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Ningxia News Network www.NXNEWS.NET 2008-9-1617: 02: 35 News Forum

Strengthening national unity and maintaining social stability and national unity are the highest interests of the people of all ethnic groups in China, which is related to building a well-off society in an all-round way, building a harmonious socialist society and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Since I worked in this area, I have two special festivals every year-"Eid al-Fitr" and "Eid al-Adha". During these two festivals, I and the leading comrades of the Party Committee, the People's Congress, the government and the CPPCC of the autonomous region will go to the Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, the Institute of Islam in Ningxia and other places to express holiday congratulations to the Muslim people, and attend the tea party organized by the United Front Work Department of the Party Committee of the autonomous region, the Ethnic Affairs Commission of the autonomous region and the Religious Affairs Bureau. As a result of long-term participation in such activities, I have learned some manners and many rules. As an intellectual cadre of the Han nationality who came to work in Ningxia from other places, I have not only forged friendship with my Han brothers and sisters here, but also established kinship with the Hui people here. There are 2.03 million Hui people in Ningxia, accounting for one-third of the total population of Ningxia and one-fifth of the total number of Hui people in China. After coming to Ning, he was infected by the national characteristics of Hui brothers. Hui people are very healthy, United, hardworking and simple, and have a strong enterprising spirit. All these make me feel close to and admire the Hui brothers. In the next few years, I was deeply impressed by the integrity of local Hui cadres. For example, Ma Tengai, an upper-class Muslim in Ningxia and former vice chairman of the autonomous region, personally formulated a poverty alleviation plan and devoted a lot of efforts to national unity and progress; Hong and the former vice chairman of the autonomous region actively donated money to run Hope School; From 65438 to 0988, when I was the vice chairman of the autonomous region and was in charge of the planning work, the executive vice chairman Ma and the former chairman of the autonomous region gave me a lot of encouragement and help.

In Ningxia, our party has left a fine tradition and successful experience in ethnic and religious work. 1935101On October 5th, the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment led by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China arrived in Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. That night, Comrade Mao Zedong camped in Shanjiaji Village, Xinglong Town, where the Hui people live. 193610/kloc-0 On October 22nd, the First Corps of the Red Army of the Western Expedition led by Zuo Quan and Nie and the Red Second Army led by He Long, Ren, and Liu Bocheng joined forces with Pacific Insurance in Xiji County, respectively, and declared the victory of the 25,000-mile Long March. During the Long March, it was precisely because of the implementation of the correct ethnic policy that the Red Army was able to pass through the Huimin area smoothly and forged a profound friendship with them. 1936101On October 20th, the first county-level Muslim autonomous revolutionary regime in the history of China-Yuhai Muslim Autonomous Government in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region was established in Tongxin Mosque. The fine tradition and successful experience of the Red Army in ethnic and religious work have important guidance and reference significance for us to do a good job in ethnic and religious work in the new period.

Ningxia is one of the five minority autonomous regions in China, and the party committees and governments of the autonomous regions have always attached great importance to ethnic and religious work. When I was working in the government, I went to the southern mountainous areas where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities with Secretary Huang Huang and President Bai Lichen many times to help solve problems in economic and social development. Since the 1990s, the Party committee and government of the autonomous region have paid more attention to the southern mountainous areas, vigorously improved the county production conditions and strengthened the infrastructure construction. The government also allocated tens of millions of yuan to support Xiji County to do 26 practical things. It has also reported to the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other departments with relevant leaders and departments for many times, and has won poverty alleviation funds for ethnic minority areas with an annual income of not less than 6.5438+million yuan for Xiji County for many years. By 2005, the state had invested about 654.38+0.5 billion yuan in special poverty alleviation funds in Xiji County.

Our district has been very successful in implementing the party's policy of freedom of religious belief. Hajj is the urgent desire of the majority of Muslims. The Party committee and government of the autonomous region attach great importance to it and actively do a good job in foreign affairs to facilitate Muslims' travel. 1February 28th, 999, Ningxia 187 Muslim pilgrimage group went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Before leaving, I visited them on behalf of the district Committee, hoping that they would carry forward the fine tradition of patriotism and love for religion and fully reflect the good spiritual outlook of Muslims in China. During my work in the Party Committee, I visited with the comrades of the National People's Congress, the government and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference during my pilgrimage every year.

Focus on economic development and regional prosperity, and do a good job in national unity. It can be said that the Party committees and governments of successive autonomous regions have done a lot of work in developing the national economy and prospering the national culture, and have persistently planned and implemented poverty alleviation projects in ethnic areas such as "1236" project, "poverty alleviation project in thousands of villages", "renovation project of dangerous kilns", "ecological migration" project and "returning farmland to forests and grasslands" project for a long time. At the beginning of 2000, according to the deployment of the district committee, I drafted the Decision of the Party Committee and the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Further Strengthening Ethnic Work together with Liu Zhong, deputies to the National People's Congress, and other comrades in charge of ethnic and religious work, on the basis of in-depth inspection of the implementation of ethnic policies. From March 2/KLOC-0 to March 22, the regional ethnic work conference was held. Secretary Mao Rubai and Chairman Ma Qizhi made important speeches. Participants carefully discussed the above-mentioned "Decision" and put forward concrete and feasible policies and measures to accelerate the development of economy, education, science and technology, culture, health and sports in minority areas, strengthen the construction of minority cadres and strengthen the party's leadership over ethnic work. Among them, the grants for boarding primary and secondary schools of Hui nationality were increased from 15 yuan and 12 yuan per person per month to 30 yuan and 20 yuan respectively; Reduce the scores of minority candidates in the college entrance examination, and stipulate that the proportion of college admissions in the region will increase by one percentage point every year; The autonomous region arranges 1 10,000 yuan of "science and technology poverty alleviation funds" from "underdeveloped funds" every year to support the development of science and technology in southern mountainous areas; The finance of the autonomous region arranges 3 million yuan every year, of which 6.5438+0 million yuan is used to reduce fluoride and improve water, and 2 million yuan is used for the prevention and control of endemic diseases and infectious diseases, maternal and child health care, and health knowledge publicity and education for people in minority areas and remote mountainous areas; It is required that the proportion of reserve cadres of ethnic minorities is roughly equal to the proportion of ethnic minorities, and at least one Hui or ethnic minority cadre is equipped in the leading bodies of major departments of the autonomous region; The Party School of the Autonomous Region holds junior college and undergraduate classes of "Economic Management Major for Ethnic Minority Cadres", and recruits 100 young and middle-aged ethnic minority cadres every year; Formulated regulations on the management of ethnic and religious affairs and so on. After the "Decision" was issued, with the joint efforts of cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups, great changes have taken place in the southern mountainous areas.

The new Party committee and government decided to build a boarding senior high school with a scale of 3,000 people in Liupanshan, Ningxia, in view of the fact that there is a big gap between the education in the southern mountainous areas where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities and Sichuan, Yinchuan and other places, and from the reality of speeding up the development of education in the southern mountainous areas, improving the quality of the population in poverty-stricken areas and realizing poverty alleviation and well-off society in mountainous areas at an early date. This is a senior middle school directly under the education department, focusing on enrolling poor students in southern mountainous areas. After several years of development, Liupanshan Senior High School has become one of the famous schools in Ningxia. Now another similar school, Yucai Middle School with a population of 10,000, will be completed in June 2008.

In ethnic areas, doing well ethnic and religious work is the basis of building a harmonious society. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards "upholding the overriding principle of stability and correctly handling the relationship between reform, development and stability" as one of the important goals of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The well-off society we are building should be a well-off society with balanced economic, political and cultural development and harmonious coexistence between man and nature. "To promote the harmony between man and nature and between man and society, we must do a good job in ethnic and religious work and promote ethnic harmony."

Over the years, the Party committee and government of the autonomous region have made great efforts and farsightedness in ethnic and religious work. Through a series of measures, it has played a positive role in maintaining national unity and social stability, accelerating economic development in ethnic areas, doing a good job in ethnic education and family planning, and accelerating the development of ethnic cultural and health undertakings, which has been fully affirmed by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.