Chinese National Identity Building Under The Perspective Of Nation-State

The nation-state as a form of state evolution, which is essentially a system arrangement of ethnic groups identify with state and state guarantees ethnic groups. The People’s Republic of China is the nation-state form of the construction of China, and the Chinese nation is the main body of the construction of the Chinese nation-state, the founding of the people’s Republic of China marks Chinese nation really obtain state form, has become the national community of the state status, realized the unity of the nation and state. But that does not mean the Chinese nation status has been consolidated and established, in fact, from psychological aspect all ethnic groups fully integrated into the process of nation system is not over yet, the unity of the State hardware and the nation software integration requires further to coordinate and integrate, the nation-state needs to through the build of the Chinese nation’s national identity to enhance the Chinese state identity, safeguard state unity, increase the legitimacy of the state, to promote inter-ethnic political integration. In retrospect, the new Chinese in the construction of national identity symbol, promote national cultural imagination, pushing national prosperous development and safeguarding national interior equality and unity and other aspects of the national identity in the construction work has made significant achievements, simultaneously, accumulated valuable experience of the inter-ethnic identity and national identity of double building, the national identity and state identity of dual construction. But national identity is no easy task to build, our state want to successfully enhance the national consciousness of the Chinese nation, unite the national strength of the Chinese nation, achieve the national rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, consolidate national position of the Chinese nation, it needs not only to proceed from the perspective of the Chinese nation’s political sovereignty characteristic, history cultural characteristics, national body characteristics to build a strong Chinese nation identity system based, common interest basis, history cultural and symbols foundation, but also need to national cognition, national sentiment, national evaluation of construction as the Content guidelines, according to the national identity building laws to stimulate the imagination and creativity of the Chinese nation. observe the reality, China’s national environment and inter-ethnic relations to a new stage, national identity facing some stage features from politics, economy, culture, and theory, etc., we need to stand in the height of state governance and nationalism, adhere to the concept of inter-ethnic political integration, build a system of national identity mechanism to protect the national identity of the Chinese nation. Specifically, state needs to conduct overall design, from the perspective of national cultural symbol identity, national political system, national interests sharing mechanism, national socialization medium to improve the Chinese nation identity building, and enhance the Chinese nation’s cohesive force and sense of identity, to consolidate national position of the Chinese nation.