Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "It is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a great socialist culture and build a modern civilization for the Chinese nation from a new starting point." Since the new era, China's cultural inheritance and development has shown a new atmosphere and created a new situation, and the construction of a strong socialist cultural country has taken solid steps forward. On the new journey, we should adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture in depth, better shoulder the new cultural mission, and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation in promoting Chinese-style modernization.

To better shoulder the new cultural mission, first of all, we must have firm cultural self-confidence. Cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence, and is the most fundamental, deepest and most enduring force in the development of a country or a nation. A nation that has abandoned or betrayed its own history and culture is not only unlikely to develop, but is also likely to stage a historical tragedy. A nation with cultural self-confidence can stand firm and walk far. Chinese civilization has endured for thousands of years, and has been plagued by many sorrows and challenges. In the course of its long evolution, it has developed a unique value system, cultural connotation and spiritual quality with which the Chinese people view the world, society and life. This is the fundamental characteristic that distinguishes us from other countries and peoples, and has forged the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation, which draws on a wide range of strengths. At present, all kinds of ideas and cultures are stirring each other, and exchanges and blending of different civilizations are becoming more frequent. To strengthen cultural self-confidence, we must insist on following our own path, neither blindly following various dogmas nor copying foreign theories, and realize spiritual independence and autonomy; at the same time, we must integrate cultural self-confidence into the spiritual temperament and cultural character of the entire nation, and cultivate a high-spirited and upward-looking outlook as well as a rational and calm state of mind.

Openness and inclusiveness have always been a source of vitality for the development of civilization and an inherent requirement for us to better shoulder our new cultural mission. In the long process of human history, the peoples of the world have created civilizations with their own characteristics and identities. Equal exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations have provided a powerful spiritual impetus for humankind to solve the problems of the times and achieve common development. History and reality have amply proved that exchanges among civilizations are an important driving force for the progress of human civilization and the peaceful development of the world. Chinese culture is both historical and contemporary, national and global. Looking back at history, Chinese civilization has been known for its openness and tolerance, and has constantly renewed its vitality through exchanges and learning from other civilizations; looking at the present, the new form of human civilization created by Chinese-style modernization embodies the advanced nature of scientific socialism, draws on and absorbs all the achievements of outstanding human civilizations, and represents the direction of the progress of human civilization. On the way forward, only by keeping an open mind towards the world's civilizations and learning from all the outstanding civilization achievements created by mankind in a more proactive manner can we better promote the development and progress of Chinese civilization.

To better shoulder the new cultural mission, it is necessary to stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation. To stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, it is an inevitable requirement and an important methodology to adhere to the righteousness and innovation. Only by keeping the righteousness can we not lose ourselves or our direction, and only by innovation can we grasp the times and lead them. To build a modern civilization for the Chinese nation based on the deep foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, we must adhere to the soul of Marxism and the root of excellent traditional Chinese culture, adhere to the fundamental requirement of "Two Combinations", and adhere to the cultural leadership of the Party and the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation. Persistence is for better development, and development is for better persistence. Under the guidance of Marxism, we should truly utilize the past for the present and the foreign for the Chinese, make dialectical choices and introduce new ideas, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, activate the vital and excellent factors of Chinese outstanding traditional culture with Marxism and give them new connotations for the times, and infuse the great spirit and rich wisdom of the Chinese nation into Marxism at a deeper level, so as to give Chinese culture new vitality and energy. The great spirit and rich wisdom of the Chinese nation will be infused into Marxism at a deeper level, so that Chinese culture will be revitalized.

Building a modern civilization for the Chinese nation is an inevitable requirement for advancing Chinese-style modernization. With firm cultural confidence, openness and tolerance, and adherence to righteousness and innovation, we will surely be able to better shoulder the new cultural mission of continuing to promote cultural prosperity, building a great socialist cultural country, and building a modern civilization for the Chinese nation from a new starting point, so as to promote the return of Chinese civilization to its glory.