Yongkang City, with a floating population of over 138000 ethnic minorities and 46 ethnic minority components, is one of the key counties (cities, districts) for ethnic work in the province. While focusing on top-level design, Yongkang City has promoted the Chinese national community awareness to take root, blossom, and bear fruit through the “trinity” work method.
1、 Taking cultural identity as the soul to create a “spiritual home” that firmly casts the consciousness of the Chinese national community
First, promote the deep integration of “multi” and “one”. Integrate various ethnic cultures into the “cultural well-being” system, take the “six prongs” of ethnic culture as the carrier, deeply promote the construction of ethnic cultural projects, and firmly tie the ethnic cultural ties of “I am in you, I am in you”. For example, Yongkang Yantou Primary School has held “National Cultural Activity Week” activities for 10 consecutive years, and Zhejiang Hals Group has held “National Workers’ Children’s Culture Summer Camp” activities for 11 consecutive years. The diverse and integrated development pattern of cultural mutual respect, mutual appreciation, mutual learning, and mutual learning among the people of all ethnic groups has been continuously improved.
The second is to promote both “teaching” and “practice”. Incorporate national unity and progress education into the entire process of national education, cadre education, and social education, and build an educational platform that integrates teaching and practice. Conducting teaching in the national common language and writing, and training more than 3000 people of all ethnic groups; The municipal party school (administrative school) and socialist school have conducted ethnic theory and policy learning in various main training classes for 5 consecutive years; “Pomegranate Seed Heart to the Young Family of All Ethnic Groups of the Party” provides educational hosting and on-site research services for over 1500 ethnic students studying in Yongyong during the summer. This year, relying on positions such as the “Lizhou Pomegranate Red · Ethnic Unity and Progress Education Practice Base” and the “Lizhou Pomegranate Red · Yongkang Ethnic Handicrafts Inheritance Hall”, Yongkang has received more than 6000 students and people of all ethnic groups to visit, experience, learn, and exchange. Chinese traditional culture, ethnic characteristic culture, and Yongkang’s local culture have achieved coupling, symbiosis, and integration.
The third is to promote the formation of a combined force between “outside” and “inside”. Exploring the interactive mode of “democratic parties+national culture”, the Provincial Democratic Revolution Education Service Group jointly conducted three ethnic cultural activities in Yantou Primary School, successively carrying out six lectures by famous teachers, serving more than 1500 students. The “group+school” pairing project was launched. Five United Front Work groups have helped the paired schools build 11 featured “sketches” such as a cultural forest of national unity and progress, a propaganda gallery, and more than 300 “micro wishes” of ethnic students were claimed. 37 families of ethnic students in need were assisted. More than 10000 cultural items such as books and stationery were donated, with a total investment of 500000 yuan.
2、 Taking the creation work as the wing and making good use of the “important carrier” to firmly forge the consciousness of the Chinese national community
First, both “expanding” and “improving quality” are emphasized. In recent years, Yongkang City has carried out nationwide efforts to create national unity and progress, achieving the spread of the creation site on a “comprehensive” basis. At the same time, it has clarified the five-step process of “application, review, construction, acceptance, and subsidies” for the creation site, providing “quality” guarantees, ensuring that a mature one is created and a driving one is driven. Currently, Yongkang has successfully cultivated 2 national level national unity and progress exemplary units, 1 provincial level national unity and progress exemplary collective, 1 provincial level key cultivation unit, and 4 Jinhua municipal level national unity and progress exemplary units, with a cumulative grant of more than 1 million yuan. The further creation of national unity has been broadcast in the program “National Revitalization of City Style” on CCTV.
The second is to emphasize both “regular attention” and “long-term effect”. Yongkang City insists on incorporating the creation of national unity and progress into the assessment of the united front work and the important agenda of the Party Committee, forming a work system in which the leading group for the united front work of the Municipal Party Committee coordinates, the United Front Department (Civil Affairs Bureau) of the Municipal Party Committee is specifically responsible, and all relevant departments jointly manage and perform their respective duties. Innovate and implement the “daily assessment system for national unity and progress demonstration points”, clarify six categories of indicators: “education guidance, management services, rights and interests protection, dispute resolution, policy promotion, and helping the weak and needy”. Quantify and score the establishment points every quarter, and recommend the ones with the highest cumulative score to evaluate the “baton” to promote the continuous and effective role of national unity and progress demonstration points.
The third is to emphasize both “innovation” and “reference”. In Shizhu Town, a key town for ethnic work in Yongkang, we have innovatively built Jinhua’s first virtual community with physical operation, embedded management, and no fixed area – Feieshan Pomegranate Seed Community, which centers on a set of Pomegranate Seed Community Council system, a joint police station, a red pioneer volunteer service team, a family of ethnic harmony, a demonstration street for ethnic unity education, and a series of ethnic cultural activities “Seven One Construction” of a batch of reliable consumption demonstration stores has been carried out. The population of various ethnic groups in Shizhu Town has increased from over 6900 to over 8000, and 37 batches of over 1000 people from both inside and outside the province have visited the community for investigation and research. This year, Shizhu Town of Yongkang was successfully awarded the “Ninth Batch of National Demonstration Towns for National Unity and Progress”.
3、 Focusing on common prosperity, grasping the “due meaning” of forging a strong sense of Chinese national community
First, warm heart support enhances the sense of gain. We have launched the “One Hundred Million Million Ethnic Groups for Common Prosperity” plan and adopted a series of heartwarming measures to enable people of all ethnic groups to both “stay alive” and “become rich.”. Currently, Yongkang has planned 10 “ethnic common prosperity stall areas” to implement cost reduction measures for people of all ethnic groups who set up stalls and start businesses; Mobilize forces such as Xinxiang sages, private entrepreneurs, party members and cadres to carry out “one person, one policy” to accurately assist more than 300 ethnic poor people; Set up “ethnic talent consulting service posts” in the labor market of key ethnic work towns, carry out 17 free employment skills training sessions such as featured snacks, online live streaming, and online delivery, and invest over 2 million yuan in various assistance funds, benefiting more than 10000 people of all ethnic groups.
The second is sincere service to enhance the sense of belonging. Establish a collaboration mechanism with key regions where ethnic floating populations such as Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan have flowed in. Establish and improve the public service system, comprehensively promote the “palm point” of handling affairs for the people of all ethnic groups, “online travel” of application materials, and “online connection” of the approval process, to ensure that the floating population of all ethnic groups enjoy equal services in basic public services such as social security, child enrollment, medical care, and health care according to policies. To guide key ethnic work towns to establish “ethnic service windows” that integrate and accept various tasks such as human resources, social security, health, and law enforcement, and strive to create a “model city for service and management of ethnic floating population”.
The third is to work together to improve satisfaction. The system of inviting ethnic representatives to attend meetings at the town and village levels as nonvoting delegates and fully soliciting opinions and suggestions from the people of all ethnic groups. Strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the people of all ethnic groups, pay attention to improving the self management awareness of the people of all ethnic groups, establish national conflict and dispute mediation service teams in key towns (streets) for ethnic work, comprehensively use legal, educational, consultation, mediation, and other methods to prevent and resolve various conflicts and disputes, and create a national version of “Longshan Experience” for grassroots governance.