《红旗文稿》2024年第23期 Red Flag Articles (2024:23): Understanding Socialist Modernization As an All Around Concept--Culture, Politics, Economics, and International Relations.

 

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Socialist (Chinese style) modernization has, in the new era of Chinese historical development, become a comprehensive subject. That is, socialist moderation has become an important means of rationalizing the entirety of the project, overseen by the Communist Party of China, to develop all of the productive forces of the Chinese nation toward the ends of establishing a communist society for the nation.  I have briefly suggested its constitutional dimensions (here), and also the fundamental importance of understanding modernization as a comprehensive approach to the understanding pf social forces, and its instrumentalization toward the fundamental goal (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).

The current issue of Red Flag (or perhaps more comprehensively transliterated as Revolutionary Banner) Journal 《红旗文稿》2024年第23期 (on the semiotics of flags, banners and the like, see here),  includes a number of essays that again drive home this point. The table of contents (with links to the Chinese language essays) follows below. The issue starts with its key recommendations (本期重点推荐); it is then divided among the issue's key thesis (要论), and then its application to  three key areas of modernization; (1) politics (政治); (2) economy (经济); (3) culture (文化); and (4) international (国际).

There are four Key Recommendations 本期重点推荐 which are extracted from the essays published. First, Dong Yaopeng: New requirements of Chinese modernization for high-quality development of literature and art in the new era and new journey (董耀鹏：中国式现代化对新时代新征程文艺高质量发展的新要求); second Ren Youqun: Effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture (任友群：有效推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化创新性发展); third, Xia Lixin: Strengthen the Party's overall leadership over education and build a high-quality party building system in colleges and universities (夏立新：加强党对教育工作的全面领导 打造高校高质量党建体系); and fourth Yin Qingshuang and Xiao Lei: Handle the relationship between government and market well (尹庆双 肖 磊：处理好政府和市场关系). Together they point to the focus of modernization which the issue emphasizes. These touch both on the rationalizing structures through which it is possible to frame modernization as a cultural artifact, but more important, as a language of perceiving and understanding the world the perfection of which must inevitably be framed within the discursive forms of modernization, and its consequences of the ordering of productive forces, including its fulfillment through markets and central planning. Of note is Dong Yaopeng ( 董耀鹏) and the application of the premises and style of high quality development at the heart of the 3rd Plenum's recommendations well beyond the traditional focus on economic activity traditionally understood. But also worthy of note is the importance of the modernization international that is increasingly subsumed within the discursive tropes of the concept of building a community of shared future for mankind and more recently of its fulfillment within the structures of the Global Development Initiative (以人类命运共同体理念引领“全球南方”团结合作 /赵恩德 韩海涛) [Leading the solidarity and cooperation of the "Global South" with the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind / Zhao Ende Han Haitao].

This is not the first time that Red Flag has emphasized the breadth of New Era Socialist Modernization with Chinese Characteristics (see, e.g., here (culture)). Nonetheless it is interesting for the effort to bring together--and order--several of the key functionally differentiated sectors around which New Era modernization is to be undertaken, and its emphasis on new or high quality production is developed and applied.

The table of contents, recommendations follow below in the original Chinese and in a cride English translation. 

 

目 录

　　本期重点推荐

  要论

  中国式现代化对新时代新征程文艺高质量发展的新要求 /董耀鹏

  有效推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化创新性发展 /任友群

  政治

  加强党对教育工作的全面领导 打造高校高质量党建体系 /夏立新

  深入推进新时代国有企业党建工作 /陈宝华

  健全全面从严治党体系 /陈 朋

  进一步全面深化改革必须坚持系统观念 /张志丹

  经济

  处理好政府和市场关系 /尹庆双 肖 磊

  完善收入分配制度 /乌 兰 付桂军

  文化

  学好用好《习近平文化思想学习纲要》/求是网评论员

  建立优质文化资源直达基层供需适配机制 /龚剑飞 盛方富

  加快推进高校“五育融合”体系建设 /张 洁

  国际

  以人类命运共同体理念引领“全球南方”团结合作 /赵恩德 韩海涛

 

 Table of Contents

Key Recommendations of This Issue

Key Thesis

New Requirements of Chinese-style Modernization for High-quality Development of Literature and Art in the New Era and New Journey / Dong Yaopeng

Effectively Promote the Creative Transformation and Innovative Development of China's Excellent Traditional Culture / Ren Youqun

Politics

Strengthen the Party's Overall Leadership over Education and Build a High-quality Party Building System in Colleges and Universities / Xia Lixin

Deepen the Party Building Work of State-owned Enterprises in the New Era / Chen Baohua

Improve the System of Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance / Chen Peng

Further Comprehensively Deepen Reforms Must Adhere to the System Concept / Zhang Zhidan

Economy

Handle the Relationship between Government and Market / Yin Qingshuang Xiao Lei

Improve the Income Distribution System / Wu Lan Fu Guijun

Culture

Learn and Use the Outline of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought Study Well / Qiushi.com Commentator

Establish a Supply-demand Adaptation Mechanism for High-quality Cultural Resources to Reach the Grassroots Level / Gong Jianfei Sheng Fangfu

Accelerate the Construction of the "Five-education Integration" System in Colleges and Universities / Zhang Jie

International

Leading the solidarity and cooperation of the "Global South" with the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind / Zhao Ende Han Haitao

 

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本期重点推荐

来源：《红旗文稿》2024/23 2024-12-14 21:30:33

  董耀鹏：中国式现代化对新时代新征程文艺高质量发展的新要求

  文艺事业是党和人民的重要事业，是中国式现代化的重要方面。没有文化文艺的高质量发展，就难以顺利推进中国式现代化的伟大事业。新时代新征程上，我们必须深入学习贯彻习近平文化思想，特别是习近平总书记关于文艺工作的重要论述，深刻把握中国式现代化对文艺高质量发展提出的新要求，为全面推进中国式现代化贡献文艺力量。

  任友群：有效推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化创新性发展

  中华优秀传统文化是中华民族的“根”和“魂”，积淀着中华民族最深层的精神追求，是传承性与发展性、民族性与世界性、包容性与鲜活性辩证统一的有机整体。传承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化，要以习近平文化思想为指引，聚焦社会主义文化强国建设，激发全民族文化创新创造活力，推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化、创新性发展，更好担负起新的文化使命。

  夏立新：加强党对教育工作的全面领导 打造高校高质量党建体系

  习近平总书记强调，加强党对教育工作的全面领导，是办好教育的根本保证。办好我国高等教育，必须牢牢掌握党对高校工作的领导权。我们要认真学习贯彻习近平总书记的重要指示要求，通过加快构建高质量党建工作体系，进一步深化党对学校工作的全面领导，不断把党的政治优势、组织优势、制度优势转化为推动教育事业发展的治理效能，更好地推动高等教育高质量发展。

  尹庆双 肖 磊：处理好政府和市场关系

  习近平总书记在《关于<中共中央关于进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化的决定>的说明》中指出，“决定稿围绕处理好政府和市场关系这个核心问题，把构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制摆在突出位置，对经济体制改革重点领域和关键环节作出部署”。这一重要论述深刻阐释了处理好政府和市场关系对进一步深化经济体制改革、推进中国式现代化的重大意义，为更好发挥经济体制改革牵引作用提供了根本遵循和行动指南。

 

 Key recommendations of this issue
Source: "Red Flag Manuscript" 2024/23 2024-12-14 21:30:33

Dong Yaopeng: New requirements of Chinese modernization for high-quality development of literature and art in the new era and new journey

Literary and artistic undertakings are an important cause of the Party and the people, and an important aspect of Chinese modernization. Without the high-quality development of culture and art, it is difficult to smoothly promote the great cause of Chinese modernization. In the new era and new journey, we must thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on literary and artistic work, deeply grasp the new requirements of Chinese modernization for high-quality development of literature and art, and contribute to the comprehensive promotion of Chinese modernization.

Ren Youqun: Effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture

China's excellent traditional culture is the "root" and "soul" of the Chinese nation, accumulating the deepest spiritual pursuits of the Chinese nation, and is an organic whole of the dialectical unity of inheritance and development, nationality and worldliness, inclusiveness and freshness. To inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, we must be guided by Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, focus on the construction of a socialist cultural power, stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and better shoulder the new cultural mission.

Xia Lixin: Strengthen the Party's overall leadership over education and build a high-quality party building system in colleges and universities

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that strengthening the Party's overall leadership over education is the fundamental guarantee for running education well. To run higher education in my country well, we must firmly grasp the Party's leadership over the work of colleges and universities. We must earnestly study and implement the important instructions and requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping, further deepen the Party's overall leadership over school work by accelerating the construction of a high-quality party building work system, and continuously transform the Party's political advantages, organizational advantages, and institutional advantages into governance effectiveness to promote the development of education, and better promote the high-quality development of higher education.

Yin Qingshuang and Xiao Lei: Handle the relationship between government and market well

In his Explanation on the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the draft decision focuses on the core issue of handling the relationship between government and market, puts the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system in a prominent position, and makes arrangements for key areas and key links of economic system reform". This important statement profoundly explains the great significance of handling the relationship between government and market well for further deepening economic system reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization, and provides a fundamental guideline and action guide for better playing the leading role of economic system reform.