| 中央精神文明建设指导委员会 | |
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| Formed | 21 April 1997; 28 years ago (1997-04-21) |
| Headquarters | Beijing |
| Agency executives | |
| Parent agency | Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Child agency | |
| Website | www |
| Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 中央精神文明建设指导委员会 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中央精神文明建設指導委員會 | ||||||
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| Chinese | 中央文明委 | ||||||
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TheCentral Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization (CGCBSC), officially known as theCentral Commission for Guiding Cultural and Ethical Progress,[1] is a commission of theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It is tasked with educational efforts to build a "spiritual civilization" (Jingshen Wenming) based onsocialism and the goal to build asocialist harmonious society, according to the officialChinese Communist Party (CCP) policy.[2]
Currently,Cai Qi serves as chairman, andLi Shulei is the vice-chair.
The commission was established on April 21, 1997.
As one of the most important ideological steering bodies of the CCP and thePeople's Republic of China, it controls nationwide propaganda and ideological dissemination, overlapping another similar body, theLeading Group for Propaganda and Ideological Work.[3] Both the Commission and the Leading Group are chaired by thePolitburo Standing Committee responsible for propaganda, and overrules theCCP Propaganda Department.[citation needed]