A senior Chinese legislator on Thursday called for more efforts to promote the spirit of model workers, hard work and craftsmanship at a meeting ahead of the upcoming International Labor Day.
Wang Dongming, the Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee and chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions called on unions to intensify skills acquisition.
He urged the trade unions at various levels to undertake more skill competitions and deepen reforms of the cultivation of industrial workers.
Wang extended greetings to workers across the country at the teleconference marking the holiday.
Exemplary units and workers were presented with national labour awards and honourary titles at the meeting.
He said of the 966 individuals honoured at the meeting, industrial and grassroots workers respectively accounted for approximately 40 per cent and two-thirds of the recipients. (Xinhua/NAN)
