On May 12th, Wu Hemin, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal People’s Congress, and his party went to Cixi to inspect the management of folk belief affairs. Tang Anxiang, deputy director of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, Xu Boqiang, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, and Luo Xiaoli, director of the Cixi Municipal Bureau of Ethnic Affairs, accompanied him. Wu Hemin and his party visited the folk belief points such as Shahu Seconds and Linglong Palace in Zhangqi Town, and listened to the report on the management of folk belief affairs in Cixi City and Shengshan Town.
Wu Hemin fully affirmed the achievements made by Cixi in the management of folk belief activities. He pointed out that Cixi effectively combined the management of folk belief affairs with the work of exploring traditional history and culture, beautiful countryside construction and tourism, and gave full play to the enthusiasm of folk belief, and embarked on a distinctive road of folk belief management, which set an example for other counties and cities to do a good job in folk belief affairs management.
Wu Hemin demanded: First, it should be managed by the system. It is necessary to conscientiously implement the spirit of documents such as Opinions of the General Office of the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province on Strengthening the Management of Folk Belief Affairs and Measures for the Administration of Registration Number of Folk Belief Activity Places in Zhejiang Province, establish and improve the management system of folk belief activity places, assign management responsibilities to governments at all levels and relevant departments, adhere to territorial management and implement hierarchical responsibility, so as to achieve reasonable layout, standardized management, orderly activities, safety and stability. Second, we must mobilize mass management. Grass-roots governments should guide the establishment of democratic management organizations in places of folk belief activities, encourage believers to select members of the organization through democratic consultation, and let ordinary people participate in the management of places themselves. The religious departments should actively publicize policies and regulations, and cultivate people’s awareness of self-management and democratic management. Third, we must have manpower and material resources to manage it. Focus on the work organization, staffing, working expenses, office space, etc., strengthen the management and guarantee of folk belief affairs, bring the management of folk belief affairs into the grid management at the grassroots level, establish the conflict and dispute resolution mechanism of folk belief affairs, and maintain social harmony and stability.