Recently, Tonglu County Party Committee Office and County Government Office jointly issued the document “Notice on Strengthening the Standardized Management of Folk Belief Activity Places” (County Party Committee Office [2014] No.73), which pointed out the direction for further strengthening the management of folk belief activity places in this county.
The document clearly stipulates that the venue for folk belief activities refers to a small temple and nunnery that is not approved and registered by the County Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, but is reserved by the local people for reasons such as cultural heritage, historical origin and cultural relics value. Take the village (community) as the responsible unit, the township (street) as the competent unit, and the county religious affairs bureau as the filing unit. The document defines the management tasks from four aspects: strengthening the supervision of folk belief activities, promoting the construction of place management organizations, strengthening the responsibility of place safety work, and strictly approving the construction of activity places, and requires all towns (streets) to unify their thinking and understanding, strengthen organizational leadership, and do a good job in propaganda and guidance, thus establishing a long-term management system. Based on this document, the County Religious Affairs Bureau will study the detailed rules for implementation and earnestly implement them to ensure the standardization and institutionalization of the management of folk belief activities.