Contemporary Chinese People's Spiritual And Cultural Needs Study

Mankind has not only material needs but also spiritual and cultural needs, which is only belonged to man. The spiritual and cultural needs, as mankind's higher needs which is one of the differences from the animal kingdom, is the emblem of mankind being the master of nature world. It originated from man's social practice and labor, and has been changing and developing along with the development of social economy, politic and culture, etc. Richness and colorfulness, wholesomeness and rationality of the spiritual and cultural life is the very ideal that mankind has been pursuing for. This thesis applies for Marxism theory of needs to analyze the main characteristics and the developing tendency of people's spiritual and cultural needs in contemporary China, and puts forward some countermeasures and proposals on the problem of how to more efficiently satisfy and guide people's spiritual and cultural needs in order to make it to develop wholesomely and rationally. It concludes four parts. In the first part, I expound and analyze Marx and Engels' theory of needs and the application and development of it, and clarify that Marx and Engels' theory of needs is the scientific methodology and the theory guide for us to study the issue of people's spiritual and cultural needs; In the second part, I expound the relationship between people's spiritual and cultural needs and cultural and ideological progress, introduce the definition and intention of spiritual and cultural needs and the significance for cultural and ideological progress, and clarify that spiritual and cultural needs is the starting point and foothold of cultural and ideological progress; In the third part, I mainly introduce the new change, characteristics and tendency of people's spiritual and cultural needs in contemporary China since practicing reform and opening up policies and analyze the economic, political and cultural reason; In the forth part, I put forward some countermeasures and proposals on the problem of how to more efficiently satisfy and guide people's spiritual and cultural needs such as upholding and developing Marxist theory , strengthening lofty ideal and faith and socialism morality construction, developing education and science undertakings, quickening development of culture industry, flourishing socialism culture and art to satisfy people's spiritual and cultural needs, and raising people's quality and accomplishment of ideology, culture and art, guiding culture consumption, standardizing the culture market and purifying cyber culture, etc to guide people's spiritual and cultural needs.