Overview

• State media reported that Xi made the comments while presiding over a Political Bureau group study session.
• He called for "active guidance" of religious groups and urged improvements to laws and policies governing religious affairs.
• Xi reiterated the goal that religions be Chinese in orientation and rooted in traditional culture to support unity and stability.
• China maintains that religious freedom exists within party-set parameters, with a July statement by Mao Ning framing sinicization as adaptation to national context.
• Coverage links the remarks to recent trips to Tibet and Xinjiang, where the UN and rights groups have alleged mass detentions of Uygurs.