Culture is the soul of a country and a nation,and an important force for the survival and development of a nation.The development of a country and the revival of a nation require great material strength as well as spiritual strength.Any real power in the world,its "strong" not only lies in its economic power,military power,but also lies in its national cultural strength.The 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has set the development goal of building a great modern socialist country,and cultural power is an important aspect of this.Since the 18 th National Congress,in light of domestic and International Development,Xi Jinping has made a series of important statements on cultural construction,they have made a series of important instructions in strengthening socialist ideological work,inheriting the nation’s fine traditional culture and enhancing cultural confidence.It Forms Xi Jinping’s thought of strengthening the country through culture and provides guiding ideology and guidelines for promoting socialist cultural construction in the new era.The article explains the meaning of Xi Jinping’s cultural power and combs through the historical thoughts on cultural construction,including Marx and Engels’ s cultural thoughts,Mao Zedong’s related discussions on culture and the cultural achievements of socialism with Chinese characteristics.This paper analyzes on the domestic and international challenges faced by the cultural construction of our country,and from the aspects of the Economic Society,the spiritual and cultural needs of the people,the traditional Chinese culture and the cultural exchanges of the world,and points outpoints out the opportunity of the times to construct a strong cultural country.The article analyses and sorts out Xi Jinping’s discourse on the idea of a culturally powerful country,and points out the main contents of Xi Jinping’s thought of a culturally powerful country,it includes five aspects: strong ideological cohesion and leading force,high national ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality,strong capacity for sustained innovation in cultural industries and cultural undertakings,strong cultural soft power,and prosperous development of socialist literature and art.this paper summarizes the four characteristics of this thought: Strong National Character,profound people character,distinct times character.Finally and outstanding innovation.the article expounds the contemporary value of Xi Jinping’s thought of strengthening the country through culture,and points out that this thought inherits and develops Marx and Engels’ s thought on culture,and further improves the theoretical system of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.It has important practical value for strengthening cultural confidence,improving national cultural accomplishment,strengthening national soft power and maintaining national cultural security.The most important innovation of this article is the analysis of the circumstances of the Times in which Xi Jinping’s idea of a strong country was formed,and the crisis and opportunity it faced were expounded from both the domestic situation and the international situation.This is of great significance to comprehensively and profoundly grasp the background of the Times in which Xi Jinping’s idea of strengthening the country through culture came into being. |