General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the work of party building in border ethnic areas, and has made a series of important speeches and instructions, pointing out the direction of progress and providing fundamental guidance for strengthening party building in border ethnic areas.
Strengthen and improve the party's overall leadership. The key to building a good hometown and guarding the frontier lies in the party's leadership. The party's leadership is the reason why the border ethnic areas have achieved all-round economic and social development, why the people's living standards have been greatly improved, why earth-shaking changes have taken place in the appearance of urban and rural areas, and why they have made achievements that have attracted worldwide attention in poverty alleviation. It is necessary to give full play to the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, unswervingly follow the correct path of solving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics, and take forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation as the main line of the Party's ethnic work and all work in ethnic areas in the new era, and promote all ethnic groups to embrace each other like pomegranate seeds in the big family of the Chinese nation.
▲W82523 10,000-ton freight train slowly left Korla Railway Station, marking the normalization of 10,000-ton freight trains on Xinjiang South Xinjiang Railway (taken on May 11, 2019). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Lei
Adhere to the people-centered development philosophy. The Communist Party of China fights and guards the hearts of the people. The party's original intention and mission are integrated, the position and value are accompanied, what is connected with what is going to be done, and the answer sheet and the marking are organically unified. Party members and cadres in border ethnic areas must always keep in mind that "the country is the people, and the people are the country," uphold the supremacy of the people, regard the well-being of the people as the most fundamental duty, regard the happiness of the people as the greatest human right, regard the goal of making the people live a good life, and take the fulfillment, safeguarding, and development of the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the starting point and end goal of all work. We should uphold the dominant position of the people, insist that all ethnic groups are equal, ensure that all ethnic groups are masters of the country and participate in the management of state affairs, and fully stimulate the wisdom and creativity of the masses. Persist in maintaining close ties with the masses, implement the mass viewpoint and mass line in all work links and specific actions in border ethnic areas, and be a good confidant, intimate person, and leader of the people. We should regard whether the people support or disapprove, approve or disapprove, be happy or unhappy, and agree or not as the fundamental criterion for judging the gains and losses of all work, regard doing things for the people and bringing benefits to the people as the most important political achievements, and regard how many good things have been done for the people as an important criterion for judging political achievements.
▲On April 14, 2022, the Fuxing train traveled in Lang County, Tibet.
Maintain social stability and long-term peace and stability. There is no country to have a home, and without border security, there will be no national security. Coordinating development and security is a major principle of the Party's governance of the country. To strengthen party building in border ethnic areas, it is necessary not only to persist in taking economic construction as the central task and focusing on cohesion, but also to regard the maintenance of social stability and the consolidation of border defense as the top priority. Ideological stability is the greatest stability, and people's identity is the greatest identity, and it is necessary to forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and build a solid ideological Great Wall for safeguarding national unity and ethnic unity. Party organizations are the foundation for the party's existence, development and fulfillment of its mission, and it is necessary to further consolidate the organizational foundation for consolidating, stabilizing and rejuvenating the borders, effectively transform the party's political and organizational advantages into development advantages, build the party organizations in the border ethnic areas into strong fighting fortresses, and promote the high-quality development of the border ethnic areas with high-quality party building work. It is necessary to strengthen the unity between the military and the government, the army and the people, the police and the people, and the military and the localities, so as to build a great wall of steel for the people of all nationalities to jointly safeguard national unity, ethnic unity, and social stability.
▲In the grassland of Angsu Town, Etuoke Qianqi, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, a "volleyball fever" has become popular in recent years. This is a farmer and herdsman playing in the volleyball hall. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Yuan
Firmly grasp the main line of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation. Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is the main line of the Party's ethnic work in the new era, and it is also the main line of all work in ethnic areas. Party members and cadres in border ethnic areas must firmly grasp the main line, think about problems, make decisions, and grasp work, do more work as long as it is conducive to forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and resolutely refrain from doing anything that is not conducive to forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. It is necessary to innovate the normalization mechanism of publicity and education, tell the story of the Chinese nation well, and build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation; promote border ethnic areas to grasp the new stage of development, implement the new development concept, integrate into the new development pattern, and achieve high-quality development; promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive exchanges, and in-depth integration of all ethnic groups, and gradually realize all-round embedding in spatial, cultural, economic, social, and psychological aspects.
▲The Hani people celebrate the harvest (data map). Xinhua net
Cultivate a team of high-quality professional cadres and talents. There is no shortcut to the growth of cadres, and to build a contingent of high-quality cadres in border ethnic areas that are satisfactory to the party and the people, we must rely not only on individual efforts but also on organizational training. It is necessary to select and dispatch cadres to areas where conditions are difficult and the situation is complicated to temper their will and increase their abilities, take the frontline of the grassroots level as an important platform for training and selecting cadres, and strive to build a contingent of cadres in border ethnic areas who have a particularly resolute attitude toward maintaining the party's centralized and unified leadership, a particularly sober stance on distinguishing between right and wrong, a particularly firm sense of community for the Chinese nation, and a particularly sincere love for the feelings of the masses of all ethnic groups, so as to ensure that leadership at all levels is in the hands of cadres who are loyal, clean, and responsible. The development of the country depends on talent, and the rejuvenation of the nation depends on talent, and talent is the first resource for the border ethnic areas to rejuvenate the border and enrich the people and stabilize the border area. It is necessary to innovate policies, systems, mechanisms, and methods for the work of qualified personnel, provide political incentives, work support, treatment guarantees, care for life, and psychological care, cultivate more talents who can meet the development needs of border ethnic areas, and guide all kinds of talents to actively invest in the construction of Xinjiang.
(Source: State Ethnic Affairs Commission)
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