What contribution does China culture make to world development?

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The Contribution of China's Cultural Development to the World

● Producing and providing healthy and rich cultural products and services for the public is a sign of a country's comprehensive strength and an important basic condition for improving the human development index advocated by the United Nations. After years of reform and opening-up, thanks to the unremitting efforts of China and the joint efforts of the whole society, the cultural products in China are extremely rich, and the quality and level of citizens' cultural rights are constantly improving.

China's cultural development is based on inheriting the national and human cultural heritage. Inheriting and carrying forward the excellent national cultural traditions and protecting the national cultural heritage have attracted the attention of all walks of life in China. This is not only of far-reaching significance to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but also an important contribution to the protection of human cultural diversity.

China's cultural development is carried out under the conditions of extensive exchanges with other countries and active participation in the global cultural market competition. The strengthening of China's local cultural strength has effectively improved the quantity and quality of China's integration into the world, made China gradually become one of the major producers of global cultural products, and promoted China's culture to make greater contributions to human progress.

The second World Forum on China Studies was held in Shanghai from September 26th to 22nd, 2006. With the theme of "China and the World: Harmony and Peace", more than 400 Chinese and foreign scholars gathered together to learn from each other. Among the many topics in the forum, the contribution of China's cultural development to the world has become the focus of attention of scholars all over the world. Just before this, China's first medium-and long-term cultural construction plan, the Outline of the National Cultural Development Plan during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, was officially promulgated, which made an important explanation of the contribution of China's cultural development to the world since the reform and opening up, and also outlined the grand prospect of China's cultural development during 2006-20 10.

First, under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, China closely focuses on the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the requirements of building a harmonious socialist society to meet the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs. Under the guidance of such a new concept of cultural development, China, with the economic strength and infrastructure of a developing country, has promoted the steady and sustained growth of cultural products in a relatively short period of time, greatly promoted the cultural prosperity of the whole society, adapted the level of cultural development to China's economic strength and international status, and made unique and significant contributions to the progress of human civilization.

Producing and providing healthy and rich cultural products and services for the public is a sign of a country's comprehensive strength and an important basic condition for improving HDI advocated by the United Nations. After years of reform and opening up, thanks to the unremitting efforts of China and the joint efforts of the whole society, China's cultural products have been greatly enriched. Although the per capita GDP of China in 2005 was only about US$ 65,438+US$ 7,000, all levels, enterprises, organizations and individuals in China invested a lot of resources in cultural construction, initially established a system of providing a large number of cultural products and services all the year round, and implemented public cultural infrastructure with four key projects as the backbone. Including "radio and television village-to-village communication project", "rural film screening project", "village comprehensive cultural station construction" and "mobile comprehensive cultural service vehicle", which greatly narrowed the gap between urban and rural cultural development. By 2004, there were more than 1600 public museums, more than 2,800 public libraries and 95% TV population coverage.

Second, China adheres to the principle of "people-oriented" in cultural development. Proceeding from China's national conditions, we will not only ensure the basic implementation of citizens' cultural rights, but also care for and meet the cultural consumption needs of the vast majority of people, and actively develop new cultural projects and services with high scientific and technological content, high service efficiency and wide dissemination, so as to continuously improve the quality and level of citizens' cultural rights.

As emphasized in the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights signed by China and other countries, citizens' cultural rights are a very broad and developing concept, which includes: 1, citizens' right to enjoy cultural achievements, that is, the universality of cultural rights; 2. The right of citizens to participate in cultural activities, that is, the subjectivity of cultural rights; 3. Citizens' right to cultural creation, that is, the creativity of cultural rights; 4. Citizens' cultural achievements are protected, that is, their cultural rights are inviolable.

To realize these citizens' cultural rights, we must not only rely on perfect cultural laws and regulations to build a large number of cultural infrastructure, but also cultivate a large number of high-level cultural and artistic talents and develop innovative and excellent cultural and artistic products, so as to reflect a country's cultural creativity, cultural accomplishment, cultural popularization and cultural consumption. The Outline of the National 11th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Development affirmed a series of effective measures to protect citizens' cultural rights in recent years, and made more systematic and effective arrangements in two complementary aspects: innovation and upgrading, forward-looking development, caring for the masses and serving the grassroots. This includes not only the establishment of the National Cultural Outstanding Contribution Award, the publication project of the National Knowledge Resource Library, the launch of terrestrial digital HDTV in 2008 and other major projects, but also the first proposal and implementation of the "cultural subsistence allowance" for low-income and special social groups. It can be predicted that the development of China culture during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period is like a gorgeous rainbow flying on the clouds and a continuous spring rain infiltrating into the fields.

Thirdly, China's cultural development is based on inheriting the national and human cultural heritage. After years of efforts since the reform and opening up, we have attached importance to inheriting and carrying forward the excellent national cultural traditions and protecting the national cultural heritage. This is not only of far-reaching significance to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but also an important contribution to the protection of human cultural diversity. Since 1985, China has been a signatory to the World Heritage Convention and participated in the work of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. From Baishan Blackwater to the South China Sea Coast, many departments, organizations and people all over the country are committed to protecting the material and intangible heritage. By the end of 2005, China had 365,438+material world heritage (cultural heritage, natural heritage, dual heritage of culture and nature). These 33 World Heritage Sites make China one of the countries with the largest number of World Heritage Sites in the world. As UNESCO said in the World Declaration on Cultural Diversity (1995), "Cultural creativity is the source of human progress. Cultural diversity is the most precious wealth of mankind and is crucial to development. " The tolerance of a country and region to multiculturalism is one of the sources of its creativity and innovation vitality. Rich cultural heritage contains rich passwords of predecessors' wisdom, which will become social wealth continuously developed by future generations.

Fourthly, China's cultural development is carried out under the conditions of extensive exchanges with other countries and active participation in the global cultural market competition. Especially since the second1century, China's accession to the WTO, the establishment of closer economic and trade relations between China and Hongkong, and the establishment of cross-border and transnational economic and trade cooperation modes and relations between China and ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) have created favorable conditions for China to deepen its cultural exchanges with foreign countries and accelerated the pace of China's "going out". In turn, China's local cultural strength has been enhanced. It has effectively improved the quantity and quality of China culture's integration into the world, made China gradually become one of the major producers of global cultural products, and promoted China culture to make greater contributions to human progress.

With the development of China culture, hundreds of millions of people in China can understand and welcome the outstanding achievements of world culture from a high starting point. Since the 1960s, world-famous musicals such as Les Miserables, Cats and The Lion King, top musicians from world-famous art groups such as the three tenors and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra have all performed in China and gained many bosom friends. At the same time, China's outstanding cultural and artistic works have also stepped onto the world stage. Since 1997, large-scale musical and song-and-dance evenings with the theme of "Cheer for China" have been held in the United States, Russia, Britain, Greece, South Africa, Japan, France and Brazil. Relying on the massive export of clothing, equipment, catering, gifts, toys, stationery and furniture produced in China, the cultural connotation of China incorporated into the products is also widely spread all over the world.

As UNESCO said in the Action Plan of Cultural Policy for Development (1998), "Development can be finally defined by the concept of culture, and the prosperity of culture is the highest goal of development." The achievements of cultural development with the characteristics of China and the times have not only benefited hundreds of millions of people in China, but also provided far-reaching enlightenment and valuable experience for the cultural development of mankind in the 2/kloc-0 century.