As China presses ahead with its drive toward socialist modernization, culture stands as a pillar of high-quality development, an essential foundation for meeting the people's aspirations for a better life, and a source of strength for overcoming risks and challenges.
While China's economy increasingly focuses on high-quality development, culture has become deeply integrated into every aspect of economic and social progress, fostering new drivers of growth, unleashing consumer vitality, and improving social governance.
This is according to a report titled The Theory of Cultural Empowerment: China's Cultural Consciousness in Marching Toward High-Quality Development, released by the Xinhua Institute on Thursday.
The spirit of innovation is an inherent virtue of China's rich traditional culture. Today, technological innovation has become a key engine of China's high-quality development. Moreover, the principle of "technology for good" ensures that technological applications genuinely improve people's well-being and promote social progress.
The vitality of cultural consumption is also being unleashed as new immersive and interactive consumption models continue to emerge. These include immersive exhibitions, digital museums, and artificial intelligence-powered cultural products.
Through the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture, China is effectively turning its cultural resource advantages into momentum for industrial growth. Cultural values endow the Chinese people with the confidence and resolve to pursue development.
Cultural confidence is the most fundamental, profound and enduring driving force for development. This strength enables the Chinese people to build fulfilling lives through dedication and hard work.
China also treats culture as a key pillar of effective governance. By strengthening cultural identity, it reinforces the foundations of social harmony amid the dynamic interaction of diverse cultures. Drawing wisdom from its rich traditions, China transforms cultural strength into governance efficiency.
Cultural values provide the Chinese people with the confidence and determination to pursue development. Cultural confidence is the deepest and most enduring driving force behind national progress. This strength enables the Chinese people to build fulfilling lives through dedication and hard work.
Importantly, empowering development through culture requires sound approaches. These include upholding value-oriented guidance to ensure that economic and social development advances in the right direction, prioritizing people-centered development by meeting the public's aspirations for a better life, and remaining committed to truth, integrity, and innovation.
A country prospers only when its culture prospers, and a nation grows strong only when its culture is strong. Countries around the world should draw upon their unique cultural resources in light of their national conditions, thereby strengthening the spiritual foundation and cultural confidence necessary for national development.
Reporter: M Razi Rahman
Editor: Yuni Arisandy Sinaga
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