Exploring the Symbiosis between Humanities and Economy: Insights from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Visit to Suzhou

2023-07-10 03:13:37

Xinhua News Agency, Suzhou, July 9th Title:Reporter’s Notes: Follow the General Secretary to understand the development path of symbiosis and co-prosperity between humanities and economy

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhu Jichai and Zhang Yan

A Gusu city, half of Jiangnan poems.

To open this “most south of the Yangtze River” city, you can use a completely different method, just like the top double-sided embroidery in Suzhou embroidery.

“I came here especially for the fame. Yesterday I saw the Suzhou Industrial Park, and today I saw the excellent traditional culture of Suzhou.” On the morning of the 6th, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into Pingjiang Road, which has a history of more than 2,500 years, to feel the charm of the ancient city. The previous followingnoon, the General Secretary had just arrived in Suzhou, and took a bus to the Suzhou Industrial Park, which was regarding to “30”, to inspect innovation and development.

During the interview in Suzhou, there was a prominent feeling: the past has never gone far, and the future has infinite possibilities.

In the exhibition hall at the entrance of Pingjiang Road, on the exhibition board, a “Pingjiang Map” engraved in the Southern Song Dynasty clearly shows the plane outline and street layout of Pingjiang Mansion 800 years ago. The general secretary approached and looked at it carefully.

On the other side of the exhibition hall is a bird’s-eye view with a wide view—one is the highest point of the ancient city, the Beisi Pagoda, which was built in the Southern Dynasties and Liang Dynasty, and the other is the new city landmark rising from the Suzhou Industrial Park.

In the ancient city, the veins and texture have not changed; in the new district, there are many high-rise buildings. The ancient and the modern are in the same frame, and the old and the new look at each other. This is a unique landscape with both cultural heritage and the trend of the times.

Walking into the Suzhou Industrial Park Exhibition Center, a sense of technology and future comes to your face.

In the bright exhibition hall, Suzhou’s “star products” in the fields of high-end equipment manufacturing, new generation information technology, nano-materials, biomedicine and other fields are dazzling.

In the field of high-tech technology, limited and unlimited kung fu has been used to the extreme. It is similar to the Suzhou people’s garden landscaping of “a stone replaces a mountain, a spoon replaces water, and a small view of the big and contains the world”. Art is quite similar.

There are also these intuitive data showing the “hard power” of the city of industry, innovation, and openness: Suzhou’s GDP in 2022 will reach 2.4 trillion yuan, ranking sixth in the country, and its total industrial output value will be 4.36 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country. Second, the output value of high-tech industries accounts for as high as 52.5%. There are 50 companies listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, ranking third in the country. The accumulated actual use of foreign capital exceeds US$150 billion, ranking third in the country…

During the inspection, the general secretary deeply expressed his impression of Suzhou: “Suzhou has done a good job in combining tradition and modernity. It not only has the inheritance of history and culture, but also has high-tech innovation and high-quality development, which represents the direction of future development. .”

Because of “combination”, a new space is opened and new possibilities are created.

Tradition and modernity, history and future, culture and technology, humanities and economy can coexist and prosper together. General Secretary Xi Jinping has been thinking deeply regarding this issue for a long time.

Opening “Zhijiang Xinyu”, the article “Culture is the soul” says:

“Culture endows economic development with profound humanistic value”; the power of culture “always blends into economic power, political power and social power silently, and becomes a ‘booster’ for economic development and a key to political civilization.” ‘Navigation lights’, the ‘glue’ of social harmony”.

Another article “”Cultural Economy” Lights Up Zhejiang’s Economy” profoundly explained the concept of “cultural economy”:

“The so-called cultural economy is a general term for the economicalization of culture and the culturalization of economy, and its essence is the integration, interaction and integrated development of culture and economy.”

After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, from pointing out that “to meet the people’s growing needs for a better life, culture is an important factor”, to emphasizing that “to promote high-quality development, culture is an important fulcrum”, and to requiring that economic work must “revere history , reverence for culture, and reverence for ecology”… The way of economic development and cultural prosperity that integrate and promote each other and complement each other has become more distinct.

Look at the humanities to transform into the world. Suzhou is an excellent sample for understanding humanistic economics.

On Pingjiang Road, the local responsible comrades proudly recounted the cultural heritage of Suzhou to the General Secretary:

Suzhou Gardens, Suzhou Section of the Grand Canal, Kunqu Opera, Guqin, Song Brocade, Kesi, Xiangshanbang Traditional Building Techniques, Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival Customs, Biluochun… Exquisite workmanship builds a prosperous humanism of “although it is made by man, it is like the sky”. .

“‘Within a hundred steps, there must be fragrant grass’, this sentence can be used here.” The general secretary praised him vividly.

In a shop on the street, the general secretary met Lu Jianying, a representative inheritor of Su embroidery. Seeing the needles go through the needle calmly like water, and hearing the stories passed down by four generations, the general secretary is very emotional:

“How strong the inheritance of Chinese culture is, we can see it through this Suzhou embroidery. Kungfu like this fully reflects the resilience, patience and determination of the Chinese people, which is part of the spirit of the Chinese nation.”

A few words clarified the unchanging root, root, and soul in the blood of Chinese people since ancient times, the flowing meaning, yun, and veins, and the inherited essence, qi, and spirit. Keep it in your heart.”

Suzhou, where the handicraft industry has always been prosperous, has integrated the “Tao” of thick writing and the “technology” of precision craftsmanship, creating Su Gong and Su Zuo that are well-known both at home and abroad. Sophisticated high-tech is the same as meticulous traditional craftsmanship, which requires the effort of “reaching the vastness and making the most of the subtleties”.

“Su Gong and Su Zuo were the ‘specialized and special’ in those days.” During the interview, the words of a local cadre inspired people, and they always heard some expressions full of dialectical relations, such as “Suzhou people said Wu Nong Soft words, but what you do is ‘hard'” “Listen to the slow Pingtan, brewing the urban temperament that always strives for the first” “With the determination not to achieve the goal and never give up, it is more to achieve the goal and for a better life” The tenacity to aim high and never give up”…

The context runs through the ages, and the rivers flow through the ages. The manifestations of culture may be different, but the inner soul is always the same.

Economic development is aimed at social development, social development is at the end of human development, and human development is at the core of spiritual culture.

“City, so the people are prosperous.” This is an old saying once quoted by the General Secretary.

By the Pingjiang river, under the big camphor tree, Biluochun tea is fragrant, the pipa is three-stringed, the music is melodious, and Wu Nong’s soft words are repeated a thousand times. The general secretary enjoyed the Pingtan performance with local residents and tourists with great interest. After singing a song, the general secretary took the lead in applauding.

“It is a blessing to live here,” the general secretary said to everyone with a smile.

Zhang Yingying, Secretary of the Party Committee of Niujiaxiang Community, Pingjiang Street, was among the crowd, and her heart warmed when she heard these words. The past 15 years of working in the ancient city came to my mind: from the protection and repair of ancient buildings and old houses, to coordinating and dealing with the family problems of the neighbors and neighbors… The hard work index was exchanged for the happiness index of ordinary people.

The word-of-mouth of ordinary people is often the epitome of milestones in the vicissitudes of life. In the crowd, the heartfelt words of “Happiness!” and “Happy!” were shouted.

The granary knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace. Humanistic economy, in the final analysis, is to embody people-centered development. It is the way to promote modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated, and it is also a vivid practice of a new form of human civilization.

When I met the general secretary, Lu Jianying, the representative inheritor of Su embroidery, was creating the “Peacebird” picture. She said that it took the beautiful meaning of “peace and prosperity”.

Today, a magnificent picture of Chinese-style modernization is slowly unfolding.

For a civilization of 5,000 years to move towards modernization, it must have its own origin and unique ingenuity, and it must require contemporary Chinese people to learn from the past, enrich the present, keep the integrity and open up the new.

The vehicle drove away from the Suzhou Industrial Park, and the “Gate of the East” stood tall by the Jinji Lake. “When high-rise buildings are everywhere in China, the building of the spirit of the Chinese nation should also stand majestically” – the words that the General Secretary once said echoed in my ears.

Through the “Gate of the Orient”, history, reality, and the future complement each other, creating a new and magnificent atmosphere of the Vientiane in the East.

Editor: Zheng Jianlong

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