The key to China’s characteristics lies in ＂two combinations＂ (in-depth study and implementation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era)
synopsis
The road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics came out under the guidance of Marxism and the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. "Two combinations" is the only way to open up and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Chinese-style modernization theory is an important theoretical innovation that our party combines the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, which shows the great significance of "two combinations".
Direction determines the road, and the road determines fate. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development: "Why is our socialism different? Why can it be full of vigor and vitality? The key lies in the characteristics of China. The key to China’s characteristics lies in ‘ Two combinations ’ 。” This important conclusion profoundly reveals the great significance of the "two combinations", highlights our party’s historical and cultural self-confidence, deepens our party’s regular understanding of upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and provides scientific guidance for continuously advancing the modernization of Marxism in China and building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation on the new journey.
"Two combinations" is the only way to open up and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Rivers and Wan Li always have sources, and trees are high and thousands of feet also has roots. Socialism with Chinese characteristics didn’t fall from the sky, but was the fundamental achievement made by the Party and the people at all costs. What kind of doctrine a country implements depends on whether this doctrine can solve the historical problems facing this country. More than a hundred years ago, during the period when the Chinese nation was poor and weak, and was trampled upon by others, in order to save the nation from peril, the people of China rose up and rebelled, people with lofty ideals ran and shouted, and all kinds of doctrines and ideological trends tried, but they failed to solve the future and destiny of China.
A cannon shot of the October Revolution brought Marxism–Leninism to China. In the great awakening of the people of China and the Chinese nation, and in the close combination of Marxism–Leninism and the China workers’ movement, the Communist Party of China (CPC) came into being. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "How can communist party succeed? In Shikumen, there was a boat on the South Lake, and there were more than a dozen people, so today. The road here must be clarified and the truth must be localized. " Turning over the century-long history of storms, our Party has gone through practice and breakthrough again and again, combining the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and constantly promoting the modernization of Marxism in China. History and practice have proved that only when Marxism is rooted in the historical and cultural fertile soil of our country and nation can it always maintain its vitality and guide us to create, uphold, defend and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
When Socialism with Chinese characteristics entered a new era, the Supreme Leader General Secretary clearly put forward the important conclusion of "the second combination". The "second combination" is our party’s profound summary of the historical experience of the modernization of Marxism in China, and a profound grasp of the law of the development of Chinese civilization, which shows that our party’s understanding of China’s road, theory and system has reached a new height, that our party’s historical self-confidence and cultural self-confidence have reached a new height, and that our party’s consciousness of promoting cultural innovation in inheriting Chinese excellent traditional culture has reached a new height.
Practice has proved that it is the only way to open up and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics on the deep foundation of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years, and to combine the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. This is the regular knowledge that we have gained in the course of exploring Socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is through the "two combinations" that the "localization of truth" is constantly promoted, and Marxism is increasingly integrated with China’s excellent historical culture that has been passed down for thousands of years and the values that the broad masses of people are unaware of every day, showing a stronger and more convincing force of truth in China and leading Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s great cause to create a new situation.
"Two combinations" is the greatest magic weapon for our success.
"If there is no Chinese civilization for five thousand years, what are the characteristics of China? If it is not the characteristics of China, how can we have such a successful Socialism with Chinese characteristics road today? " The road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics came out under the guidance of Marxism, and it also came out from the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. Based on the magnificent history of Chinese civilization of more than 5,000 years, we can deeply understand why "two combinations" have become the greatest magic weapon for our success.
"Two combinations" endow Socialism with Chinese characteristics with unique roads. The unique cultural tradition, unique historical destiny and unique basic national conditions have doomed the Chinese nation to take the development road suitable for its own characteristics, which is the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the dialectical unity of the theoretical logic of scientific socialism and the historical logic of China’s social development. At the same time, the mutual agreement between Chinese excellent traditional culture and Marxism also provides a cultural foundation for Marxism to take root in China. The premise of "combination" is mutual fit, and mutual fit can be organically combined. The result of "combination" is mutual achievement, and through profound "chemical reaction", an organic and unified new cultural life has been created. "Combination" has laid a solid foundation for the road. In particular, the "second combination" has given Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road a broader and far-reaching historical depth and expanded the cultural foundation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road.
"Two Combinations" Activate the Creativity of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s Theoretical System. Why the Communist Party of China (CPC) can and why Socialism with Chinese characteristics is good is, in the final analysis, a Marxist line, a Marxist line with China modernization. This is the conclusion of history. The important proposition of China and modernization of Marxism itself determines that we must never abandon the soul pulse of Marxism and the root pulse of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Only by adhering to the "two combinations" can we stick to this soul and root, comprehensively excavate the treasure house of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years under the guidance of Marxism, activate the outstanding factors with vitality in Chinese excellent traditional culture with Marxism and endow it with new connotation of the times, inject the great spirit and rich wisdom of the Chinese nation into Marxism at a deeper level, effectively integrate the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of Chinese excellent traditional culture, fuse them into new theoretical advantages, and constantly climb new ideological peaks.
"Two Combinations" to Enhance the Superiority of Socialism with Chinese characteristics System. What kind of national system and national governance system to choose is determined by the country’s history, culture, social nature and level of economic development, and it is also determined by the people of this country. In the long-term exploration, our Party has always grasped the ideological and cultural initiative, and paid attention to the organic unity of history and reality, theory and practice, form and content, so that the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system not only embodies the basic principles of scientific socialism, but also has distinctive China characteristics, national characteristics and characteristics of the times. Only by adhering to the "two combinations" can we make full use of the precious resources of Chinese excellent traditional culture to explore future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations in a broader cultural space, and use China-oriented and modernized Marxism to guide the system construction, so as to maintain and continuously enhance the institutional superiority of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in self-improvement and development for a long time.
"Two Combinations" to Consolidate the Cultural Subjectivity of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Without high cultural self-confidence, there would be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Cultural confidence comes from our cultural subjectivity. Our Party has always attached importance to cultural construction, always adhered to the guidance of Marxism, promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, inherited revolutionary culture, developed advanced socialist culture, kept in mind the original, absorbed foreign countries and faced the future, better built China spirit, China values and Chinese strength, and continuously cultivated, refined and sublimated and consolidated the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation. The creation of the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought is the most powerful embodiment of this cultural subjectivity. With cultural subjectivity, we have a firm self in the cultural sense, a fundamental support for cultural self-confidence, a powerful cultural force to lead the times in the Communist Party of China (CPC), a solid cultural foundation for national identity for the Chinese nation and the people of China, and a distinctive cultural feature for Chinese civilization to exchange and learn from other civilizations in the world.
Chinese modernization theory is a great achievement of "two combinations"
In the new era and new journey, the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s central task is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups to build a socialist modernization power in an all-round way, realize the goal of the second century, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization. Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in Chinese excellent traditional culture, fully embodies the advanced essence of scientific socialism, draws on and absorbs all outstanding achievements of human civilization, represents the development direction of human civilization progress, and shows a new picture different from the western modernization model, which is a brand-new form of human civilization. Summarizing and expounding the Chinese modernization theory is an important theoretical innovation for our party to combine the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. It is the latest major achievement of scientific socialism and shows the great significance of "two combinations".
The context is well-versed, and Sven is here. Chinese civilization has endowed Chinese-style modernization with profound connotations, enriched the cultural life of Marxism with Chinese excellent traditional culture, and promoted Marxism to achieve a new leap of China modernization, showing an increasingly distinctive China style and China style. China Marxism has become the essence of Chinese culture and China spirit. The "second combination" makes Marxism China, Chinese excellent traditional culture modern, and the new culture formed through "combination" becomes a Chinese modern cultural form, which enriches and develops Marxist cultural theory and promotes the formation of the cultural chapter of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, that is, the cultural thought of the Supreme Leader. Chinese-style modernization is to continue the modernization of ancient civilization, not to eliminate it; It is a modernization that grows from the land of China, not the modernization of other countries; It is the result of civilization renewal, not the product of civilization fracture. Chinese-style modernization is the new life of the old country of the Chinese nation, which will surely promote the rejuvenation of Chinese civilization.
"Take the wind, go to Wan Li in the sky, and look down at the mountains and rivers." Only when the universal truth is combined with the concrete reality can it be transformed into a material force that destroys everything and changes the world. Only when scientific theory is combined with excellent culture can it be internalized into a spiritual force that moistens everything and unites people’s hearts. In the great practice of Chinese-style modernization, we should study, study and interpret the cultural thoughts of the supreme leader, always adhere to the "two combinations", more deeply discover mutual agreement, promote mutual achievements, build a solid road foundation, open up new space for innovation, better shoulder new cultural missions, and continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point.
(The author is a researcher at the New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Institute of Thought, the supreme leader of China Renmin University)