Submitted by: li xian (researcher, research centre for the study of china's specialist socialist thoughts of the new age of xi jinping, central party school (national school of administration), deputy director, department of cultural history studies)
Since the beginning of the new era, the party centre, with comrade xi at its centre, has placed cultural construction at the centre of the governance of the country, deepening its understanding of the regularity of cultural construction and presenting a new set of new ideas and conclusions that have shaped the culture of xi jinping. The concept of xi jinping culture implies a number of major innovations, including insistence on “two combinations”. Insisting on the “two combinations”, i. E. The “maintenance of combining marxist fundamentals with china's concrete reality and with china's excellent traditional culture”. Among them, the “second union” was the creation of major theories by the chinese communist party of the new era that upheld and developed marxism and continued the new chapter of the marxism chineseization era. General secretary xi stated that “the `second union' is our party's in-depth review of the historical experience of the marxist chinese era, and its profound understanding of the pattern of the development of chinese civilization”. The “second combination” has opened up a vast space for theoretical and practical innovation, revealing the high degree of compatibility between marxism and the excellent traditional culture of china, and has created a deep cultural foundation and great historical and practical relevance for the realization of national renaissance。
A demonstration of historical self-consciousness that underpins cultural identity
General secretary xi stressed that “any culture must have its own subjectivity if it is to be viable and far-reaching, and if it is to be led, cohesive, shaped and radioactive”. China is an ancient civilization with a history of more than five thousand years. China's civilization is the only great civilization in the world that has continued to develop in national form and has so far. The cultural heritage of the chinese nation is rooted in self-confidence in its own cultural traditions and values. From the perspective of civilization, the centennial struggle of our party has turned the chinese nation from sinking to rising fate. In leading the process of revolution, construction and reform, our party has insisted on combining marxist fundamentals with china's concrete realities, while focusing on the learning of nutrition from the long chinese history and the luminous chinese culture, which have brought a wealth of experience and important inspiration to the preservation and consolidation of cultural fundamentals。
In recent times, in the face of the impact of western capitalist industrial civilization, the chinese nation has been confronted with a deep crisis that is unsustainable, with a major risk of cultural loss, and has had to re-examine, in a strong sense of national crisis, the traditional culture inherited for thousands of years. The communist party of china (cpc) has come to the stage of history under conditions of a time of great civilisation in the west and west. In the face of the humiliation of the state, the suffering of the people and the destruction of civilization, various schools of thought, various institutional models, political forces of all kinds have returned to power, but they have failed to emerge from the pitfalls between tradition and modernity, indigenous and foreign dualism. Marxism enters china and activates the genes of chinese civilization with the light of truth, providing a systematic approach to examining traditional chinese culture with a scientific attitude. Using marxism as a weapon of thought, the communist party of china has begun to transform the traditional chinese culture in areas that are not adapted to the development of modern society, and to exploit the positive values inherent therein and to promote the renewal of chinese civilization. In 1938, during the six-sixth plenary session of the party, comrade mao proposed that learning about our historical heritage and critically summing up it using marxist methods is another task of our learning. In 1943, ccp stated that “the revolutionary science of marx leninism should be further integrated with chinese revolutionary practice, chinese history and chinese culture”. Here, it is “a profound combination of chinese history and chinese culture” that reflects the cultural self-consciousness and cultural self-confidence of our party in the civilizational creation based on national cultural traditions。
Building on the historical context of the new era, building on the history of china's vast history of civilization for more than 5,000 years, and the struggle of the communist party of china for more than 100 years, general secretary xi jinping creatively proposed “a second union” to break the “era of the west and the middle” that has been raging in recent times. Marxism has contributed to the renewal and modern transformation of chinese civilization, and the cultural life of marxism has been enriched by its excellent traditional culture, which interacts and empowers each other. The introduction of the “second union” shows that our party has achieved a new level of historical, cultural and self-confidence, and that our party has reached a new level of self-consciousness in the promotion of cultural innovation in the traditional culture of chinese excellence. The “second union” is yet another intellectual liberation that has enabled us to take the initiative of thought and culture and to consolidate and strengthen the cultural identity of the chinese nation. With cultural fundamentalism, there is a firm self in the sense of culture, a foundation for cultural self-confidence and a strong cultural power to lead the times of the communist party of china。
The history of the road out of china must be revealed
According to general secretary xi, “the socialism path of china's specialty was guided by marxism and also by the history of chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years”. Without being guided by marxism, there is no guarantee of the right direction on china's special socialist path; without understanding the essence of china's good traditional culture, there is no understanding of the development logic of china's special socialist path. In the context of practical chinese problems, our party has undertaken a series of theoretical and institutional innovations, based on deep cultural soil, using marxist worldviews and methodology, in its exploration and practice of china's special socialist path。
At the theoretical level, our party has always adhered to the marxism of building a fundamental state, developing its own historical and cultural heritage, and, in keeping with the positive innovations, has formed the socialist system of chinese identity. For example, in methodological terms, the adversarial unity rule is the essence of marxist materialist dialectics, as reflected in ancient chinese philosophical thinking. In the era of revolution, the paradox of the contradictory movement was vividly illustrated in the " concordat " written by comrade mao. At the beginning of the article, comrade mao stated: “the contradictory law of things, the uniform law of confrontation, is the most fundamental law of material evidence”. For example, in the doctrine of perception, the idea of practice, the view of life, is the basic point of view of marxist ideology, which is consistent with the idea of “life-specificism” in china's traditional culture of excellence, as well as with the chinese communist party's practice of insisting on realism as a course of thought. These methodological and cognitive theories have laid the foundation for the formation and development of china's sui generis socialist theoretical system。
At the value level, marxism can take root and blossom in china, not by chance, but in harmony with the excellent historical culture and values that we have inherited for thousands of years. For example, the chinese nation has developed a german tradition of governance during the western week, and since then the confucian has embraced the idea of governance as a people-centred and a political one, which has been critically absorbed and inherited by the chinese communist party and combined with the marxist view of the population, which has developed in practice a people-centred concept of development and a people-centred concept of values. For example, since ancient times, china has had a social vision of a society in which the ideals of communism lie in the same beautiful vision。
At the institutional level, the marxism was used to activate china's good traditional governance wisdom and to promote innovation in china's socialist system. For example, the historical fact of multi-ethnic integration in china and the long-standing and pluralist tradition of the kyushus are compatible with the marxist state doctrine and ethnic theory, determining that china has not adopted federalism, federalism, but rather a unitary form of state, a multi-party system of cooperation and political consultation led by the communist party of china, and a system of regional autonomy for ethnic groups, which has been adapted to and consolidated the pattern of diversity among the chinese nation。
In advancing china's new quest for modernity, china has always been guided by xi jinping's cultural philosophy, and has always insisted on “two integrations” and, in particular, “the second integration”. In a wider cultural space, china has fully utilized the valuable resources of its excellent traditional culture, exploring future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations. China's specialty socialism path is bound to grow wider and firmer。
Historical contribution to the development of world civilization
The “second combination” is not a simple “physical reaction”, but a profound “chemical reaction” that makes marxism chinese, and china’s excellent traditional culture modern, and the new culture that emerges from a “consolidation” becomes a modern chinese form of culture. By insisting on the “second combination”, we can not only contribute to the renewal of the chinese civilization and the creation of a new form of human civilization, but also provide an entirely new solution to the common challenges to the development of human civilization。
To provide a new model of modernization for all countries of the world. The modernization of the western approach has shaped the basic shape of the modern world, its economic system and its path to development, but it is based on the pre-existing accumulation of alien colonial plunder and internal exploitation of peoples, with increasing limitations and ills. The emergence of groups of emerging economies and developing countries represented by china into the twenty-first century has changed the international political and economic landscape dominated by a few western developed countries. The historical traditions of civilizations and the paths of development have proved to be profoundly different, with a country moving towards modernization, following both the general pattern of modernization and, more importantly, its actual and national characteristics. China's modernization is a socialist modernization that is unique and distinct from western capitalism. It represents a progressive direction for human civilization. It not only perpetuates its own civilization in a non-fragmentation, non-dependent model, and is iterative and innovative. It also provides valuable experience for post-modern countries in exploring the renewal of civilization。
Promote a new system of global governance. At a time when the world's century-wide changes are accelerating and the international situation is changing, and in the face of global challenges such as climate change and terrorism, it is imperative to break the peace deficit, the development deficit, the security deficit and the governance deficit. Since time immemorial, china has had such ideal ideas as “the great unity of the world” and “the great wisdom of the system”, which share the same value orientation and spiritual pattern as marxism's liberation of all human beings. In advancing the chinese-style modernization process, china has always taken an active part in the transformation and construction of the global governance system, in keeping with a common and shared vision of global governance. It has put forward important ideas for building a community of human destiny, jointly building the “one-way” initiative, four global initiatives, and so forth. It has launched a silk road foundation, the asian development bank, etc., to provide the world with sustained international public goods in practical actions, to promote conceptual change and rule-making in global governance, and to provide china's programme and contribution to the establishment of a more just and equitable international order。
Since the beginning of the new era, the party's centre, with comrade xi at its core, has closely followed the pace of the times, grasped their pulses, listened to their voices, and observed the great times, insisting on “two unions” and in particular “the second one”, freeing up ideas, realism, realism, realism and innovation, constantly opening up new horizons in the era of marxist china, constantly answering china's questions, questions from the world, questions from the people, questions from the times, and providing strong intellectual guarantees, strong spiritual strength, and favourable cultural conditions for the full construction of a modern socialist state, and the full promotion of the great renaissance of the chinese nation. As we move forward with the new journey, we must insist on the unity of substance and openness, principle and flexibility, history and times, the melting of ancient times, the reconnection of china and the west, the flourishing of the new era of chinese-style socialist culture, and a new and greater contribution to the progress of human civilization。
