On June 23rd, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism held a ceremony to award the memorial medals for 50-year party membership. Hu Heping, minister and secretary of the leading party group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, attended and delivered a speech. Li Qun, vice minister and member of the leading party group of the Ministry of Culture and Commerce, hosted the ceremony. Other attendees were members of the same leading party group, including Zhang Xu, Wang Xudong, La Yiyu, Du Jiang, Rao Quan and Wang Xiaofeng. They awarded medals to 115 representatives of senior CPC members.
Hu Heping expressed his warm congratulation and lofty respect to representatives of senior CPC members who attended the ceremony and 922 senior party members who were presented the award. He also expressed his gratitude to their contribution to cultural construction and tourism development. He said that the CPC Central Committee decided to award the Memorial Medals for 50-year Party Membership for the first time at the significant moment to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Communist Party of China. This represents Xi Jinping’s care and recognition of senior members for their prominent contribution to the party and the nation. Those awarded senior members had spent more than half a century to show their awareness in thoughts, politics and action; to embody loyalty, responsibility, struggling and contribution; to carry on their oath with their original aspiration and mission as well as to set advanced examples and concentrate the power of outstanding examples for the young and the inheritors.
Hu Heping said that we needed to learn from senior party members to have determined belief; to stay loyal to the CPC; to have the spirit to struggle for cultural and tourism cause; to lead a simple and unadorned life style and to start a new chapter of work relating to culture and tourism, so as to build a socialist country with strong culture and to work hard to realize the rejuvenation of Chinese nation. He wished that awarded senior party members could cherish the honor, make persistent effort and lead young members with the help of determined belief, conviction and confidence. With the opportunity to award the metals for 50-year party membership, party organization and cadres should carry out activities to learn from senior members. Institutions should saw planing for and promoting events to care senior party members as an important task.
During the ceremony, all attendees relived admission oath led by Wang Meng, a representative who was also a senior party member. Other senior party members including Wang Meng, Meng Yu, Fan Zhonghui and Zhang Qingshan expressed their ideas, sincere feeling and determination to continue to make party’s cause a more glorious one. At the end, the ceremony ended amid the impassioned song “Without the Communist Party there would be no New China”.
Other attendees included people in charge of subordinate institutes as well as bureaus and departments of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.