Current Affairs News 丨 The National Religious Work Conference is held after a lapse of five years. Why does Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasize these issues?
Five years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in his important speech at the National Religious Work Conference that to do religious work well, we must adhere to the party’s basic policy of religious work, understand that religious work is essentially mass work, and adhere to the sinicization of religion in our country. Enhance the party committee’s ability to deal with religious issues, support the religious community to build a talent team, and conduct in-depth research on various issues in the religious field.
From December 3 to 4 this year, the National Religious Work Conference was held again.
At the meeting, the general secretary emphasized these issues again and put forward clear requirements.
In the new era, how to understand the long-term, mass, and complex religious issues?
How to deal with it?
"Four are consistent", it is pertinent.
This policy is consistent
Religious issues have always been a major issue that our party must handle well in governing the country.
Religious believers linked by common religious beliefs are a real social force that no country or political party can take lightly.
From April 22 to 23, 2016, the National Religious Work Conference was held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered an important speech.
He emphasized that to do religious work well, we must adhere to the party's basic policy for religious work.
△The Puning Temple in Chengde, Hebei, is a typical Han-Tibetan temple.
(Photo by Duan Dewen, CCTV reporter)
The party’s basic policy for religious work includes four sentences: fully implement the party’s policy on freedom of religious belief, manage religious affairs in accordance with the law, adhere to the principle of independence and self-management, and actively guide religion to adapt to socialist society.
These four sentences are an organic whole. The first three sentences are major policies and principles, and the last sentence is the fundamental direction and purpose.
These four sentences have also undergone a process of successive emergence and gradual improvement: our party established the policy of freedom of religious belief at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it emphasized the principle of independence and self-management. To manage religious affairs, the 1993 National United Front Work Conference proposed to actively guide religion to adapt to the socialist society.
In 2003, these four sentences were clearly defined as the party's basic policy for religious work.
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Since the beginning of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to fully implement the party's basic policy on religious work during inspections in Qinghai and Tibet.
"The Party Upholds the Party's Basic Policy of Religious Work" is written into the third historical resolution of the CCP passed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee.
From December 3 to 4 this year, the National Religious Work Conference was held again.
The difference from five years ago is that this meeting was held in the form of a teleconference, with branch venues set up in all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has proposed a series of new concepts and measures on religious work. The National Religious Work Conference clearly put forward the "nine musts", including "must adhere to the party's basic principles of religious work."
At this year's National Religious Work Conference, Xi Jinping systematically expounded new ideas, new concepts, and strategies for religious work in the new era.
The general secretary emphasized that it is necessary to fully implement the party's religious work theory in the new era, fully implement the party's basic policy on religious work, and fully implement the party's policy on freedom of religious belief.
This idea is consistent
How to correctly understand religion is a prerequisite for handling religious issues and doing a good job in the party's religious work.
In May 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Central United Front Work Conference that religious work is essentially mass work.
The religious believers are the masses first, and this is the basic attribute.
Doing a good job in the work of religious believers is an important part of the party's mass work. This is the basic understanding.
△ "Kanzhuer Sutra" is an important document for the study of Buddhism, philosophy, language, national cultural exchanges, etc. It is called the Mongolian encyclopedia.
The current edition in the library of Inner Mongolia University is the most complete edition in the world.
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At the 2016 National Conference on Religious Work, Xi Jinping emphasized that the fundamental criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of religious work should be whether the masses of religious believers can be united around the party and the government.
To unite the religious believers, we must first treat the religious believers in a correct way.
For example, earnestly respecting the religious beliefs of religious believers is the basic prerequisite for doing a good job in the work of religious believers.
For example, we must mobilize and protect the enthusiasm of religious believers.
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At this year’s National Religious Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again emphasized that the essence of the party’s religious work is mass work.
The general secretary pointed out that the fundamental political and economic interests of religious and non-religious people are the same, and both are the mass basis of the party's governance.
It is necessary to protect religious believers' freedom of religious belief, unite religious believers to the greatest extent, and work patiently and meticulously for religious believers.
△China Buddhist Academy, the new campus of Phoenix Ridge.
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The "Articles of the Communist Party of China" clearly stipulates that "fully implement the party's basic policy of religious work, and unite religious believers to contribute to economic and social development."
By adhering to the clear concept that "the essence of the party's religious work is mass work" and treating religious believers sincerely, we can better organize and guide religious believers to work together with the broad masses of the people.
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Consistent in this direction
On July 22 this year, Xi Jinping made a special trip to the Drepung Monastery in the western suburbs of Lhasa during his investigation in Tibet.
The general secretary said to the monks at the scene, "The law of the development of religion lies in'harmony'. The survival and development of any religion must be adapted to the society in which it is located. This is the universal law of the development and spread of religions in the world. Religions must be harmonious and society must be harmonious. The nation must be in harmony."
Sinicization is a fine tradition of religion in our country. Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, and Christianity in our country are all imported from outside, and they have experienced long-term and active localization, and gradually adapted to Chinese politics, economy, culture and society.
△Shanghai Xujiahui Catholic Church.
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In May 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Central United Front Work Conference that “to actively guide religion to adapt to the socialist society, we must adhere to the direction of my country’s religion in China.”
In April 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Religious Work Conference that “to actively guide religions to adapt to socialist society, an important task is to support our religions in adhering to the direction of sinicization.” “Support all religions in maintaining their basic beliefs. , Core doctrines, etiquette systems, at the same time deeply dig into the contents of the doctrines and regulations that are conducive to social harmony, progress of the times, and health and civilization, and make interpretations of the doctrines that meet the requirements of contemporary China's development and progress and conform to the excellent traditional culture of China."
△Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes No. 420 was created in the Sui Dynasty. It has a niche on the south, west and north walls, and is called the "Three Niches Grottoes".
Dunhuang culture is considered to be a combination of architectural art, painted sculpture art, mural art, and Buddhist culture.
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In August last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium that it is necessary to actively guide Tibetan Buddhism to adapt to a socialist society and promote the Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism.
A month later, he emphasized at the third Central Xinjiang Work Symposium that we must adhere to the direction of Sinicization of Islam in Xinjiang and achieve healthy religious development.
△Lhasa, Tibet, Drepung Monastery.
In July 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here to learn about Tibetan religious work.
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At this year’s National Religious Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to further promote the sinicization of religion in our country.
He pointed out that it is necessary to guide and support our country’s religions to be guided by the core values of socialism, and to increase the recognition of religious people and believers in the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China, and socialism with Chinese characteristics.
It is necessary to guide religious figures and believers to cultivate and practice the core socialist values and promote Chinese culture.
This "project" has always been
In March 2018, the widely-anticipated "Deepening Party and State Institutional Reform Program" was announced.
It was discovered that in this major reform, the State Bureau of Religious Affairs was merged into the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, with the purpose of strengthening the party's centralized and unified leadership over religious work.
At this year's National Religious Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to improve the religious work system and mechanism, and promote the construction of a religious affairs governance structure featuring party committee leadership, government management, social coordination, and religious self-discipline.
△On September 10, 2021, the Chinese Buddhist Association organized a visit to the theme exhibition of the Chinese Communist Party History Exhibition Hall.
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While promoting the top-level design in the religious field, General Secretary Xi Jinping also directed another "major project"-cultivating "three teams" for religious work.
One is the team of party and government cadres.
At this religious work conference, the general secretary pointed out that it is necessary to cultivate a team of party and government cadres who are proficient in Marxist religious views, familiar with religious work, and good at doing religious work, so that they can deeply study Marxist religious views and the party’s religious work. Theories and policies, religious knowledge, and constantly improve the ability to guide.
△November 2021, the training class on ethnic and religious work for party and government leaders in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province started.
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The second is the team of representatives of religious circles.
At the National Religious Work Conference five years ago, the general secretary pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to the standards of political reliability, religious attainment, convincing morality, and functioning at critical times, and support the religious community to build a talent team.
At this year's National Religious Work Conference, the General Secretary once again emphasized that these four standards should be used to train representatives of religious circles.
△Tibet Buddhist College is the first high-level comprehensive Tibetan Buddhism college in Tibet, combining traditional and modern scholastic teaching.
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The third is the religious research team.
In May 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed at a symposium on the work of philosophy and social sciences to accelerate the improvement of disciplines that support philosophy and social sciences, including religious studies.
At this year's National Religious Work Conference, the general secretary emphasized the need to cultivate a religious research team that is firm in ideology and politics, adheres to Marxist religious views, has a good style of study, and is good at innovation, and strengthens the discipline construction of Marxist religious studies.
△There are more than 900 students in Tibet Buddhist College.
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From a policy, a concept, a direction to a "project", all of them embody the "leading ability" emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
"If you don't judge the situation, it means both leniency and strictness are wrong." When dealing with religious issues, one cannot simply "close" or "release", but rather "guide" precisely.
The ability to manage religious affairs is becoming an important benchmark for the "rule of China."
The harmony of religious relations is becoming a vivid practice for the Chinese nation to draw the largest concentric circles.
Producer丨Shen Yong
Chief Author丨Gong Xuehui Yu Zhenyi
Vision丨Chen Kuo Zhang Jing Qi Huan