新中国成立后,习仲勋无论在地方还是在中央工作期间,都曾将很大的精力倾注于党的统一战线和民族宗教工作,为巩固和发展最广泛的爱国统一战线,全面正确地贯彻党的民族宗教政策作出了重要贡献。在习仲勋结交的大批党外朋友和知名人士中,十世班禅是很具代表性的一位。从新中国成立之初到改革开放的新时期,习仲勋与 After the founding of New China, Xi Zhongxun devoted great attention to the party’s united front and ethnic and religious work both at the local and in the central government’s work. In order to consolidate and develop the broadest patriotic united front and comprehensively and correctly implement the party’s Ethnic and religious policies have made an important contribution. Among the large number of non-party friends and celebrities that Xi Zhongxun made, the 10th Panchen Lama is a very representative one. From the very beginning of new China to the new period of reform and opening up, Xi Zhongxun and