Research On Xi Jinping's Strategic Thought On Cultural Power Construction

Entering a new era,China has become the world's second largest economy,and its cultural development has been showing great vitality.However,compared with the rapid development of economy,the development of its culture is still relatively slow.From the perspective of the cultural pattern of the world,it is still the West that is strong while China is relatively weak,and cultural hegemony still exists.Cultural prosperity and cultural strength make the country thriving and powerful.Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC,from the strategic perspective of bringing about a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,Xi Jinping,the General Secretary of CPC Central Committee,has delivered a series of important speeches circled around cultural power construction,put forward a series of new views,new judgments and new requirements,and has formed Xi Jinping's strategic thought on cultural power construction.Looking back upon Xi Jinping's growth process,we can find that it is his reading habit,strong cultural understandings,and professional background in Marxist theory and ideological and political education that makes Xi have a solid theoretical ability to form the strategic thought of cultural power construction.The whetting years of working in the countryside as an educated youth got Xi a profound understanding of the mass,promoting Xi's people-centered cultural construction concept.The revolutionary gene in the blood let Xi have a strong sense of reform and innovation in the process of boosting the cultural power construction.The edification of Xi's family tradition is an important source of Xi's spiritual growth.Xi Jinping's strategic thought on cultural power construction is unlike water without a source,or a tree without roots.Exploring its origin,we can find Xi Jinping's strategic thought on cultural power construction has abundant theoretical resources.It deeply absorbs the essence of Marxist classical writers' cultural construction thoughts,while assimilating and inheriting the valuable spiritual wealth of excellent gene from Chinese traditional culture,red gene from revolutionary,as well as the precious spiritual values on cultural construction from Chinese Communists such as Mao Zedong,Deng Xiaoping,Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.In addition,before being elected as the General Secretary of CPC Central Committee,Xi's cultural exploration and practice in Fujian and Zhejiang also provided rich experience materials for the formation and development of Xi's strategic thought on the cultural power construction.With abundant connotation and profound thought,Xi Jinping's strategic thought on cultural power construction is condensed from the history and is broadening in the new era.On the basis of tracing its origin,from the three aspects of strategic principle,strategic layout and strategic initiatives,this Paper constructs the theoretical system of Xi Jinping's strategic thought on cultural power construction.This Paper puts forward that "guided by Marxism,centered on the people,nourished by excellent traditional culture,driven by innovation,oriented by openness,and based on talents" are the six strategic principles for Xi Jinping's advance in the cultural power construction;"carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture,fostering Socialist core values,attaching importance to ideological work,improving the country's cultural soft power,upholding cultural self-confidence and telling the China story well" constitute the main strategic layout of Xi Jinping's efforts to build a cultural power;"promoting the thought of Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people,focusing on cultivating new people in the era who are responsible for national rejuvenation,strengthening ideological and ethical construction,prospering and developing Socialist literature and art,and promoting the development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries" are the important strategic measures firmly implemented by Xi Jinping in boosting the cultural power construction.Xi Jinping's strategic thought on cultural power construction is an important part of Xi Jinping's thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era,is the scientific guide and action principle for building China a cultural power in the new era,providing intellectual and spiritual support for the decisive efforts to realize the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation,and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solution to the development of world culture.