On the morning of July 7, the United Front Work Department (Minzong Bureau) of the Shangyu District Party Committee of Shaoxing City organized responsible persons of district-level religious groups and religious activity sites to convey and study the spirit of the 15th Provincial Party Congress and launch a mobilization meeting for educational activities on the theme of “advocating thrift and abstaining from luxury”. Fu Chunrong, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Shangyu District CPC Committee and director of the Minzong Bureau, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
At the meeting, the full text conveyed and studied the spirit of the report of the 15th Provincial Party Congress, and people from religious circles had a heated discussion on “adhering to the Sinicization of religion and improving the modernization level of religious governance”, and also organized and studied the “Joint Initiative on Advocating Thrift and Abstaining from Luxury” of national religious groups. The meeting arranged for religious circles to carry out practical activities on the theme of “Welcoming the 20th National Congress and Firmly Following the Party” and educational activities on the theme of “advocating thrift and abstaining from extravagance”, encouraging religious circles to adhere to loving the party and the country and religion, upholding rules and observing precepts, upright faith and right behavior, constantly improving religious cultivation, purifying religious style, and contributing their own strength to promoting the healthy inheritance of religion.
The meeting demanded: First, religious circles throughout the region should quickly set off an upsurge of study and publicity of the spirit of the 15th provincial party congress, publicize and convey the spirit of the meeting to the religious masses through various forms, profoundly understand the great significance and spiritual essence of the party congress, earnestly use the spirit of the party congress to unify thinking, will, and pace, continue to maintain the good situation of religious harmony, social harmony, and ethnic harmony in Shangyu District, and display the responsibility of religious circles. Second, it is necessary to deeply promote the process of sinicization of religion and actively guide religion to adapt to socialist society. Religious circles should stimulate endogenous motivation with a high degree of political and historical awareness, continue to strengthen the “five identities” of religious circles and religious believers, and promote the Sinicization of religions to go deeper and steadily. The third is to further strengthen the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on practicing economy and opposing waste, soberly understand the serious harm of bad practices in the religious field, such as greed for extravagance, wealth through education, extravagance and waste, and continue to promote the comprehensive and strict management of religion, carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, carry forward the fine traditions of various religions, uphold the concept of simplicity, and establish a clean and healthy atmosphere in the field of Shangyu religion.
The responsible persons of the participating religious sites said that they would unify their thoughts and actions with the spirit of the 15th Provincial Party Congress, guide the vast number of religious circles and religious believers to rally more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, further strengthen political guidance, strengthen standardized management, guard the bottom line of safety, continuously strengthen self-education, self-management and self-discipline, and continue to play an active role in religious circles. Religious professionals will consciously improve their religious cultivation, moral literacy and spiritual realm, consciously resist the adverse influence of extravagance, and spread positive energy to religious believers. Create a good social environment for the victorious convening of the 20th National Congress of the Party with practical actions.