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Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding
Public security (2002) No. 193
August 22, 2002
Notice about the Distribution of the Work Plan on Terminating Illegal Christian Activities
To Public Security Bureau and Sub-Bureau of All Counties, Cities and Districts,
The Work Plan on Terminating Illegal Christian Activities is now distributed. You are all required to implement it and make careful arrangements as soon as possible. Your work shall be reported to the Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding.
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Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding Work Plan on Terminating Illegal Christian Activities
To embrace the victorious opening of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and created a sound and secure social environment, in light of the demand of the meeting on Christian issue in our city, a concerted citywide action will be taken, under the unified leadership of Party Committee and Government of our city, against illegal Christian activities from August 20 to October 20. To this end, the following work plan is made.
Principles
The action will be taken on the basis of the demand of the meeting on Christian issue, the religious policy of our Party and relevant law and regulations of the State. We need to rely upon the Party Committee, the grassroots organizations and people, bring the functional role of the public security authorities into full play, protect legal activities, terminate illegal ones, boycott overseas infiltration, fight crimes, help people differentiate legal religious activities from illegal ones, eliminate illegal religious activities, contain their spread, crack down on cultic activities being conducted in the name of Christianity, and safeguard the social stability of our city.
Leadership
A task force will be established under the Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding, with Li Yunlong, member of the Standing Committee of the Party, Director of the Public Security Bureau, as the leader, Liang Wenping, executive deputy director of the PSB, and Hu Liuhua, deputy director of the PSB, as deputies. The office will be in the Section of Religious Affairs. Tang Yongyi, section chief of religious affairs, will be in charge of the operation of this office.
Task and Objective
Let grassroots officials and people understand the difference between legal religious activities and illegal ones, and strengthen their ability to boycott voluntarily illegal Christian activities. Know clearly all illegal Christian activities, and bring their organizers and freelance missionaries to justice; ban all illegal Christian meeting places; make sure that the spread of illegal Christian activities in our city is effectively contained. Establish a secret force which has wide coverage, and can acquire deep-depth intelligence and information; make sure reliable information needed in discovering, fighting illegal Christian activities is available. Ban, according to the law, various cultic organizations operated in the name of Christianity. Make religious work a daily work of all grassroots police stations, set up detailed plan, and make sure religious activities develop normally and according to the law.
Method and Procedure
The action to terminate illegal Christian activities will fall into four stages, namely, publicity and education, investigation, termination and summarization:
Stage of publicity and education (August 20-30)
Respectively train and educate the police of all police stations, town and village leaders by various means, helping them differentiate legal religious activities from illegal ones, understand that freedom of religious faith does not necessarily mean freedom of religious activities, and thus laying solid foundation for termination of all illegal religious activities.
Strengthen the publicity and education to believers and non-believers through bulletin, radio and TV stations of counties and towns, helping them realize the malign influence of illegal Christian activities, voluntarily report them and provide related clue, and thus totally eliminating all illegal Christian activities.
Stage of investigation (August 31-September 20)
Make a thorough investigation of local illegal Christian activities, areas and people involved, organizers, freelance missionaries and other relevant clues; sort all gathered information, set up full files; recognize influential people and illegal meeting places; be clear which are legal activities and which are not, which are religions and which are cults, which are organized by Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council and which are organized by freelance missionaries, which are overseas infiltration; and prepare to terminate them. On the basis of investigation, Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and district make their respective action plan.
Stage of termination (September 21-October 10)
Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and districts, according to their respective action plan, organize forces to close down all illegal Christian meeting places. Compulsory measures, such as subpoena, penalty, ordered confessions, detention, may be taken against those core members, stubborn members and those who provide places for illegal activities. Their instruments used for illegal missionary purpose and their illegal publicizing materials should be confiscated.
In accordance with the State Council_s executive order No. 145 "Regulations on Religious Site" and provincial executive order No. 83 "Regulations on Religious Site and Religious Personnel", all sites not approved by the government are treated as illegal. No activity can be conducted on those sites. Believers should be educated to voluntarily obey regulations of the government and go to government-approved sites for Christian activities. Otherwise, they will be severely punished according to Public Security Regulations.
Ban illegal activities of freelance missionaries. Those who refuse to refrain from those activities should be severely punished; Those who commit crimes in the name of religion should be punished by Public Security Bureau.
Various cultic activities in the name of Christianity should be severely cracked down, on the principle of "nipping them in the bud".
In terminating illegal Christian activities, secret forces should be established on the principle of "necessity" and "probability". Those forces should be on control and able to obtain timely information.
Stage of summarization (October 11-20)
The Task Force will send supervisors to Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and districts to make sure that all necessary work has been done, and to summarize the work.
Public Security Bureau should serve as brainman and play leading role in terminating illegal Christian activities. Department of Domestic Security of Public Security Bureau should play functional roles of surveillance, intelligence and protection, putting forward proposals and suggestions, being brainman to the Party Committee and the Government, and getting support from the Party Committee and the Government.
Meanwhile, they should cooperate and coordinate with other departments. All grassroots police stations should strengthen their daily management of Christian affairs, be clear in their mind about illegal activities, set up special files, and nip all kinds of illegal missionaries, illegal religious activities and cultic activities in the bud, making sure they can not spread and stage a comeback. Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding will work out details, by which the work of Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and districts will be checked. Right after this action, Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and districts should make earnest summarization, hammer out measures to strengthen constant management, and submit work report. Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding will give award on the basis of performance and achievement and will criticize those whose have serious malpractice. Those whose work is not qualified should continue their work until they are qualified.
Requirements
Improve the awareness of the importance of terminating illegal Christian activities. Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and districts should fully recognize the grave harm of current illegal Christian activities, develop the working style of tirelessness, and accomplish the task of terminating illegal Christian activities on the standpoint of protecting grassroots regime and safeguarding social and political stability.
Reinforce the leadership. Public Security Bureau of all counties, cities and districts should strengthen the leadership over terminating illegal Christian activities, and take responsibilities. Chiefs should bear overall responsibility and be major responsible persons. Deputies in charge should be the direct responsible persons. Various departments should coordinate with each other. The political department should take the lead, and other departments take their respective responsibilities. Joint efforts should be made. Careful and attentive plan should be worked out and put into practice.
Strictly implement the policy. Attention should be paid to the limitation of the policy. Relevant policies and laws should be strictly abided by. Normal Christian activities should be differentiated from illegal ones. Participants of illegal activities should be differentiated from the organizers. Cracking down should be confined to a small group of people. For majority of people, education serves as the main ways to stop them from engaging in illegal activities. It should be avoid to give excuses to some people who might use them for slandering.
Pay careful attention to the social trend, preventing few people from fanning and making troubles. Once happening, troubles should be dealt with in time under the leadership of local party committee and government. Relevant information should be reported. Strengthen intelligence work. All counties, cities and districts should, by stage, report their action plan, work schedule and their progress on terminating illegal Christian activities. Emergency should be reported immediately.
Key words: Christian, Illegal, Plan, Notice
Office of the Public Security Bureau of the City of Baoding
Printed on August 22, 2002
(Total number of copies: 30)
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