
文化是一个国家、一个民族的灵魂。文化自信是更基础、更广泛、更深厚的自信,是一个国家、一个民族发展中更基本、更深沉、更持久的力量。习近平总书记强调:“没有高度的文化自信,没有文化的繁荣兴盛,就没有中华民族伟大复兴。”坚定中国特色社会主义道路自信、理论自信、制度自信,说到底是要坚定文化自信。
独特的文化传统,独特的历史命运,独特的基本国情,注定了我们必然要走适合自己特点的发展道路。中国特色社会主义文化发展道路,揭示了我国文化发展规律,是推动社会主义文化繁荣兴盛的唯一正确道路。要发展中国特色社会主义文化,加强社会主义精神文明建设,激发全民族文化创新创造活力,建设社会主义文化强国。
发展中国特色社会主义文化,就是以马克思主义为指导,坚守中华文化立场,立足当代中国现实,结合当今时代条件,发展面向现代化、面向世界、面向未来的,民族的科学的大众的社会主义文化,推动社会主义精神文明和物质文明协调发展。要坚持为人民服务、为社会主义服务,坚持百花齐放、百家争鸣,坚持创造性转化、创新性发展,不断铸就中华文化新辉煌。
中国特色社会主义是精神文明和物质文明全面发展的社会主义。一个民族要实现复兴,既需要强大的物质力量,也需要强大的精神力量。只有物质文明建设和精神文明建设都搞好,国家物质力量和精神力量都增强,全国各族人民物质生活和精神生活都改善,中国特色社会主义事业才能顺利向前推进。在坚持以经济建设为中心、抓好物质文明建设的同时,必须锲而不舍、一以贯之抓好精神文明建设。
文化是最需要创新的领域。“不日新者必日退”。在人类发展的每一个重大历史关头,文化都能成为时代变迁、社会变革的先导。要自觉承担起举旗帜、聚民心、育新人、兴文化、展形象的使命任务,不断增强脚力、眼力、脑力、笔力,努力在实践创造中进行文化创造,在历史进步中实现文化进步。坚持守正创新,重点抓好理念创新、手段创新、基层工作创新,让一切文化创造源泉充分涌流,使中国特色社会主义文化始终反映时代精神、引领时代潮流。
【四个自信:建设社会主义文化强国高端访谈】
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Cultural confidence is a more fundamental, extensive, and profound form of confidence, and it is a more basic, profound, and enduring force in the development of a country and a nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Without a high level of cultural confidence and without the prosperity of culture, there can be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." To strengthen confidence in the path, theory, and system of socialism with Chinese characteristics ultimately means to strengthen cultural confidence. Our unique cultural traditions, unique historical destinies, and unique basic national conditions determine that we must follow a development path that suits our own characteristics. The path of developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics reveals the law of China's cultural development and is the only correct path to promote the prosperity of socialist culture. We should develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, and build a country with a strong socialist culture. To develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, we must be guided by Marxism, maintain our stance in Chinese culture, base ourselves on the reality of contemporary China, and take into account the conditions of the current era. We should develop a socialist culture that is national, scientific, and popular, oriented towards modernization, the world, and the future, and promote the coordinated development of socialist spiritual and material civilizations. We must adhere to serving the people and socialism, the principle of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture to continuously create new glories for Chinese culture. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a socialism in which both spiritual and material civilizations are fully developed. For a nation to achieve rejuvenation, it needs both strong material and spiritual strength. Only when both the material and spiritual civilization construction are well - done, the national material and spiritual strength are enhanced, and the material and spiritual lives of people of all ethnic groups across the country are improved can the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics advance smoothly. While adhering to the central task of economic development and focusing on material civilization construction, we must persevere in strengthening spiritual civilization construction. Culture is the field that most needs innovation. "Those who do not innovate daily will surely decline daily." At every major historical juncture in human development, culture can become the forerunner of social changes and historical transitions. We should consciously undertake the mission of holding high the banner, rallying the people, cultivating new - era individuals, developing culture, and presenting a good national image. We should continuously improve our ability to observe, think, write, and act on the ground, strive to create cultural achievements in practice, and promote cultural progress in historical advancement. We should adhere to upholding the correct orientation while innovating, focusing on innovation in concepts, means, and grassroots work, so as to let all sources of cultural creation flow fully and ensure that socialist culture with Chinese characteristics always reflects the spirit of the times and leads the trend of the times. [High - level Interview on Building a Country with a Strong Socialist Culture: Four - Spheres of Confidence]

