By studying history, we gain clarity, build confidence, cultivate virtue, and put knowledge into practice. Standing at the historical juncture of the “Two Centenaries,” we look back on our journey of struggle past and gaze forward toward the path of vigorous advancement ahead.

Tongfang Law Firm provides all its lawyers with learning opportunities in the form of micro-party classes, thereby enhancing their ideological and political awareness as well as their spirit of learning and inquiry. By establishing a long-term educational mechanism, the firm has created a new platform for self-education and self-improvement.

Firmly upholding cultural confidence is a major issue that concerns the rise and fall of our nation, the security of our culture, and the independence of our national spirit. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: Cultural confidence is a form of confidence that is more fundamental, more widespread, and deeper in its roots—a force that is more essential, more profound, and more enduring. Xi Jinping’s thought on culture has enriched and developed Marxist cultural theory, marking a new height in our Party’s understanding of the laws governing the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It also demonstrates that our Party’s historical confidence and cultural confidence have reached a new level. We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping’s Thought on Culture, further strengthen our cultural confidence, promote the prosperity and flourishing of culture, and rally powerful spiritual strength to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Forge cultural confidence by embracing our new cultural mission. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Continuing to promote cultural prosperity, build a culturally strong nation, and construct a modern civilization of the Chinese nation from a new starting point is our new cultural mission in the new era.” Without the active guidance of advanced culture, without the profound enrichment of the people’s spiritual world, and without the continuous strengthening of the nation’s spiritual strength, no country and no nation could possibly stand tall among the world’s nations. The Communist Party of China has consistently integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with China’s outstanding traditional culture, constantly enriching and developing Marxism through practice, and thus forging a path of cultural development with Chinese characteristics for socialism. Since the advent of the new era, our Party has led the people in continually consolidating the material foundations of modernization and steadily enhancing the material conditions for a happy life for the people. At the same time, we have vigorously developed advanced socialist culture, carried forward the splendid heritage of Chinese civilization, and promoted the flourishing development of advanced socialist culture. To firmly uphold cultural confidence is to stay committed to charting our own course. We must closely focus on comprehensively advancing the building of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization, uphold the fundamental institutional framework of Marxism’s guiding role in the ideological sphere, respond to the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, develop advanced socialist culture, continuously enrich the spiritual world of the people, ensure that all the people always possess a solid ideological foundation for unity and struggle, an enterprising and proactive spirit, and healthy and uplifting value pursuits, and strive to drive cultural innovation and courageously shoulder our new cultural mission in the new era.

Enhance cultural confidence by carrying forward China’s outstanding traditional culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must be adept at drawing on the essence and汲取ing energy from the treasure house of Chinese culture, maintaining high confidence in our own cultural ideals and cultural values, and sustaining strong confidence in the vitality and creativity of our own culture.” China’s outstanding traditional culture is the crystallization of wisdom and the essence of Chinese civilization; it embodies the collective memory and spirit of the Chinese nation. It serves as a solid foundation enabling us to stand firm amid the vigorous currents of world cultures, and provides us with powerful backing for enhancing cultural awareness and bolstering cultural confidence. The principles of governance, moral concepts, humanistic spirit, and modes of thinking found in China’s outstanding traditional culture offer us abundant intellectual resources for unswervingly following the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To uphold the roots of China’s outstanding traditional culture, we must delve deeply into its precious ideological and cultural resources, continuously distill its outstanding elements and core ideas, draw nourishment and inspiration from them, and provide a profound cultural foundation and robust impetus for building a modern Chinese civilization. We must adhere to the principle of inheriting while developing and developing through inheritance, thoroughly explore the contemporary value of China’s outstanding traditional culture, promote its creative transformation and innovative development, ensure that it better adapts to the needs of modern Chinese civilization, and enable China’s outstanding traditional culture to radiate new vitality and dynamism in today’s society.

Demonstrate cultural confidence through exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The richness and diversity are the very essence of human civilization. Precisely because each country has its own unique history, culture, and system, it is essential to engage in exchanges and mutual learning, draw on each other’s strengths, and make common progress.” Exchange and mutual learning among civilizations serve as a vital driving force for advancing human civilization. Throughout history, Chinese civilization has continuously revitalized itself by embracing and integrating the achievements of other civilizations. In the new era, China has put forward the Global Civilization Initiative, emphasizing the promotion of diversity in world civilizations, the upholding of shared values for all humanity, and the strengthening of cultural and people-to-people exchanges and cooperation. This initiative aims to foster a vibrant environment where different civilizations can thrive and flourish together, ensuring that the torch of human civilization is passed on from generation to generation. We actively promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, continually deepening our exchanges and mutual learning with civilizations around the world, and contributing Chinese wisdom and solutions to addressing global challenges. As a result, China’s international influence, appeal, and ability to shape global discourse have significantly increased. On the path ahead, we must further strengthen exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, tell China’s story well, and more proactively learn from and draw upon all outstanding achievements created by humanity. By reaching out to the world and drawing on the best of others, we can better advance the development and progress of Chinese civilization and continue to create new glories for Chinese culture.