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Theoretical Guidance and Practical Greatness of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy  Wu Zhicheng, Xu Jingyi 2023, 57 (5):  5-12.  Abstract ( )   PDF (5205KB) ( )   Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has gained profound insight into the major trends of China's and the world's development in the new era and established Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, which has opened up a new realm of Marxist diplomatic theory and provided a scientific guide for pursuing majorcountry diplomacy with Chinese characteristics on all fronts. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, the Chinese diplomacy has effectively responded to grave, intricate international developments and a series of immense risks and challenges, created a favorable international environment for realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, achieved a historic leap as regards China's relations with the world, and made an important contribution to promoting world peace and development. The 20th National Congress of the CPC has further enriched and developed Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, depicted a grand blueprint for pursuing majorcountry diplomacy with Chinese characteristics on all fronts in the new era, and made new strategic plans for promoting the development of a community with a shared future for mankind. Majorcountry diplomacy with Chinese characteristics will surely continue to create new historical glory and make new and greater contributions to promoting the building of a better future for mankind. Related Articles | Metrics

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On the Reason of State and the Chinese Socialist Political Economy  Lin Guangbin 2023, 57 (5):  13-24.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7334KB) ( )   The reason of state is the rationality based on the national interest, the law of state operation, the theoretical collection of “what the state should be”, the collective consensus of the people of a country, and therefore the highest value among all values of the state. The reason of state is generally reflected in the constitution, laws and regulations, development strategies, development plans and government work reports formulated by the state, as well as in the practices of legislation, administration and justice, and in the constitution and program of the ruling party. If we proceed from the theory of overall national interest and reify the theory into a set of economic concepts with consistent logical connotations such as the subject of state, the reason of state, the theory of state, and the mode of modern production, we can reasonably explain China's national economic strategies, guidelines and policies since 1949, logically integrate the development stage of the socialist planned economy with that of the socialist market economy. The concept provides a coherent theoretical description of China's socialist practice and helps us explore the construction of a modern body of knowledge on the economic laws of socialism concerning the relations of production, exchange, distribution and consumption. Therefore, the construction of the academic system, discourse system, and the body of knowledge of the Chinese socialist political economy can lead to a logically coherent narrative system through the core concepts of the subject of state, the reason of state, the theory of state, and the mode of modern production. Related Articles | Metrics

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Accelerating the Construction of a Unified National Market: The Theoretical Basis and the Chinese Practice Wang Xiaodong, Xie Lijuan 2023, 57 (5):  24-37.  Abstract ( )   PDF (10016KB) ( )   Accelerating the construction of a unified national market is the basic support and inherent requirement for creating a new development pattern, and is an important element for building a highlevel socialist market economic system in the process of Chinesestyle modernization. The construction of a large unified national market with Chinese characteristics has a rich practical foundation, starting from the exploration of a unified socialist market at the beginning of the founding of New China, to gradually forming the view of a unified national market based on the new development pattern through a series of consistent understanding and deployment of market economy reforms. The theoretical basis for the construction of a unified national market lies in Marxian political economy, and fully reflects the development of Marxist market theory that has been adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. To construct the unified national market under the new development paradigm, we should not only focus on the development of the huge potential of domestic demand, the domestic economic cycle and the major country's economy, but also make concrete efforts to promote the construction of a modern circulation system with Chinese characteristics, improve the institutional systems of the unified national market, and optimize the governments economic behavior and intergovernmental relations. Related Articles | Metrics

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Party Groups of the Standing Committees of Local People's Congresses in Contemporary China: Historical Evolution, Structural Features and Operational Mechanisms Huang Xiaofang 2023, 57 (5):  38-49.  Abstract ( )   PDF (8361KB) ( )   Party groups of the standing committees of local people's congresses are the leading organization established by the local Party committees as the local state organs of power, which originated in 1979 when the standing committee of a local people's congress was established as a permanent organ of that local people's congress. The establishment of the Party group of the standing committee of the local people's congress is an inherent requirement of the Communist Party of China as the highest force for political leadership and the central force leading the people forward,  which has solved the dilemma that the Party should exercise the state leadership but not replace it, and realized the organic unity of the Party leadership and governance. The full play of the leadership of the Party groups of the standing committees of local people's congresses depends on the effective operation of meeting mechanisms, the mechanisms for requesting instructions and submitting reports, communication and coordination mechanisms and the mechanisms of extensive contacts within the Party groups. In the new era, in order to define institutions and procedures for the work of the Party leaders and ensure that it is based on the law, we must fully understand and grasp the value and significance of the Party groups of the standing committees of peoples congresses, and continuously promote the construction of the system of Party groups in the standing committees of people's congresses. Related Articles | Metrics

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Exploring the Construction of a Governance System for Online Public Opinion Based on “Four Governance” Yan Fei 2023, 57 (5):  50-59.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7472KB) ( )   Online public opinion governance is an important part of national governance in the new era. Establishing a governance system for online public opinion and improving its governance capabilities are necessary to maintain the right tone in public communication, create a favorable and clean cyberspace for public opinion, and promote the transformation of online ideological work from the decisionmaking level to the implementation level. It is also important for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. Taking “Four Governance”, ie. addressing issues at the source through systematic, lawbased, and holistic approaches, as the theoretical basis, this paper attempts to explore the construction of a systematic, scientific and effective governance system for online public opinion through considering the characteristics of the development of online public opinion that are specific of certain stages and periods of time.  Related Articles | Metrics

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On the Ethics of Belief during the Period of Socialist Revolution and Construction in China Liu Yu, He Xuqin 2023, 57 (5):  60-68.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6680KB) ( )   During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the ethics of belief have been formed, in which ultimate values, political ethics and social ethics are mutually supported and interpenetrated. With holistic structures, they are an important part of cause of fostering a strong sense of the Chinese nation. They are not only the subjective revolutionary spirit and sublime ideal, but also the objective ethics rooted in the social structure, so that all the people can find their places in the grand and shared blueprint of the country. While ensuring a coordinated national response institutionally, the people have all been pulled together spiritually that an independent and substantial industrial system took shape under the conditions of external blockade and dire poverty, and become masters of the country. In the new era, only by inheriting and carrying forward the ethics of belief and enhancing the governance efficiency and mobilization capability of the Party Central Committee to “exercise overall leadership and coordinate the efforts of all” through establishing Comrade Xi Jinpings core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, can the Chinese society resist the risks brought about by multiple and complex contradictions and deal with the siege of the West. Related Articles | Metrics

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An Analysis of the Idea of “RelationshipReality” from the Marxist View of Reality Li Xintong 2023, 57 (5):  69-79.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7993KB) ( )   In the “Preface” to Marx's A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Engels summarizes Marxs idea of “relationshipreality”. This paper specifically expands and demonstrates the connotation, origin, method and significance of Marx's idea on “relationshipreality” through his later works, and thus, further enriches the Marxist view of reality. The connotation of “relationshipreality” is to produce and reflect reality by constantly solving the contradictions in relationships. Marx defines the “categories” from the relationship between the present and historical facts, and this “relationship” refers to one between each elemental category of the overall “structure” and that between the elements and the whole. The endogenous nature of the development of the relationship lies in the objectivity of human activities. The approach to understanding reality lies in the circular interpretation of relational abstraction and concrete reality, through which the generative and openended qualities of reality are determined. Related Articles | Metrics

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“The Force of Abstraction”: From Smith, Hegel to Marx Zhuang Zhongzheng, Lu Junyao 2023, 57 (5):  80-89.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6405KB) ( )   The concept of “the force of abstraction” in Marx's analysis of economic forms is built on the basis of critical inheritance and revolutionary transcendence of the force of formal abstraction from Smith and the force of speculative abstraction from Hegel. Smith is committed to raising abstract concepts to rational concreteness with diversity and unity. However, due to the lack of intermediary links, he explores the internal relations of things metaphysically, which leads to the confusion between shallow induction and indepth abstraction and the duality of research methods. Hegel's conception transcends the intuition of and empirical evidence provided by classical political economists, and sublimates the fixed and rigid content into comprehensive and developing concreteness, thereby realizing the great leap of “the force of abstraction”. However, Hegel confuses rational concreteness with realistic concreteness, and his speculative approach to abstraction and Smith's formal approach to abstraction eventually become the “accomplice” of metaphysics. Based on the real productive forces and production relations, Marx follows the complete logical path of abstraction, breaking its “connection” to and “entanglement” with metaphysics and completing the scientific and revolutionary transformation of the force of abstraction. It not only realizes the critique of political economy, but also deepens the theoretical logic of materialistic dialectics and epistemology. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Development Course, Situation Analysis and Promotion Strategy of China's International Discourse Power Zhang Ting 2023, 57 (5):  90-96.  Abstract ( )   PDF (5261KB) ( )   Since the founding of New China, China's international discourse power has generally undergone a development process of initial creation, gradual improvement and effective enhancement. At present, while the promotion of China's international discourse power is facing multiple challenges, such as the suppression of Western discourse hegemony, the constraints of the current international order, and the inadequacy of its own international discourse capacity, the Chinese nation is moving towards great rejuvenation, socialism with Chinese characteristics has become more mature and welldefined, and the global governance system is undergoing profound changes, providing the country with great strategic opportunities. On the basis of dialectical analysis of the situation of improving China's international discourse power, the paper suggests that we should make overall plans, take multidimensional measures, and adopt effective strategies to improve the countrys international discourse power in the new era. Efforts include: (1) strengthening national toplevel design and actively participating in global governance changes; (2) improving the quality of discourse/content and building China's international discourse system; (3) innovating discourse dissemination methods and promoting the international identity of China's discourse; (4) improving the discourse dissemination mechanisms and optimizing the joint efforts of Chinas discourse dissemination; and (5) cultivating discourse dissemination talents and expand China's international communication teams. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Methodology of Achieving Inherent Transcendence in the Category Construction of Ideological and Political Education Dai Yuqi, Luo Lin 2023, 57 (5):  97-105.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7014KB) ( )   The category construction of ideological and political education is the key to its development from a discipline to a science. In the past forty years of development of the discipline, certain progress has been made in the discussion of the proposition of its categories, but it has always been difficult to reach a theoretical consensus. The problem lies in the lack of a clear cognition on the premise for the construction of the discipline's categories. Starting from the historical development of the category itself and the logic of theoretical development, to the category construction of the discipline of ideological and political education, we should reject the mechanistic objective conformism and relativistic subjective cognitivism, adopt the Marxist theory, especially its methodology of unity of theory and practice and that of logic and history, in order to promote the category construction of ideological and political education towards active, hierarchical and functional development that complies with reality, development patterns and goals, and realize the inherent transcendence of category research. Related Articles | Metrics

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Opportunities and Challenges: AIGC Empowers Ideological and Political Education in the New Era Wang Shao 2023, 57 (5):  106-116.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7468KB) ( )   The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) represented by ChatGPT has created new opportunities for the digital development of ideological and political education in the new era. AIGC, on which techniques such as Contrastive LanguageImage Pretraining (CLIP), the diffusion model (Diffusion) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) are based, can promote the integration of forms and contents of ideological and political education, the multifaceted interactions between the context and the environment, and the indepth exchanges between subjects and objects. At the same time, the fact that AIGC empowers ideological and political education has also brought new challenges in the new era. Influenced by preconceived conclusions, panentertainment and the misuse of technology, it can easily solidify the bias of young students, affect their ideals and beliefs, and increase the ethical and moral risks. We should insist on examining the influence of AIGC on ideological and political education in the new era with a systematic, dialectical and developmental perspective, giving full play to the positive effects of AIGC, increasing the supply of effective discourse to guide young students to foster positive values, using the feature correlation for them to develop positive character traits, and emphasizing the integration of ethics of science and technology in the education of young students. Related Articles | Metrics

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History and Politics: John Seeley and The Expansion of England Wu Zhengyu, Chen Xiaowu 2023, 57 (5):  117-128.  Abstract ( )   PDF (8452KB) ( )   The most unique character of John Seeley as a historian lies in his insistence on treating history and politics as two cognate and entwined disciplines. Seeley's primary contribution to the study of the English history is to put modern England in the global context to survey its development. Seeley indicates that the overseas expansion of England has laid down the foundation of a potential World State which comprised Britain and its settler colonies, or “Greater Britain” in Seeley's terminology. Seeley seeks to explore the possibilities and necessities of transforming “Greater Britain” from a potential World State to a real one. For Seeley, a World State should model the United States, in which its federal arrangements based on a carefully designed constitution could effectively help govern a continentsize country and ensure individual liberty within it. In addition its major influence on modern geopolitics, Seeley's historical studies also have formed the basis for the AngloSaxon conception of international politics. Related Articles | Metrics