The Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization (CGCBSC), officially known as the Central Commission for Guiding Cultural and Ethical Progress, is a commission of the

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. It is tasked with educational efforts to build a "spiritual civilization" (''Jingshen Wenming'') based on

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and the goal to build a

socialist harmonious society The Harmonious Society (also known as Socialist Harmonious Society) is a socioeconomic concept in China that is recognized as a response to the increasing alleged social injustice and inequality emerging in mainland Chinese society as a result ...

, according to the official

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) policy. Currently,

Cai Qi Cai Qi ( zh, c=蔡奇, p=Cài Qí; born December 5, 1955) is a Chinese politician, who is the current first-ranked secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), fifth-ranking member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee ...

serves as chairman, and

Li Shulei Li Shulei (; born 21 January 1964) is a Chinese politician who is the current head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Li spent mos ...

is the vice-chair.

History

The commission was established on April 21, 1997.

Functions

As one of the most important ideological steering bodies of the CCP and the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, it controls nationwide propaganda and ideological dissemination, overlapping another similar body, the Leading Group for Propaganda and Ideological Work. Both the Commission and the Leading Group are chaired by the

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responsible for propaganda, and overrules the CCP Propaganda Department.

Chairmen

Ding Guangen Ding Guangen (; September 1929 – July 22, 2012) was a Chinese politician who served in senior leadership roles in the Chinese Communist Party during the 1990s. He was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party between 1992 and ...

(1997–2002) #

Li Changchun Li Changchun (born February 1, 1944) is a retired Chinese politician and a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He served on the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top leadership council, and as the top official in charge ...

(2002–2013) #

Liu Yunshan Liu Yunshan (; zh, s=刘云山, t=劉雲山, p=Liú Yúnshān; born July 1947) is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the top decision-making body of the CCP, between 2 ...

(2013–2017) #

Wang Huning Wang Huning (; born 6 October 1955) is a Chinese politician who is one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is currently the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of the National C ...

(2017–2022) #

(2022–present)

References

Citations

Sources

* Xu Dashen, ''Records of the People's Republic of China'' (), Jilin People's Publishing House, 1994.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Central Guidance Commission For Building Spiritual Civilization Of The Communist Party Of China Commissions of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 1997 establishments in China Organizations established in 1997 Deliberative and coordinating bodies of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party