Official: The central government has a clear, persistent and firm position over talks with Dalai Lama- People's Daily Online

Official: The central government has a clear, persistent and firm position over talks with Dalai Lama

10:10, June 16, 2009

Zhu Weiqun, vice minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China Central Committee(CPC) introduced the stable developing situation of Tibet when meeting a joint-visiting group of journalists from Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Albania on the afternoon of June 12 and Zhu also answered questions from the journalists. (China Tibet Information Center Photo)
Tibet Democratic Reform 50 years ago is a history choice

Zhu Weiqun: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Tibet Democratic Reform and is a year with special significance on our Party and country's work on Tibet. For long periods before 1959, Tibet had been a society of feudal serfdom characterized by the merging of politics and religion which was darker and crueler than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages. The 14th Dalai Lama is not only the leader of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and also head of the Tibetan local government, the general symbol of the system. The 17-Article Agreement on measures for the peaceful liberation of Tibet signed between the central people's government and the local government of Tibet in 1951 has clearly pointed out, Tibet shall carry out reforms on social system as any other part of China, while the exact time of reform shall be discussed with the upper class of Tibet so as to respect their ideas. So, Tibet didn't have any reform when the central government carried out the land reform and other democratic reforms in other parts of China after the founding of New China. In 8 years since the peaceful liberation in 1951 to 1959, the central government adopted an attitude of patient waiting and tolerant towards the upper class in Tibet. However, the reactionary clique of the upper social strata in Tibet led by the Dalai Lama just hoped the feudal serfdom system characterized by the merging of politics and religion in Tibet "never subject to change". Hence, they launched an armed rebellion in 1959, tore up the "17-Article Agreement ". When the armed rebellion failed, they fled to India, set up the so-called "government in exile", promulgated a so-called "constitution" and openly started their efforts to split the motherland for half a century. The frequently used political words "Dalai Clique" is coming from the above story.

The Dalai Clique attempted to hold back the beginning of democratic reform with armed rebellion and secessionist activities and the onward march of events was opposite to their wishes, that is, their rebellion sped up the footstep of democratic reform. When the PLA was appeasing the armed rebellion, a democratic reform was rapidly launched in Tibet, which eradicated the feudal serfdom system marked by the combination of politics and religion. This is a big event for the social development of Tibet, for the cause of liberation of the Chinese people, even for the worldwide Human Rights Campaign. In the 50 years since the democratic reform, Tibet witnessed fast economic development, rapid improvement in people's living standards, adequate protection of traditional culture, respect for people's freedom on religious belief and huge changes in each aspect. All these changes can refer to the white paper "Fifty Years of Democratic Reform of Tibet" recently issued by the Information Office of the State Council.

Under the supports of some overseas forces, the Dalai Clique incited and plotted the "March 14" Lhasa Riots last year which caused huge losses to Tibetan people. However, this action of Dalai Clique can not hinder the big trend of Tibet's development and advancement. In a short time, we rapidly quenched the riot and the social order in Tibet returned to normal with the supports of people from all ethnic groups in Tibet. March 10 this year marks the 50th anniversary of the armed rebellion of Dalai Clique, Dalai Clique and some overseas forces sought to make some troubles in Tibet by making the best use of this chance, but they failed again.

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