Propagate and Build a Spiritual Civilization

Abstract

The problem of building a socialist spiritual civilization is drawing the attention of the whole party and people across the country. In his "Speech Delivered at the Rally in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China," Comrade Ye Jianying stated: "Simultaneous with our effort to build a high level of material civilization, we must raise the educational, scientific, and cultural levels as well as the health level of the whole nation, foster the lofty ideal of revolution, cultivate revolutionary ethics and customs, and develop a noble and colorful cultural life in an effort to build a high level of spiritual civilization." Comrade Deng Xiaoping also pointed out that the endeavor to build a socialist spiritual civilization "refers not only to education, science, and culture (this is totally necessary), but also to communist ideology, ideals, faith, ethics, discipline, revolutionary stand and principles, and the comradeship between man and man, etc." Their expositions expound in depth the content and major significance of building a high level of socialist spiritual civilization. As architects of socialist spiritual civilization, teachers should be more enthusiastic than others in responding to the party Central Committee's call to give wide publicity to and build conscientiously a high level of socialist spiritual civilization.