Source: `Xizang Ribao', Lhasa, in Chinese 8 Apr 96 p1

Text of report by Li Xianxiong (2621 2009 7160) entitled "Tibet armed police corps holds ceremony to announce orders - Basang, Yang Chuantang, Zi Cheng, Li Liguo present", as published by Chinese regional newspaper `Xizang Ribao'

The conference hall of the Tibet Corps [Chinese: zong dui 4920 7130] of the People's Armed Police Force's cultural centre was permeated with a jubilant atmosphere on the afternoon of 6th April. More than 300 police officers gathered in the hall for a ceremony to announce orders.

Regional leaders Basang, Yang Chuantang, Zi Cheng, Li Liguo, Xu Mingyang, Luosang Toinzhub and Zhou Qishun, as well as responsible comrades of relevant departments, attended the ceremony.

Zhang Zhu, political commissar of the Tibet Armed Police Group, chaired the ceremony.

Wang Peisheng, a representative from the People's Armed Police Force Headquarters, read out the orders of the State Council and the Central Military Commission appointing Tan Huasheng [6223 5478 3932] as commander of the Tibet Group of the People's Armed Police Force equivalent to the rank of deputy corps commander [fu jun zhi 0479 6511 5120]; Jia-jin, Lei Shengyun and Xie Feng as deputy group commanders equivalent to the rank of division commander; Song Zifa, Pu-bu-ci-ren and Luo Wanxiang as deputy political commissars equivalent to the rank of division commander; Chen Baichun as director of the political department equivalent to the rank of division commander; and Zhou Guiyun as director of the logistics department equivalent to the rank of division commander.

In his speech at the ceremony, representative Wang Peisheng said: Through the current readjustment [tiao zheng 6148 2419] of division-level cadres in the group, the party and the people fully affirm the work the Tibet Armed Police Group has done and also set higher requirements for the group's future work. On behalf of the leadership of the People's Armed Police Force Headquarters, he called on the newly appointed comrades to study and work hard, perform their duties scrupulously and successfully accomplish their missions; he also called on them to earn the people's trust so that the party Central Committee, the State Council, the Central Military Commission and the people of various nationalities in Tibet can be at ease.

Basang, deputy secretary of the regional party committee, delivered an important speech at the ceremony. She said: Since its establishment, the Tibet Group of the People's Armed Police Force has made important contributions to consolidating the southwestern border of the motherland, safeguarding the unification of the motherland and the unity of all nationalities, stabilizing the situation in Tibet, dealing blows at the separatist forces, maintaining public order, protecting the lives and property of the people, taking part in local construction, assisting people in developing production, combating natural disasters and providing disaster relief, helping people shake off poverty and doing good for the people. In particular, in the past disturbances created by a handful of separatists in Tibet in a vain attempt to split the motherland and undermine national unity, the leading body of the armed police group, with a strong patriotic spirit and dauntless revolutionary heroism, have closely united its officers an

d men to charge forward; members of the group have always fought in the forefront of the struggle against separatism and resolutely struggled against the separatists; they have safeguarded the unification of the motherland, national unity and the stability of the situation in Tibet with their own blood or even with their own lives, thus rendering outstanding meritorious service for the people and winning the full trust and affirmation of the party Central Committee, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, the regional party committee and government, and the people of various nationalities in the region.

In the face of the new situation and new tasks, Deputy Secretary Basang stressed: The new leading body of the group must earn the high trust placed on it and succeed in carrying out its tasks; it must strengthen itself and continue to raise the quality of the group as a whole; it must adapt itself to new developments, strengthen the regularizing of its units, effectively perform its work in coordination with local governments and public security organs, always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the masses of people, promote the building of its units in an all-round way in order to make a new, ever greater contribution to the stability and development of Tibet.

On behalf of nine newly appointed leading cadres, Commander Tan Huasheng of the group pledged their determination.