History Review On The Chinese Communist Party's Ideology And Morality Construction In The Initial Stages Of The Reform And Opening Up

The reform and opening up is a significant strategic decision made by China in the process of development,which concerns China's future and destiny.It was made during a time when China had just undergone the Great Cultural Revolution.At that time,the society was extremely turbulent in politics,ideology,organization and economy.The left-leaning errors left by the Great Cultural Revolution haven't been cleared comprehensively and effectively,the right and wrong relationships remained to be reversed and the chaotic guiding ideologies need to be unified.What's more,after the reform and opening up,western social thoughts greatly struck national thoughts.All these made higher demands on the Chinese Communist Party to strengthen the construction of ideology and morality,which was the essential requirement of promoting national economic growth and building a modern socialist country.The construction of ideology and morality was an essential part in China's socialist modernization construction and also a great historical mission that the Chinese Communist Party faced with during that period.The contents of ideological and moral construction carried out by the Chinese Communist party in initial stages of the reform and opening up can be summarized into the following three aspects.The first is the aspect of ideology construction which includes:always adhere to the guiding position of Marxism;maintain the guiding position of Mao Zedong thought;and recover the ideological line of seeking truth from facts.The second concerns the construction of socialism bourgeois ideology which includes: attach equal importance to moral and law education;carry out spiritual civilization construction activities to raise citizens' ideological and moral level;cultivate the innovation awareness of citizens;and lay emphasis on education to improve the cultural and scientific level of the whole nation.The third aspect is concerned with ideological and political education which includes: with the Four Cardinal Principles as the fundamental principle of the ideological and political education;with patriotism,socialism and collectivism as the core;and colleges and universities set up courses on ideological and political theory to strengthen ideological and political education.The ideological and moral construction in the initial stages of the reform and opening up is an education activity on national values carried out by the Chinese Communist Party to improve the socialist spiritual civilization according to the actual social condition of China and people's ideological and moral demands.The ideological and moral construction in this period facilitated the accomplishment of bringing order out of chaos and promoted the improvement of conduct of the Party and the government as well as the conduct of the whole society,which created a situation of stability and unity for the reform and opening up and at the same time laid a solid ideological foundation for China to build a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics in the new period.The great achievements made in the initial stages of the reform and opening up tell us that to strengthen the construction of socialist ideology and morality,we must always adhere to the guiding position of Marxism,and positively promote the chinesization of Marxism;we must place the construction of ideology in the first place of the Party building and stick to arm the whole Party with Marxism;we must combine the inheritance from tradition with thecarrying forward of the spirit of reform and innovation;we must connect the construction of law system with the construction of ideology and morality;we must call on all the citizens to devote themselves to the great cause of socialist modernization construction.The Party's ideological and moral construction in the initial stages of the reform and opening up is of great reference significance to cultivate the core values of socialism currently.It tells us that to cultivate socialist core values,we must attach great importance to the leading role that our country plays;we must enhance people's identification with the socialist core values;we must pay attention to society's promotion of the core values of socialism.Only in this way can the core values of socialism be fully penetrated into the society,avoid its formalization,make the basic requirements of socialist core values become people's moral pursuits and elevates people's virtue consciousness in a wide range of moral practice.