New Year Gathering held for ethnic and religious representatives in Ningbo

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 09 January 2012 15:15

On the afternoon of January 4, the 2012 Ningbo New Year Gathering for ethnic and religious representatives was held in Yunhai Hotel. About 30 representatives from the ethnic and religious circle gathered together to discuss about the ethnic and religious work in Ningbo and to plan for the prospects of Ningbo's ethnic and religious development. Vice-mayor Chen Yijun attended the gathering and delivered an important speech. Yu Weinian, Deputy Secretary General of Ningbo Party Committee and Director of Ningbo United Front Work Department, presided over the meeting.

Chen Yijun extended cordial greetings and New Year's blessings to minority people and people in religious conscience, and expressed specific wishes for them to play a role in building Ningbo into a culture-strong city and maintaining the social safety and stability, and to carry out religious activities in a legal manner.

In the meeting, the general state of the ethnic and religious work in 2011 was reported and the arrangement for next year's work was released. Present representatives made a hot discussion over how to carry out the spirit of the 6th plenary session of the 17th Conference of the Central Party Committee and how to play a positive role in promoting the prosperous development of socialist culture. Those who delivered speeches in the meeting include related officials from Ningbo Federation of Ethnic Minorities, Ningbo Buddhism Association, the Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches and the Christian Council of Ningbo, Ningbo Catholic Patriotic Association and Ningbo Islamic Association