From May 13 to 14, Feng Ming, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, Qu Sufen, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress and Director of the Overseas Chinese Committee, and a delegation of 11 people came to Taizhou to make a special survey on the management of folk belief affairs, accompanied by Wu Weirong, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Mayor Zhang Bing, Ye Adong, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, and Dong Guibo, Deputy Mayor.
Deputy Director Feng Ming and his delegation first listened to the report of Vice Mayor Dong Guibo on the management of folk belief affairs in Taizhou City, asked about Taizhou’s good practices, experience and problems in the exploration of territorial management of folk belief venues, and discussed with the participants the feasibility of the introduction of the management measures for folk belief affairs. Deputy Director Feng Ming pointed out that Taizhou, as an early region in the province to explore the territorial management of folk belief affairs, has provided useful experience for the standardized management of folk belief affairs in the province.
The research team also visited some places of folk belief activities in Linhai City and Luqiao District, and listened to the work report of Linhai City. Director Feng highly affirmed Linhai’s practice of strengthening the standardized management of folk belief affairs and centralized rectification, and asked for in-depth analysis of the causes of repeated demolition and construction, further finding out the bottom and exploring the regularity, setting the threshold and conditions, effectively strengthening the standardized management and activity guidance of folk belief affairs, and giving full play to the positive energy role of folk beliefs.