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Li Pingsheng: Epidemic Prevention and Control Shows the Power of Culture

Date:2020-09-03Click:

Chinese culture has a long history, broad and profound, which provides a strong spiritual power for the development of the Chinese nation. China's anti-epidemic campaign has made significant strategic achievements, which can not be separated from the support of Chinese excellent traditional culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the epidemic prevention and control struggle "fully demonstrated the strong power of Chinese excellent traditional culture". The practice of epidemic prevention and control has proved that the excellent Chinese traditional culture has strong vitality and is a strong spiritual support for us to overcome various risks and challenges.

Caring for life is the moral standard and code of conduct advocated by Chinese excellent traditional culture, just like "the great virtue of heaven and earth is creating life" demonstrated in the Book of Changes. In the fight against epidemic, the Communist Party of China Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core clearly demanded that Party committees and governments at all levels to give top priority to people’s safety and health, and take epidemic control a most important work in the immediate future. This is an important guarantee that our country can always maintain the stability of the people and maintain social stability in the face of the raging epidemic, and it is also the mission of the Party.

Self improvement is the spiritual gene of the Chinese nation. The Chinese nation has the great courage to bravely face the difficulties and difficulties, and has a strong ability of self-healing and self-reliance. It shows the wisdom of long-term change and the vitality of self-improvement. Furthermore, self improvement can bring out powerful forces. In the fight against the epidemic, the Chinese people, with the confidence to win, went all out and fought tenaciously, which showed the perseverance and self-improvement of Chinese nation.

Mutual help and assistance is a long-standing cultural tradition of the Chinese nation. Mozi advocated "loving each other and benefiting each other ", while Mencius advocated "Helping each other in times of need", calling for mutual support and mutual love between people and neighbors. This anti epidemic campaign is an epic mobilization of the whole people, showing the great unity of the Chinese nation. The moral realm of pulling together in times of crisis advocated by the sages has been endowed with new connotation of the time by countless ordinary Chinese people with sweat, blood and even life.

The ideal situation of a harmonious world is the concept of Chinese excellent traditional culture dealing with the relationship between countries. This idea originated from the The Book of History, which was imitated by later generations and extended to be "all under heaven are one family". The Book of Rites advocates: "When the Great Way prevailed, the world community was equally shared by all"; The Analects says: "All men are brothers within the four seas".  Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly expounded the idea of building a community of human destiny.
We should build a world of universal harmony, because lands apart, sky shared. It has become an international consensus to build a community of shared destiny for mankind. Facing the epidemic, no country can be immune. The international community needs more cooperation and mutual assistance than ever before. Due to this reason, while the domestic epidemic has not been resolved, China has actively carried out international cooperation to jointly fight the epidemic, provided medical supplies to countries where the epidemic occurred, and sent medical teams to contribute wisdom and strength to the global fight against the epidemic.