Mao Zedong’s Thought On Cultural Constructionand Its Realistic Enlightenment

Cultural prosperity leads to national prosperity,while cultural strength leads to national strength.The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that in order to comprehensively build a socialist modernized country,we must adhere to the path of cultural development with Chinese characteristics and build a socialist cultural power.The CPC has attached great importance to the construction of leadership culture since its establishment.In the great practice of leading China’s revolution and construction,Mao Zedong made many useful explorations in cultural construction,and formed a set of scientific,systematic and rich cultural construction thoughts.Its main contents include the important position of cultural construction,guiding ideology and leadership,goal direction,principles and methods,and these contents highlight its adherence to the unity of people and class,inheritance and innovation The distinctive feature of the unity of practicality and scientificity has played a very guiding role in the specific practice of our party’s leadership in developing education,fully leveraging the important role of intellectuals,and actively carrying out the party’s news and public opinion struggle and external communication work.Since entering the new era,China’s cultural construction has shown a vivid scene of vigorous development and greater prosperity.However,with the development of the economy and the deepening of openness to the outside world,China’s cultural construction still faces problems such as the increasing spiritual and cultural needs of the people,the continuous invasion of foreign cultures,the promotion of discourse hegemony by Western countries,the insufficient international discourse power of China,and the need to improve cultural soft power.Therefore,deep excavation of the rich treasure contained in Mao Zedong’s thought on cultural construction will help solve the difficulties and challenges encountered inChina’s cultural construction at present,adhere to the development direction of socialism with Chinese characteristics for cultural construction in the new era,adhere to the value orientation of Serve the People,promote the popularization of Marxism in contemporary China,enhance the influence of the dissemination of Chinese civilization,and promote the building of a socialist cultural power,It has important practical significance and profound historical significance.