Hu Jintao Culture Development Thought Research

Under the background of cultural diversity and economic globalization, cultureis increasingly becoming an important factor in competition in comprehensivenational strength, according to the modernization construction of our country, it hasbecome a major issue that constructing socialist advanced culture with Chinesecharacteristics, meeting the people’s growing spiritual and cultural requirementscurrently.Since the16th CPC National Congress, standing on the height of the historyand the era, based on the cultural construction requirements of the current reality andcombined with China’s basic national conditions, the CPC Central Committee withHu Jintao as general secretary has carried out a series of cultural practices andproposed many important thesis about building a socialist harmonious culture, softpower of culture and development and prosperity of culture, which systematicallyformed major strategic thoughts on cultural development.Based on analysis of HuJintao’ s formation background of cultural development so that to sort out theformation of Hu Jintao’ s cultural development thoughts systematically, explain themain content of his cultural development and sum up the theoretical contributionsand practical value in building socialism with Chinese characteristics.Namely: Thebasis of his theory is Hu Jintao’s formation background of cultural development,Marxist cultural theory, three generations of leaders of the Party’s basic theory aboutcultural construction, and ideological essence of traditional Chinese culture and thespirit and essence of advanced Western culture.The main content of his theory is thestatus of cultural development, strategy and objectives, subject and relying force,source of power, direction of the path and safeguard measures；His theoreticalcontributions and practical value is lied in enrich and develop the concept ofscientific development,theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristicsand the cultural development thoughts of Marxist, promote the transformation aboutthe mode of economic development in China, meet the spiritual and cultural needs ofthe Chinese people at higher degree, strengthen the creativity power, influencepower and cohesion power of Chinese culture, improve China’s internationalcompetitiveness.