The General Offices of the CCP CC and State Council jointly released opinions on “comprehensively, deeply, and enduringly implementing the work on pursuing ethnic unity and progress to consolidate a sense of community for the Chinese Nation” and issued a notice requesting each region and department conscientiously implement the opinions.  The opinions emphasised the importance of unity and pointed out that “the sense of community of the Chinese nation is the foundation of the unity of the country, the root of national unity, and the soul of spiritual strength.” They called for furthering education, propaganda and exchange on ethnic unity and upgrading the quality of “ethnic unity and progress construction work.” It emphasized that “party committees and governments at all levels should earnestly carry out the political responsibility of protecting the lifeline of ethnic unity.”