cultural development plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan period

China has unveiled its cultural development plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) to promote socialist culture and build China into a country with a strong grounding in this regard. Calling culture the soul of a country and nation, as well as the soul of national governance, the plan, jointly released by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, noted that without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there would be no socialist modernization.

Chinese civilization has a history of more than 5,000 years, and fine traditional Chinese culture should be honored and cultural confidence strengthened. It is important to draw on ways of state governance from fine traditional Chinese culture and learn extensively from outstanding achievements of other civilizations. China should neither keep to itself, nor regard all from foreign countries as criterion. It must adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.