Chinese leader Zeng
Qinghong asked northwest China's Xinjiang
Autonomous Region to make new progress in promoting common
prosperity and development of all ethnic groups during his
inspection tour of the region from Aug. 19 to 24.
Zeng, Chinese vice-president and member of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) Central Committee, spoke highly of the tremendous changes
taken place in Xinjiang over the past 50 years during the tour made
on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the
region.
During the tour, Zeng visited plants, agricultural and pastoral
areas, urban communities, oilfields and households of local
people.
He said as the first provincial-level administrative region to
carry out the system of regional autonomy of ethnic minorities
after the New China was founded, Xinjiang has accumulated
beneficial experience in promoting unity of all ethnic groups to
seek common prosperity and development.
He asked local officials to further care for the production and
lives of people of all ethnic groups and improve work in promoting
employment and poverty relief so as to lay solid foundation for
security, stability and harmony in the border region.
Zeng also asked local CPC organizations to better carry out the
educational campaign to improve the "vanguard character" of CPC
members.??
(Xinhua News Agency August 25, 2005)