‘Enhance cohesion, appeal of socialist ideology’

BEIJING—A senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official has stressed the need to “enhance the cohesion and appeal of the socialist ideology” and ensure the public’s “basic cultural rights” partly by promoting the free opening of museums and memorials to the masses.
The Party should enthusiastically explore effective ways of using socialist core values to lead the current social and ideological trends, Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, said recently during talks with CPC publicity officials, government officials and scholars in Beijing and Tianjin.
The country should gear up for the reform of the cultural system to meet the masses’ increasing demand for cultural consumption, Li said.
A public cultural service system should be built and the grass roots’ cultural infrastructure construction should be strengthened to guarantee the people’s basic cultural rights, Li said.
He ordered that the cultural industry should be “vigorously developed” to achieve prosperity of the cultural market and satisfy people’s diverse needs.
“Cultural innovation should be enhanced. New and high technologies should be resorted to advance modes of cultural production and cultivate new cultural fields,” Li said, adding that the Internet’s cultural construction and regulation should be boosted for a sound online environment.
A cultural “go global” strategy should be strengthened to expand the export of cultural products and services and enhance the nation’s “soft power”, he said.
The official said various “publicity brigades” would go among the public, mass media and the Internet would be used, and lectures would be held, to spread to the public the spirit of the 17th CPC National Congress. As its main political task for the time being, the entire Communist Party of China (CPC) should study and faithfully implement the essence of the just-concluded 17th CPC National Congress, a senior CPC official said here on Monday.
Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remarks when he met with members of a CPC delegation who will go around the country to promote the study and implementation of the essence of the congress.
The delegation will give its first lecture on Nov. 5, and its members will fan out across the country to deliver more lectures starting from Nov. 6.
Li told the delegation members to publicize the essence of the congress comprehensively, accurately and intensively.
The delegation members should focus their lectures on the theme of the congress, explaining the great historical cause and the invaluable experience of reform and opening up, the Scientific Outlook on Development, the new requirements for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and the overall arrangements for the four-in-one economic, political, cultural and social development, Li said.
Present at the meeting were CPC Central Committee Publicity Department head Liu Yunshan and State Councilor Chen Zhili.

—Daily Mail, People’s Daily news exchange item