Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS November 20, 1997

10/17/97, Urumqi Xinjiang Ribao, FBIS Translated Text

Wang Lequan: "We should attach great importance to the struggle against nationality splittist elements in the ideological sphere... We need all the more a stable social environment. We should concentrate on improving public order, intensify our crackdown campaign, strengthen the management of religious affairs according to law, and resolutely oppose and crack down on illegal religious activities."

The Fourth Enlarged Plenary Session of the Fifth Xinjiang Autonomous Regional CPC Committee was held in the Hall of the People of Xinjiang on the morning of 16 October. The task of the enlarged plenary session is to conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the 15th national party congress; to hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory; to mobilize party committees and people of all ethnic groups in the region to further emancipate their minds; to seek truth from facts; to seize opportunities; to advance in a pioneering spirit; to win new victories in Xinjiang's reform, opening to the outside world, and modernization drive; and to advance a vigorously developing socialist Xinjiang into the 21st century.

Abdulahat Abdurixit, deputy secretary of the regional party committee and chairman of the autonomous region, presided over the session. Wang Lequan, secretary of the regional party committee, delivered a report, entitled "Conscientiously Implement and Carry Out the Spirit of the 15th National Party Congress and Win New Victories in Xinjiang's Reform, Opening to the Outside World, and Modernization Drive."

In his report, Wang Lequan said said the degree of ideological emancipation determines the scale of reform and opening to the outside world and also determines the speed of economic and social development. We should adhere to the "three conducives" [conducive to developing the productive forces of our socialist society, increasing the overall strength of our socialist country, improving the people's living standards] criterion and use it to measure right and wrong and success and failure. We should emancipate our minds. We should firmly establish the concept of market economy, further free ourselves from being confused by whether we are practicing "capitalism" or "socialism."

In his report, Wang Lequan said we should strengthen the building of a spiritual civilization in the light of reality in Xinjiang and use Deng Xiaoping Theory to pool the strength of the people of all ethnic groups. We should attach great importance to the struggle against nationality splittist elements in the ideological sphere, strengthen ideological and cultural building in pastoral and rural areas, and adhere to the orientation that literature and art should serve the people and socialism and to the principle of letting a hundred flowers

blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. We should strive to enrich cultural undertakings. We should promote the modernization drive by training educated laborers who are politically efficient.

In his report, Wang Lequan stressed that at this crucial moment when we are pushing forward the cross-century development strategy for our reform, opening to the outside world, and modernization drive, we need all the more a stable social environment. We should concentrate on improving public order, intensify our crackdown campaign, strengthen the management of religious affairs according to law, and resolutely oppose and crack down on illegal religious activities. Along with the deepening of the reform and opening up to the outside world and the adjustment of economic relations, contradictions in economic and social

life will increase. We should correctly handle the contradictions among the people, attach importance to and promptly resolve outstanding problems in society so as to avoid the emergence of incidents as a result of mishandling problems.