Top political advisor stresses religious work, poverty alleviation in Tibetan-inhabited regions

CHENGDU-- Wang Yang, China's top political advisor, underlined efforts to curb separatists, maintain normal religious practices and alleviate poverty during a visit to the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze in Sichuan province from Saturday to Monday.

Efforts should be made to guide religious people to willingly uphold the Party's leadership, promote patriotism and correctly understand the relations between the law and religious doctrines, said Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.

He instructed local authorities to improve the management of temples and counteract infiltration by hostile foreign forces.

Wang also urged them to improve the quality of poverty relief projects, upgrade local infrastructure and public services and allocate more resources to the areas suffering absolute poverty.