How to understand Shanghai's core values

Practicing the socialist core value system and promoting the construction of Shanghai's international metropolis

The "Decision" deliberated and adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly puts forward the grand goal of building a socialist cultural power, which is a major strategic deployment made by the CPC Central Committee during the critical period of China's reform and development. Seriously studying and implementing the "Decision" of the Central Committee and striving to implement the implementation opinions will certainly play an important role in promoting the great development and prosperity of Shanghai culture.

First, vigorously practice the socialist core value system.

Culture is the soul of the whole economic and social development, and value orientation is the soul of culture. The Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee put forward the task of building a socialist core value system, and this time it emphasized this task, which pointed out the direction for our cultural construction and had far-reaching significance.

(A) actively advocate the value orientation of "justice". Justice means upholding fairness, justice and fairness. Democracy and the rule of law are the foundation of justice. As the ruling party, in order to safeguard justice, we must first insist on building the party for the public, especially pay attention to correcting all violations of laws and systems, change the unreasonable system that violates the principle of justice in reality, and strive to create a better institutional space for narrowing the distribution gap and improving the lives of low-income groups. To achieve justice, we must actively advocate it in social atmosphere and interpersonal relationships. Cadres should be fair, public opinion should uphold justice, and citizens should be fair, forming a social atmosphere of advocating justice, pursuing decency, maintaining rules, observing order, and treating people equally, thus making justice a basic value concept deeply rooted in people's hearts.

(2) Actively advocate the value orientation of "tolerance". The basis of tolerance is to respect and safeguard the rights of citizens. Tolerance requires self-confidence. Tolerance is not to avoid contradictions, but to put yourself in the shoes and solve them with a rational attitude. In the period of rapid social transformation, only by mutual understanding and respect, seeking stability in change and winning in development can we seize the opportunity period of development and get through the period of prominent contradictions. It is the tradition of Shanghai, an immigrant city, and it is also the advantage of Shanghai. Leading cadres at all levels should bear in mind that "the free development of everyone is the condition for the free development of all people" put forward in the Manifesto of the Productive Party and encourage the exchange of ideas; Adhere to the mass viewpoint and mass line, and do mass work patiently. Comrades on the cultural front, especially journalists, should use their works to promote understanding and exchanges among all social strata and groups.

(3) Actively advocate the value orientation of "responsibility". Rights and responsibilities are born correspondingly. Individuals should be responsible for family, work and society. Similarly, units should bear contractual or statutory responsibilities to their members and society, and the government should bear responsibilities to citizens and the state. The prosperity of the country is closely related to every citizen, and citizens' participation in politics is both a right and a responsibility. As a member of the ruling party, especially leading cadres, they should seek their own politics, exercise their rights, fulfill their responsibilities, be responsible for history, the masses, their own lives and assume the responsibility of investigating dereliction of duty.

(D) Actively advocate the value orientation of "honesty". Honesty is the cornerstone of social trust and the quality of people's free development. From the perspective of governance, credibility is the foundation of public power. "Seeking truth from facts" is the embodiment of the values of honesty in our party's ideological line. We should inherit, adhere to and develop these good styles, tell the truth, do practical things, talk less, avoid and cover up difficulties, problems and mistakes, treat everything honestly, and lead the value orientation of society with the integrity of the party and the government. We should create legal conditions and public opinion environment in which honesty and trustworthiness are respected, fraud and dishonesty are punished and spurned, and do a solid institutional foundation for the value orientation of honesty.

Values are the soul of culture, which permeates all kinds of literary works and even our words, deeds and policy orientations. The value orientation of putting people's interests above all else, the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, the work style of close contact with the masses, criticism and self-criticism, the collectivism spirit of unity and struggle, the noble character of strict discipline and courage to sacrifice personal interests are our party's precious assets. Adhering to and carrying forward this kind of values determines the future of the party and also affects the future of the Chinese nation.

Second, further inherit and carry forward the cultural characteristics of Shanghai.

In cultural construction, we can't cut off history and lose our souls. Historically, Shanghai has Majiabang culture 6000 years ago, Songze culture 5000 years ago and Liangzhu culture 4000 years ago. Especially in modern times, after 160 years, Shanghai has experienced the intersection and fusion of Chinese and western cultures and the collision and fusion of immigrant cultures, forming a unique cultural style and characteristics of pursuing Excellence.

Such as the characteristics of openness. Shanghai used to be the main gateway for western powers to invade China, and was objectively forced to break the self-enclosed state of feudal culture earlier. Ideas and cultures from all over the world have poured in, and Chinese and western cultures have collided here. Many new ideas and cultures have been bred here and then spread to the whole country. Another example is the characteristics of diversity. World and native, modernity and tradition, elegance and mass, commerce and public welfare, and cultural products with different formats, forms and varieties can all take root, sprout, blossom and bear fruit in Shanghai, and various cultural elements can learn from each other's strong points and eliminate the fittest in comparison. Another example is to seek new functions. Shanghai is rich in cultural essence, and once took the lead in movies, publishing, newspapers, symphonies and operas. Thanks to the deep blending of "Red Cradle" and "Frontiers of Reform and Opening-up", the Party's views on the masses and the thought of seeking truth from facts have lasted for a long time and played a leading role in the process of seeking innovation and change in Shanghai. Another example is pragmatic features. Shanghainese pursue inner quality, perfection in details of works, perfection in forms of expression and adherence to contractual order. For more than a hundred years, it is precisely because Shanghainese have inherited and carried forward these cultural characteristics that they have created the development and prosperity of Shanghai culture and supported the rise of Shanghai's economic center city.

At present, to build Shanghai into a "four centers" and an international cultural metropolis, we must cherish and make good use of these cultural resources and advantages, absorb outstanding cultural achievements at home and abroad with a broader mind, encourage the integration of various cultural elements, and continuously enhance the radiation and influence of culture; It is necessary to establish the self-confidence of Shanghai's urban culture and vigorously carry forward the characteristics of innovation and pragmatism, courage to be the first, forge ahead, diligence and pragmatism, and pursuit of Excellence. With a high degree of cultural consciousness and self-confidence, Shanghai culture will continue to glow with new light and walk in the forefront of national cultural development and prosperity.

Third, strive to grasp the focus of building an international cultural metropolis.

Our goal is to build Shanghai into an international cultural metropolis with concentrated cultural elements, good cultural ecology, prosperous cultural undertakings, developed cultural industries, active cultural innovation, rich cultural talents, frequent cultural exchanges and colorful cultural life by 2020. To achieve this goal, we must make unremitting efforts for a long time.

It is necessary to create a good environment and enhance cultural originality. Cultural originality depends on cultural workers, and to enhance the originality of urban culture, we must first care for and care for cultural workers. We should respect their individuality, their creation and labor, listen carefully, meet frankly, make friends, gather the vast majority of people around the party to the maximum extent, and create a lively, relaxed and inclusive cultural atmosphere. Cultural workers also have feelings and need spiritual comfort and humanistic care. Our governments and cultural managers at all levels should draw closer to their hearts with enthusiasm and sincerity and solve their practical problems with appropriate policies and mechanisms. It is particularly important to note that while paying attention to high-end talents, we should also pay attention to grassroots cultural workers and comrades who can stand loneliness and make great efforts for cultural infrastructure construction for a long time, and truly respect labor, knowledge, talents and creation.

Efforts should be made to improve culture and people's livelihood. Culture is not only an important support for economic and social development, but also an important connotation of people's spiritual and cultural life. The key to safeguarding and improving people's culture and people's livelihood is to safeguard the basic cultural rights and interests of the people, including those who come to Shanghai, and constantly improve the supply of basic public cultural services with public welfare, basicity, equality and convenience, so that the broad masses of the people can truly enjoy the fruits of cultural reform and development; We should respect the diversified and multi-level needs of healthy culture, be close to reality, life and the masses, so that all kinds of cultural projects and products can play a greater role, so that all kinds of people can get their place in the cultural development and prosperity; Pay attention to the construction of forward-looking, functional and world-class cultural facilities, build various international cultural exchange platforms, and constantly meet the new needs and expectations of citizens and friends at home and abroad for Shanghai's high-level spiritual and cultural life.

Vigorously develop pillar cultural and creative industries. Judging from the development history of international cultural metropolises such as London and new york, the cultural industry based on creativity and technology will become a new driving force and engine for economic and social development. Shanghai's cultural and creative industries not only have a solid foundation and are ready to go, but also have good conditions for leapfrog development. Cultural and creative industries should be regarded as an important starting point to realize innovation-driven and transformational development, further optimize the layout, promote the organic interaction of cultural production factors, market information and service networks, and maximize the agglomeration effect and scale benefits of cultural and creative factors; Further promote integration, promote the integration and development of science and technology, finance, trade and cultural and creative industries, and continuously improve the development level of cultural and creative industries; Further cultivate the market, warmly encourage all kinds of social resources and private economy to enter the field of cultural and creative industries, and actively support all kinds of market players to develop and grow in Shanghai; Further construction of bases, focusing on the construction of cultural, leisure and tourism bases such as the World Expo area and Shanghai International Tourism Resort; To further build brands, we should not only reshape and boost Shanghai's existing influential cultural brands at home and abroad, but also cultivate and build a number of new brands of literary and artistic creation, cultural activities and cultural products; Do everything possible to create an environment for the development of cultural and creative enterprises, especially give full play to the basic role of various cultural enterprises in attracting talents, and strive to make Shanghai a fertile ground for cultural talents at home and abroad to innovate and start businesses and realize their dreams.