The 14th Women's Congress of Jiangsu Province opened in Nanjing on Monday morning. When addressing the opening ceremony, Xin Changxing, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, hoped that women in the province would adhere to the guidance of the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement the spirit of Xi Jinping's important speech during his inspection of Jiangsu, and win a brilliant life with their hard work. Xu Kunlin, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor, and Zhang Yizhen, Chairwoman of the CPPCC Provincial Committee attended the meeting. Zhang Xiaolan, Vice Chairman and Secretary of the Secretariat of the All China Women's Federation, delivered a speech.
Xin Changxing, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, the Provincial People's Government, and the Provincial CPPCC, extended warm congratulations on the opening of the congress, expressed sincere gratitude to the All China Women's Federation for its long-term concern and support for women's work in Jiangsu, and extended sincere greetings to the delegates to the plenary session, women and women workers in the province.
He said that the cause of women is an important component of the cause of the Party and the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has attached great importance to the development of women's cause so as to have promoted all-round progress and achieved all-round development in the new era of women's cause.
Jiangsu has always had a tradition of respecting and caring for women. During the period of revolution, construction, and reform in China, women in Jiangsu have been at the forefront by bravely shouldering the mission of the times.
Xin Changxing stressed that on the new journey, General Secretary Xi Jinping encouraged Jiangsu to "continue to lead in high-quality development" and "take the lead and demonstrate in promoting Chinese path to modernization", which is a scientific guidance for Jiangsu's work and a distinct theme for the development of Jiangsu's women's cause in the new era.
Xin Changxing hoped that women throughout the province should keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s ardent expectation, actively participate in the new practice of Chinese path to modernization in Jiangsu, promote the ambition of women and make contributions to the cause of women.
The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee hoped that women will continue to write about the new glory of daring to innovate and start businesses, dedicate themselves to the forefront of scientific and technological research, and inject magnificent female strength into the new fields of innovation and entrepreneurship to promote technological self-reliance and self-improvement in Jiangsu.
Xin Changxing stressed that the Women's Federation is a women's mass organization under the leadership of the Party, and women's work is an important part of the Party's mass work. For this reason, he asked women's federations at all levels in the province to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statement on women, children and women's federation work.
He demanded that party committees and governments at all levels strengthen their leadership in women's work, fully implement the basic national policy of gender equality, support women's federations to creatively carry out their work in accordance with regulations, promptly study and solve key and difficult problems faced by women's federations, attach importance to the growth and progress of female talents and cadres, and promote the formation of a good environment in society that respects the status of women, cares about women's cause, and supports women's work.
Zhang Xiaolan, on behalf of the All China Women's Federation, warmly congratulated the convening of the congress. She hoped that women's federations at all levels in Jiangsu will closely focus on the strategic tasks proposed by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the development concept of putting the people at the center, deepen the organizational reform and construction of women's federations, effectively play the role of bridge and link, unite and lead women to actively participate in modernization construction, promote high-quality development, participate in grassroots social governance, strengthen family education and family culture construction, jointly maintain social harmony and stability, and work together to create a high-quality life so as to promote the work of women in the new era to a new level.
