Qiushi Journal Issue Preview: No. 8, 2024

An article by General Secretary Xi Jinping on preserving and passing on cultural heritage and carrying forward fine traditional Chinese culture was published in this year's eighth issue of Qiushi Journal.

Cultural relics and cultural heritage, in particular, carry inherent features of the nation, says the article, calling them China's "nonrenewable and irreplaceable" cultural resources. The article states that it is imperative to comprehensively improve the protection and utilization of cultural relics and better preserve and carry forward cultural heritage.

It calls for efforts to systematically sort out traditional cultural resources, and bring back to life relics sleeping in closed palaces, heritage on the vast land of China and records in ancient books, so as to better interpret cultural relics and exhibit them to the world. In the process, we should fully tap the value of fine traditional rural culture, provide robust support for the inheritance of the quintessence of Chinese culture and the protection of intangible cultural heritage, probe into ethnic history and culture as well as properly protect, manage and make good use of revolutionary heritage. In so doing, we are striving to create an atmosphere in which cultural heritage is well preserved and passed on, and a firmer sense of purpose, fortitude, and self-belief is fostered among the Chinese people.

It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation to appreciate mutual understanding and respect for different civilizations. It is necessary to strengthen cultural exchanges with the rest of the world, act on the Global Civilizations Initiative, and give profound and lasting cultural impetus to building a global community of shared future, the article reads.

Readers will find in this issue an editorial piece inspired by Xi's vision.

Other contributors to this issue also offer their insights into this topic from different perspectives. Ni Hong, Minister and Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, introduces practices of preserving urban-rural historical and cultural heritage in the new era under the guidance of Xi Jinping thought on culture. Li Qun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, elaborates on the protection and utilization of cultural relics as well as the preservation and inheritance of cultural heritage. The article by the Dunhuang Academy is about the Academy's efforts to preserve and carry forward the heritage of the Dunhuang culture.

The CPC Leadership Group of the Supreme People's Court introduces the Court's experience of supporting and serving Chinese modernization through judicial work under the guidance of Xi Jinping thought on the rule of law.

The article by Chen Yixin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Minister of the Ministry of National Security, summarizes the historic achievements of national security work in the past 10 years and elaborates on their efforts to pursue a holistic approach to national security.

Xin Changxing, Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, introduces Jiangsu’s practice of promoting high-quality development by studying and adopting a holistic approach to national security.

The article by the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council offers insights on the innovative development of the state-owned asset regulatory system with Chinese characteristics.

Zhang Hongzhi, President of China Institute of CPC Literature Research and former member of the Executive Councilof the Institute of Party History and Literature of theCPC Central Committee, elaborates on the contemporary value and historical significance of the "second integration."

The Party Committee of China Agricultural University tells the stories of "science and technology backyards" which are dedicated toimproving people's livelihoods, doing research, and cultivating talents.

This issue closes with diagrams released by the National Bureau of Statistics which show majorindicators of China's manufacturing PMI from March 2023 to March 2024.

Editor: Yi Xiaowei