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Report concerning the Present Situation in the Ideological Area
The mainstream situation in the ideological area.
Since the 18th Party Congress, two plenary meetings have been successfully organized under the firm leadership of the Party Centre with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, and the situation in all the undertakings of the Party and the State are good, the Party’s work style and the government work style bring a new atmosphere every day, the cohesion and centripetal force of the entire nation is further strengthening, self-confidence about the path, self-confidence about theory and self-confidence about the system has been further enhanced, and the mainstream of ideology is positive, healthy and upward. This is mainly reflected in: the spirit of the 18th Party Congress and a series of important speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping greatly unified the thoughts of the entire Party and the people in the entire country, and the common ideological basis for united struggle is being incessantly consolidates; the new generation of collective Central leadership has rolled out a series of new measures to govern the country, it elaborated the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it improved work styles, closely connected with the masses, rigorously enforced diligence and thrift, and opposed extravagance and waste, it expanded anti-corruption and pro honesty strength, gaining the praise and endorsement of the broad cadres and masses; it persist in making scientific development into the main theme, making the acceleration of transforming economic methods into the main thread, and making raising economic growth quality and productivity into the central task, economic development maintains favourable tendencies, which buoyed the people’s faith in the prospects for development; it strive to guarantee and improve the people’s livelihoods, rolling out new measures for the benefit and welfare of the people, and people yearn ever more for future beautiful lives; studying, propagating and implementing the spirit of the 18th Party Congress has been made into the primary political task on the propaganda, ideology and culture front, which rapidly aroused enthusiasm and provided deep guidance, the theme of the times and the main melody of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese Dream have been sung, positive propaganda has been strengthened and expanded, guidance over profound issues has been strengthened and management of the ideological battlefield has been strengthened, stimulating ideological unity and cohesion of forces, creating a favourable atmosphere and providing spiritual strength for the realization of new developments in the undertakings of the Party and the country.
II, Prominent problems in the present ideological sphere that merit attention.
At the same time as fully affirming the mainstream in the ideological area, we must also soberly consider the complexity of the situation and the acute struggle in the ideological sphere. At present, there are the following mistaken thinking trends, standpoints and activities that merit attention.
1, Propagating Western constitutionalist democracy. Attempting to deny the present leadership and to deny the political system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Western constitutionalist democracy has a clear political connotation and orientation. It includes the tripartite separation of powers, the multi-Party system, universal suffrage, judicial independence, nationalization of the military and other such matters, it is a bourgeois concept of the State, political model and institutional design. The topic of constitutionalist democracy has been around for a long time, and has been played up often recently. This mainly manifests itself as: using the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the current Constitution to raise the banner of “protecting the Constitution” and “ruling the country according to the law”, accusing the Party’s leadership of overriding the Constitution, and China of “having a Constitution but no constitutionalism”. Some people also use the “dream of constitutionalism” to distort the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation, saying that “constitutionalist democracy is the only way out”, and “China should follow the global trend of constitutionalism”. The danger of propagating Western constitutionalist democracy lies in setting the Party’s leadership against the implementation of the Constitution and the law, denying Party leadership with Western constitutionalist democracy and abolishing the people’s democracy, essentially, this aims to deny our country’s Constitution and the system and principles determined in it, realize a change of banners in the end, and bring the Western political system and model to China.
2. Propagating “universal values”, attempting to shake the ideological and theoretical basis for Party rule.
Some people propagate the political objective of “universal values”, aiming to make Western values transcend time and space, transcend countries, and transcend the common values of the classes of humankind, they believe that Western liberties, democracy and human rights are universal and eternal. This mainly manifests itself as: distorting the democracy, liberties, equality, fairness, rule of law and other such values that our Party proposes, saying that “the CCP has accepted universal values, this is the victory of universal values”; they propagate that “Western values are the mainstream of human civilizations”, saying that “only if China accepts Western universal values, will it be able to progress”, and “reform and opening up is the process of progressively accepting universal values”. Under the situation that Western countries have held economic, military and scientific superiority for a long time, these argument are strongly misleading and duplicitous, their objective lies in confusing fundamental differences between Western value views and the values that we propose, and in the end to replace the Socialist core value system with Western values.
3, Propagating civil society, attempting to deconstruct the social basis for Party rule.
Civil society is a sort of social and political theory originating from the West, it hold that individual rights are supreme in the social sphere, and that the State may not interfere with these. In recent years, the concept of civil society has been dressed up as a political tool by Western anti-China forces, some people in our country also propagate it with ulterior motives. This mainly manifests itself as: using civil society to propagate Western political concepts, stating that establishing civil society in China is a precondition to guarantee individual rights, and is the basis for realizing constitutionalist democracy; seeing civil society as a “panacea” to move grass-roots social management forward in China, and engaging in all kinds of so-called citizens’ activities. The essence of propagating civil society is that it is aimed at eliminating grass roots Party organization leadership and grass roots regimes from grass roots self-governance by the masses, and even opposing them with each other, so as to shape political opposition forces.
4. Propagating neoliberalism, attempting to change our country’s basic economic system.
Neoliberalism proposes absolute economic liberalization, thorough privatization and complete marketization, and opposes any State intervention or regulation of the economy. Western countries, led by the U.S. have, under the name of globalization, spared no effort to promote neoliberalism around the world, which brought catastrophic results to Latin America, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, and resulted in the fact that they themselves sunk into an international financial crisis from which they find it difficult to extricate themselves. In China, this mainly manifests itself as: preaching the “market omnipotence theory”, saying that our country’s macro-level regulation smothers market efficiency and vitality; opposing the public ownership system, saying that our country’s State-owned enterprises are “State monopolies”, whose low efficiency destroys market economy order, and which should be “completely privatized”. These arguments are actually aimed at changing our country’s basic economic system and weakening government control over the key branches of the national economy.
5, Propagating Western news views, challenging our country’s principle that the Party manages the media and its press and publications management system.
Some people, under the pretence of “news freedom”, propagate Western value views and deny the principle of the Party nature of our country’s media. This mainly manifests itself as: professing that media are “social utilities” and the “fourth estate”, attacking the Marxist news view; preaching the “free exchange of online information”, besmirching our country’s strengthening of Internet management for being a suppression of online discourse; saying that our media are “a blind spot of the rule of law, and a special area of rule of man”, calling for the introduction of a news law according to Western concepts; claiming that our country limits the freedom of press and publications, kicking up a fuss about abolishing propaganda management departments. Propagating the value of the Western news view, which is preaching the abstract and absolute freedom of news, opposing Party leadership over the media, in an attempt to open up breaches for the ideological infiltration of our country.
6. Propagating historical nihilism, attempting to deny the history of the Chinese Communist Party and the history of the New China.
Historical nihilism means distorting the history of the Party and the history of the new China under the name of “re-evaluation”. This mainly manifests itself as: denying the revolution and claiming that the revolution under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party “merely had destructive effects”; denying the historical inevitability of China’s voice of the Social path, claiming that this was “blundering onto the wrong way”, and the history of the Party and the history of the new China are “a series of successive mistakes”; denying historical events and historical persons on whom verdicts have been reached, criticizing revolutionary ancestors and slandering Party leaders. Recently, some people used the 120th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Mao Zedong to deny the scientific value and guiding role of Mao Zedong Thought. Some people separate the two historical periods before and after reform and opening up, and even oppose to them to each other, either they use the historical period after reform and opening up to deny the historical period before reform and opening up, or they use the historical period before reform and opening up to deny the historical period after reform and opening up. The harm of historical nihilism is that it attempts to fundamentally deny the historical position and role of the Chinese Communist Party through denying the history of the Chinese Communist Party and the history of the New China, and so deny the legitimacy of long-term rule by the Chinese Communist Party.
7, Challenging reform and opening up, challenging the Socialist nature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
In recent years, there have been incessant voices debating reform, all sorts of voices arose in a confusion of great numbers, some discourse clearly deviates from Socialism with Chinese characteristics. This mainly manifests itself as: some impute the contradictions and problems in development to reform and opening up, saying that “reform and opening up has been overdone” and “deviates from the Socialist orientation”, they question whether or not what China is doing is Socialism or not, or simply say that it is “capital Socialism”, “State capitalism” or “new bureaucratism”. Some say that “reform is still far from satisfactory” or “the sluggishness of political structural reform impedes economic structural reform”, they kick up a fuss about how we should do so-called complete and thorough reform with Western systems as the norm. These views in fact aim to deny the line, principles and the policies of the Party since the 3rd Plenum of the 11th Party Centre, and so deny Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The abovementioned mistaken thinking trends and viewpoints exist in large numbers in foreign media and reactionary publications, and permeate into the borders through the Internet and underground channels; they are also disseminated to a certain extent on domestic online forums, battle line-ups and microblogs; they appear at reporting meetings, conferences, in college and university classrooms, forums and lectures, popular reading groups and in a few publications. If they are allowed to spread, this will interfere with the ideological consensus about major questions such as what kind of banner to raise, which path to follow and with objectives to pursue, etc., and interfere with the bigger picture of our country’s reform, development and stability.
Western anti-China forces and domestic “dissidents” also incessantly carry out infiltration activities in our country’s ideological area and challenge our mainstream ideology, among the main recent activities are: first, some people disseminate open letters and letters of advice, conduct jointly signed petitions, and put forward political demands for political reform, human rights, the release of “political criminals”, “redressing June 4th”, etc.; they make a hubbub about openness of officials’ assets, online corruption, media management and other hot and sensitive topics, and they provoke dissatisfaction about the Party and the government. Second, Western embassies in China, media organs and non-governmental organizations act within our borders under all kinds of names to disseminate Western value views, and foster so-called anti-government forces. Third, reactionary political publications are concocted abroad, and some people domestically organize secret compilation of reactionary publications, there are also people who take pictures recording sensitive topics, spread political rumours, and blacken Party and State leaders. Fourth, there is the manipulation and the hubbub about Tibetan self-immolations, the fabrication of terror incidents in Xinjiang, the use of ethnic and religious problems to engage in separationist and destructive activities. Fifth, there is the intensification of conducting online infiltration of our country, and illegal gatherings within the borders. Sixth, there are dynamic manifestations by “dissidents” and “rights defenders”, some work in concert with and rely on the support of Western anti-China forces, this indicates that the situation of infiltration and counter-infiltration in the ideological area and remains severe, as long as we persist in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and persist in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the position of Western anti-China forces pressuring us to change will not change, and they will point the spearhead of Westernization, separation and “colour revolutions” at us always. In response, we can absolutely not relax vigilance, and certainly not lower our guard.
III, Give high regard to ideological work
Historical experience has demonstrated that if economic work is not done well, great troubles will follow, and that ideological work is not done well, great troubles will follow as well. With regard to real harm of Western anti-China forces that carry out Westernization, fragmentation and “peaceful revolution” of our country, and in the face of the grave challenges in the ideological field at present, all levels’ Party Committees and governments, and especially main leading comrades, must give high regard to ideological work and closely grasp leadership power and initiative.
1, Strengthen leadership over ideological work.
All levels’ Party Committees and governments must fully understand the long-term nature, complexity and acuity of the struggle in the ideological area, and further strengthen their political consciousness, their consciousness about the bigger picture, their sense of responsibility and their sense of anxiety. Strengthen the responsibility of number one leaders, bring ideological work onto the important matters agenda, regularly analyse and research new situations and new trends in the ideological area, timely and effectively respond to them, prevent and deal well with all sorts of problems in the ideological area.
2, Guide Party members and cadres in clearly distinguishing theoretical right and wrong.
Carry out powerful refutation of mistaken thinking trends and standpoints that have great influence and cause great harm, help the people in distinguishing right and wrong, and clarifying their understanding. Party members and cadres, and especially high-level leading cadres must be good at looking at problems politically, from the bigger picture, strategically and theoretically, clearly understand the essence of mistaken viewpoints and standpoints, perceive their theoretical mistakes, and perceive the essence of mistaken viewpoints and standpoints, as well as perceive their political harm. With regard to major political principles and great questions of right and wrong, on what to support and what to oppose, our banners must be clear and our attitude firm. We must straiten political discipline and maintain a high level of consistency with the Party Centre with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary, it is not permitted to disseminate opinions violating the Party’s theory, line, principles and policies, it is not permitted to openly publish discourse violating the Centre’s decisions, and it is not permitted to fabricate and disseminate political rumours and discourse vilifying the image of the Party and the State.
3, Persist unwaveringly in the principle that the Party manages the media.
This is decided by our political system and the nature of our media. We must persist in the correct political orientation, closely hold to the principle of the Party nature of news and social responsibility, and be of one heart and one mind with the Party in political matters. Persist in the correct public opinion orientation, implement the correct demands of the orientation into all areas and all processes of work, and keep the gate well in terms of politics, content, procedures, technology and all other areas. Put news media leadership rank and team construction in an even more important position, strengthen education about the Marxist view of news, guarantee that the leadership power of news media is grasped in the hands of people who maintain consistency with the Party Centre with Xi Jinping as General Secretary.
4, Realistically strengthen management of the ideological battlefield.
Implement the principle of who is in charge, is responsible and the principle of localized management, we must closely grasp political responsibility with regard to sensitive events and complex, difficult themes in the ideological area, dare to take matters on, dare to grasp and dare to manage, ensure that everyone is responsible to protect the territory, and everyone fulfils their responsibility to protect the territory. Strengthen management of all levels and all sorts of propaganda and cultural battlefields, perfect and implement relevant management systems, absolutely do not provide dissemination channels for mistaken thinking trends and positions. Earnestly implement the “NPC Standing Committee Decision concerning Strengthening the Protection of Online Information”, strengthen online public opinion guidance, and clean up the online public opinion environment. Improve and innovate management methods and means, ensure management according to the law, scientific management and effective management.
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当前意识形态领域情况一、关于当前意识形态领域情况的通报
当前意识形态领域的主流态势党的十八大以来，在以习近平同志为总书记的党中央坚强领导下全国两会胜利召开，党和国家各项事业开局良好，党风政风气象日新，全民族凝聚力向心力进一步增强，道路自信、理论自信、制度自信进一步坚定，意识形态主流积极健康向上。主要体现在：党的十八大精神和习近平总书记一系列重要讲话极大统一了全党全国人们思想，团结奋斗的共同思想基础不断巩固；新一届中央领导集体推出一系列治国理政新举措，阐释中华民族伟大复兴中国梦，改进工作作风、密切联系群众，厉行勤俭节约、反对铺张浪费，加大反腐倡廉力度，赢得广大干部群众赞誉和拥护；坚持以科学发展为主题，以加快经济转变方式为主线，以提高经济增长质量和效益为中心，经济发展保持良好势头，提振了人们对发展前景的信心；着力保障和改善民生，出台惠民利民新举措，人们对未来美好生活更加向往；宣传思想文化战线把学习宣传贯彻党的十八大精神作为首要政治任务，迅速兴起热潮并引向深入，唱响中国特色社会主义和中国梦的时代主题和主旋律，做大做强正面宣传，加强深层次问题引导，加强意识形态阵地管理，促进了思想统一，力量凝聚，为党和国家事业实现新发展营造了良好氛围、提供了精神力量。
二、当前意识形态领域值得注意的突出问题
在充分肯定意识形态领域主流的同时，也必须清醒看到意识形态领域情况复杂、斗争尖锐的一面。当前，有以下错误思潮和主张及活动值得注意。
1、宣扬西方宪政民主。企图否定当代领导，否定中国特色社会主义政治制度。
西方宪政民主有着鲜明的政治内涵和指向。包括三权分立、多党制、普选制、司法独立、军队国家化等内容，是资产阶级的国家理念、政治模式和制度设计。宪政民主话题由来已久，近来的炒作更加频繁。主要表现为：借纪念现行宪法设施30周年，打着“维护宪法”，“依法治国”的旗号，攻击党的领导凌驾于宪法之上，中国“有宪法无宪政”。一些人还用“宪政梦”歪曲民族复兴中国梦，称“宪政民主是唯一出路”，“中国应跟上世界宪政潮流”。宣扬西方宪政民主的要害，在于把党的领导与宪法和法律实施对立起来，以西方宪政民主否定党的领导、取消人民民主，实质是要否定我国宪法及其确立的制度和原则，最终实现改旗易帜，把西方政治制度模式搬到中国。
2、宣扬“普世价值”，企图动摇党执政的思想理论基础。
一些人宣扬“普世价值”的政治目的，是要把西方价值覜说成是超越时空、超越国家、超越阶级的人类共同价值，认为西方的自由、民主、人权具有普适性、永恒性。主要表现为：歪曲我们党倡导民主、自由、平等、公正、法治等价值，称“中共接受了普世价值，是普世价值的胜利”；宣扬“西方价值观是人类文明的主流”，称“中国只有接受西方的普世价值才有前途”，“改革开放就是逐步接受普世价值的过程”。在西方国家经济、军事、科技长期占优势的情况下这些论调具有较强的迷惑性、欺骗性，目的在于混淆西方价值观与我们倡导的价值覜的本质区别，最终用西方价值观取代社会主义核心价值观。
3、宣扬公民社会，企图瓦解党执政的社会基础。
公民社会是一种源自西方的社会政治理论，认为在社会领域个人权利至上，国家不得干预。近年来，公民社会概念被西方反华势力包装为政治工具，我国境内一些人也别有用心地加以宣扬。主要表现为：借公民社会宣扬西方政治理念，称在中国建设公民社会是保障个人权利的前提，是实现宪政民主的基础；将公民社会视为在中国推进基层社会管理的“良方妙药”，搞各种各样的所谓公民行动。宣扬公民社会的实质，是要把基层党组织领导和基层政权排除在基层群众自治之外，甚至对立起来，最终形成政治对抗力量。
4。宣扬新自由主义，企图改变我国基本经济制度。
新自由主义主张经济绝对自由化、彻底私有化和完全市场化，反对国家对经济的任何干预和调控。以美国为首的西方国家以全球化名义极力向世界推行新自由主义，给拉美及苏联和东欧国家带来了灾难性后果，也使自身陷入国际金融危机之中难以自拔。其在中国主要表现为：鼓吹“市场万能论”，称我国宏观调控扼杀了市场效率和活力；反对公有制，称我国国有企业是“国家垄断”，效率低下破坏了市场经济秩序，应该“全面私有化”。这些论调，实质是要改变我国基本经济制度，削弱政府对国民经济命脉的控制。
5、宣扬西方新闻观，挑战我国党管媒体原则和新闻出版管理制度。
一些人以“新闻自由”为幌子，宣扬西方新闻观，否定我国媒体的党性原则。主要表现为：标榜媒体是“社会公器”、“第四权力”，攻击马克思主义新闻观；鼓吹“网络信息自由流动”，污蔑我国加强互联网管理是打压网上言论；称我国媒体是“法治盲区、人治特区”，呼吁按西方观念搞新闻法；称我国限制新闻出版自由，鼓噪撤销宣传管理部门。宣传西方新闻观的贵质，是鼓吹抽象的、绝对的新闻自由，反对党对媒体的领导，企图打开对我国意识形态渗透的突破口。
6、宣扬历史虚无主义，企图否定中国共产党历史和新中国历史。
历史虚无主义以“重新评价”为名，歪曲党的历史和新中国历史。主要表现为：否定革命，称中国共产党领导的革命“只起破坏性作用”；否定中国选择社会主义道路的历史必然性，称是“误入歧路”，党的历史和新中国历史是“一系列错误的延续”；否定已有定论的历史事件和历史人物，贬损革命前辈，诋毁党的领袖。近来，一些人借毛泽东同志诞辰120周年，否认毛泽东思想的科学价值和指导作用。一些人将改革开放前后两个历史时期割裂甚至对立起来，或用改革开放后的历史时期否定改革开放前的历史时期，或用改革开放前的历史时期和否定改革开放后的历史时期。历史虚无主义的要害，是企图通过否定中国共产党历史和新中国历史，从根本上否定中国共产党的历史地位和作用，进而否定中国共产党长期执政的合法性。
7、质疑改革开放，质疑中国特色社会主义的社会主义性质。
近年来议论改革声音不断，各种声音纷纷籍籍，一些言论明显偏离中国特色社会主义。主要表现为：有的把发展中的矛盾和问题归咎于改革开放，称“改革开放过了头”，“背离了社会主义方向”，质问中国现在搞的究竟还是不是社会主义，或干脆说成是“资本社会主义”、“国家资本主义”、“新官僚资本主义”。有的称“改革还远未到位”，“政治体制改革滞后阻碍了经济体制改革”，鼓噪应该以西方制度为标准搞所谓的全面彻底改革。这些论调，实质是要否定党的十一届三中全会以来的路线方针政策，进而否定中国特色社会主义。
上述错误思潮和主张，在境外媒体和反动出版物中大量存在，并通过互联网和地下管道向境内渗透；在境内网络论坛、阵容、微博客上也有一定传播；在报告会、研讨会、高校课堂、论坛讲座、民间读书会、个别出版物中也时有出现。如果任其蔓延，就会干扰人们在举什么旗、走什么路、朝着什么目标前进等重大问题上的思想共识，干扰我国改革发展稳定大局。
西方反华势力和境内“异见分子”还不断在我国意识形态领域搞渗透活动并挑战我主流意识形态，近期主要活动有：一是一些人散布公开信、建言书，进行联署签名，提出政改、人权、释放“政治犯”、“平反六四”等政治要求；炒作官员财产公开、网络反腐、媒体管理等热点敏感话题，挑动对党和政府的不满。二是西方驻华使领馆、媒体机构、非政府组织以种种名义在我国境内活动，传播西方价值观念，培植所谓反政府力量。三是在境外炮制反动政治出版物，境内一些人私下组织编撰反动出版物，还有人拍摄敏感题材纪录件，散步政治谣言，抹黑党和国家领导人。四是操纵炒作藏人自焚，制造新疆暴力恐怖事件，借民族宗教问题搞分裂破坏活动。五是加紧对我国进行网络渗透，在境内非法聚集。六是“异见份子”、“维权人士”等表现活跃，有的与西方反华势力相互呼应、相互借重。这表明，意识形态领域渗透与反渗透形势依然严峻，只要我们坚持中国共产党领导、坚持中国特色社会主义，西方反华势力对我们施压促变的立场就不会改变，就会把西化分化和“颜色革命”的矛头始终对准我国。对此，我们绝不能放松警惕，更不能掉以轻心。
三、高度重视意识形态工作
历史经验证明，经济工作搞不好要仇大问题，意识型态工作搞不好也要出大问题。而对西方反华势力对我国进行西化分化和“颜色革命”的现实危险，面对当前意识形态领域的严峻挑战，各级党委和政府特别是主要领导同志要高度重视意识形态工作，牢牢掌握领导权和主动权。
1、加强对意识形态工作的领导。
各级党委和政府要充分认识意识形态领域斗争的长期性复杂性尖锐性，进一步增强政治意识、大局意识、责任意识、忧患意识。强化一把手责任，把意识形态工作纳入重要议事日程，经常分析研判意识形态领域新情况新动向，及时有效加以应对，防范和处理好意识形态领域各种问题。
2、引导党员干部明辨理论是非。
对影响大、危害大的错误思潮和主张进行有力批驳，帮助人们分清是非、澄清认识。党员干部特别是高级干部要善于从政治上、大局上、战略上、理论上看问题，认清错误观点主张的本质，既认清其理论上的错误，有认清错误观点主张的本质，又认清其政治危害。对重大政治原则和大是大非问题，支持什么、反对什么．必须旗帜鲜明、态度坚定。要严明政治纪律，在思想上、政治上、行动上同以习近平同志为总书记的党中央保持高度一致，不允许散布违背党的理论和路线方针政策的意见，不允许公开发表违背中央决定的言论，不允许制造传播政治谣言及丑化党和国家形象的言论。
3、坚持党管媒体原则不动摇。
这是由我们的政治制度和媒体性质决定的。要坚持正确政治方向，牢牢坚守媒体的党性原则和社会责任，在政治上与党同心同德。坚持正确舆论导向，把正确导向要求贯穿到工作的各领域和全过程，从政治、内容、程序、技术等各方面把好关口。把新闻媒体领导班子和队伍建设摆在更加重要位置，加强马克思主义新闻观教育，确保新闻媒体的领导权始终掌握在同以习近平同志为总书记的党中央保持一致的人手中。
4、切实加强意识形态阵地管理。
落实谁主管谁负责和属地管理原则，对意识形态领域的敏感事件和复杂难题，要牢记政治责任，勇于担当，敢抓敢管，做到守土有责、守土尽责。加强对各级各类宣传文化阵地管理，完善和落实有关管理制度，绝不给错误思潮和主张提供传播管道。认真贯彻落实《全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于加强网络信息保护的决定》，加强网上舆论引导，净化网络舆论环境。改进和创新管理方式方法，做到依法管理、科学管理、有效管理。
