Vice President Hu Jintao called on trade unions at all levels
to mobilize workers to make new contributions to realizing China's
10th Five-Year Plan (2001-2005).
Hu, a member of
the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said the working class
has always been the principal force in China's reform and
opening up drive, and modernization as well.
China must give
full play to workers' role in order to smoothly carry out
the new five-year plan, he said. Trade unions should encourage
workers to offer suggestions for establishing and perfecting
the modern corporate system in State-owned enterprises.
He said that trade
unions should strengthen vocational training for workers to
improve the overall quality of Chinese workers.
To better protect
and develop workers' interests is the essential way to guide
them to contribute to the implementation of the five-year
plan, he said. Trade unions should offer more help to laid-off
workers, workers from loss-making enterprises, retired workers
and those senior model workers.
Hu said that trade
unions should not only extend its membership among workers
at State-owned enterprises but also among workers at non-State-owned
businesses.
The basic principle
that the Party must follow is to rely on the working class
wholeheartedly. CPC committees and governments at various
levels should not take the principle just as a slogan, but
a rule they should abide by when making decisions, he stressed.
(People's Daily
12/14/2000)
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