Strengthening cultural self-confidence is a major issue related to the rise and fall of the country's fortunes, cultural security, and national spiritual independence.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence, and a more basic, deeper and more lasting force.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) regarded the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, together with the path, theory and system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, as an important part of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and emphasized the need to strengthen it

The "four self-confidences" reflect the great deepening of our party's understanding of the status and role of culture, and fully reflect our party's high degree of cultural consciousness and cultural responsibility.

To strengthen self-confidence in the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, theoretical self-confidence, and institutional self-confidence, in the final analysis, is to strengthen cultural self-confidence.

In the course of thousands of years of historical changes, generations of Chinese sons and daughters have cultivated and developed a unique, broad and profound Chinese culture, which has provided strong spiritual support for the Chinese nation to overcome difficulties and continue to thrive.

History and reality have repeatedly shown that only when a country or a nation is full of confidence in its own cultural ideals and values, and full of confidence in its own cultural vitality and creativity, can it have the determination to persevere, the courage to rise up, and the vitality to innovate and create.

A nation that has abandoned or betrayed its own history and culture will not only be unable to develop, but is also likely to stage one historical tragedy after another.

When it comes to cultural self-confidence, there are good reasons and sufficient confidence. The socialist culture with Chinese characteristics originates from the excellent traditional Chinese culture nurtured by the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation, is fused with the revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture created by the people under the leadership of the Party in revolution, construction and reform, and is rooted in the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The broad, profound, splendid and brilliant traditional Chinese culture has accumulated the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, contains the most fundamental spiritual genes of the Chinese nation, and represents the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation, which not only provides rich nourishment for the development and growth of the Chinese nation, but also makes outstanding contributions to the progress of human civilization.

This is the foundation of our strong cultural self-confidence. The passionate revolutionary culture and the vigorous advanced socialist culture are the condensation and sublimation of China's excellent traditional culture, the vivid embodiment of the great creative spirit of the Chinese communists and the Chinese people, and a powerful spiritual force that inspires the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country to forge ahead bravely.

This is a strong cornerstone of our cultural self-confidence. Since the beginning of reform and opening up, our party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unremittingly carry out the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and pushed China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength to the forefront of the world, so that scientific socialism will show strong vitality in the 21 st century, and the Chinese nation will stand tall in the east of the world with a new attitude.

This is a strong support for our strong cultural self-confidence. Today, when socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is ushering in a bright future, to strengthen cultural self-confidence and develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, we must adhere to Marxism, firmly establish the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, cultivate and practice the core values of socialism, continuously enhance the leading power and discourse power in the ideological field, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, inherit the revolutionary culture, and develop the advanced socialist culture. Don't forget the original, absorb foreign countries, and face the future, better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and provide spiritual guidance for the people.