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It is necessary to adhere to the basic principles of Marxism combined with the concrete reality of China, combined with the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

The report of the 20th Party Congress pointed out that adherence to and development of Marxism must be combined with China's concrete realities and with China's excellent traditional culture. Since its birth, our Party has written Marxism distinctly on its flag.

The Party has begun the historical process of combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete realities, exploring nationalization and localization, and successfully opening up the right path to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the latest theoretical achievement of adhering to the two combinations.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party and the people have insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete realities, and in the process of creating great achievements of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and opening up a new realm for the modernization of the Chinese version of Marxism, they have distinctly emphasized the need to firmly assert cultural confidence, and have made a series of major decisions to promote creative transformation and innovative development of the outstanding traditional Chinese culture.

In July 2021, at a conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese ****anufacturing party, it was explicitly proposed to insist on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete realities, and with China's outstanding traditional culture.

Importance of adhering to the two combinations:

1. Adhering to the two combinations and realizing conformity and innovation is the fundamental way to promote the modernization of the Chineseization of Marxism in the new era. In practice, it is necessary to insist on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, to continuously promote the modernization of Marxism, to guide practice with developing Marxism, and to continuously enhance the persuasive power of theory, the guiding power of practice, and the penetrating power of effect.

2. Attention should be paid to preventing some erroneous tendencies. Dogmatism and bookishness is an erroneous tendency, which treats Marxism as a dogma and tailors China's reality with quotations from classic Marxist writers, instead of treating Marxism as a guide that directs us to solve practical problems. Narrow empiricism is also an erroneous tendency, which focuses only on concrete facts and superficial phenomena and ignores the importance of theoretical guidance.

3. Attention should be paid to preventing such erroneous tendencies as cultural retroism and historical nihilism. Cultural retroism tries to restore ancient cultural traditions while ignoring the changes and needs of modern society; historical nihilism denies the objectivity and regularity of history and tries to explain history by subjective imagination. These erroneous tendencies not only fail to realize correctness and innovation, but also lead to confusion of thought and lack of confidence in culture.