CPC Central Committee Forbids Party Members to
Practice Falun Gong
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
today made public a circular forbidding Party members to practice Falun Dafa (Falun Gong).
The circular asks CPC members who currently practice Falun
Dafa to separate themselves from Falun Gong organizations, and to make a clean ideological
break from it.
It also calls for the launching of education against Falun
Gong for the entire party.
The circular says that the Falun Gong organization has
developed and spread in some places in recent years. Falun Dafa, concocted by Li Hongzhi,
has propagated a set of malicious fallacies, seriously corroding the minds of some people.
The Falun Gong organization plotted, and instigated, through
deception, some Falong Gong practitioners into holding illegally gatherings outside the
Party and government and media organizations, the circular says. Such activities have
seriously disturbed public order and jeopardized the stable situation of reform and
development.
The circular says the fact that some CPC members have also
taken part in such activities has tarnished the image of the party and made very bad
impression in the society.
The circular prohibits all Party members from practicing Falun
Gong, attending any activities organized by the Falun Gong organization, assuming any
positions in the Falun Gong organization, spreading materials of the Falun Gong
organization, or providing places, funds, or other conveniences for activities of the
Falun Gong organization.
The circular asks party members to expose and rebut Li Hongzhi
and his Falun Dafa, and aid party organizations and relevant departments to help people
understand the issue.
The circular says that for those Party members who practiced
Falun Dafa, but can break ties with the Falun Gong organization on their own and make a
clean ideological break with it, no questions will be raised.
Those who have engaged in organizing and publicizing Falun
Gong as key members will not be investigated or held responsible if they break away from
the organizations on their own, and draw a clear ideological line of demarcation with
Falun Gong, and expose the problems of Falun Gong.
Party members who are important key members of the Falun Gong
organization and have committed serious mistakes will be given disciplinary punishment
according to Party discipline, the circular says. But those who repent or render
meritorious service will have their disciplinary punishment reduced or not be
investigated.
Those who refuse to correct their mistakes after repeated
education will be asked to give up their Party membership, the circular says, and those
who refuse to give up their Party membership will be expelled from the Party.
Those few behind-the-scenes figures, plotters, and organizers
who caused disturbances on purpose with political intentions will resolutely be cleared
out of the Party, it says.
The circular says that "exposing and refuting Li Hongzhi
and his Falun Dafa is a serious political struggle," and every Party member should
have a deep understanding of the political nature and severe harm of the Falun Gong
organization.
Falun Dafa, also called Falun Gong, was pieced together in
northeast China's Changchun City by Li Hongzhi, now aged 47, on the basis of two Chinese
Qigong forms, and incorporates some dance movements.
Taking advantage of people's desire to rid themselves of
illness and achieve physical fitness, Li first disguised himself as someone skilled at
"curing sickness with Qigong." He then began enlisting disciples and circulating
malicious fallacies to confuse and cheat people.
Li propagated the idea, among others, that the end of the
world is approaching and that mankind will soon be exterminated, and that he would be the
sole savior.
The CPC circular calls for educating Party members in Marxist
materialism and atheism, enhancing their political sensitivity and their political
capabilities to differentiate right from wrong in order to consolidate a correct world
outlook and concept of values, and reinforcing their belief in communism to strengthen the
cohesiveness and combat strength of Party organizations.
The notice points out that this education focuses on
transformation and is based on the principle of learning from past mistakes to avoid
future ones, and curing the disease to save the patient.
The circular expresses the belief that most of the Party
members who practice Falun Gong will follow the Party's instructions and correct their
mistakes.
The circular says that Marxist dialectic materialism and
historical materialism represent the world outlook and methodology of the proletariat, and
that the scientific theories of Marxism established on the basis of this world view should
serve as the spiritual pillar of communists.
Falun Dafa as created by Li Hongzhi preaches idealism and
theism and denies all scientific truth, and thus is absolutely contradictory to the
fundamental theories and principles of Marxism, says the circular.
It points to the fact that any CPC member practicing Falun
Dafa has completely gone against the Party's nature and tenets, and therefore shall not be
tolerated by Party discipline.
In the face of this significant issue which involves the
fundamental beliefs of the communists, concerns the ideological foundation for people
across the country to unite behind and strive together with, and has a bearing on the
future and destiny of the Party and the state, every CPC member must take a clear and firm
stand and must unify their thinking in accordance with the decision of the Party Central
Committee, the circular says. (Xinhua) |
