Senior Chinese leader calls to expand radio, TV coverage in western areas

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Senior Chinese leader calls to expand radio, TV coverage in western areas

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Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, has called to further expand radio and TV coverage among the remote western areas with more colorful programs.

Li made this call on Monday during an inspection tour in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Li said the project already well underway of increasing radio and TV broadcasting networks in Xinjiang and the Tibet Autonomous Region was of strategic importance and the quality of the programs should be further improved and diversified according to different customs, languages, social history, economic and political situations of different minority groups.

He said the project would transmit the central authorities' policies and various TV programs to a greater number of households in the regions, which would help promote economic development and maintain social stability here.

Launched in September 2000, the "Tibet-Xinjiang Project" is currently well under construction with full financial support from the central government.

The Xinjiang part of the project was divided into three stages. The first two stages, which gave the whole region full coverage of radio networks, was already completed in 2002.

The third stage, aiming to extend the television networks to all villages in Xinjiang, should be combined with the promotion of online broadcasting, Li said.

Local authorities were urged to speed up the building of the project infrastructures and to improve services to better enrich local people's cultural lives.

Li also called on people in Xinjiang to focus on economic development so as to lay a solid foundation for building a well-off society in an all around way in local areas.

He required local people to establish a scientific concept of development and devote more efforts to forming a sound social atmosphere, which values unification, cherished security and stability of the border areas, and promoted harmonious development between the economy and society.

Source: Xinhua

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