Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) – On March 5th, Harbin held a city-wide meeting of United Front Work Department heads and a meeting of Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau directors. The meetings conveyed and implemented the spirit of the national and provincial United Front Work Department heads' meetings, the national Ethnic Affairs Commission directors' meeting, the provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau directors' meeting, and the relevant requirements of the provincial and municipal Party committees. They summarized last year's work and deployed this year's tasks. Sun Yongwen, member of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Jiang Xiaoning, Deputy Minister of the United Front Work Department and Director of the Harbin Municipal Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau, made arrangements for ethnic and religious work.
The meeting pointed out that in the past year, the city's United Front and Ethnic and Religious Affairs system earnestly shouldered its responsibilities, faced difficulties head-on, and strived for excellence, widely uniting efforts to promote high-quality revitalization and development, and delivering a high-quality report card.
The meeting emphasized that in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, it is crucial to accurately grasp the situation and tasks, focus on core responsibilities, deepen and refine ideological and political guidance, leverage the effectiveness of the new type of political party system, stimulate the innovation and creativity of non-Party intellectuals and new social strata, promote the healthy development of the "two healthy" initiatives (healthy development of the Party and healthy development of the overseas Chinese community), and elevate united front work and overseas Chinese affairs to a new level. It is essential to solidify the sense of community of the Chinese nation, advance the construction of the Chinese nation community, systematically promote the Sinicization of religion in my country, strengthen the rule of law in religious affairs governance, and promote religious harmony, ethnic harmony, and social harmony. It is also necessary to strengthen the Party's centralized and unified leadership over united front work, strengthen political construction, prevent and mitigate risks and hidden dangers, build and strengthen the "two teams" (Party branch and Party branch), and strive to enhance the effectiveness of the overall united front work framework, making new and greater contributions to writing a new chapter in Harbin's modernization with Chinese characteristics.
