The Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization (CGCBSC), officially known as the Central Commission for Guiding Cultural and Ethical Progress, was a commission of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It was tasked with educational efforts to build a "spiritual civilization" (Jingshen Wenming) based on socialism and the goal to build a socialist harmonious society, according to the official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy.
History The commission was established on 21 April 1997.
The commission was disestablished in 2023.
Functions As one of the most important ideological steering bodies of the CCP and the People's Republic of China, it controlled nationwide propaganda and ideological dissemination, overlapping another similar body, the Leading Group for Propaganda and Ideological Work. Both the Commission and the Leading Group were chaired by the Politburo Standing Committee responsible for propaganda, and overrules the CCP Propaganda Department.
Chairmen Ding Guangen (1997–2002) Li Changchun (2002–2013) Liu Yunshan (2013–2017) Wang Huning (2017–2022)
References Citations
Sources
Xu Dashen, Records of the People's Republic of China (), Jilin People's Publishing House, 1994.
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