"Learn to think and practice"
Cultural prosperity leads to national prosperity, and strong science and technology leads to strong country. Since ancient times, culture and technology have accompanied each other and promoted each other. Culture is soft power, and science and technology are the primary productive forces; Technology empowers culture, and culture casts soul for technology; Advanced cultural concept is the ideological source of scientific and technological innovation, and scientific and technological innovation is a strong driving force to promote the transformation of cultural production mode. At the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, it was proposed to "explore an effective mechanism for the integration of culture and science and technology, and accelerate the development of new cultural formats". This provides a direction for accelerating the deep integration of culture and science and technology.
Culture is the source of wisdom to promote scientific and technological innovation.
Cultural bacon casts the soul, and culture enlightens the mind. Culture condenses on a certain material carrier, but also dissociates from the material, which has a reaction to the material. Culture is the soul of a country and a nation, which provides a powerful spiritual force for social development.
As China’s economy shifts from high-speed growth to high-quality development and from quantitative expansion to qualitative improvement, culture plays an increasingly prominent role in economic activities and plays a key role in some fields and links. Culture is the source of wisdom to promote scientific and technological innovation, and scientific and technological innovation cannot be separated from the cultivation of culture. Advanced culture can empower science and technology from the aspects of value orientation, thinking concept, innovation motivation and moral literacy, and create a cultural environment conducive to scientific and technological innovation, thus promoting the development of science and technology. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "China has a long history and a vast civilization, which is the foundation of our self-confidence and the source of our strength." The profound Chinese civilization is the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, and it also provides rich content resources, massive demand and application scenarios for the development of science and technology. Culture is being integrated into production and creation in various fields from multiple dimensions, providing a steady stream of inspiration and kinetic energy for scientific and technological innovation. "Culture+"has the characteristics of creative value-added and innovation-driven, and plays an important role in promoting the creation atmosphere and ability improvement of social innovation. Therefore, it is necessary to make full use of cultural resources, better promote the integration and development of culture and science and technology, take culture as an important fulcrum, adhere to cultural empowerment, and add kinetic energy and vitality to the development of scientific and technological innovation. In addition, "man is the most active factor in productive forces", promoting scientific and technological progress must take realistic people as the starting point, aim at realizing people’s all-round development, insist that scientific and technological innovation depends on and serves the people, and the achievements of scientific and technological innovation are shared by the people, which requires comprehensively improving the scientific and cultural quality of the people.Provide profound cultural nourishment and broad social foundation for promoting scientific and technological progress.
Shaping a new cultural format with technology empowerment
Science and technology is the primary productive force and always an important driving force to promote cultural innovation and development. The history of the development of human cultural formats is a history of the continuous integration and development of culture and technology. From "lead and fire" to promote the vigorous development of books, newspapers and periodicals, to "light and electricity" to promote radio, television and other industries, and then to "number and network" to bring new formats such as network audio-visual and digital travel, every major progress and breakthrough in technology has brought about a huge leap in cultural communication methods and formats. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The integration of culture and science and technology has not only given birth to new cultural formats, extended the cultural industrial chain, but also gathered a large number of innovative talents. It is a sunrise industry with great prospects." In recent years, new cultural formats such as online literature, online live broadcast and online audio have emerged. National Treasures, China in Ancient Books, Classical Poems, and Chinese Poetry Conference have ignited more cultural relics and heritage, provided profound nourishment for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, and become an important business card to enhance the international influence of Chinese culture; The digital cultural industries, such as Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park in Hunan and Wisdom Mountain Cultural and Creative Industrial Park in Tianjin Binhai New Area, have a remarkable cluster development trend … These are inseparable from the powerful empowerment and support of science and technology.
To create a new cultural format with scientific and technological empowerment, we must adhere to self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, so that scientific and technological innovation can better conform to the development trend of cultural construction and meet people’s more diverse spiritual and cultural needs. On the one hand, we will continue to strengthen basic research, put the promotion of original innovation ability in a more prominent position, gather superior forces, form a joint effort to tackle key problems, increase research and development efforts on core technologies such as digital technology, digital content and secure broadcasting, strive to overcome bottlenecks in high-end cultural equipment technologies such as video recording, high-definition production and broadcasting, and stage performance, improve the efficiency and depth of cultural innovation, and explore new contents and forms of cultural development, new paths and expressions of cultural communication, and new formats and new kinetic energy of cultural industries. On the other hand, focusing on the new trend of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, we will promote the implementation of the national cultural digitalization strategy, form a Chinese cultural database, build a cultural data service platform, develop new scenes of digital cultural consumption, and speed up the digital layout of cultural industries, so as to empower the panoramic presentation of Chinese culture, promote the sharing of digital achievements of Chinese culture among the whole people, and inject more China cultural elements into the exchange and mutual learning of human civilization.
Find the right grasp of the deep integration of culture and science and technology
The vigorous development and wide application of a new generation of information technology has given birth to new quality productivity that can promote the leap-forward development of productivity and the transformation of production mode. The new quality productivity in the cultural field is an advanced productivity form driven by innovation, supported by high technology, guided by high quality and high efficiency, and centered on cultural creation and production. We should identify the connection point of deep integration of culture and science and technology, forge new quality productivity in the cultural field supported by high technology, and provide powerful kinetic energy for enhancing the soft power of national culture and the international influence of Chinese culture.
Grasp the core element of scientific and technological innovation and build a modern cultural industry chain with diverse contents and broad coverage. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, which is the core element of developing new quality productivity." This highlights the leading role of innovation, and clarifies that the revolutionary breakthrough of technology is the key to promote the leap of productivity, the adjustment of production relations and the allocation of innovative resources. At present, the comprehensive ranking of China’s national innovation index has steadily risen to the tenth place in the world, and it is constantly moving towards the forefront of innovative countries. On the new journey, we should continue to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, steadily enhance the ability of innovation and development, and cultivate new kinetic energy for developing new quality productivity in the cultural field; Comply with the trend of mobility and visualization, integrate various new technologies, explore new forms and paths of cultural expression, and build a new highland of cultural development.
Grasp the cultural industry as an important carrier and continuously enhance the development resilience of new cultural formats. Cultural industry has the characteristics of high added value, low energy consumption and low pollution, and plays an important role in promoting economic development, inheriting Chinese civilization, meeting people’s spiritual and cultural needs, and expanding the international influence of Chinese culture. We should seize the opportunity of scientific and technological innovation, transform and upgrade traditional cultural industries, accelerate the development of new cultural formats, and take this as a traction to cultivate and expand emerging cultural industries, lay out future cultural industries in advance, and promote the digital, networked, intelligent and clustered development of cultural industries. Support and guide large-scale cultural enterprises, small and medium-sized micro-cultural enterprises and other market entities to actively participate in cultural construction, incubate more cultural and creative projects "golden ideas", greatly increase the scale of culture and related industries, and continuously enhance the development resilience of new cultural industries.
Grasp the strategic support of talent team and build the talent cornerstone of a strong cultural country. Talent is the first resource and the foundation of innovation. Forging new productive forces in the cultural field depends on innovative talents in the final analysis. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "In the history of mankind, technology and talents have always gathered in places with good development momentum, high degree of civilization and the most active innovation." Therefore, we must grasp the strategic initiative, do a good job in the top-level design of talent strategy in the cultural field, focus on building a high-end platform to attract and gather cultural and creative talents, and gather talents from all over the world to use it. Focus on serving the new needs of economic and social development, deepen the reform of the system and mechanism for the development of cultural talents, increase the training of talents in urgent need in the cross-cutting fields of culture and science and technology, and take the road of independent training of talents.
(Author: Chen Fangfang, a special researcher at Changsha University of Science and Technology Base, Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theoretical System Research Center, Hunan Province)