual power for socialist modernization.
A certain culture is a reflection of the economic and political ideology of a certain society, and at the same time it has a great reaction to the economic and political development. Advanced culture is a powerful spiritual force to promote the all-round development of social economy and politics, and a powerful force to unite and unite the people. To strengthen the construction of socialist culture, we must persist in arming people with scientific theories, guiding people with correct public opinion, shaping people with noble spirit and inspiring people with excellent works. At present, to strengthen the construction of socialist culture and enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation, the focus is to carry forward patriotism, collectivism and the main theme of socialism.
Patriotism is the deepest feeling for one's own country that has been gradually formed for thousands of years, which is manifested in loyalty and love for the motherland and dedication to the independence and prosperity of the motherland. Patriotism is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation and a banner of China people's United struggle. Under the new historical conditions, carrying forward the spirit of patriotism is of great practical significance for inspiring the national spirit, rallying the strength of the whole nation, inspiring the fighting spirit of all the people and realizing the modernization of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The main body of our country is socialism. Patriotism means sticking to the socialist direction, and patriotism means loving socialism. Adhering to the socialist orientation and unifying patriotism and love of socialism are the essential characteristics of patriotism in the new period. It is necessary to carry out patriotic education deeply and persistently, help people realize that only socialism can save China and only socialism can develop China, and carry forward the national spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-improvement in the whole society, with the greatest glory of contributing all our strength to build and defend the socialist motherland and the greatest shame of damaging national interests and national dignity.
Socialist collectivism is the most basic principle and code of conduct that runs through socialist moral norms. Socialist collectivism is based on the public ownership economy, and its function is to adjust the interest contradictions and relations among individuals, collectives and countries, so as to make them develop harmoniously, thus promoting the development of socialist economy and society. Collectivism, as the principle of socialist moral construction, plays a very important role in cultivating people's overall concept, overall consciousness and dedication, and in rallying collective wisdom and strength and forging ahead in unity.
(3) Socialist culture provides intellectual support for socialist construction.
Socialist culture provides intellectual support for socialist modernization, mainly in vigorously developing education and science. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and education is the foundation. The competition of comprehensive national strength of countries is mainly the competition of economic and scientific strength, and also the competition of talents. The development of modernization depends on education and technology.
1, vigorously develop education.
Education is a kind of social practice that human beings exert influence on the educated purposefully, planned and organized, so that they can master the necessary knowledge and skills, develop their body and mind and improve their quality. The purpose of education is to serve the economy and politics of a certain society. Nowadays, the key to the competition of comprehensive national strength in the world has changed from military competition, economic competition and scientific and technological competition to education competition and talent competition. A century-long plan, education-oriented. Education declines, national strength declines, education flourishes and national strength is strong.
Deng Xiaoping has always attached importance to education, giving priority to education in an important strategic position. Compared with developed countries and some developing countries, education in China is still in a relatively backward state. Education must be placed in a strategic position of giving priority to development. It is necessary to mobilize and give play to the enthusiasm of all sectors of society and vigorously develop education. Develop various forms of education, optimize the educational structure, rationally allocate educational resources, and improve teaching quality and school-running efficiency. In this way, on the basis of educational development, we can turn China's huge population resources into talent resources, turn the heavy population burden into development advantages and provide strong intellectual support for socialist modernization.
2. Vigorously develop scientific undertakings.
Science is a theoretical system of knowledge about the laws of nature, society and human thinking, and it is the crystallization of human exploration of the laws of the objective world. It includes natural science, social science and human thinking science. In all fields of production and life in modern society, the proportion of science and technology is increasing, and the content of science and technology is getting higher and higher. Deng Xiaoping attached great importance to the cause of science and creatively put forward that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" and pointed out that "the key to the four modernizations is the modernization of science and technology". Without modern science and technology, it is impossible to build modern agriculture, modern industry and modern national defense. Without the rapid development of science and technology, there can be no rapid development of the national economy. "(Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Volume 2, Page 86, People's Publishing House, 1993. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council formulated the scientific development plan, put forward the principles, policies and strategic deployment of scientific and technological work, and established the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, which laid a solid foundation for scientific development.
Since the reform and opening up, China's science and technology have developed rapidly, but overall, there is still a big gap between China's science and technology and the world's advanced level. It is necessary to raise the whole society's awareness of the importance of scientific and technological progress and support the development of scientific and technological undertakings with practical actions. Economic construction must rely on science and technology, and scientific and technological work must face economic construction, strive to climb the peak of science and technology, and improve the ability of scientific and technological innovation. The construction of socialist culture should attach importance to carrying forward the scientific spirit, popularizing scientific knowledge, establishing scientific concepts, advocating scientific methods and improving the scientific quality of the whole nation. Actively develop philosophy and social sciences, eliminate ignorance, oppose feudal superstitious activities, adhere to the guiding position of Marxism in China's ideological field, explore the development law of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and enhance our ability to understand and transform the world.
Third, building a socialist culture is an inherent requirement to enhance China's comprehensive national strength.
In today's world, culture, economy and politics blend with each other, and the position and role of culture in the competition of comprehensive national strength is becoming more and more prominent. Cultural power is deeply rooted in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of the nation. It is the internal motive force and requirement to enhance China's comprehensive national strength.
(1) Socialist culture is an important symbol of China's comprehensive national strength.
1, the competition between talents and people's quality has become the basic content of comprehensive national strength competition.
The so-called comprehensive national strength is the sum of all kinds of strengths and conditions that a country has for its survival, development and external influence. It includes not only economic, political, scientific and technological, military, diplomatic, cultural and spiritual strengths, but also basic strengths such as geographical environment, natural resources and population. Comprehensive national strength includes both natural factors and social factors, including both material factors and spiritual factors. It is the sum of various factors and fields, and it is also the unity of material strength and spiritual strength. Comprehensive national strength is actually national strength, which refers to the comprehensive strength of a country.
In the past, the competition of comprehensive national strength was often the competition of resources. However, in the contemporary world, except for a few strategic resources, the status of general material resources in national strength is declining, while the role and status of talents and people's quality as a kind of human resources are rising. To realize socialist modernization, we must rely on modern education and cultivate talents who master modern science and technology. The modernization of society includes not only the modernization of material production and system, but also the modernization of people. Modern people are the main body of material production modernization and system modernization, and human modernization can only be cultivated through modern education.
Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "By the centenary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China's economy may be close to that of developed countries. One of the reasons for this is that during this period, we are fully capable of promoting education, improving the scientific and technological level of China and cultivating hundreds of millions of talents at all levels. The strength, national strength and economic development potential of our country depend more and more on the quantity and quality of intellectuals. As a big country with a population of one billion, it has developed education and great advantages in human resources, which is unmatched by any country. With the talent advantage and the advanced socialist system, our goal will certainly be achieved. " (Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Volume 3, page 120. Giving priority to the development of science and technology and education, and shifting economic construction to the track of relying on scientific and technological progress and improving the quality of workers are important developments of the guiding ideology of socialist construction in China.
In China's socialist society, people's modernization needs not only open consciousness, market consciousness and competitive consciousness, but also correct ideals, beliefs and values, patriotism, collectivism and socialist ideology and morality, which can resist the erosion of decadent ideas of capitalism and feudalism. Only in this way can we take the initiative in the new scientific and technological revolution and economic and political competition. Without education and human modernization, it is impossible for China to enter the advanced ranks in the world.
2. The strength and level of science and technology is an important embodiment of a country's comprehensive national strength.
The combination of modern science and technology and economy is getting closer and closer, and the contribution rate of science and technology to economy is getting higher and higher. Major breakthroughs in science and technology can often enhance the competitiveness of a product, and sometimes even drive or form a new industry, providing the foundation and motivation for a country's economic, political and cultural development. Therefore, the competition of science and technology has become the commanding height of international competition. Whoever occupies it can take the initiative in international competition.
In today's world, the competition of comprehensive national strength is increasingly fierce in various fields in different ways. Only when we have a clear understanding of this kind of competition, carefully study its situation and characteristics, proceed from the reality of China, do a good job in socialist cultural construction and accumulate intellectual resources, can we be invincible in the fierce world competition.
(2) Strengthen the construction of socialist culture and strive to enhance China's comprehensive national strength.
The socialist cultural construction we are carrying out is a cultural construction centered on economic construction, a cultural construction that adheres to the Four Cardinal Principles and reform and opening up, and a cultural construction that inherits and develops fine traditions, fully embodies the spirit of the times, is based on our own country and faces the world. Strengthening the construction of socialist culture can improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of our people, enhance the centripetal force and cohesion of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, and form a powerful cultural force.
The so-called cultural power, in essence, is the reaction of culture to the economic base and superstructure, and finally it is the promotion of productive forces. Cultural power is mainly manifested in the following aspects: theoretical guidance, ideal cohesion, moral education, public opinion guidance, scientific and technological creativity, law and discipline integration, artistic edification and so on. They reflect economic politics from different sides and in different ways, and apply them to economic politics. They complement each other, penetrate each other and form a kind of "cultural power" together, which plays a huge role in economic and social development. This cultural power is undoubtedly an important part of comprehensive national strength. Therefore, strengthening the construction of socialist culture and constantly enhancing cultural power will certainly further improve China's comprehensive national strength.