The New Century, The Chinese Communist Party National Cultural Security Strategy Analysis

In the new century, the booming globalization is making the possibility of exchanges between different cultures and the intensity of collision between them keep increasing. As a kind of "soft power" compared with "hard power" such as military and economy, culture is no doubt reaching to a more prominent position. At the same time, the encounter of the strong culture of the leaders of globalization and the weak culture of developing countries also inevitably results in the national cultural security problems of the comparatively weak nations, including China. Facing the status of China's cultural security in the new century, the Communist Party of China, as the main inheritor of the Chinese national spirit and the highest style of it, is undoubtedly responsible for leading and ensuring the country's culture security. As the ruling party, it is also a major test for its governance capacity to lead and ensure the country's cultural security.As a matter of fact, the CPC and its leaders have gradually formed and developed their own strategic thinking of national cultural security by continuing to draw theoretical nourishment and constantly integrating their theory with characteristics of the times in the long practice of revolution and construction. This thinking has a theoretical characteristic of the same strain. During the Mao Zedong era, the ideological struggle and the fight with peaceful evolution were highly valued, a series of principles and policies on building a socialist new culture were proposed as well as the lessons were learned on both positive and negative aspects of safeguarding the national cultural security, which all had laid a basis for the CPC's strategic thinking of national cultural security. During the Deng Xiaoping era, the strategy on culture had been changed from closed defense to open competition, the important role of high spiritual civilization for cultural security had been defined and the long-term goals of"three orientations on education"and"citizens who have high ideals, moral integrity, a good education and a strong sense of discipline"had been set, which gave the CPC's strategic thinking of national cultural security a rudimentary form. In the turn of the century, the Party's third generation of collective leadership with JiangZemin at the core further developed the CPC's strategic thinking of national cultural security by completing the words change on cultural construction, laying a broad base of new security concept and indicating the direction of advanced culture through their positive response to the changing international and domestic situation after Cold War. In the new century, the Party Central Committee with HuJintao as general secretary enriched the CPC's strategic thinking of national cultural security on the basis of inheriting the results of previous thinking, which developed the theory and practice to further ensure the national culture security, established the goal to promote great development and prosperity of socialist culture and put forward the strategic vision to build socialist core value system.In practice, to further ensure the safety of our culture, it is necessary to fully understand the internal strengths and weaknesses as well as the external opportunities and threats of our national cultural security. Through analysis that in the new century China's strength on cultural security are: objectively the continuous increase of our comprehensive national power; subjectively the higher awareness of cultural security from the national level to the general public level; the great achievements made on the national cultural construction from practice aspect. The coexistent weaknesses with the strengths above are the lagging behind of the cultural reform, the popularity of the non-mainstream culture and the spread of the less ideological tendency. From an external point of view, globalization, market and information have brought a golden opportunity to the Chinese culture. But at the same time, the invasion of the western strong culture, the intentional "Westernization" strategy of the Hegemonic countries and the robbery by foreign countries of China's cultural resources also posed great challenges and threats to China's national cultural security. Great attention and careful analysis should be paid to all of the above, and only so can further develop the national cultural security strategy and measures meeting the actual needs of China.The key point of national cultural security is cultural construction and only the advanced culture is the safe one. In the new century,"Adhere to the orientation of advanced socialist culture"and "Improve the country's cultural soft power" which were put forward by the Party Central Committee with HuJintao as general secretary on the national cultural security should be followed as the maximum program to develop China's cultural security strategy countermeasures. In the perspective of advanced culture construction and focused on both the inside and outside situation of China's cultural security, the strategy countermeasure will be clear. Firstly, a solid foundation of advanced culture should be laid by strengthening the strength and seizing the opportunities, such as consolidating the basis of the national cultural security, vigorously developing cultural undertakings and cultural industries and actively promoting the cultural perspective of "harmony without uniformity". Secondly, the innovation of advanced culture should be led by strengthening the strength and facing the threats, such as carrying forward the fine traditional culture of Chinese nation, drawing useful experience of other countries in safeguarding national cultural safety and implementing a comprehensive innovative on cultural development. Thirdly, the construction of advanced culture should be promoted by making up for the weaknesses and seizing the opportunities, such as further promoting the reform of the cultural system, hardly promoting the advancement of the culture and strengthening the socialist core value system. The last, the development of advanced culture should be ensured by making up for the weaknesses and facing the threats, such as strengthening the Party's leadership over the work of national cultural security, fully protecting the national cultural resources and establishing a scientific early warning mechanism of national cultural security. Ultimately the security of the national culture can be ensured.