Islamic Leaders of Different Ethnic Backgrounds Receive Training

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, January 04, 2002

Islamic Leaders of Different Ethnic Backgrounds Receive Training

A training course aimed at introducing China's religious policy to local Islamic believers has just finished in this capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

A training course aimed at introducing China's religious policy to local Islamic believers has just finished in this capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

More than 2,000 Islamic religious leaders of different ethnic backgrounds attended the training course,the largest of its kind in the autonomous region since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Zhou Shengtao, deputy secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of China, said at the closing ceremony that the course had helped the trainees to gain a better understanding of China's religious policy.

The organizer, the Islamic scripture school of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, invited experts and scholars from colleges and research institutes to give lectures on the region's secular and religious history,and the mission of Islamic believers in the hi-tech era.

The lectures were highly praised by the students.

Since the beginning of last year, the school has trained Islamic religious leaders from seven different ethnic minorities, including those of the Uygur, Hui and Uzbek.

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