The Historical Evolution and Implications of the Communist Party of China’s Promotion of Common Prosperity in Spiritual Life

Since its founding, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has attached great importance to shaping the people’s spiritual life, that is, the ideological world, continuously leading the Chinese people to forge a spiritual realm belonging to the Chinese nation with a mindset of self-awareness, self-reliance, confidence, and self-strengthening. During the period of New Democratic Revolution, the CPC led the Chinese people in striving for a beautiful vision of common prosperity in spiritual life and achieved spiritual initiative. During the period of socialist revolution and construction, on the basis of establishment of a spiritual and cultural system, the universal supply of spiritual and cultural products was gradually realized, enabling the self-reliance of the people's spiritual life. In the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, while vigorously promoting the construction of spiritual civilization, attention was paid to consolidating the social foundation of the people's spiritual life, achieving the self-confidence of the people’s spiritual life. Since the entry into the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the proposal of common prosperity in spiritual life has provided a strong spiritual impetus and ideological support for addressing the principal social contradiction in China, advancing the Chinese path to modernization, and realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.