Modern Social Science Research

Consolidating the consciousness of the Chinese national community serves as the central task of the Party's ethnic work in the new era and constitutes a crucial cornerstone for fostering national cohesion and promoting unity and progress. Current practices reveal that enhancing ethnic groups' intrinsic identification with community consciousness and strengthening emotional connections still requires exploring optimized approaches from cognitive mechanisms. Enactivism, as a significant theoretical paradigm in cognitive science, posits that cognition emerges through dynamic interactions between the body and environment, offering novel analytical perspectives for examining the construction of community consciousness. This study identifies several practical deficiencies, including insufficient attention to embodied activities, underdeveloped subjective agency, and incomplete systemic construction, which may impede the deep-rooted development of community consciousness. Drawing on enactivism's theoretical interpretations of "embodied cognition" and "situated interaction," the research proposes a tripartite optimization framework: intensifying emotional resonance through experiential practices, activating endogenous motivation via subject participation, and optimizing cultivation mechanisms through systemic coordination. These recommendations aim to provide theoretical insights and practical guidance for advancing the construction of the national community in the new era.

Forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation; Generationism; Realistic challenges; Practical path