Jia Qinglin urges efforts to enhance religion work

China's senior leader Tuesday stressed the importance of enhancing the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party over religion work, saying it would benefit the country's solidarity and stability.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said at a seminar in religion work among provincial leaders that governments at all levels should focus more on religion work, develop a sound system for the work's leadership and coordination, and strengthen the Party's leading role in the work.

"Party committees of various levels should enhance administration capabilities and send more cadres and officials down to the grassroots to know religion work and to help solve the problems," Jia said.

He pointed out that patriotic religious leaders were a major force of uniting the religious masses and promoting social stability. Thus, party leaders should further consolidate and develop the patriotic united front joined by these religious figures.

"Governments at various levels should respect the faith of religion believers and instruct them to accept the Party's leadership, support the socialism and maintain the motherland's prosperity and unification," Jia said.

Source: Xinhua