CPC urges more loyalty among Party members in Tibetan regions

BEIJING—The Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has urged Party members and officials in Tibetan-inhabited regions to play an active role in maintaining social stability with more loyalty.
In a recently released circular to Party organs in the Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan-inhabited prefectures and counties, the department asked those organs to learn from last month’s riot in Lhasa and increase anti-secession education among Party members and officials at the grass roots level.
Party organs should emphasize more facts that illustrate the huge progress achieved in Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited regions in the past half century to officials and ordinary people, the circular said. Party members and officials in Tibetan-inhabited regions should be aware that riots lead to disaster and stability is central to the public welfare, it said.
The department called on Party organs in those regions to intensify the patriotism and legal awareness of Party members and officials, which will be essential to maintain their loyalty when it encounters secessionist interference.
It asked Party organs to consolidate the Party’s organizational construction in rural areas, enterprises, communities, schools and other new social organizations.
Violence, including attacks on people and property, erupted on March 14 in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, and other Tibetan-inhabited regions in the western part of China. Some government buildings and public facilities were among the structures burned and destroyed. Earlier, Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, returned home on Friday after his five-nation tour in north Africa and west Asia.
He paid an official and good-will visit to Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunis and Syria from March 21 to April 4. Li’s entourage, including head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee Wang Jiarui, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee Ji Bingxuan, head of the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television Wang Taihua, director of the General Administration of Press and Publications Liu Binjie, and vice-minister of Commerce Wei Jianguo, returned aboard the same plane.
Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on bilateral relations here on Thursday.
Li said the friendship between China and Syria has weathered the tests of ever-changing international situations and is the common wealth of the two peoples. Materialization of the consensuses reached between Chinese President Hu Jintao and his counterpart Assad in developing bilateral relations in 2004 has pushed Sino-Syrian friendship to anew stage, he said.
The CPC and the Chinese government attach great importance to the Sino-Syrian friendship and are willing to boost the mutual beneficial cooperation between the two countries, which conforms to the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is also beneficial to pushing forward the South-South cooperation and maintaining world peace and stability, said the senior Chinese official.
Li said during his stay in Syria, he has talked with leaders of the Syrian Baath Arab Socialist Party (SBASP) and Syrian government officials in deepening party-to-party exchanges and expanding bilateral cooperation on economy and trade, infrastructure and water conservancy. The two sides have deepened mutual understanding and reached broad consensus, he added.
The CPC, the Chinese government and people will unswervingly support Syria’s just efforts in maintaining its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, Li said.

—Xinhua