Editor’s note: Broad and profound, Chinese civilization has a long
history, and it is the only uninterrupted civilization in the world, shaping
the unique value system, cultural connotation and spiritual quality of the
Chinese people in looking at themselves, society and the world, having direct
impact on people’s choice of their own and social development today. There
are many important elements in fine traditional Chinese culture, which together
shape the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization. At the
forum on cultural inheritance and development on June 2, 2023,
general secretary Xi Jinping clearly summarized the prominent
features of Chinese civilization as continuity, innovation, uniformity,
inclusiveness and peace, which provides a fundamental basis for a profound
grasp of the inherent characteristics and the path of Chinese
civilization. In order to deeply study and understand general secretary Xi
Jinping’s cultural thoughts, especially his important expositions on the
prominent features of Chinese civilization, our journal has especially invited
five scholars, including Wang Xuebin, Duan Yan, Zhao Yi, Xu Kun and Cheng Long,
to make a concentrated interpretation, with a view to deepening the study of
this issue.