民族精神是民族文化的核心和灵魂，是一个民族赖以生存和发展的精神支撑。中华民族历史悠久，文化底蕴深厚，为民族精神产生提供了肥沃的土壤。自原始社会起，以华夏民族为核心的中华民族不断与其他少数民相融合，且受到东面临海，西面南面崇山峻岭的阻隔的地理因素以及以农耕为主体的生产方式的综合作用，形成了中华民族独具特点的中华民族精神。在中华民族精神长期的形成和发展过程中，成为了中华民族的精神支柱，是维系中华民族生存、推动中华民族发展的强大精神动力在中华民族的生存和发展中发挥着重大作用。 随着时代的变迁，中华民族精神也在不断的继承和传承中，被赋予新的时代色彩。中华民族精神在受到新民主主义革命、社会主义革命。社会主义建设的不同时期的影响下，增加了许多新的内容。在如今，马克思主义中国化对中华民族精神的指引以及全球化对于中华民族精神的重要影响，成为中华民族精神随着时代发展的主要原因。 面对社会主义建设的内在影响以及外部国际环境的变化，构建与弘扬富有时代性的中华民族精神必须遵循历史性与时代性相统一、民族性与时代性相统一的原则。保持民族精神的时代性和开放性，继续坚持和发扬优秀传统文化，不断加强中华民族精神的对外辐射。使得中华民族精神在全面建设小康之际充分发挥其作用。

National spirit is the core and soul of national culture, is a nation relies for survival and development of spiritual support. The Chinese nation has a long history, profound culture and provides the fertile soil for the national spirit. Since the primitive society, with Chinese nation as the core of the Chinese nation continuously and the integration of a few other people, and from coastal area to the east, the west mountains to the south of the barrier of geographical factors and to farming as the main body of the production mode of the combination, formed the unique characteristics of the Chinese nation the spirit of the Chinese nation. In the spirit of the Chinese nation in the process of the formation and development of long-term, became the spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation, is to maintain the survival of the Chinese nation, to promote the development of the Chinese nation strong spiritual power in the Chinese nation play a major role in the survival and development. As the changes of The Times, the Chinese national spirit is to inherit and inheritance, colors are endowed with new era. The Chinese national spirit in the new-democratic revolution and socialist revolution. In different periods of socialist construction under the influence of increased a lot of new content. In today, the guidance of marxism to the Chinese national spirit and the significant influence of globalization for the Chinese national spirit, to become the main cause of the Chinese national spirit with the era development. Facing the socialist construction of the internal and external international environment changes, build and carry forward the modern spirit of the Chinese nation must follow the historical trend of unity, the principle of the unity of nationality and times. Keep the national spirit of The Times and openness, continue to adhere to and carry forward outstanding traditional culture, strengthening the Chinese national spirit of external radiation. Makes the Chinese national spirit in the comprehensive construction well-off as give full play to its function.