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China’s Politburo meeting stresses Chinese-ness, ethnic unity, border stability

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(TibetanReview.net, Aug23’24) – The Political Bureau (Politburo) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has called for the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation to safeguard ethnic unity and stability in border areas during a meeting it held on Aug 23 to review policies and measures to open up a new vista in the large-scale development of the western region, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency.

The meeting of China’s top decision-making body was stated to have been chaired by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

The meeting was stated to have urged focused efforts to pursue well-coordinated environmental conservation, large-scale opening-up, and high-quality development, and move faster to create a new pattern of development to elevate overall regional strength and sustainable development capacity.

These are often euphemisms employed by the Chinese leadership to implement policies for forced-relocation of Tibetan farmers and nomads, and for the facilitation of the settlement of burgeoning Chinese immigrants for a speedy Sinicization of the Tibetan Plateau. Many Tibetan farmers and herders have been force-relocated to newly built villages in remote areas near the borders with India, Bhutan and Nepal to act as eyes and ears for China’s security apparatus, with little consideration for their largely subsidy-based living condition.

Efforts should be made to deepen reform comprehensively, further unleash and develop the productive forces, boost the vitality of society, and blaze a path of Chinese modernization that suits the realities of the region, a statement released after the meeting was cited as saying.

Measures will be taken to advance the new urbanization in accordance with local conditions, consolidate the poverty alleviation achievements, and make sure that there will be no relapsing into poverty on a large scale in rural areas, the meeting was cited as saying.

Much of the forced relocations in Tibet take place in the name of environmental protection and improving living conditions of Tibetan farmers and herders. The meeting was stated to have stressed “efforts to promote high-level environmental conservation, build a beautiful western region, thoroughly carry out pollution prevention and control, and advance green and low-carbon development.”

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Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, a euphemism for Sinicizing the ethnic minority regions, is also seen to have been stressed at the 4th Qomolangma Forum on Tibetan Studies held in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, from Aug 21 to 23.

Held four times since 2010 and organized by the China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture and the China Tibetology Research Centre, nearly a hundred scholars from universities and scientific research institutions in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, as well as Beijing and the Tibet autonomous region were stated to have attended this year’s forum.

The participants were stated to have “exchanged academic research results from the perspectives of the contemporary inheritance and innovation of Tibetan studies, the practice of Chinese-style modernization in Xizang, and the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.”

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