Xinjiang promotes policy awareness for religions
Global Times
Source:Global Times Published: 2019/4/2 22:38:40
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region held a meeting with religious groups to promote the learning of religious policies and contribute to regional stability and prosperity.
Representatives of religious groups said they appreciated the government's efforts in improving the conditions of religious venues and fully guaranteeing normal religious activities. They also gave advice on religious policies at the meeting, the China Islamic Association posted on its WeChat account on Tuesday.
Chen Quanguo, secretary of the Communist Party of China's Xinjiang Regional Committee, hosted the meeting and listened to the advice, urging relevant departments to adopt reasonable suggestions.
Chen emphasized that religious groups should uphold the Party's basic policy on religious affairs, protecting legal religious activities and resisting foreign penetration and criminal activities. China would self-manage its religious affairs, uphold the direction of sinicization and make religions compatible with socialist society.
Management of religious affairs should identify the differences between ordinary religious practices and religious extremism, protecting normal religious activities and respect the freedom of religious belief. The legal rights and interests of religious groups, religious venues and believers should be protected in accordance with the law, said the report.
The meeting also called for further efforts to improve the infrastructure of public services and basic living services in religious venues, to make sure worshippers feel the government's warmth.
Government officials of all levels should help religious people solve their problems, talk to them and make friends with them, Chen said, noting that religious people themselves should have strengthened political and legal education to be politically reliable.
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