On the afternoon of May 17, 2025, the lecture Unlocking Cultural Genes and Igniting the Light of Faith delivered by Professor He Haibo was successfully held in the lecture hall of the Scientific Research Building. The lecture focused on the three themes of cultural identity, spiritual core and youth mission, deeply discussed the value of the times and the responsibility of young people in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and brought an academic feast with both ideological depth and cultural temperature to the audience.
The soul question of cultural identity builds a solid national foundation. Mr. He took Mr. Zhang Boling's Three Questions as a guide to profoundly explain the importance of cultural identity. He pointed out that cultural identity is the root of national unity, the soul of national harmony, and the solid cornerstone of national identity, national identity and road identity. Combined with General Secretary Xi Jinping's exposition, it emphasizes that traditional culture is the source code of development, deeply explores the significance of cultural identity from the three dimensions of era, country and youth, and calls on contemporary youth to find identity and spiritual belonging in traditional culture.
The light of the times of the spiritual core highlights the cultural value. Mr. He pointed out that the values contained in the excellent traditional Chinese culture are highly consistent with the values of scientific socialism, and from the dimensions of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom, the connotation of the common values of all mankind has been deeply explained, and the profound heritage of Chinese culture and the charm of the times have been demonstrated.
The road to action of the youth mission is to carry out both inheritance and innovation. Mr. He called on young people to move from cultural consciousness to cultural self-confidence, show their strength in exchanges and mutual learning, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese culture. He stressed that young people should distinguish the relationship between tradition and inheritance, guard against cultural nihilism, stand firm on cultural positions, and promote Chinese culture to the world with a confident and open attitude.
At the end of the lecture, Mr. He further summarized the important mission of young people in cultural inheritance and development, and called on young people to take cultural self-confidence as the sail and innovation and creativity as the oars to promote Chinese culture to break the waves in the new era.
Figure 1 The lecture scene