On The Experience And Enlightenment Of The Chinese Communist Party’s Model Culture Construction In The Seventeen Years After The Founding Of The Nation

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China includes developing a strong socialist culture in China into the complete building of a moderately prosperous society as a part and important task, emphasizes paragons’essential effect on building of advanced culture, and clearly puts forward:"We should conduct more public activities to promote cultural and ethical progress... and carry out regular activities to learn from paragons of virtue such as Lei Feng and publicize their exemplary deeds." Paragons are outstanding representatives recognized by authorities to lead the social trend, promote public opinions and main value, and be propagated for the public to follow and learn in a specific historic period. Paragons are extremely powerful, as paragons and their culture usually demonstrate the spirit of the time vividly and intensively, and exert varied functions such as value leading, moralizing and educating people, inspiring enthusiasm and encouragement, and social integration. It’s inevitable requirement for developing a strong socialist culture as well as important road for improving nation quality and leading social trend to enhance the building of paragon culture, innovate paragon culture building modes, exert the demonstration effect of advanced representatives, and turn outstanding representatives’moral strength into the "positive energy" of the whole society.After 17 years the founding of China, Communist Party of China had creatively learned the excellent tradition of paragon building in the history of the Party, especially the brilliant points of paragon building and ideological and political education in Yan’an Period. In consequence, the party got various significant accomplishment, such as achieving the establishment of socialist paragon cultural opinions, developing plenty of paragons, concentrating paragon spirit, starting up paragon material culture building, and bringing up proper social mood, etc. Plenty of valuable historic experiences have been summarized, including the creation of two-way interactive building system based on the leading and driving between advanced culture and paragon culture, emphasis on the digging of paragon spirit essence, active discovery and development of paragons, the paragon selection road which insists in from the masses, to the masses, integration of sublimity and realness in concluding and propagating paragons, the paragon education mechanism integrated of Party members and cadres demonstration, paragon exampling and low-performance example caution, and the use of flexible and diversified propaganda mode to take advantage of the radiation and guidance effects of paragons. Such experience offers vital inspiration for the current building of socialist paragon culture:The current building of paragon culture should go deep in reality and educate the public with representative from them;improve the long-term mechanism of paragon education, and keep the sustainability of paragon life; Engage paragon education into specific activities, and reinforce the attraction and infectivity of paragons; Go in line with the vulgarized point of view and make effort to set up outstanding representatives from different types and tiers; emphasize the effect of setting Party members and cadres examples first and the caution effect of laggard representatives; Keep balance between promoting paragons’contribution and protecting their interests; Adopt innovative paragon education mode, take advantage of modern media, especially internet media.