About Hui employee subsidies

Reply from the Ministry of Finance to the Heilongjiang Provincial Finance Bureau on the issue of food subsidies for Hui and other employees

(〔79〕Caishizi No. 182, July 2, 1979)

In response to the Qiqihar Municipal Finance Bureau's report on the disagreement with the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee on the forwarding of the "Notice on Properly Solving the Food Problem of Hui and Other Employees" on April 13 (copied to your bureau). According to the "Notice on Properly Solving the Food Problems of Hui and Other Employees" jointly issued by our Ministry, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the State Labor Administration on July 15, 1978: "Due to objective conditions, special kitchens or other food cannot be set up in the unit. Appropriate subsidies will be given to ethnic minority workers who are prohibited from eating pigs and have to buy food outside when they have stoves to cook with but cannot go home to eat.” This subsidy is conditional and limited. For example, it is explained as: "Except for those units that have set up special stoves for Hui people or have other stoves for cooking, all Hui employees should be given a subsidy of four yuan, regardless of whether they eat at home or buy food out." In this way, it is wrong to relax the conditions and expand the scope of subsidies compared with the above regulations, forming a "Hui employee subsidy". Our opinion: The proper solution to the issue of meals and food subsidies for Hui employees involves not only issues of ethnic policy, but also issues of internal unity among employees. All localities should strictly implement the above regulations. Subsidies should not be given to Hui employees who have not set up a special stove or have another stove for cooking in their unit, but eat at home or bring their own meals. On the basis of the principle of implementing the above regulations, relevant provincial departments shall formulate specific regulations to avoid inconsistent implementation and mutual influence.