Chapter 47 We must talk about cultural modernization

What role can we play in the world now? The role we can play in the world now is to be a responsible world power. What is a responsible world power? The so-called responsible world power, the first thing is to do China's affairs well.Because China accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, the living standards of the Chinese people have improved, and the problems have been solved. That is to be responsible to the world.If China does not do well, it will have a negative impact on the world.The second is that we must undertake the international obligations we should undertake.We have signed many international treaties and joined many international organizations. We are permanent members of the UN Security Council, and we must shoulder our responsibilities.In regional organizations, we also have to take on a lot of responsibilities.The third is to provide developing countries with more public goods.We ourselves are also developing countries. The more we develop, the more we need to provide public goods.This includes many aspects, both material and non-material.Since the beginning of the new century, more of our foreign aid projects have involved infrastructure construction in developing countries, including some large projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood.In the past, we were more engaged in landmark buildings, some buildings, some gymnasiums, etc., which is also very important.Those developing countries do not have a venue for international conferences. Of course, it is right for China to provide aid and China.But the question now is how to share and share the fruits of development.Through the construction of infrastructure and projects related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, we let more people feel the real benefits.At this point, a lot has been done over the years, which is very comforting.Also, in terms of safety, including non-traditional safety, vaccines for AIDS and malaria, they are shared with everyone, provided at low prices, or even provided free of charge, including assistance.There are also some non-material and spiritual ones, too, such as helping developing countries train cadres and professionals.Anyway, the most important and main one is that stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade.Learning is mutual.Learning from scriptures is also mutual.China can learn from them.They can also learn from China, learn from China's reforms, and China's opening up.As long as China's experience inspires them, they can learn and absorb what they want to absorb, absorb what they want to absorb, and use whatever is useful, combining their own characteristics and their own China's national conditions are melted into its own development, so as to explore its own development path.

We also adopt the same attitude in learning advanced experience from abroad.Deng Xiaoping taught us the same way.He believes that we should learn advanced science, technology, management methods and all other knowledge and culture that are beneficial to us from capitalist developed countries. We should take the world's advanced scientific and technological achievements as the starting point of our development.We have to have this ambition. Finally, we must make greater contributions to the world and the development of human civilization. This is what the whole world expects from China.Everyone knows that China has an ancient civilization, so today, apart from those historical things, can you contribute new wisdom?This requirement is very high.At present, I think we are still working hard and creating.We need a great revival of Chinese culture, and only through the construction of contemporary Chinese culture can we provide more wisdom.Some people say that there is tradition, there is Confucian culture, and there is Confucius when it comes to this. This understanding is not comprehensive enough.In his speech on June 25, Comrade Jin Tao specifically mentioned the issue of strengthening socialist cultural construction.I very much agree with Comrade Jintao on "vigorously promote cultural innovation, comprehensively promote the reform of the cultural system, and maximize the enthusiasm of cultural workers to innovate, so that the cultural creativity of the whole society can be fully released, and the achievements of cultural innovation will continue to emerge, so that contemporary Chinese culture is more colorful, more attractive and appealing".Because contemporary Chinese culture is a big concept. In this concept, it includes Confucian culture, the culture of 56 ethnic groups, classic culture, folk culture, and Taiwanese culture and island culture. Of course, Hong Kong and Macau culture is also included.Our understanding of culture should not be too narrow, it is wrong to be narrow.We want to talk about modernization, but also about inheritance, and about bringing forth the new through the old.

There are also western cultures and foreign cultures, we also need to integrate them.We have Western culture in our academics, medical care, and technology, that is, Western culture has been transmitted to China, accepted and applied by Chinese people.Mathematical formulas remain unchanged, but when Chinese people do this math, they will make many different things. Marxism is also a foreign culture.Mao Zedong said: "From the Opium War in 1840 to the eve of the May 4th Movement in 1919, a total of more than 70 years, the Chinese did not have any ideological weapons to resist imperialism. The old stubborn feudal ideological weapons were defeated. I couldn’t stand it anymore, and declared bankruptcy. As a last resort, the Chinese were forced to learn such ideological weapons and political programs as the theory of evolution, the theory of natural human rights, and the bourgeois republic from the arsenal of the imperialist homeland, the Western bourgeois revolution era. Organized a political party and staged a revolution, thinking that it could defend against foreign powers and build a republic within. But these things were just like the ideological weapons of feudalism, they were very weak, and they couldn’t resist them. The Russian Revolution in 2000 awakened the Chinese people, and the Chinese people learned something new, which is Marxism-Leninism. The birth of the Communist Party in China was a groundbreaking event. Sun Yat-sen also advocated "taking Russia as a teacher" and advocated "unity with Russia" Allied with the Communist Party'. In short, since then, China has changed its direction."

There is also this revolutionary traditional culture since the founding of the Communist Party and the founding of New China.There are also many things in the revolutionary traditional culture that we need to inherit and carry forward.Therefore, inheritance and sublation, good inheritance, bad abandonment, and letting go of the old and absorbing the new, contain very rich content.Some comrades are not in favor of talking about cultural modernization, but I think we must talk about cultural modernization.Without cultural modernization, it becomes cultural extremism and narrow nationalism.So, we must say something new.However, all of these cultures, when integrated together, require innovation.Only after innovation can it become contemporary Chinese culture, something that can be spread to the world, and can it be "more colorful, more attractive and appealing".Of course, it is still in the process of construction, and it is still insufficient.The main shortcoming is that the core value system is still under construction.