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Monday, August 30 2021 - 23:40
AsiaNet
Xi stresses consolidating sense of community for Chinese nation
BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

A report from CCTV+:

President Xi Jinping has stressed consolidating the sense of community for the 
Chinese nation and unswervingly taking the correct approaches with Chinese 
characteristics to handling ethnic affairs when he addressed the central 
conference on ethnic affairs. The conference, held in Beijing on Friday and 
Saturday.

Only through fostering a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and 
all ethnic groups jointly safeguarding national security and social stability, 
can the infiltration and subversion of extremist and separatist thoughts be 
resisted and the aspiration of the people of all ethnic groups for a better 
life be fulfilled, Xi said.

Only in doing so can powerful ideological guarantees be provided for the 
prosperity and enduring stability of the Party and the country, he said, urging 
efforts to forge a community with a shared future for the Chinese nation with a 
higher sense of national identity and a stronger bond of attachment among the 
people.

All ethnic groups should be guided to always place the interests of the Chinese 
nation above anything else, with their consciousness of different ethnic groups 
serving the sense of community for the Chinese nation as a whole, Xi said.

Efforts should be made to see that the interests of all ethnic groups are 
realized in the process of the realization of the overall interests of the 
Chinese nation, Xi said.

Neither Han chauvinism nor local ethnic chauvinism is conducive to the 
development of a community for the Chinese nation, he stressed.

Xi called for promoting the use of standard spoken and written Chinese, 
protecting the spoken and written languages of all ethnic groups, and 
respecting and protecting the learning and use of spoken and written languages 
of ethnic minorities.

Xi underscored the need to facilitate the march of all ethnic groups toward 
socialist modernization. He also stressed encouraging exchanges and 
interactions among different ethnic groups.

Xi stressed improving the modernization of China's governance system and 
capacity on ethnic affairs, calling for more efforts to resolutely prevent 
grave risks and hidden dangers in this field.

Ethnic separatism and religious extremism should be continuously eliminated, Xi 
said, highlighting the need to strengthen international anti-terrorism 
cooperation.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA2C588d_ZM

Source: CCTV+