Jiang Zemin stresses development of socialist culture （1）   2002-11-08 10:29:10 Major efforts should be made to develop socialist culture and spiritual civilization while building a well－off society in an all－round way in China, Jiang Zemin said in his report to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China （CPC）, which opened here Friday morning. He said that measures should be taken to keep the orientation of advanced culture firmly in hand. "We must uphold Marxism－Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory as our guide in the realm of ideology and have the important thought of Three Represents in command of the development of socialist culture", he said. "Basing ourselves on the practice of reform, opening up and modernization and keeping abreast of the latest developments in world culture, we must make innovations in content and form so as to enhance the attraction and appeal of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics," he added. Jiang said that efforts are to be made to continue to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit. For more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has evolved a great national spirit centering on patriotism and featuring unity and solidarity, love of peace, industry, courage and ceaseless self－improvement, he said, stressing that confronted with interaction of different thoughts and cultures in the world, it is a crucial task in the cultural development to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit and incorporate it into the national education and the entire process of building spiritual civilization so that the entire people are always filled with an enterprising spirit. Jiang called for the promotion of ideological and ethical progress, saying that ruling the country by law and ruling the country by virtue complement each other. It is necessary to establish a socialist ideological and ethical system compatible with the socialist market economy and the socialist legal system and consistent with the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, he said.