| Hu Jintao’s discussions on emancipating the mind is an important part of the spirit of the Chinese Communists.Since the 16 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,the Chinese Communists,with Comrade Hu Jintao as the main representative,have held high the great banner of reform and opening up,insisted on emancipating the mind and forging ahead,led the people of the whole country to calmly respond to various challenges,implement the scientific concept of development,further promote socialist modernization,study new situations and solve new problems.Hu Jintao’s discussions on emancipating the mind is not without foundation,it draws on the reasonable core of Marx and Engels on emancipation of the mind;it absorbs Lenin’s important principles of adhering to the specific analysis of specific problems in theory and practice;it draw lessons from Mao Zedong’s experience in breaking the concept of superstition;it inherits the essence of Deng Xiaoping’s theory of emancipating the mind;it develops the spiritual essence of Jiang Zemin advancing with the times.Throughout Hu Jintao’s political career,from 1988 to 2012,from the local government to the central government,Hu Jintao’s discussion on emancipating the mind is constantly generated with the development of practice.Adhering to reform and opening up in Guizhou and Tibet,and emancipated the mind in light of local realities.During the period of central work,he focused on the new trend of world development and insisted on further emancipating the mind.From the 16 th to the 17 th National Congress,vigorously carried forward the spirit of seeking truth and pragmatism,continue to emancipate the mind.During the period from the 17 th to the 18 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,adhered to and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics is the key to emancipating the mind.Hu Jintao’s discussion on emancipating the mind is the product of the interaction of domestic and foreign social environment in the early 21 st century.It is the combination of the basic principles of Marxism and the concrete practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics.The spiritual essence of Hu Jintao’s exposition on emancipating the mind is a mental state and ideological style.It is the essential requirement of the Party ’s ideological line.It is an urgent need for deepening reform and opening up.It is an important magic weapon for the development of national undertakings.Hu Jintao on the emancipation of the mind discusses people-oriented as the value orientation;to seek truth from facts as a practical requirement;to take scientific development as the direction of action;to lead cadres as the key subject;to solve the problem as a strategic goal.Hu Jintao insists on emancipating the mind to study new situations and solve new problems,and has contributed practical and theoretical results to promoting the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.From the perspective of practical results,Hu Jintao has proposed to build an innovative country;construction of ’two-oriented’ society;coordinate regional development;comprehensively promote party building.From the perspective of theoretical results,Hu Jintao further enriched and expanded the party’s substantive requirements;it provides ideological guidance for scientific development;it gives a new magic weapon status to emancipate the mind;activate the innovative thinking of party members and cadres.Under the complex and changeable international and domestic situation,the opportunities and challenges faced by China’s development have changed.Based on the new historical starting point,we summarize the achievements and experiences of the socialist cause under the guidance of Hu Jintao’s discussion on emancipating the mind,which has important practical insights for implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.We must adhere to the ’four roads’,firmly win confidence and take the road of reform and opening up;adhere to the magic weapon of the times to take the road of scientific development;adhere to the principle of practice and take the road of scientific independent innovation;create a new road of Marxism in China in the new century. |
