Kangfan Wei, Yifan Wang

Kangfan Wei

Dec. 30, 2025

New era ideology, Revolutionary cultural relics, Protection and utilization, Red gene, Cultural power.

Revolutionary cultural relics, as material carriers that embody revolutionary history and manifest revolutionary spirit, serve as core resources for promoting revolutionary culture and passing on the red gene. The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Guided by Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, particularly its important directives on revolutionary cultural relics work, the National Cultural Heritage Administration has specifically deployed and advanced the protection and utilization of War of Resistance relics,[1] providing fundamental principles and action guidelines for safeguarding and utilizing revolutionary cultural relics in the new era. This article is based on the strategic goal of building a cultural power in the new era, and deeply explains the inherent logical connection between new era ideology and revolutionary cultural relics work. It systematically sorts out the practical achievements of the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics in the new era, analyzes the prominent problems in current work, and ultimately explores the optimization path of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization guided by new era ideology.

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