Working class called on to strive for new achievements
Pub Date:20-11-25 08:40 Source:China Daily
President Xi Jinping has underlined the key role of China's working
class and working people in eliminating poverty and building a
moderately prosperous society, urging them to make new, historic
endeavors for China's modernization.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made
the remarks at a gathering at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to
honor model workers and exemplary individuals.
On behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, Xi
congratulated the awarded model workers and individuals, and extended
greetings to the country's working class and working people for their
outstanding contributions to reform and opening-up as well as socialist
modernization.
Socialism was established through action, and the new era will be no
different, he said, noting that model workers are elites of the nation,
role models for the people and heroes of the People's Republic of China.
The Party and the State have always attached great importance to model workers and exemplary individuals, he said.
As China is fostering a new development paradigm with the domestic
market as the mainstay and domestic and international markets
reinforcing each other, the country must closely rely on the working
class to promote high-quality development, Xi said, calling on working
people to closely unite around the CPC Central Committee.
Xi stressed carrying forward the spirit of model workers and that of
craftsmen as they provide a powerful source of encouragement to the
entire Party and people of all ethnic groups to move forward despite
difficulties.
Xi called on Party committees and governments at all levels to
respect and care for model workers, and improve their policies
concerning them so that there will be more model workers and exemplary
individuals in the future.
He urged the working class and working people to always follow the Party and make achievements in the new era.
The working class should enhance its own solidarity, strengthen unity
with other working people, proceed with confidence in overcoming
difficulties of various kinds and always be the force that the CPC can
firmly rely on, he said.
Xi called for building a high-quality workforce to adapt to the needs
of the new round of scientific and technological revolution. Efforts
should be made to improve the mechanism for cultivating and assessing
skilled workers in order to develop more highly skilled personnel and
craftsmen, he said.
The president also said that the legitimate rights and interests of
working people should be well safeguarded, requiring efforts to provide
them with stable employment, increased incomes, and safe and sanitary
working conditions. A working mechanism that supports people in
difficulties should be established, he added.
China's achievements in reform and development should be built and enjoyed by all workers, Xi said.
The gathering, chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, honored a total of
1,689 people as national role model workers and 804 as exemplary
individuals.