在2000年即将来临的时刻,中共中央总书记江泽民在宣传思想工作的一份报告上作了重要批示,强调指出,宣传思想工作和精神文明建设,事关建设有中国特色社会主义事业的大局。越是深化改革、扩大开放,越是发展社会主义市场经济,越要重视和加强这方面的工作。这一点,要在全党特别是领导干部中经常讲、反复讲。《批示》指出,全党同志务必始终坚持“两手抓、两手都要硬”的方针,在做好经济工作的同时,切实加强宣传思想工作和精 At the forthcoming moment in 2000, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Jiang Zemin made an important directive on a report on propaganda and ideological work, stressing that the propaganda and ideological work and the spiritual civilization are all about the overall situation of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. The more we deepen the reform, expand openness and the more we develop the socialist market economy, the more we must attach importance to and strengthen the work in this field. At this point, we should often say and repeat the whole party, especially leading cadres. The “Directive” pointed out that all comrades in the party must always adhere to the principle of “using both hands and both hands being hard” and do a good job in economic work while earnestly strengthening propaganda and ideological work and fine