The People's Daily (October 31) published an article captioned 'Let the party flag fly high in
the aerospace front line - Leading the high-quality development of aerospace enterprises with
high-quality party building (the way of governance)' by Zhao Xiaojin, Secretary of the Party
Committee of the Fifth Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology
Corporation. It called for strengthening political leadership to ensure compliance and serve
major strategic needs. The article said, "Pay attention to strengthening political responsibility
and improving political ability, take the implementation of the decision-making and
deployment of the Party Central Committee and the implementation of major aerospace
missions as the "touchstone" and "grinding stone" for testing and tempering the political skills
of party members and cadres, and guide cadres and workers to consciously devote themselves
to the aerospace industry. Line, the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, the
requirements of the Party Central Committee, the national strategic needs, and the people's
expectations are transformed into job pursuits and job actions". Stressing on Party building, it
said "Optimize the party affairs team, establish an expert committee for party building work,
take party affairs posts as an important platform for training and training cadres, select and strengthen grass-roots party affairs cadres, carry out precise training at different levels, and
build party affairs that is political, willing to study, professional and strong". The article noted
it is important to "Identify the combination of party building work and business work, promote
the integration of corporate party building and space launch tasks, continue to optimize the
ideological and political support work system at the launch site, and set up temporary party
organizations in each space launch model work team to carry out the theme under the tower
Party. Discussing the need to "inspire people with spirit, set up an education base for aerospace
spirit, inherit and carry forward the spirit of "two bombs and one satellite" and the spirit of
manned spaceflight, establish an aerospace spirit propaganda group led by academicians and
experts and participated by old, middle-aged and young employees, and encourage employees
to take practical actions" it called on cadres to "Practice the belief of serving the country with
aerospace, and work hard on the new journey of building a powerful aerospace country with
high spirits".
(Comment: The article has been published after the emphasis on S&T at the 20th Party
Congress and selection of over a dozen technocrats in the Politburo and Central Committee.)
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