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.
(Xinhua News Agency April 5, 2008)