What did the representatives of the Buddhist community say when the two sessions of the National People’s Congress closed？

The fourth session of the National People’s Congress was successfully concluded. At this year’s two sessions, what voices did the representatives of the Buddhist community make?

Fenghuang. com Buddhism is organized as follows:

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Member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Vice President of the Chinese Buddhist Association Pasong Lielong Zhuang Meng (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Pasonglie Longzhuang Meng: Southern Buddhism Monks have countermeasures to protect minority languages and characters.

Pasong Lielong Zhuang Meng, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, submitted a proposal on inheriting history, protecting minority languages and writing, and building a strong sense of the Chinese nation community.

In the proposal, Pasong Lielong Zhuang Meng pointed out that only by learning to master the national common language and writing can the minority culture be closely integrated with the excellent Chinese traditional culture; Only by learning the spoken and written languages of our own nation can we better inherit the national culture and give full play to the positive role of ethnic minorities in forging a strong sense of the Chinese nation community.

Pasonglie Longzhuang Meng said that in inheriting the Dai national language and writing, the Southern Buddhism Monk Group can "assist bilingual teaching", "assist bilingual translation of publicity materials" and "cooperate with the protection of Dai traditions and customs".

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The 11th Panchen Lama: People in Tibetan Buddhism should be service providers, builders and contributors in the new era.

"As a member of the Tibetan Buddhist community, we should take the initiative to adapt to the new era, find our own position, and strive to become a service provider, builder and contributor in the new era, and we must never become a dragging role." Before the closing of the Fourth Session of the 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Qoigyi Gyaibo, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association and president of the Xizang Branch of the Chinese Buddhist Association, pointed out in an exclusive interview that the society of Xizang has changed and the social role and orientation of Tibetan Buddhism have also undergone profound changes.

The 11th Panchen Lama said that the original intention and pursuit of Tibetan Buddhism is to have a good ancestors, a good people and a peaceful life. Tibetan Buddhism has the value pursuit and connotation of loving the country and teaching, promoting the good and restraining the evil, and helping the poor and suffering. In the new era, there is more room to play an active role, and great efforts should be made in this regard.

The 11th Panchen Lama once compared the five major religions in China to five fingers. During the interview, he once again said that "only by uniting and converging into a fist", can the religious story of China be well told on the international stage, by casting a solid sense of the Chinese nation’s community, guiding religious figures and believers to actively participate in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and promoting the mutual help, harmonious coexistence and harmonious development of all religions and nationalities.

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Master Zhan Ru, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Chinese Buddhist Association (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Master Zhan Ru: Enhancing International Students’ Recognition of Chinese Culture

Master Zhan Ru, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice-president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, submitted a proposal on enhancing international students’ recognition of Chinese culture.

In his proposal, Master Zhan Ru pointed out that at present, the management of international students in China mostly stays in the improvement and care of living conditions, ignoring the cultivation of Chinese cultural identity, resulting in frequent negative news about international students in China in recent years. This situation needs to be changed urgently. In this regard, Master Zhan Ru put forward four suggestions, including "enriching extracurricular life on campus, creating conditions for foreign students to better integrate into China society" and "enhancing service awareness, and providing all kinds of help for the development and entrepreneurship of foreign students after completing the course".

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Member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Vice President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Master Miao Jiang (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Master Miaojiang: Further Improving Rural Infrastructure

At present, the rural sewage and garbage treatment infrastructure is restricted by many factors, such as many historical debts and insufficient capital investment, and there are many problems, such as insufficient total amount, low standard, incomplete supporting facilities, extensive management, poor operation and so on. Sewage treatment and garbage treatment have become the shortcomings of rural infrastructure construction, so it is urgent to speed up rural sewage and garbage treatment. Master Miao Jiang, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, vice president of Chinese Buddhist Association and abbot of Wutai Mountain Great Sage Chikurinji, suggested that the state should increase investment in rural ecological environment protection in Shanxi Province, further improve rural infrastructure, improve farmers’ production and living conditions, and lay the foundation for further implementing the rural revitalization strategy and building beautiful countryside.

Master Miao Jiang said that it is necessary to plan the objectives and tasks of the "14 th Five-Year Plan", increase the investment in rural ecological environmental protection, and speed up the shortcomings and weaknesses of rural ecological environmental protection. Adhere to planning and guidance, speed up the consolidation and upgrading of rural drinking water safety, strengthen the protection of rural drinking water sources, and comprehensively solve the problem of drinking water safety. Vigorously develop eco-circular agriculture, and reduce agricultural non-point source pollution through measures such as reducing pesticide and chemical fertilizer and promoting comprehensive utilization of straw. Solidly promote the improvement of rural human settlements, accelerate the construction of village-level garbage collection and transshipment facilities, comprehensively rectify informal garbage dumps, accelerate the construction of rural domestic sewage treatment projects, continue to promote the "toilet revolution" action, effectively improve the quality of rural human settlements, and continuously improve the quality and quality of building a well-off society in an all-round way.

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Master Xin Cheng, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Chinese Buddhist Association (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Master Xin Cheng: Carry forward the great anti-epidemic spirit and deeply cultivate religious patriotic feelings.

Master Xin Cheng, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Chinese Buddhist Association, pointed out in the proposal on carrying forward the great anti-epidemic spirit and deeply planting religious patriotic feelings that Buddhist culture is one of the main components of Chinese traditional culture. The great anti-epidemic spirit of putting life first, uniting the whole country, giving up one’s life and forgetting one’s death, respecting science and sharing one’s destiny is highly compatible with the spiritual pursuit of Buddhism, and at the same time, it can enrich the connotation of traditional Buddhism such as patriotism and teaching. Master Xin Cheng suggested that the religious authorities should carry forward and interpret the great anti-epidemic spirit, the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core in promoting all kinds of Buddhist work, so as to deepen the patriotic feelings of religious believers.

Master Xin Cheng: Re-interpreting the spirit of "Five Views on Food Preservation" with the language of the times

In the proposal of practicing the Five Views, practicing economy and opposing waste, Master Xin Cheng, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, pointed out that we should not relax at the moment of practicing economy and opposing extravagance. The Buddhist community in China has always attached importance to saving food. The "Five Views on Food Storage" focuses on self-management and strengthens self-reflection and self-supervision on saving food and opposing waste, which is consistent with the spirit of "Opinions on Strictly Saving and Opposing Food Waste" and has certain reference value. In today’s new era, it is of great practical significance to reinterpret and advocate the spirit of Buddhism’s "five views on food and survival" in the language of the times.

Master Xin Cheng: Promoting the Modernization of Temple Safety Management System and Management Ability

Master Xin Cheng, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Chinese Buddhist Association, pointed out in the proposal on promoting the modernization of temple safety management system and management ability that public safety is an important embodiment of national security, which is linked to economic and social development at one end and thousands of households at the other, and is the most basic livelihood. In recent years, several major safety accidents in religious circles have made people realize the importance of safety management more and more.

In this regard, Master Xin Cheng put forward five suggestions: strengthening publicity and education, thoroughly investigating hidden dangers, fully urging rectification, paying attention to establishing rules and regulations, and strengthening dynamic supervision.

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Member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Vice President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Master Yin Shun (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Master Yin Shun: I suggest setting Laba Festival as "National Vegetarian Day".

In order to promote people’s physical and mental health, and make it a common practice in the whole society to practice frugality and oppose waste, Master Yin Shun, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, submitted a proposal to designate Laba of the lunar calendar as "National Vegetarian Day". He proposed that the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in China be designated as "National Vegetarian Day", advocating that all people should be vegetarian at the end of the year, giving this well-known traditional festival the value of thanking nature, protecting the environment and saving morality, and cultivating.

Master Yin Shun: Contributing "Shenzhen Sample" to Building a Child-friendly City

"In 2015, Shenzhen proposed to create a’ child-friendly city’ in terms of social governance, and introduced a series of supporting measures, which made some useful explorations." Master Yin Shun, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, introduced that Shenzhen, as the first city in China to systematically propose the construction of a’ child-friendly city’, took the lead in releasing the first action plan for the construction of a’ child-friendly city’ in China, demonstrating the development concept of a’ child-friendly city’.

Master Yin Shun appealed that the development of Greater Bay Area should promote the new pattern of multi-participation in the construction of child-friendly cities, hoping to enlarge the new perspective of Shenzhen’s exploration and urban governance to the whole country, and contribute "Shenzhen sample" to China with "Shenzhen brand", so that children all over the country can look at the future world from the height of "1 meter" (the average height of children) and the height of future life from the height of "1 meter".

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Master Ze Wu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Master Zewu: It is recommended to comprehensively sort out, refine and summarize the great achievements of poverty alleviation.

Master Zewu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, pointed out in his proposal to comprehensively sort out, refine, summarize and promote the great achievements of poverty alleviation that in 2020, China completed the goal and task of poverty alleviation in the new era as scheduled, creating a great historical undertaking of great significance to the Chinese nation and mankind. "Getting rid of poverty is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and a new struggle". Therefore, Master Wu put forward some suggestions, including "further effectively summing up experience, making the great practice and achievements of poverty alleviation continue to be explicit", "continuously telling the story of poverty alleviation, providing China’s plan for the world", "further improving the long-term mechanism, continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation", "continuously stimulating endogenous motivation, further improving the long-term mechanism of poverty alleviation through education" and "further establishing a foothold"

Master Zewu: It is suggested to speed up the credit legislation at the national level.

Master Zewu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, made an inventory of the achievements made in China’s social credit construction and analyzed the necessity and feasibility of speeding up the national social credit legislation, and put forward "accelerating the legislative work of social credit law at the national level", "clarifying the concept of social credit" and "scientifically defining the scope and procedures of social credit information". Six suggestions, including "accelerating the formulation of national unified social credit related standards", "strengthening the security of social credit information and the protection of the rights and interests of information subjects" and "strengthening the construction of a good social credit environment".

Master Zewu: It is suggested to strengthen the rule of law in rural areas.

Master Ze Wu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, pointed out in his proposal on strengthening the rule of law in rural areas and actively escorting the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy that rural revitalization cannot be achieved without the rule of law in rural areas. In view of actively promoting rural revitalization and grass-roots social governance, Master Ze Wu put forward three suggestions: strengthening judicial guarantee, insisting on judicial service and sinking villages into the front line; Strengthen the governance of the source of litigation and improve the comprehensive resolution mechanism of rural contradictions and disputes; Do a good job of "sending the law to the countryside" and promote rural governance according to law.

Master Zewu: It is suggested to strengthen the legalization of national judicial assistance.

In the proposal on strengthening the legal construction of national judicial assistance, Master Ze Wu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, pointed out: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has taken improving the national judicial assistance system as one of the important goals of comprehensively deepening reform and comprehensively promoting the rule of law, and has actively carried out a series of effective measures. Judicial assistance has played an important role in helping people who have difficulties in life to get rid of poverty. Master Zewu made suggestions on four aspects: the formulation and promulgation of the national judicial assistance law, the legislative concept and basic principles of the national judicial assistance law, the orientation and main contents of the national judicial assistance law, and several issues that should be considered in the legislation of the national judicial assistance law.

Master Zewu: Suggest to promote the protection, breeding and conservation of Chinese horseshoe crabs.

Master Zewu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, pointed out in his proposal that it only took more than 30 years for Chinese horseshoe crabs to grow from a huge population to an endangered population. In March 2019, the Chinese horseshoe crab was listed in the list published by the World Conservation Union, and its level was updated from the original lack of data to endangered and entered the red alert list. On February 5, 2021, the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Ministry of Rural Agriculture released the new version of the List of National Key Protected Wild Animals to the public, and the Chinese horseshoe crab and the scorpion horseshoe crab of the horseshoe crab family entered the national second-class protected wild animal list. Master Zewu also pointed out that horseshoe crab is the only blue-blooded marine creature in the world, and the blood can be extracted to make horseshoe crab reagent, which has irreplaceable functions.

In this regard, Master Wu suggested organizing experts to conduct a special investigation on the living conditions of Chinese horseshoe crab and scorpion crab in the southeast coast; Organize the special law enforcement against the arrest, sale and fasting of Chinese horseshoe crab; Plan and build a number of "horseshoe crab breeding and conservation areas" throughout the country; Continue to promote the joint protection of Chinese horseshoe crabs in the four places across the Taiwan Strait; Promote international cooperation in horseshoe crab protection.

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Master Chonghua: It is suggested that religious activities be appropriately liberalized in low-risk areas.

During the two sessions this year, Master Chonghua, a member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, suggested that religious activities should be appropriately liberalized in low-risk areas when reflecting social conditions and public opinion. Master Chonghua pointed out that as a Buddhist temple in a non-scenic area, the source of life of the temple mainly depends on the support of believers. Due to the imported epidemic in the region, in mid-January, the relevant departments notified to suspend all religious activities. Buddhism has a fine tradition of patriotism and love for religion. After receiving the notice, the monasteries stopped all religious activities in time.

Master Chonghua also pointed out that during the Spring Festival, believers have the custom of worshipping incense in temples. As a county in a low-risk area, temples are located in the countryside and mountains. In some counties and districts, for the sake of simplicity, all temples belonging to the district are directly required to close, which brings great pressure to the normal life of temples, and the surrounding believers have great opinions.

In this regard, Master Chonghua suggested that religious activities should be properly liberalized in low-risk areas to meet the normal religious life of religious believers and the basic living security of monks in monasteries. Give proper care and support to the poorer monasteries, so that the teaching staff can feel the warmth of the party and the government.

Master Chonghua: further accelerate the development of the aged care service industry

Master Chonghua, a member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, pointed out in the proposal on further accelerating the development of the aged care service industry that China has entered an aging society, and the growth rate has obviously accelerated in recent years. With the gradual aging of the younger elderly, the proportion of the elderly who need long-term care will continue to rise.

In this regard, Master Chonghua put forward three suggestions, including "building a national big data center for the aged care service", "carrying out the action of supplementing the shortcomings of county-level disability care facilities to achieve full coverage of county-level disability care institutions" and "carrying out the construction action of street comprehensive function smart community pension service institutions".

Master Chonghua: The problem of insufficient inter-provincial development imbalance needs to be solved urgently.

"The imbalance of inter-provincial development has not been improved for a long time, and the gap is too large, which will further lead to the concentration of production factors in developed provinces, leading to local capital surplus, talent surplus, overpopulation, and urban diseases, while in underdeveloped areas, on the contrary, it is easy to produce Matthew effect, and the strong will remain strong and the weak will be weaker." Master Chonghua, a member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, suggested in the proposal on solving the imbalance and insufficiency of inter-provincial regional development: continue to implement the overall strategy of inter-provincial and regional development and improve it. Promote the equalization of basic public services.

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Member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Daza Ga, let Tobdanlaxi take measures (Source: Fenghuang. com Buddhism)

Daza Garang Tuobudan Laxi reduced measures: Strengthening the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage in Sichuan section of the Yellow River Basin.

Sichuan section of the Yellow River Basin is an important ecological function area of the Yellow River Basin and an important protection and inheritance area of the Yellow River culture. In this year’s National People’s Congress, member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of Aba CPPCC, Daza Ga, asked Tobdanlaxi to take measures to focus his attention on this. He suggested that the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage in Sichuan section of the Yellow River Basin should be strengthened.

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Member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Master Chang Kuan Yun of the Hong Kong Buddhist Association (Source: Phoenix Buddhism)

Master Kuan Yun: Not only should we abstain from killing, staying faithful and releasing, but we should also cherish and protect students.

At the two sessions this year, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a member of the port area, and Master Chang Kuan-yun of the Hong Kong Buddhist Federation submitted a proposal on "China Wildlife Protection Law and the Buddhist ecological balance and environmental protection concept".

Master Kuan Yun pointed out in the proposal that the newly revised China Wildlife Protection Law was officially implemented on January 1, 2017; In late February last year, the National People’s Congress passed legislation to "completely ban the consumption of wild animals and severely crack down on illegal wildlife trading"; The adjusted List of National Key Protected Wild Animals was officially released to the public on February 4, 2021.

In this regard, Master Kuan Yun said, "We should give our full support, not only to abstain from killing, staying in rut and releasing, but also to cherish and protect students; Only cherishing and caring for students is the best physical, mental and environmental protection, and it is also the most fundamental and effective way to eliminate disasters and diseases. "