Research Of Jiang Zemin’s Religious Thought

China is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country. Data shows that religious people in ourcountry are more than100million, and for more than20ethnic minorities, there are nononbelievers in the entire nation. So obviously China’s religious situation greatly concerns thenation’s stability, prosperity, harmony and the realization of Chinese dream. In the complicatedinternational and domestic environment, how to handle religious issues concerns the success orfailure of the party’s cause and as well as the destiny of the country. Jiang Zemin, as the core ofthe third generation of central leaders, in the practice of socialist construction and reform, made alot of creative religious views and theories, which are related to the nature, values, and history ofreligion and other issues. The characteristics of his religious ideas are as follows. First, a globalvision of religious issues; second, dialectical view of the social role of religion; third, emphasison the inherent relationship between ethnic and religious issues. On the basis of Marxist view ofreligion, Jiang Zemin deepened the common knowledge about religious body, identity, policy,management mechanism, teaching purposes and as well as the relationship between religion andsocialism, which has positive significance for the correct solution of the religious issues incontemporary China.