Abstract: With Chinese civilization as the cornerstone, i.e. the cultural foundation and impetus, to shape tangible, perceptive and effective traits has become not only the direction but also the approach for forging a strong sense of community for Chinese nation, in addition to an inherent requirement and strategic consideration for advancing the building of a community for the Chinese nation in the new era. Nurtured by Chinese civilization, the building of the national image becomes “tangible”; cultivated by Chinese civilization, the cultural identity becomes “perceptible”; enlightened by Chinese civilization, the sense of community for the Chinese nation converts from spontaneous to voluntarily “receptive”. Such a progression tells the internal mechanism operating at the psychological perspective of cognition, emotion, value and behavior as it is concerned with factors ranging from external form to internal perception, and then to overall evident effectiveness. In other words, “tangible” can be achieved through extending and shaping the Chinese national image, “perceptive” through stimulating and enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and “receptive” through implementing and solidifying the Party’s ethnic affairs, thus subtly integrating the forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation into the hearts of people of all ethnic groups which in turn translates into their conscious actions for advancing the building of a community for the Chinese nation.

Key words: Chinese civilization, forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, tangible-perceptible-perceptive, cognition, emotion, value and behavior