Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is famous for an ochre-red peak, where the famous Red Mountain culture originated. With the discovery of the "national treasure" Jade Dragon, Chifeng is also known as the "Hometown of the Jade Dragon", and the image of the "Red Mountain Jade Dragon" can be seen everywhere on the streets, buildings, and public facilities of the city.
Chifeng has been a place of multi-ethnic integration since ancient times. Looking at the vast land of Hongshan, all ethnic groups are calloused and vigorous, hugging each other tightly like pomegranate seeds, forming a strong spiritual bond of breathing, destiny and heart-to-heart, living and working in peace and contentment in the common homeland, civilization and progress, and singing the song of national unity and progress together. In January 2024, Chifeng City was named the 11th batch of "National Ethnic Unity and Progress Demonstration Zone" by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.
Promote cultural identity
Cultural identity is the deepest level of identity, the root of national unity and the soul of national harmony.
On April 26, the launching ceremony of Chifeng Ethnic Policy Publicity Month was held in the Karaqin Banner Museum Square. The theme of this year's propaganda month is "Keep in mind the entrustment, be grateful and forge ahead - comprehensively build a demonstration area for the sense of community of the Chinese nation", through the method of "main activities + special field activities", make full use of new technologies, new media, and new means to extend the propaganda tentacles, promote the party's ethnic theory and policy publicity and education in an all-round, full-coverage, and full-scale manner, and guide the cadres and people of all ethnic groups to always feel the party's kindness, listen to the party, and follow the party.
Cadres and people of all ethnic groups use calligraphy works to interpret national unity.
After the launching ceremony, the theme of theatrical performances brought an artistic feast to the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups: the Chifeng Symphony Orchestra played music such as "My Motherland" and "One Family of the Chinese Nation", the actors performed dance, solo, poetry recitation and other programs, and the people of all ethnic groups performed calligraphy and paper-cutting on the spot, and carried out the propaganda of the sense of community of the Chinese nation in a variety of ways.
Historically, many ethnic groups in the Chifeng City region have jointly created a splendid culture. The cultural foundation of the people of all ethnic groups is like a family, which not only prospers the Chinese culture, but also enriches the spiritual blood of the people of all ethnic groups in Chifeng.
The tree is thousands of feet tall and has roots, and the water flows thousands of miles away. Based on the promotion of cultural identity, Chifeng City has carried out a special action to strengthen the awareness of the community of the Chinese nation, held thematic seminars, built theme parks, experience halls and other educational practice bases, and promoted "national unity +" online and offline at the same frequency, so as to achieve full coverage of "casting solid" publicity and education from horizontal to edge and vertical to the end.
The launching ceremony of the 2024 Chifeng Ethnic Policy Publicity Month was held at the Karaqin Banner Museum Square, and the students performed poems and recited "Pomegranate Blossoms and Pure Children are Concentric".
Theoretical research is advancing at the same time. The Research Center for the Practice of Strengthening the Sense of Community of the Chinese Nation, composed of 24 departments and Qixian districts, has played an active role in helping the compilation of the "History of Exchanges and Integration of the Chinese Nation· Mongolia volumes" to be carried out in an orderly manner. We have continuously strengthened research on the exploration of the origin of the Chinese nation, ethnic exchanges and integration, and the formation of a pluralistic and integrated pattern of the Chinese nation, and has completed 55 research projects.
Under the active promotion of the ethnic affairs department, Chifeng University signed co-construction cooperation agreements with 4 banner counties and districts, and established 6 banner county district-level research bases; Establish an expert database based on Chifeng University, covering the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Minzu University of China and other institutions and universities; Establish a municipal-level "cast" lecturer group, and develop four types of focused quality courses for key groups such as party members and cadres, teenagers, farmers and herdsmen, and community residents. In the past three years, Chifeng City has carried out more than 5,000 lectures on "casting prisons", covering more than 700,000 cadres and people of all ethnic groups.
Build a shared home
On July 15, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during the inspection and investigation of the Linhuang Home Community in Xing'an Street, Songshan District, Chifeng City, "It is necessary to further promote the unity and progress of ethnic unity and create a community, build the community into a big family of people of all ethnic groups who watch and help each other, and actively create a good community environment for people of all ethnic groups to live and work in peace and contentment." ”
Linhuang Jiayuan Community is a multi-ethnic community with 12,622 residents, of which 29% are ethnic minorities. There were 1,354 households with two or more ethnic groups in the community, accounting for 31 per cent. With the "House of Ethnic Integration" as the carrier and culture as the bridge, the community concentrically builds a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation and further broadens the new path of ethnic work in the new era.
Wu Xiaohua, secretary of the community party committee, said: "We take doing a good job for the people of all ethnic groups as our work goal, and constantly improve the happiness and sense of gain of the residents in the jurisdiction. ”
Zhang Guoli, a villager in Ma'anshan Village, told the story of General Secretary Xi Jinping's visit to his home.
Chifeng City gives full play to the leading role of party building, organically combines urban grassroots governance with ethnic unity work, relies on the party and mass service centers of neighborhood communities, coordinates party organizations in various fields such as neighborhood communities, resident units, and "two new" organizations, as well as various governance units, and implements mechanisms such as supply and demand lists and two-way mutual evaluation, so as to help solve the "urgent, difficult, and longing" problems that people of all ethnic groups are concerned about.
"When our family first arrived, we didn't know the place well, and the Mandarin was not standard, so it was very difficult to communicate." Kasim, a Uyghur man, said that in 2022, when they first arrived in this unfamiliar city, the family "made a difficulty".
"They are a family of five, with three children, and the youngest son, Abu, has a congenital disease, which is really difficult." Yu Lihong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Unity Community of Nanxinjie Street, Hongshan District, said that the community cadres visited the community as soon as possible to understand the details, actively communicated with the public security, civil affairs, disabled persons' federation and other departments, helped them solve the household registration problem, and applied for a disability certificate for Abu.
At this point, the Kasimu couple "the stone in their hearts fell to the ground". Later, they opened a Xinjiang specialty barbecue restaurant, and life got better and better.
Polishing creates a brand
Chifeng City closely follows the main line of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation, creates an inter-embedded social structure and community environment, and creates social conditions for people of all ethnic groups to live and learn together, build and share together, and work and enjoy together. We will further implement the "Three Plans", continue to promote exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups, and build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation; The well-built "three corridors, three belts and three areas" have broadened the path of national unity and progress, and realized the comprehensive upgrading of the brand building work.
"More than 600 volunteer services have shortened the distance between us and the residents, and everyone's hearts are closer and more affectionate!" In Bahrain Left Banner, the "Red Pomegranate" volunteer service team and the "National Costume Exhibition Hall" and "Red Pomegranate Meeting Hall" and other theme positions together form a beautiful landscape.
Education to forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation begins with students.
For more than 20 years, with the designated assistance of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Bahrain Right Banner "One Family" National Unity and Progress Party Building Consortium has explored practical experience that can be used for reference, replication and promotion for the substantive development of forging the sense of Chinese national community.
Ningcheng County and Yuanbaoshan District of Chifeng City, Jianping County of Chaoyang City and Horqin District of Tongliao City reached a strategic cooperation agreement on joint creation and co-construction of national unity and progress, and continuously deepened the creation and exchange of national unity and progress......
In Mutouyingzi Township, Aohan Banner, since the opening of the "People Say Things" platform, the three sections of "Talking about Troubles", "Saying Good Models" and "Home Construction" have made the villagers give a thumbs up.
The achievements of the cause of national unity and progress in Chifeng City can be seen from the happy and innocent smiling faces of everyone and the stable and peaceful life of the people of all ethnic groups.
Walking into Ma'anshan Village, Karaqin Banner, mellow wines, abundant fruits, and characteristic farmhouses have brought vitality to the local development, and the lives of the masses are thriving. After General Secretary Xi Jinping came here for inspection and investigation, the tourism radiation radius of Ma'anshan Village continued to increase, and rural tourism achieved blowout development, laying a solid material foundation for the people of all ethnic groups to move towards socialist modernization. "I still remember the scenes of General Secretary Xi Jinping coming to our home. Nowadays, our life is getting better and better, and I hope that the general secretary will have the opportunity to visit our village again. Villager Zhang Guoli said.
The trickle of affection gathers the rivers and seas, and the spring rain gathers people's hearts. In the new era and new journey, the movement of national unity and progress in Chifeng is still being written, continuing to tell the story of happiness from "a group of people" to "a family".