The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held its 17th collective study on the afternoon of the month, focusing on building a strong cultural nation. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, emphasized during the study that we must anchor our strategic goal to build a strong cultural nation by the year, adhere to Marxism as our fundamental guiding ideology, root ourselves in the profound Chinese civilization, adapt to the trends of technological development, and continuously develop a new era of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics that possesses strong ideological leadership, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence. We must continuously enhance the spiritual strength of the people and build a solid cultural foundation for the construction of a strong nation and the rejuvenation of the nation.

Wang Bo, Vice President and Professor of Peking University, gave an explanation on this issue and proposed work suggestions. The members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee listened carefully to the explanation and engaged in discussions. After listening to the explanation and discussions, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, we have consistently placed cultural construction in a prominent position in governance, made a series of major deployments, formed the cultural thoughts of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and promoted cultural construction to achieve historic accomplishments in rectifying the fundamentals and upholding innovation, solidly advancing the construction of a powerful socialist cultural nation.

Xi Jinping emphasized the unwavering commitment to the development path of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. Upholding the leadership of the Party, enhancing governance capabilities in the cultural field under the conditions of informatization, and strengthening the Party's ruling foundation and mass foundation in terms of ideology, spirit, and culture. Adhering to the fundamental system that positions Marxism as the guiding ideology in the realm of ideology, comprehensively implementing the cultural thoughts of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and developing a socialist culture that is modern, world-oriented, future-oriented, national, scientific, and popular. Upholding the core socialist values as the guide, continuously building Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and developing and expanding mainstream values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is essential to focus on stimulating the cultural innovation and creative vitality of the entire nation. Adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, prioritize social benefits while ensuring the unity of social and economic benefits, and make stimulating innovation and creative vitality the central task in deepening cultural system and mechanism reforms. Accelerate the improvement of cultural management systems and production and operation mechanisms. Around enhancing cultural originality, improve the service, guidance, and organizational mechanisms for literary and artistic creation and production, fostering a batch of time-honored classics that deeply resonate with the people, and building new peaks of Chinese culture. Actively create a favorable cultural ecosystem, fully promote academic and artistic democracy, support writers, artists, and experts to root themselves in life and dedicate themselves to creation, and drive the continuous eruption of cultural innovation and creative vitality. Explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology, achieve digital empowerment and information transformation in cultural construction, and transform cultural resource advantages into cultural development advantages.

Xi Jinping emphasized that cultural development should always focus on people and be grounded in people. Efforts should be made to meet the diverse, multi-level, and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs of the people, enhance the supply capacity of cultural services and products, and increase the cultural sense of gain and happiness among the people. It is important to leverage the role of culture in nurturing the mind and cultivating sentiments, fostering a spirit of vigorous and proactive development throughout the nation. Respect for the laws of talent development should be emphasized, with improvements made to the selection, training, utilization, and incentive mechanisms that are appropriate for the cultural sector. A favorable policy environment should be created that recognizes, values, and cherishes talent, building a high-level cultural talent team that is large in scale, well-structured, and innovative.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to continue the Chinese cultural heritage through creative transformation and innovative development. Uphold the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, protect, promote, and develop the precious treasures of Chinese civilization that have endured the vicissitudes of time. Deeply excavate and elucidate the spiritual essence of China's excellent traditional culture, activate the excellent elements within Chinese traditional culture with Marxism, and endow them with new connotations of the times, thereby developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Adhere to the principles of reverence for history and passion for culture, prioritize protection, and apply reasonable utilization and minimal intervention, promoting systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage. Strengthen the institutional mechanisms for the protection and transmission of cultural heritage, and accelerate the improvement of the legal and regulatory system.

Xi Jinping emphasized the need to continuously enhance the nation's cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture. Efforts should be made to reconstruct the international communication landscape, innovate in online external publicity, and build a multi-channel, three-dimensional external communication framework. More proactively, China should promote its propositions, disseminate Chinese culture, and showcase the Chinese image. Extensive international cultural and humanistic exchanges and cooperation should be conducted in various forms. More actively, China should learn from and draw upon all outstanding human civilizations, creating a series of cultural achievements that blend ancient and modern, and integrate Chinese and foreign elements.

Xi Jinping finally emphasized that building a strong cultural nation is a common task for the entire Party and society. We must strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over the work of propaganda, ideology, and culture, and improve the leadership and management system and mechanisms for cultural development. Party committees and governments at all levels should effectively strengthen organizational leadership, do a good job in the allocation of cadres, talent cultivation, resource investment, and mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all parties to gather strong forces for building a strong cultural nation.