加快构建中国特色哲学社会科学，归根结底是建构中国自主的知识体系。中国化、时代化的马克思主义是最重要的中国自主知识体系，它构成了当代中国自主知识体系总的灵魂。这样的总灵魂，只有贯彻落实在不同领域、不同学科具体的自主知识体系构建中，我们才能真正建构起内在统一、全面完整的自主的中国知识体系。当代中国新闻学，作为中国特色学科体系中具有支撑作用的学科，在自主知识体系构建中具有重要的地位和作用。构建当代中国新闻学自主知识体系的根据与必要性问题，在所有事关自主知识体系的构建问题中具有逻辑的优先性。本文提出，当代中国新闻学自主的知识体系是以中国事实、中国经验为根基的知识体系，是以中国马克思主义新闻观为灵魂的知识体系，是站在中国立场上、解决中国新闻问题、满足中国新闻发展需要、为中国特色社会主义新闻事业服务的知识体系，是以新闻方式为中国式现代化发展服务的知识体系，是开放的、展开广泛交流的、不断发展完善的知识体系，是明确承认并追求将认识论与价值论有机统一起来的知识体系。构建自主的知识体系，根据与必要性在于：每一国家、民族、社会都有自身相对特殊的历史情况、文明特征、文化传统，都有自身当代的客观实际和发展水平，都有自身的未来蓝图和理想追求；只有积极构建自主的知识体系，才有可能有效解决自己的问题，满足自己的发展需要；与“自主”的知识体系相比，“他主”的知识体系更多具有的是参考借鉴价值。

To accelerate the development of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics is, in the final analysis, to build China's independent knowledge system. Sinicized and epochalized Marxism is the most important Chinese independent knowledge system, which constitutes the overall soul of contemporary Chinese independent knowledge system. Only by implementing such a soul in the construction of specific independent knowledge systems in different fields and disciplines can we truly construct an internal unified, comprehensive and complete independent Chinese knowledge system. Contemporary Chinese journalism, as a supporting discipline in the discipline system with Chinese characteristics, plays an important role in the construction of the independent system. The foundation and necessity of constructing the independent knowledge system of contemporary Chinese journalism have logical priority in all the problems concerning the construction of the independent knowledge system. Proposed in this paper, the independent knowledge system of contemporary Chinese journalism is the facts and experience of China as the foundation, based on knowledge system of Chinese marxist concept of news for the soul, is standing on the position of China, solve the problem of Chinese news, can meet the needs of the development of Chinese news and serving the Chinese characteristic socialist journalism knowledge system, It is a knowledge system that serves the development of Chinese modernization in the form of news, an open knowledge system that carries out extensive exchanges and constantly develops and improves, and a knowledge system that explicitly recognizes and pursues the organic unification of epistemology and axiology. The construction of independent knowledge system is based on and necessary in the following aspects: each country, nation and society has its own relatively special historical situation, civilization characteristics and cultural traditions, its own contemporary objective reality and development level, and its own future blueprint and ideal pursuit; Only by actively constructing independent knowledge system can we solve our own problems effectively and meet our own development needs. Compared with the "independent" knowledge system, the other knowledge system has more reference value.