On The Functions Of City Spirit's Ideological And Political Education

Our country's city modernization is an important constituent of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. From a global perspective, the economic globalization also caused the competition in overall national strength which takes metropolitan coordinating region as its foundation and the expectation of enhancing city's competitive ability. The city spirit is an indispensable factor of the city's comprehensive competitive capability, is the core of city's soft power. To cultivate and carry forward the city spirit, cultivate the soft power of the economy growth, transform the culture advantages into the economy advantages, is the only way of the modern city's sustainable development.The realization of the city spirit's ideological and political education function, is the key issue which is directly related to the city spirit's ideological and political education's overall effectiveness and the city spirit's ideological and political education's value realization and even the city modernization drive's success. Therefore, the study about the city spirit's ideological and political education function and its realization has certain practical significance, and has certain instruction function to city spirit practice.This article is based on the results of the academic field's research to the city spirit specially the city spirit's ideological and political education function, further expounds the new understanding to the city spirit's ideological and political education function, hopes that my crude remarks may draw forth by abler people, cause attention to this topic, do deep research for the city spirit's ideological and political education function, give a more full play in the city spirit's ideological and political education function in practice.The paper's first part, unscrambles city spirit's connotation and elaborates its characteristic. The second part, elaborates the city spirit's ideological and political education function. The third part, elaborates the questions that why the city spirit's ideological and political education function far not full plays at present and analyzes its reasons. Finally, puts forward the proposal to how can fully play the city spirit's ideological and political education function.The city spirit has rich connotation, generally speaking, the city spirit should take the national spirit, the spirit of the age as the thought foundation, covers the humanities spirit, the collective spirit, the rational spirit and the opening spirit and so on. The city spirit has the characteristics of heterogeneity, mutual-infiltrator, integrity, dynamic, times. The city spirit's ideological and political education function, is refers to the city spirit can makes a positive contribution to ideological and political education to the resident and the entire society under the certain social historical condition. The city spirit ideological and political education has the guarantee function, the guidance function, the condensation function, the inspiration function, the standard function, also has the citizen politics quality raising function, the socialism democratic cultural reconstruction function, the socialism personality molding function, the social common benefits expression function, the political communication and the exchange channel function and so on.But at present the city spirit's ideological and political education function far not full play, in establishing the city spirit's process, in varying degrees, it still has such weaknesses as below: attaching importance to the city's material culture construction but being short of the city's spiritual culture reconstruction, neglecting the city spirit's ideological and political education function; paying attention to the city spirit's political function but minding least regards city spirit's ideological education function, the ideological and instructive content is obviously insufficient; the network culture's negative influence could not be counteracted, has affected the city spirit as ideological and political education dominant culture centripetal force and vanguard nature bring into play. Investigating its reason, from a rather macroscopic perspective, approximately may divide into social factor, the residents themselves factor and the city policy-maker's factor and so on.In order to fully play the city spirit's ideological and political education function, we must choice practical effective way from the subject, the object, the amboceptor and the environment four points, diligently improves resident's ideological and political quality. Firstly, to strengthen the city governor's aware consciousness and ability of playing city spirit's ideological and political education function. Secondly, to enhance the general public's independent status in city spirit's ideological and political education. Thirdly, to improve the methods and adjust contents of playing city spirit's ideological and political education function under the new situation. Fourthly, to pay attention to carrier and the hardware construction, to establish a good environment of city spirit's ideological and political education.