What culture will China’s cultural strategy bring to the world?

What kind of culture will China’s cultural strategy bring to the world? Wen Yang, as an overseas media person who pays close attention to China’s development, has recently been particularly concerned about China’s proposed...

What culture will China’s cultural strategy bring to the world? Wen Yang, as an overseas media person who pays close attention to China's development, has recently been particularly concerned about China's every move after it proposed the strategy of "cultural power". The latest news is that the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee and the National Academy of Administration jointly hosted a national "Special Seminar on Cultural System Reform and Cultural Construction for Provincial and Ministerial Leading Cadres." According to reports, this is the first high-level seminar on cultural reform and development held after the Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is difficult for outsiders to know what results were achieved after six days of intensive research. Judging from public reports alone, the following opinions are generally formed: 1. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China focused on cultural issues, and its significance is comparable to that of the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art. 2. Focusing on cultural construction is a sign that the Chinese Communist Party is more mature and confident. 3. China is at a critical moment in the reform of its cultural system and needs to answer some key questions. 4. Promoting the reform of the cultural system is to liberate and develop cultural productive forces, to enhance the international influence of Chinese culture, and to enhance the country’s cultural soft power. 5. From an economic perspective, China's current cultural field is an area where the total supply cannot meet the total demand. The added value of the cultural industry accounts for a very low proportion of GDP (2.75%). China still lacks world-renowned cultural brands, and there is a serious deficit in cultural import and export trade. It is not commensurate with China's economic status, political status and cultural resources. 6. The task of cultural reform and development is very arduous, and there is an urgent need for further strategic research and deployment. If the above summary is correct, these points can be roughly regarded as the logical starting point of China's "cultural power" strategy. A new round of development starts from here. Generally speaking, things like development strategies can be compared to "institutional changes" and are obviously "path dependent" in nature. No matter the framers, executors, recipients or followers, it is impossible to get rid of the past and current "paths". They are all affected by important accumulation processes such as culture and politics, and a new set will not be generated out of thin air. Since the Communist Party of China takes the lead, the available historical accumulation and ideological resources cannot be separated from the "Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art". Although some things are part of one's own "path", they cannot continue to be used and cannot even be mentioned again, such as the "Proletarian Cultural Revolution" back then. And there are more things that you want to use, but are not within your own "path", such as the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century, or the cultural prosperity of the British Victorian era, or the cultural innovation in the United States after World War II. This constraint is so obvious. It is not difficult to imagine that neither the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China nor the seminars of leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels can directly draw on the cultural heritage of Aristotle, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Goethe, Balzac, Mark Twain, Hemingway and others to obtain the ideological resources needed for cultural strategy. Due to the nature of the Communist Party of China as a revolutionary party, it would be unfair to directly link the current cultural strategy with the cultural prosperity of ancient China and simply use the banner of "rebuilding the Han Dynasty" or "dream back to the Tang Dynasty". In this way, by counting, the culture of China's imperial era, the culture of the Western Enlightenment, the culture of modern imperialism, and the culture of late capitalism are all not within the "path" that China's cultural strategy can rely on. Therefore, the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, which was "anti-feudal" and "anti-bourgeois" internally, and "anti-imperialist" and "anti-colonialism" externally, can only be used as the basic basis. Then, the possible directions and results of future development can generally be predicted. Could it be an early imperialist culture that ruled the world and ruled all peoples? impossible. Could it be a pervasive late-capitalist culture that alienates everything? Not possible either. Or should we maintain our revolutionary nature and remain a proletarian revolutionary culture that overthrows everything, puts violence first, makes rebellion justified, and changes the world? Equally impossible. The biggest feature of contemporary China is that it has achieved great success as an emerging economy after completing the founding of the country through the proletarian revolution. The achievements of economic development have become part of the achievements of the revolution and part of the new ideology. Even when considering cultural issues, understanding will be established through "economic cultural studies" such as "the total supply of culture cannot meet the total demand", "the added value of the cultural industry is low", "there is a deficit in cultural import and export trade". So maybe, the Chinese culture of the future will be a “middle class commercialism culture with Chinese characteristics”? The just-concluded seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels believed that China is at a critical moment in the reform of its cultural system and needs to answer some key questions. I don’t know if the question “What kind of culture will China’s cultural strategy bring to the world?” is one of the key questions.