CWU Delegates Attend Awards Event for Red-Banner Pacesetters

A grand ceremony honoring the winners of the National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetters and Collectives awards was held in Beijing on February 29, ahead of International Women's Day (March 8). Some 300 teachers and students from the North Campus of China Women's University (CWU) participated in the event.

Chinese Vice-President Li Yuanchao and Vice-Premier Liu Yandong met the winners of the awards. Yan Junqi, vice-chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and president of the Democratic Progressive Party attended the gathering. Shen Yueyue, vice-chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and president of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), delivered a speech. Song Xiuyan, vice president and first member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, hosted the event.

Ten outstanding Chinese women received the main title; 300 women were recognized as the National March 8th Red-Banner Holders; and, 200 organizations won the awards for the National March 8th Red-Banner Collectives.

At the meeting, Shen expressed festive greetings to women from all walks of life and conveyed her warm congratulations to those newly-recognized. She hoped that more women can learn from the country's advanced individuals and strive to better themselves, following adamantly the "road of socialism with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the Communist Party of China".

Shen also hoped that women can show their "strength of wisdom" to make a sound contribution to the opening time-frame of the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. Shen further wished that women can make great efforts to build good family traditions, play a special role in social and family life and make concerted efforts in poverty reduction.

She called on women's organizations at various levels to study the important speeches made by Secretary-General Xi Jinping, unite and lead hundreds of millions of women to make new contributions to "building a well-off society in an all-round way and achieving the Chinese dream of rejuvenating the Chinese nation."

During the event, CWU delegates listened to the model deeds of the outstanding Red-Banner Holders and advanced collectives. The university incorporated the event into a series of education activities for freshmen. Based on the power of the role-models, the organizers hoped to stimulate students to establish the "four self spirits" of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement; and, to strive to become outstanding women with "goodness and wisdom."

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)