China News Service, Beijing, September 27th, title: CCP's strategy of governing Xinjiang demonstrates determination and confidence

　　China News Agency reporter Xing Yi

　　The third Central Xinjiang Work Forum ended in Beijing from September 25 to 26.

At the meeting, the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, systematically and comprehensively put forward the CCP’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era with the "eight persistence", affirming the correctness of past practices and requiring long-term persistence.

Over the past six years, the CCP’s Xinjiang strategy has been tested, Xinjiang’s development has shown many positive changes, and the ruling party’s strategic determination and institutional self-confidence have continued to demonstrate.

　　The Xinjiang Work Symposium is the highest level of the CCP’s Xinjiang working mechanism. The first two meetings were held in 2010 and 2014 respectively.

This time reflects the latest and clearest research and judgment on Xinjiang work by the top officials in Beijing since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and covers the most systematic, authoritative and comprehensive strategic deployment of Xinjiang.

　　In terms of overall goals, this time continues the term "social stability and long-term stability" in the 2014 conference, but its connotation and dimensions have both consistent continuity and new extensions and emphasis.

If we examine the two Central Xinjiang Work Forums since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China vertically, the former is more focused on "breaking" the threat of terrorist attacks, while the latter tends to "establish" long-term stability.

　　On the eve of the second Xinjiang Work Forum six years ago, China’s counter-terrorism situation suddenly turned into a serious one.

Serious violent and terrorist incidents have occurred in Kunming, Urumqi, Guangzhou and other places one after another.

At that time, the symposium involved a large-scale attack on terrorism and restoration of social stability.

As time has changed, Xinjiang has now had no violent and terrorist cases for more than 40 consecutive months, and the people’s sense of security has continued to increase.

In view of this, this meeting expanded the previous 12-character policy of “ruling Xinjiang according to law, uniting and stabilizing Xinjiang, and building Xinjiang over a long period of time” to “culturally rejuvenate Xinjiang” and “enrich the people and rejuvenate Xinjiang”. This will further release the “stability dividend” accumulated in the previous period.

　　On the one hand, poverty alleviation and employment are still the “eyes” of Xinjiang’s chessboard.

Although Xinjiang’s economy and people’s livelihood has made great progress in the past six years, the new crown epidemic has superimposed a century of changes. China’s overall economy has shifted to a "double cycle" to seek high-quality development, in the year of poverty alleviation and building a well-off society, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" "When the plan is released, Xinjiang will not only need to consolidate the existing development results, but also open up new development dimensions.

Therefore, the meeting pointed out that it is necessary to persevere in the two major tasks of poverty alleviation and promotion of employment, and insist on the combination of nearby local employment and orderly transfer of employment.

It is necessary to give full play to Xinjiang’s location advantages, drive the construction of the core area of ​​the Silk Road Economic Belt, incorporate Xinjiang’s own regional opening strategy into the overall layout of the country’s westward opening, enrich the carriers of opening up, improve the level of opening up, and innovate and open up. The economic system is to create highlands that are open inland and open to borders.

The policy of “enriching the people and rejuvenating Xinjiang” means that Xinjiang will not only not be closed, but will also develop in a new direction in opening up.

　　On the other hand, we have used "cultural development" to forge the consciousness of the community of the Chinese nation and continuously consolidate the unity of all ethnic groups.

At a symposium six years ago, Xi Jinping pointed out that the longest problem in Xinjiang is the issue of ethnic unity.

Before that, he also made an image metaphor, pointing out that all ethnic groups should hug each other like pomegranate seeds.

We must cherish national unity as we love our own eyes, and cherish national unity as we value our lives.

This symposium proposed to guide the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups to establish the correct "five views", promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive exchanges, and in-depth integration of all ethnic groups, and in-depth development of the "cultural development" project.

The analysis pointed out that forging the consciousness of the Chinese nation’s community is to fundamentally stabilize the social environment. This symposium provides a traceable path to realize the vision of national unity.

　　In fact, behind the general goals, strategies, and policies of Xinjiang’s governance are also the difficulties of governing Xinjiang, that is, balancing the relationship between stability and development: only a stable social environment can create favorable basic conditions for development; long-term governance and stability are beneficial to development. Further consolidate and promote the harmony and stability of the social environment.

　　However, viewing Xinjiang from an overseas perspective is often one-sided.

The actions taken by Chinese officials to maintain stability and development in accordance with the law in the local area have been deliberately distorted or treated with inertial stereotypes.

In the minority context in the West, Xinjiang’s education and training centers are labeled as “concentration camps”, employment promotion is slandered as “forced labor”, and prenatal and postnatal care is discredited as “ethnic cleansing”... Some countries in the United States and Western countries even use the so-called “human rights”. Standards, "Double Standards" of major banks, use various domestic laws to carry out "long-arm jurisdiction" and interference.

　　Today, the sense of security, happiness, and sense of gain among the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang continues to increase.

As the saying goes, "Shoes don't fit, you don't know until you wear them."

Practice has proved that the development of Xinjiang has carved a distinctive mark of the new era.

The outside world can only see the positive changes that the local development is going through by seeking truth from facts and getting right.

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