The Jingzhou Commendation Conference for Outstanding Party Members, Model Party Workers and Advanced Grass-roots Party Organizations took place on the morning of June 29.

He Guangzhong, Secretary of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee, attended the conference and delivered a speech. Zhou Zhihong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and Mayor of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government, chaired the conference. The conference read the Decision of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee on Commending Outstanding Party Members, Model Party Workers and Advanced Grass-roots Party Organizations in Jingzhou. He and other municipal leaders presented awards to the recipients.

Gan Huifang, Secretary of the Party Branch and President of the Gong'an Blue Ribbon Volunteer Association; Mei Yong, Head of Songzi Hongzhong Pink Grapefruit Professional Cooperative; Li Jingjing, Party Secretary of Wenmiao Community, Xicheng Sub-district, Jingzhou District and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of Xicheng Sub-district; and Xu Zhengzhou, Secretary of the General Party Branch of Muyuan Village, Cenhe Town, Shashi District and Chairman of the Village Committee delivered speeches.

On behalf of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee, He extended congratulations to the commended Party organizations and individuals, and holiday greetings to Jingzhou's Party organizations and Party members at all levels. Party organizations and Party members at all levels should take a firm political stand, root their ideals and convictions in soul, further firm up their faith in Marxism, their belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics, their trust in the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core and their confidence in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, he said.

Jingzhou is a red land where generations of Jingzhou people followed the instructions and guidance of the Party, were grateful to the Party and worked hard, so as to write the momentous history of revolution, construction and struggle of Jingzhou, He said, requiring that the whole city should emancipate mind and assume the heavy mission of the rejuvenation of Jingzhou; should firmly establish the awareness of purpose and serve the people practically; and should strengthen self-revolution and exercise full and rigorous governance over the Party.

With focus on developing a prosperous city through industrial development, we should create four industrial clusters with an output value of 100 billion yuan and three with an output value of 50 billion yuan each, make great efforts to develop 12 key industry chains, and accelerate the construction of key industrial projects and technical renovation projects. With focus on innovation drive, we should accelerate the building of the provincial regional innovation application center and a science & technology innovation corridor. With focus on ecology priority, we should persistently protect the Yangtze River, to develop a center city for living, working and traveling in Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, He said.

We should solicit public opinions and arrange work in the interests of the people; should do practical things for the people, take concrete measures for the benefit and convenience of the people, and implement a number of projects directly benefiting the people; should lead the people in seeking development, pool public wisdom and strengths to foster a lively environment of jointly promoting high-quality development and sharing a high-quality life, He said.

We should hold fast to organizational building, coordinate the centralized term change of the "two committees" of villages (communities), consolidate and expand the results of urban grass-roots governance guided by Party building, coordinate Party building in government offices, universities, state-owned enterprises and new economic organizations and new social organizations. We should judge officials by their political ideals, abilities and integrity, strengthen leading bodies at all levels by appointing competent officials, select and appoint some pragmatic and hardworking officials. We should improve conduct, supervise term change, and strengthen political and legal team education and rectification grow in terms of depth and substance, He said.

We should convert the spirit of this conference into the ideological source, realistic path and concrete result of steering and promoting the high-quality development of Jingzhou. We should keep drawing political nutrients and pool strengths from the Party's history of a century, uphold General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole by practical results, and interpret loyalty and responsibility by practical and hard work. Under the province's initiative to create a pattern in which Wuhan plays a leading role, Xiangyang and Yichang serve as wings and all the areas in Hubei develop in coordination, we should strengthen National Industrial Transfer Accommodation Demonstration Zone, accelerate the building of a modern industrial system led by modern services, dominated by advanced manufacturing and driven by strategic emerging industries, and speed up the formation of the "6+1" and "1+2" industrial clusters. We should combine Party history study and education with addressing practical problems, boost development through Party building, and achieve practical results in livelihood guarantee, rural rejuvenation, project construction, business environment, production safety, regular epidemic prevention and control, and exercise of full and rigorous governance over the Party.

Present were Wang Shouwei, Chairman of the CPPCC Jingzhou Municipal Committee; members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee, leaders of the Standing Committee of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Congress, the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government and the CPPCC Jingzhou Municipal Committee, heads of the Jingzhou Intermediate People's Court and the Jingzhou People's Procuratorate, heads of universities in Jingzhou, heads of departments directly under the municipal committee and government, offices of central and provincial institutions in Jingzhou, as well as winners of the titles of Outstanding Party Members, Model Party Workers and Advanced Grass-roots Party Organizations.