How to cultivate and promote socialist core values

Core values are the soul of cultural soft power and the focus of cultural soft power construction. They are the deepest elements that determine the nature and direction of culture. The cultural soft power of a country depends fundamentally on the vitality, cohesion and appeal of its core values. Cultivating and promoting core values and effectively integrating social consciousness is an important way for social systems to function properly and for social order to be effectively maintained, as well as an important aspect of a country's governance system and ability to govern. History and reality have shown that the construction of core values with a strong appeal is related to social harmony and stability, and the long-term stability of the country.

First, the cultivation and promotion of socialist core values must be based on the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Solid core values have their inherent fundamentals. Abandonment of tradition and loss of fundamentals is tantamount to cutting off one's spiritual lifeblood. The vast and profound Chinese excellent traditional culture is the foundation for us to stand firm in the world's cultural turbulence. Chinese culture has a long history, has accumulated the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, represents the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation, and provides a rich nourishment for the Chinese nation's continuous growth and development. Traditional Chinese virtues are the essence of Chinese culture and contain rich ideological and moral resources. It is only by not forgetting the past that we can open up the future, and by inheriting well that we can innovate better. For the historical culture, especially the values and moral norms inherited from the ancestors, we should insist on using the past for the present and promoting the new, treating it with discrimination, inheriting it with abandonment, and endeavoring to use all the spiritual wealth created by the Chinese nation to educate the people with culture and nurture them with literature.

Secondly, we need to make clear the historical origin, development and basic direction of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and the unique creation, values and distinctive features of Chinese culture, so as to enhance the cultural self-confidence and value self-confidence. We should earnestly draw on the ideological and moral essence of Chinese fine traditional culture, vigorously carry forward the national spirit with patriotism at its core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation at its core, and y excavate and expound the contemporary value of Chinese fine traditional culture that emphasizes benevolence and love, emphasizes the people's principle, abides by the principle of honesty and integrity, respects justice, and seeks peace and harmony and unity, so as to make Chinese fine traditional culture become an important source for the nourishment of the core values of socialism. To deal with the relationship between inheritance and creative development, focusing on creative transformation and innovative development.

The core socialist values should be carried through all aspects of social life. Through education and guidance, public opinion propaganda, cultural cultivation, practical training, and institutional safeguards, socialist core values should be internalized into people's spiritual pursuit and externalized into people's conscious actions. The power of example is infinite, the majority of party members and cadres must take the lead in learning and promoting the core socialist values, with their own exemplary behavior and noble personality to inspire the masses, drive the masses. We must start with the children, start with the school, and make it into the teaching materials, into the classroom, into the mind. To be silent, the use of all kinds of cultural forms, vivid and concrete expression of the core socialist values, with high quality and high level of work image to tell people what is the truth, goodness and beauty, what is false, evil and ugly, what is worthy of affirmation and praise, what is necessary to oppose and negate.

Thirdly, for a value to be truly effective, it must be integrated into social life so that people can perceive it and comprehend it in practice. We must pay attention to what we advocate and people's daily lives are closely linked, in the details, small, implementation efforts. In accordance with the basic requirements of socialist core values, we should improve the rules and regulations of all walks of life, and improve the codes of conduct such as citizens' conventions, township rules and regulations, and students' codes of conduct, so as to make socialist core values the basic guidelines for people's daily work and life. It is necessary to establish and standardize some ceremonial systems, organize and carry out various forms of commemorative and celebratory activities to disseminate mainstream values and enhance people's sense of identity and belonging. The requirements of socialist core values should be integrated into various spiritual civilization creation activities, attracting broad participation by the public, and promoting people to raise their spirituality and cultivate civilization in the process of seeking happiness for their families, sending warmth to others, and contributing to society. It is important to utilize a variety of opportunities and occasions to form a life scenario and social atmosphere conducive to the cultivation and promotion of socialist core values, so that the influence of core values is as omnipresent as the air, all the time.

Fourth, to play a policy-oriented role, so that economic, political, cultural, social and other aspects of policy are conducive to the cultivation of socialist core values. The law should be used to promote the construction of core values. All kinds of social management should take up the responsibility of advocating socialist core values, focusing on value orientation in daily management, so that behaviors in line with core values are encouraged and behaviors contrary to core values are constrained.