On September 28, 1986 (the 25th day of the eighth lunar month), the central government proposed to strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization.

On September 28, 1986, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held in Beijing, adopted the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Guiding Principles for the Construction of Socialist Spiritual Civilization. The resolution pointed out that the overall layout of China's socialist modernization construction is: with the economic construction as the center, steadfastly strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization. The whole Party comrades must from this overall height, correctly understand the strategic status of socialist spiritual civilization construction. The construction of socialist spiritual civilization, divided into two aspects of cultural construction and thought construction. Cultural construction pointed to the development of various cultural causes such as education, science, literary art, press publication, broadcast television, health sports, and the people'