The cultural and national fortunes are intertwined, and the cultural context is connected to the national context. Since the 19th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward the visionary proposal that firming cultural confidence and raising the level of cultural openness is an inevitable requirement for promoting the development and prosperity of socialist culture and building a socialist cultural power, and has emphasized that firming cultural confidence and raising the level of cultural openness should be achieved by means of cultural exchanges with foreign countries as an important way of enhancing the country's soft power of culture and winning the initiative in the competition for the comprehensive national power in the international arena, so as to realize the Chinese Dream of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation.
As a country that owns 5000 years of excellent culture and long civilizational history, China has rich and colorful cultural resources, especially the resources in ethnic minorities is the advantages for China to launch cultural diplomat. Since the reform and opening up, with the rapid growth of Chinese comprehensive power and the raise of international status, the eager for the world to know more about China is getting stronger and stronger, and they want to understand and know China in different aspects in-depth.
Chinese classic culture includes red culture, Long March culture, Great Wall culture, Yangtze River culture, Yellow River culture, Grand Canal culture, folk culture, intangible heritage culture, traditional Chinese medicine culture, tea culture, wine culture, ceramic culture, silk culture, clothing culture, calligraphy culture, painting culture, food culture, health culture, folk music culture, vinegar culture, geographical indication culture, and so on, which have been formed by the Chinese nation in the past five thousand years, and have both visible and invisible cultural attributes.
Classic Chinese culture is the soul of the nation and the spiritual sustenance of society. Whether it is the building of a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation or the construction of a socialist core value system, culture is ultimately the carrier. Classical culture, as the backbone of it, will always be the foundation of civilization, the soil of innovation and the driving force of development. All spiritual fruits and economic products are nurtured, grown and gradually matured on the basis of classical culture. Therefore, it is always our noble responsibility and sacred mission to respect the classics, pass them on, innovate them and defend them.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Thought of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will promote Chinese classical culture to the world and strengthen exchanges and learning, unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th CPC General Assembly, and uphold the purpose of realizing the great "Chinese Dream" insist on using socialist core values to lead cultural construction, strengthen cultural self-confidence, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding Chinese culture, deepen humanistic exchanges between China and foreign countries, develop advanced socialist culture, and continue to forge a new splendor of Chinese culture, actively carry out the development strategy for a "strong socialist culture", actively participate in the construction of the national public cultural service system, and flourish cultural undertakings and cultural industries, continuously improve the soft power of national culture, and enhance the influence of Chinese culture. In the new era, we should become faithful inheritors and promoters of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, take up the new cultural mission, create culture in practice, realize cultural progress in the progress of history, strive to create good social benefits, and work hard to write a new chapter in the new era!