Places for religious activities are public places where religious believers hold religious activities and meet their religious needs, and their standardization directly reflects the level of local religious affairs management. In recent years, Shangyu District of Shaoxing City has fully implemented the Party’s religious work policy, placed religious work in an important position in the overall work, innovatively applied the “333” work method in accordance with the unified deployment of the Provincial People’s Religious Affairs Committee and the United Front Work Department of Shaoxing Municipal Committee, and solidly promoted the standardized management of religious activity sites, and achieved positive results. More than 3 million yuan has been invested in the standardization construction of religious sites in the whole region. By the end of July, the explicit layout of standardization construction of 52 religious sites has been fully completed, which has effectively promoted the iterative upgrading of site management.
First, adhere to the “Three Clarities” and promote the orderly development of standardization construction
The first is to clarify the construction standards. Shangyu District Party Committee attaches great importance to the standardized management of religious sites, and the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee has conducted special research. The leading group of the United Front of the District Party Committee has held several meetings to study and deploy specific work, study and approve the implementation plan of the standardized construction of religious activity sites in Shangyu District, and take the standardized management of religious sites as an important part of the United Front work and incorporate it into the annual post target responsibility system assessment of the District Party Committee and District Government. According to the actual situation in Shangyu District, the United Front Work Department of Shangyu District Committee (Religious Affairs Bureau) has formulated a series of standards and specifications for the management of religious venues in Shangyu District and implementation opinions on the standardization construction of religious venues in Shangyu District, clarified the working standards and increased financial support.
The second is to clarify job responsibilities. Emphasize that religious sites are the main body of standardization construction, establish a promotion mechanism with townships (streets) as the main focus and the United Front Work Department (Religious Affairs Bureau) as the lead, and require townships (streets) to take standardization construction as the key work in the religious field this year. According to the principle of “pilot first and then push away”, at the beginning of the year, the pilot of explicit layout was carried out in three places in Shangyu District, namely Baiguan Christian Church, Duobao Lecture Temple and Yakushiji, and achieved initial results. In May, the on-site promotion meeting of standardized management of religious sites in the whole region was held, with the participation of leaders in charge of United front work in towns (streets), United front officers, and heads of religious sites, demanding that the standards and tables be matched, forming a joint force, decomposing the standardization work indicators of religious sites, and defining specific tasks to ensure the orderly progress of all work.
The third is to clarify the assessment requirements. The United Front Work Department of Shangyu District Committee (Religious Affairs Bureau) regards the standardization construction of religious places as the basic work to improve the modern management level of religious affairs, and it is included in the assessment of the United Front Work of towns (streets). The assessment shall be conducted by applying for religious sites, preliminary examination of villages and towns (streets) and examination and approval of the United Front Work Department of the district committee (Religious Affairs Bureau).
Second, adhere to the “three enhancements” to improve the quality of standardization work
The first is to strengthen professional design. Each township (street) set up special work classes, invited professional design teams to visit religious sites on the spot, and according to the requirements of the Standards and Specifications and the characteristics of the sites,.Color and other actual conditions, according to local conditions to develop personalized layout scheme, to ensure the high quality of the construction scheme. Cadres of the Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Officers of villages and towns (streets) have strengthened their professional guidance on standardization construction. If there are gaps in the work, they will promptly notify and rectify within a time limit, which has effectively promoted the high efficiency of construction progress.
The second is to strengthen performance management. In order to ensure that the standardization of religious sites does not go through the motions and become a mere formality, the United Front Work Department of the District Committee (Religious Affairs Bureau) earnestly strengthens the performance evaluation of the use of financial funds, strengthens the supervision of the implementation process, and ensures the safe and efficient use of funds.
The third is to strengthen the acceptance of standards. Each township (street) carries out acceptance inspection one by one according to the acceptance inspection contents in the Implementation Opinions on Standardization Construction of Religious Places in Shangyu District, and keeps the attached materials for future reference, insisting on passing one and accepting one to ensure the high quality of standardization construction of places. After the completion of the acceptance, special funds will be cut out by the district finance in the form of awards and subsidies, and the funds will be earmarked for special purposes.
By the end of July, all the 52 religious sites in the whole region had achieved full coverage of the “five advances” (that is, the national flag and national anthem, socialist core values, laws and regulations, excellent traditional culture, and safe entry sites) and management systems.
Three, adhere to the “three comprehensive”, expand the effectiveness of standardization work
First, comprehensively promote the construction of peace. Religious sites are the focus of ideological work. The United Front Work Department of Shangyu District Committee (Religious Affairs Bureau) gives full play to the advantages of “China’s hometown of filial piety culture”, infiltrates the excellent traditional culture, and fully promotes religious laws and regulations through the “five advances” to further enhance the feelings of religious staff and religious believers in loving the party, patriotism and socialism, strengthen ideological guidance and political guidance, and guide the broad masses to stand upright and jointly protect religious harmony and socialism.
The second is to fully popularize legal knowledge. By taking the lead in combining the standardization of religious sites with the deepening of the “100 million” law popularization project with the theme of the Constitution, we will comprehensively popularize the laws, regulations and knowledge related to religion, anti-cult and anti-infiltration. Take this as a sample to hold various forms of publicity activities, and further enhance the political and legal awareness of religious personnel and believers through ideological guidance and political guidance. Through this standardization construction, the management system of 52 religious sites has been completely updated and put on the wall. Next, we will focus on urging all sites to implement it and gradually form the norms of activities and management.
The third is to fully implement the main responsibility. The full implementation of standardization construction in Shangyu District is the embodiment of releasing the creativity, autonomy and execution of grass-roots micro-subjects, and it is also the need to intensify rectification and implement patrol inspection problems. In accordance with the goal of “full coverage, refinement and long-term”, the United Front Work Department of the district Committee (Religious Affairs Bureau) implements the normalization promotion mechanism and implements it in accordance with the requirements of “work list and list responsibility”.Towns (streets) strengthen daily supervision, form a work pattern of “standardized management of religious sites and normalized management of grassroots foundations”, and earnestly safeguard the security, harmony and stability of the religious field in Shangyu District.