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SWB
FE/7209/C1/3
15 Dec 82
ARTICLE 6: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC, through various means, shall actively propagate advanced thought, launch propaganda and education on the social ethics of loving the motherland, the people, labour, science and socialism as well as on revolutionary ideals, morality and discipline.
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ARTICLE 7: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall adhere to the principle of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend" a principle of developing science and flourishing culture - maintain close ties with the state organs and other organs concerned, carry out investigation and study in the political, legal, economic educational, scientific and technological, cultural and artistic, medical and health, sports and other fields, encourage the free airing of views, open all avenues for people of talent and bring their members' specializations and roles into full play.
The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall give impetus and render assistance to social forces to start all types of undertakings conducive to socialist construction.
ARTICLE 8; The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall organize their members to inspect, visit and investigate so that they can understand the various situations, study the various undertakings and the important issues regarding the people's livelihood, and submit proposals and criticisms to the state organs and other organs concerned.
ARTICLE 9: The national Committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall organize and promote the study of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, the study of current events and political matters and the study and exchange of professional, scientific and technological knowledge on the basis of voluntary participation so as to improve the ability of each to serve the motherland.
ARTICLE 10: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall popularize and participate in implementing state policy with regard to the reunification of the motherland, actively develop ties with the compatriots and people of all walks of life in Taiwan and promote the realization of the great cause of the reunification of the motherland.
Efforts must be made to strengthen ties and unity with the compatriots in Hongkong and Macao, and encourage them to make contributions to building and reunifying the motherland.
ARTICLE 11: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall propagate and help implement the state's policy on intellectuals, so as to create favour- able conditions for bringing the role of intellectuals into full play in socialist modernization.
ARTICLE 12: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall propagate and help implement the state's nationalities policy, reflect the opinions and demands of the national minorities, and make contributions to developing the economies and cultures of districts inhabited by people of national minorities, to safeguarding their lawful rights and interests, to improving and developing socialist relations among all nationalities, to strengthening the great unity among the people of all nationalities and to defending the reunification of the motherland.
ARTICLE 13: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall propagate and help implement the state's policy on religion, and unify the patriots in the field of religion and religious believers in offering their share to the building and reunif ication of the motherland.
ARTICLE 14: The national committee and local committees of the CPPCC shall propagate and help implement state policy on overseas Chinese affairs, strengthen ties and unity with Chinese residents abroad and encourage them to make contributions to building the motherland and to the great cause of reunifying the motherland.