China firmly rejects, as always, accusations from US religious bodies against its national religion policy, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan here Tuesday.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) once again took potshots at the religious situation in China and other developing countries in its 2005 annual report.

When asked to make comments on this report, Kong said the USCIRF's interference with China's internal affairs undermined Sino-US relations in the name of religious freedom again and again and is unacceptable and doomed to fail.

"The Chinese government, in accordance with relevant laws, protects the freedom of its citizens to believe in religion, and the Chinese people legally enjoy broad and sufficient freedom of religious belief. This is obvious to all," he said.

China advised USCIRF to stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs, so as not to further harm its own reputation or cause obstacles in relations between the United States and other countries and for exchanges between the USCIRF and other relevant parties, the spokesman said.