It is our new cultural mission in the new era of continuously promoting cultural prosperity, building a great socialist cultural country, establishing Chinese nation’s modern civilization from a new starting point.

Taking up the new cultural mission highlights the Party's historical commitment to promoting the prosperity of Chinese culture and creating a new form of human civilization. We should study and implement Xi Jinping's cultural thought in depth, better shoulder the new cultural mission with an irresistible attitude of struggling, and display new appearance and new performance in the hard work and practice of building a strong socialist cultural country and a modern civilization for the Chinese nation.

Throughout the past and present, a new cultural mission is the deep call of the times.

Culture is an important force for the survival and development of a nation.

The proposal of "taking up a new cultural mission" is a solemn declaration made by General Secretary Xi Jinping from the height of continuing Chinese civilization and from the perspective of the overall development strategy of the Party and the country, which demonstrates the deep sense of historical responsibility, firm sense of mission, and principle of working for people of the contemporary Chinese communists.

On June 1, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his visit to the Central Main Hall of the National Library of China that "a prosperous time must focus on culture, and in our era, with a prosperous country, a peaceful and stable society, there is a willingness and ability to pass on the national culture, and we need to do a good job on this important matter."

In the course of more than 5,000 years of long history, generations of Chinese people have struggled hard to create the world's only splendid civilization that has continued to develop in the form of a nation to the present day. The best way to inherit history is to create a new history; the greatest tribute to human civilization is to create a new form of human civilization.

Only by taking up the new cultural mission, continuing the historical lineage, and promoting the most basic cultural genes of the Chinese nation to adapt to contemporary culture and coordinate with modern society can we write a cultural chapter for the new journey in the new era.

"My motherland and I, just like the sea and the waves ......" The song flied over the East Lake Cultural Square in Jinzhou, Liaoning province.

In August 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was on a visit to Liaoning, came here and pointed out that "Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that harmonizes material civilization and spiritual civilization".

Providing the people with rich spiritual fruit is an inevitable requirement for meeting the people's new expectations for a better life, and it is also a key element of Chinese-style modernization. Only when the goal of letting the people enjoy a fuller, richer and higher-quality spiritual and cultural life is firmly anchored, and when the people's spiritual needs are met, their spiritual space is broadened and their spiritual strength is enhanced, will Chinese-style modernization gain a thicker foundation.

Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has creatively included cultural confidence in the "Four Confidences", calling it "a more fundamental, deeper and more enduring force in the development of a country and a nation".

At present, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period. Only by taking up the new cultural mission, activating the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and making it integrate with the revolutionary culture and the advanced socialist culture in the new era, will the great cause of rejuvenation have unceasing spiritual impetus.

Keeping pace with the time, the new cultural mission points out the advanced direction of Chinese culture.

"The contemporary Chinese Communists and the Chinese people should and will be able to take up a new cultural mission, create culture in practice and realize cultural progress in historical progress!"

In the report of the 19th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the major proposition of "new cultural mission" for the first time.

In June 2023, at a symposium on the development of cultural heritage, General Secretary Xi Jinping made clear the "Fourteen Emphases" of cultural construction, put forward the major task of building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation, and pointed out the direction of creating a new culture belonging to our era.

The new cultural mission, stirring up the prosperity and development of culture in a thousand ways.

"The strength of a country or a nation is always supported by cultural prosperity, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation needs to be conditioned by the development and prosperity of Chinese culture."

Under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, cultural undertakings in the new era are full of vitality, and the whole nation's innovation and creativity are bursting with vigor.

The new cultural mission requires us to continue to deeply excavate and expound the essence of China's outstanding traditional culture, to promote creative transformation and innovative development, to let the cultural relics in museums, the heritage on display on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books increasingly come into the hearts of the people, and to promote the construction of Chinese culture to present a lively scene of vigorous development and greater prosperity.

The new cultural mission converges the majestic power of building a great socialist cultural country.

When culture is revitalized, the nation can prosper. When culture is strong, the nation is full of energy.

The great journey of the new era, it is because of the cultural self-confidence and a sense of pride, we have the determination to adhere to the right path, the power to move forward, and the vitality of reform and innovation.

The new cultural mission reveals that we have to stand on the axis of culture, grasp history, reality and the future, consolidate the common ideological foundation for the unity of the whole Party and the whole nation, firmly guard the spiritual lifeblood of the Chinese nation, unswervingly follow the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, lead the construction of a strong cultural country with cultural self-confidence, and provide powerful value guidance, cultural cohesion and spiritual impetus for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.

The new cultural mission calls for the mission to build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Yinxu, Anyang, Henan Province, where the Huan River meanders.

In October 2022, during his visit here, General Secretary Xi Jinping noted, "This time I came here to study and understand Chinese civilization more deeply, to use the past for the present, and to provide lessons for better building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation."

For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has followed a path of civilized development that is different from that of other countries and peoples. The vast and profound Chinese traditional culture has always nourished the Chinese nation's sustainable development.

The new cultural mission inspires us to extract and purify the spiritual markers of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, to display the cultural essence of the excellent traditional Chinese culture with contemporary value and global significance, to explain and recommend to the world more excellent cultures with Chinese characteristics, embodying the Chinese spirit and containing Chinese wisdom, and to build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation in the course of advancing the process of Chinese-style modernization.

On the basis of respecting and learning from antiquity, creating brand new ideas, the new cultural mission requires a new historical commitment.

Just a short time ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping published 2024 New Year's message, said fondly: "Liangzhu, Erlitou the dawn of civilization, the Yinxu oracle bones of the text heritage, Sanxingdui Ruins heaps of cultural treasures, the National Archives of Publications and Culture of the cultural lineage continues ...... great China, what a long history, how extensive civilization it owns, this is the foundation of our self-confidence and the source of strength."

Embarking on a new journey to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a strong cultural country, and build a modern civilization for the Chinese nation, it is necessary for us to deeply grasp the important role of culture in leading social change, and to demonstrate a positive historical role.

To better shoulder the new cultural mission, we must uphold the spiritual character of self-confidence and self-reliance.

In July 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the new Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan. "After seeing, the national pride doubled, we have 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, and I’m more looking forward to the discovery of a longer Chinese civilization excavation." General Secretary said.

The excellent traditional Chinese culture nurtured in the development of more than 5,000 years of civilization, and the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture nurtured in the great struggle of the Party and the people are the strong spiritual support for us to stand in the forest of the world's nations.

It is only by strengthening cultural self-confidence, insisting on walking our own path, summarizing Chinese experience with Chinese reasoning, upgrading Chinese experience into Chinese theory, and realizing spiritual independence that the spiritual power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation can be continuously strengthened.

To better take up the new cultural mission, we need to be open-minded and tolerant.

On September 23, 2023, President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan held a banquet to welcome international dignitaries coming to China to attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. China's Tea Picking Dance, Syria's Flowers in the Wonderland and Nepal's Silk Dance were played, bringing together a symphony of the beauty of different civilizations.

Since ancient times, Chinese civilization has been renowned for its openness and tolerance, and has been constantly revitalized through exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations. We should be more broad-minded, carry out cultural exchanges with other countries more extensively, study and learn from all the world's outstanding civilizations more proactively, and promote Chinese culture to the world.

To better shoulder the new cultural mission, we must adhere to the righteousness of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds.

"Worship Dragon Totem and Jade" of the Hongshan site, known as the "civilization of the Holy Land" of Liangzhu site ...... In May, 2023, "What’s Civilization? --Chinese civilization exploration project results of digital art exhibition" was online. The ancient civilization picture has been revitalized.

Only by keeping the righteousness can we not lose our way or make subversive mistakes, and only by innovating can we grasp the times and lead the trend. On the new journey of the new era, only by upholding fundamental principles and breaking new grounds, transforming in inheritance, and transcending in learning, can we promote the broad and profound Chinese civilization to glow with more fascinating luster, and continue to forge a new glory of Chinese culture.

By adhering to Xi Jinping's cultural thought as a guide, promoting the industry with culture, cultivating the spirit with culture, strengthening the original intention with culture, and forging the soul with culture, we will surely be able to better shoulder the new cultural mission and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation amidst the prosperity and flourishing of culture.