Yu tours Xinjiang, stresses curbing extremism, terrorism

（Xinhua） 18:03, May 28, 2013

Photo taken on May 23, 2013 shows Yu Zhengsheng (C), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, visits religious people at a mosque in Gulbag of Hotan City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Yu paid an inspection tour in Hotan, Kashgar, Yili and Urumqi of Xinjiang from May 23 to 28. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

URUMQI, May 28 (Xinhua) -- During his tour of Xinjiang, China's top political advisor stressed containing the growth of religious extremist elements and maintaining a high intensity in the fight against terrorist activities.

The tour took Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to Hotan, Kashgar, Yili and Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from May 23-28.

Visiting villages, companies, schools, police stations, a border port and a mosque, Yu called for greater efforts in improving people's living conditions and promoting ethnic solidarity and social harmony.

To facilitate the region's economic and social development and long-term stability, he urged local authorities to fully implement policies that the central authorities have prescribed for Xinjiang.

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