食洋不化 | shí yáng bù huà

Xi Jinping used this chengyu in a speech about the Marxist political economy at the 28th Politburo study session on November 23, 2015.

Meaning

(Variant of 食古不化) Swallowing foreign ideas without digesting them; quoting foreign ideas in full without analyzing and comparing

Original

“在我们的经济学教学中,不能食洋不化,还是要讲马克思主义政治经济学,当代中国社会主义政治经济学要大讲特讲,不能被边缘化。”

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