Guangming Daily:

We all know that Shaanxi has accumulated a profound cultural significance. What measures and achievements has Shaanxi made in strengthening its cultural construction? Thank you.

Liu Guozhong:

Thank you. Mr. Wang Xiao, please answer this question.

Wang Xiao:

Thank you for your question. During his two visits to Shaanxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping placed high hopes on Shaanxi's cultural construction, assigned important tasks, pointed the way forward, and provided a fundamental guide for Shaanxi to strengthen its cultural self-confidence and build a culturally strong province.The Shaanxi Provincial CPC Committee and the provincial government will keep in mind the earnest entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, enhance the "Four Consciousnesses" (consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment), strengthen the "Four Self-confidences" (confidence in the socialist path, theories, system, and culture), and achieve the "Two Upholds" (upholding General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and the CPC as a whole and upholding the CPC Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership), and give full play to Shaanxi's advantages in unique cultural resources and a profound cultural accumulation. Additionally, we will continue to promote Chinese excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture in order for it to take root, develop, inherit, and sublimate in Shaanxi, the land of the ancient Three Qins. In our practice of striving to compose a new chapter in the new era of Shaanxi to catch up and go beyond, we will write Shaanxi's chapter in the journey of building China into a strong cultural power. Our work is mainly reflected in the following four aspects:

First, we continue to work hard and strive to hold high the banner of ideology and to strengthen the Party's innovative theoretical arms. Shaanxi has the historical and political advantages of studying, promoting, and implementing the Party's innovative theories. We have learned and used the Party's experiences and practices in learning, promoting, and implementing Mao Zedong Thought, and unremittingly used Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite our hearts and build our souls. We made good use of the columns such as "Under the Guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" set up by Shaanxi Daily and the Shaanxi Broadcasting Corporation; constructed a theory dissemination matrix for newspapers, magazines, TV, radio channels, networks, social media, mobile apps, and billboards; and improved the theory popularization work system so as to explain the latest achievements of the Party's theoretical innovation clearly and sincerely and to educate and guide the cadres and the public to combine the "love" for General Secretary Xi Jinping with the "trust" in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Finally, we will strive to contribute to Shaanxi's promotion of the Party's innovative theories in the new era.

Second, we continue to work hard and strive to build the red soul and inherit the revolutionary culture. Shaanxi possesses valuable cultural wealth such as the Yan'an Spirit that will illuminate the future. We have steadily carried out publicity and education of the Party's centenary and the study and education of Party's history, deeply explored the connotation of the Yan'an Spirit, gave full play to the advantages of red resources in places such as Yan'an, Zhaojin, and Malan, vigorously promoted revolutionary culture, strengthened revolutionary traditional education, brought 1,224 immovable revolutionary cultural relics and 104,000 pieces of movable revolutionary cultural relics in the province to life, continuously unleashed the work effects on revolutionary cultural relics through connecting points, lines, belts, and regions, and strived to make Shaanxi's contributions to the inheritance and promotion of the spiritual pedigree of China's communists.

Third, we continue to work hard and strive to grasp the new era and build an advanced socialist culture. Shaanxi has a cultural tradition of "creating literature and arts for the people, creating literature and arts for the time, and cherishing the literature and arts for their innovation." We have insisted on guiding cultural construction with the core values of socialism, deepened the supply-side structural reforms in cultural fields, intensified the creation of cultural works with major realistic themes and revolutionary themes; expanded the influences of cultural brands such as the "Shaanxi Literary Army," "Chang'an Painting School," "Western China's Films and TV Series," "Shaanxi Operas"; and broke through the chain of "literary creation - film and television scripts - literature and art works"; presented a batch of TV and film smash hits and masterpieces such as "Stage Builder," "Liu Qing," "Forever Young," and "The Cradle"; innovatively implemented cultural projects benefiting the people and continued to improve the construction level of the new-era civilized practice stations and county-level media convergence centers; strengthened foreign cultural exchanges and cooperation; and strived to make Shaanxi's contributions to the development of advanced socialist culture.

Fourth, we continue to work hard and strive to build deep cultural roots and promote excellent traditional Chinese culture. Shaanxi has unique, profound, and excellent Chinese traditional cultural resources. We insist that both are important for protection and inheritance, as well as for providing demonstration and guidance. We guarded and revitalized Shaanxi's historical and cultural heritages, strengthened the protection and utilization of cultural relics, implemented national archaeological projects such as "Archaeology in China" and the "Project to Trace the Origins of Chinese Civilization," and promoted the construction of major projects such as the Great Wall National Cultural Park, the Long March National Cultural Park, and the Yellow River National Cultural Park (Shaanxi section). We have built four national archaeological heritage parks, promoted the protection and inheritance of the intangible cultural heritage of the Yellow River Basin, refined and displayed the spiritual symbols of the excellent Chinese traditional culture, and strived to make Shaanxi's contributions to safeguarding the cultural roots of the Chinese nation.

Thank you!