The Chinese civilization, extensive and profound, and with a long history behind it, has demonstrated the cultural deposits of China’s path, cultural foundation of China’s spirit, and cultural source of Chinese values as well as represented cultural connotations of the Chinese Dream. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Comrade Xi Jinping has delivered a series of impressive remarks on carrying forward Chinese culture with far-sight vision and profound connotations.
Comrade Xi Jinping said, “There are no two identical leaves in the world. A country or a nation must know who it is, where it is from and where does it go. When figuring these questions out, it is obliged to firmly forge ahead towards the goal.” Standing at a new starting point of national rejuvenation, as long as we fully absorb the nutrition of Chinese civilization and firm up our confidence and resolve to follow the path, the great Chinese Dream is sure to come true.
Without carrying forward and prospering culture, the Chinese Dream will not come true. We must promote the creative evolution and development of fine traditional Chinese culture to display a glamorous Chinese culture.
The prosperity of a country is always supported by its splendid culture. The prosperity and development of Chinese civilization is an important part of a stronger national soft power, and a requisite to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Meanwhile, it is also an indispensable part of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as well as cultural connotation of the Chinese Dream.
Comrade Xi Jinping said, “The realization of the Chinese Dream demands a balanced development between cultural and ethical progress and material progress. Without cultural inheritance and development, the Chinese Dream will not come true.”
To inherit and carry forward Chinese civilization, we are obliged to inherit it first. Comrade Mao Tse-tong once said, “ Today’s China is developed from history. We should summarize and inherit the treasured history from Confucius to Sun Yat-sen rather than to segregate it as we uphold historicism.”
The purpose of inheritance is to obtain enlightenment and take the essence. It is noted that Comrade Xi Jinping has quoted numerous historical stories and poetry in his remarks and articles from Chinese civilization since the 18th CPC National .Congress. Moreover, he also advocated borrowing fine traditional Chinese culture in various occasions, and underlined that history makes a wise man and enables one to learn about success and failure, gaining and loss, as well as the law governing the evolution of history.
To inherit and carry forward Chinese civilization, the key falls on promoting the creative evolution and development of fine traditional Chinese culture. The culture are diachronic and synchronic. A civilization has been evolved from the history and the times. When taking shape, it will showcase certain standard value transcending the times and the regions. In the course of more than 5000 years of civilization, the Chinese nation has created and developed a profound and splendid culture. It is our current task to showcase its unique glamour and give full play to its standard value.
Comrade Xi Jinping said, “Every civilization has represented the spiritual bloodline of a country or a nation, which is needed to not only keep alive and build on its heritage from one generation to the next, but also advance with the times and explore new ground in development,” “In the course of realizing the Chinese Dream, the Chinese people will promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese civilization and step up great efforts to demonstrate unique glamour of Chinese culture in concordance with the new progress.”
To promote the creative evolution and development, it is required to further carry out exploration and explanation of fine traditional Chinese culture. Xi Jinping put forward that the fundamental cultural genes of the Chinese nation are required to be compatible with modern culture and society, making them universally available among people in a popular way. Besides, we need to carry forward the valuable spirit of culture in modern time that transcending the time and space with a lasting appeal.
He also underlined the revival of Chinese civilization. It is necessary to sort out traditional cultural resources in order to revive the artifacts in the museums, the cultural heritages displayed in vast land and the letters in ancient books.
To promote creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese civilization, it is necessary to enhance international cultural exchanges. Comrade Xi Jinping noted that it is urged to enhance international cultural exchanges and complete the mechanism for people-to-people and cultural exchanges as well as create new way of communication through gaining people’s allegiance with laws, culture and virtue, thus displaying a glamorous Chinese civilization by virtue of mass communication, group communication and people-to-people communication. Moreover it is required to enhance the creativity, ability to appeal and public credibility of international communication so as to tell Chinese stories well, spread Chinese voices and explain Chinese characteristics. It is also urged to introduce the outcomes of modern Chinese culture to the global, enabling Chinese civilization and other diverse civilizations to guide the mankind in spirit and offer strong spiritual impetus.
It derives from the great Chinese Dream for Cultural Exchange Organization of Presenting China to the World to conduct cultural exchanges and economic and trade cooperation with strong confidence in Chinese civilization.