自党的十六大以来,文化问题在党的重大决策与党的文献中多次被提及并且成为我国改革发展的重要领域之一。本文立足于马克思主义文化观,阐释当代文化日益成为民族凝聚力、创造力源泉,成为综合国力竞争重要因素,成为经济社会发展的重要支撑,丰富精神文化生活成为人们的迫切要求等新特点及其原因。 Since the 16th CPC National Congress, the issue of culture has been mentioned many times in the party’s major policy decisions and party documents and has become one of the important areas for the reform and development in our country. Based on Marxist cultural view, this article explains that contemporary culture has increasingly become the source of national cohesion and creativity, an important factor in the overall national strength competition, an important support for economic and social development, and a new feature and reason for enriching spiritual and cultural life as people’s urgent demands .