The efforts to continue the Chinese cultural lineage and to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture are important elements of Xi Jinping's cultural thought. Inheriting and developing Chinese outstanding traditional culture requires expanding the breadth and depth of research on Chinese outstanding traditional culture, deepening the systematic interpretation of important issues, and studying the main connotations, principles, directions, missions, and effective paths of the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, so as to provide doctrinal support for the building of a firm foundation of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement.

Adhere to Xi Jinping's cultural thought as a guide to activate the vitality of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought is the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, which points out the way forward and provides a fundamental guideline for promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture. In order to deepen the study of the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, we should adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to and make good use of the worldview, methodology and position and viewpoint methodology of this important thought, as well as adhere to and make good use of a series of new concepts, new viewpoints and new theories of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought. For example, the people-oriented view in the excellent traditional Chinese culture should be activated by the position of the people's supremacy, the concept of clear waters and green mountains are as good as mountains of gold and silver should be activated by the idea of the unity of heaven and mankind, and the concepts of the community of human destiny and the common values of all mankind should be activated by the concepts of the world is for all and the world's commonwealth, and so on. By giving the excellent traditional Chinese culture new connotations of the times and modern forms of expression, the connotations of the excellent traditional Chinese culture have been expanded and perfected, so that the Chinese culture can show its permanent charm and elegance of the times.

In-depth study and interpretation of the major relationships in the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture. How to deal with the major relationships between "ancient" and "modern", "old" and "new", "Chinese" and "foreign" is a basic question to be answered for the inheritance and development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture. Taking history and reality into account, we should explain clearly that promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture is not the same as restoring the past, but using the past for the present, focusing on the construction of a modern civilization for the Chinese nation, the development needs of contemporary society, and better meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the masses of the people, and strengthening the excavation and elaboration of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, so as to make it compatible with the culture of contemporary China, and harmonize it with modern society; instead of wrapping old traditions in a new shell, we should follow the laws of cultural development, keep pace with the times, introduce new ideas, and give new connotations, new words and new forms to the excellent traditional Chinese culture, so as to present it in a new cultural form. To promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, we should not only firmly adhere to our own cultural subjectivity, but also have a global vision and world views, actively absorb the essence of foreign cultures, and contribute to the prosperity and development of human culture.

In-depth study and interpretation of the path of realization of creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture. It is the central task of the Party and the country to promote the construction of a strong nation and national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization. To promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture is to provide rich cultural nourishment and strong spiritual support for the construction of a strong nation and national rejuvenation. It is necessary to closely follow the needs of the times and the wishes of the people, grasp the scientific connotation of the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, and analyze and study the effective realization path of transformation and development. Focusing on the needs of modernization and the mission of inheriting and developing outstanding traditional Chinese culture, we will analyze and study specific issues such as organizational safeguards, mechanism improvement and evaluation optimization, and provide intellectual support for the implementation of relevant policies and measures.

In-depth study and interpretation of important concepts and propositions of Chinese traditional culture. Concepts and propositions are the basis of theoretical research. To deepen the study of the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, we need to make efforts in the study and interpretation of some important concepts and propositions. For example, overcoming the influence of the Western knowledge system, defining culture and civilization more comprehensively and objectively, focusing on improving the scientific and independent interpretation of concepts, and laying a cultural foundation for the construction of China's independent knowledge system; deepening the research and interpretation of the main connotations and evaluation criteria of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, and further improving its contemporary, national and practical nature; deepening the research on the historical origins, development lineage, and basic direction of Chinese culture, especially to explain clearly the uniqueness of the path of development of Chinese culture and the outstanding continuity, innovativeness, unity, inclusiveness, and peacefulness of Chinese civilization, and to advocate a correct view of cultural history and respect for the plurality and differences of cultural development.

In-depth study and interpret the spiritual markers of the outstanding traditional Chinese culture that have contemporary value and global significance. We can focus on material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilizations, and refine the essence of the traditional Chinese culture in terms of artifacts and technologies, legal systems, humanism, ideals and personalities, values, and social psychology, so as to build a system of core symbols of the traditional Chinese culture. With a worldly mindset and a global vision, in the course of identifying and comparing with other cultures in the world, we will vividly demonstrate the vitality of the excellent traditional Chinese culture in self-development, responding to challenges and opening up new horizons, its creativity of "innovating every day," its cohesion of indivisible territories, unruly states, indissoluble nations, indissoluble peoples and unbreakable civilizations, its cohesion of interaction and fusion among various ethnic groups and plurality of religious beliefs, the power of tolerance towards the world's civilizations in an eclectic manner, the synergy of sharing beauty, putting others first and not imposing on others, and presenting to the world a credible, lovable and respectable image of China.