4. National propaganda meeting

Propaganda ministers hold national conference in Beijing

Cai Qi attended and delivered a speech

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 4 – The National Propaganda Ministers Conference was held in Beijing on January 4. Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Secretariat, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized that we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the “Two Establishments”, strengthen the “Four Consciousnesses” and  the “Four Self-confidences”, and achieve the “Two Maintenances”. Keep close to the main line of studying, propagate and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, do a solid job in propaganda and ideological work, and provide strong ideological guarantee and strong spiritual strength for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country are tasks to get off to a good start.

Cai Qi pointed out that the historical achievements of propaganda and ideological work in the new era in the past 10 years are fundamentally due to the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on propaganda and ideological work have scientifically answered a series of directional, fundamental, and strategic issues in propaganda and ideological work, and provided fundamental guidelines for doing a good job in propaganda and ideological work in the new era. Good implementation.

Cai Qi emphasized that to do a good job in this year’s propaganda and ideological work, we must accurately grasp the new situation and new tasks we are facing, and implement the decision-making and deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Party on propaganda and ideological work with a high sense of political responsibility. We must thoroughly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, unremittingly use Xi Jinping’s new era of socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics to condense our hearts and souls, and continue to do a good job in the study and training of party members and cadres, organize grassroots publicity, strengthen media publicity, and promote implementation. Deepen, promote the study, publicity and implementation to go deep, to the reality, to the heart, and promote the party’s innovative theory to be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is necessary to vigorously sing the main social theme of strong confidence, sing the theory of a bright Chinese economy, and strengthen publicity and public opinion guidance for epidemic prevention and control in the new stage. We must focus on cultivating souls and educating people with socialist core values, better meet the diverse and high-quality spiritual and cultural needs of the people, comprehensively improve the level and effectiveness of external publicity work, and tighten the responsibility system for ideological work. It is necessary to earnestly strengthen the party’s leadership and party building on the propaganda and ideological front, speak politics with a clear-cut stand, improve work skills, further transform work styles, and strive to demonstrate the new atmosphere and new deeds of propaganda and ideological work.

Li Shulei, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting and made work arrangements. According to the task requirements, we should continue to deepen the study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, improve the system of arming the whole party, educating the people, and guiding the practice of Xi Jinping’s socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and consolidate and strengthen the mainstream ideology and public opinion in the new era. , cultivate socialist core values, prosper and develop cultural undertakings and cultural industries, use digitalization to empower propaganda and ideological work, strengthen international communication capacity building, and maintain ideological security. It is necessary to uphold the party’s overall leadership over propaganda and ideological work, and promote the high-quality development of propaganda and ideological work with a new atmosphere and new actions to achieve new results.

Vice Premier Sun Chunlan of the State Council attended the meeting.