On February 2, the Provincial Foreign Trade Assets Corporation convened its 2024 Annual Work Conference and Employee Representative Assembly. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the meeting thoroughly implemented the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s inspection in Hebei, the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the Central Economic Work Conference. It also comprehensively implemented the work deployment of the Provincial Economic Work Conference, the Provincial “Two Sessions,” and the Provincial State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprises Meeting. The conference comprehensively reviewed the work of 2023 and the achievements of the company’s 20th anniversary, scientifically judged the new situation and new tasks, and systematically deployed the key tasks for 2024.
Zhang Yuanzhen, the company’s Party Secretary and Chairman, delivered a speech titled “Remember the Mandate, Carry out the Blueprint to the End, and Forge Ahead with a New Era of ‘Secondary Entrepreneurship’ with Reform and Innovation Spirit.” Li Yumin, the Deputy Party Secretary, Deputy Chairman, and General Manager, presented an annual work report titled “Strive Forward with Responsibility and Action to Push the Company’s High-quality Development to a New Level.” Qi Shanshui, the Deputy Party Secretary, presided over the meeting. Members of the company’s leadership team and external directors attended the conference.
Zhang Yuanzhen pointed out that 2023 was an extraordinary year for the company, marked by its ambitious vision and innovative pursuit. It was also a milestone year for the company to officially embark on “secondary entrepreneurship” and comprehensively build “five foreign trades.” The company firmly upheld the important speech spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s inspection in Hebei, took up the new mission and new tasks in the new era and new journey, fully implemented the new development philosophy, took high-quality development as its primary task, focused on the provincial SASAC’s annual work plan of “1126” and the work objectives of “one increase, one stability, and four improvements.” It seized opportunities, pressed forward, strived forward, and forged ahead, gathered strong momentum in carrying out high-quality thematic education, made full efforts in operation, projects, increasing momentum, promoting reform, preventing risks, optimizing supervision, strengthening party building, and achieved continuous improvement in quality and efficiency.
Zhang Yuanzhen systematically summarized the company’s 20-year development achievements and extracted six valuable experiences from the company’s 20-year development law: adhering to serving national strategies as a consistent theme and main line; regarding deepening reform as an inexhaustible driving force for development and growth; regarding research and development innovation as a powerful engine for striving for excellence; regarding fine management as an important starting point for improving quality and efficiency; regarding integrity and win-win as the core concept of integrated development; and regarding upholding the leadership of the Party and strengthening party building as the fundamental guarantee for steady and long-term development.
For 2024, Zhang Yuanzhen emphasized that it was the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and a crucial year for achieving the company’s “14th Five-Year Plan” objectives. The company would focus on the SASAC’s work plan and goals, adhere to seeking progress in stability, promoting stability through progress, establishing before breaking, enhance core functions, and improve core competitiveness. It would fully utilize technological innovation, industrial control, and security support, arrange the annual work plan with “one goal, one central task, three actions, and eight continuous efforts,” deepen “secondary entrepreneurship,” enhance “five foreign trades,” carry out in-depth reform deepening and enhancement actions, benchmarking first-class enhancement actions, and a special action plan for “three-year growth and five-year strengthening” in R&D investment. The company aimed to improve its innovation and value creation capabilities, enhance endogenous motivation, seize the opportunities of high-quality development, transformational development, overcoming difficulties, and fostering leading enterprises.
Zhang Yuanzhen also required solid work at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, including strengthening safety production management, strictly implementing leadership shift work, 24-hour duty, and information reporting systems, and caring for the lives of employees and workers.
Li Yumin’s work report comprehensively summarized the company’s achievements in 2023 from four aspects, including focusing on steady growth, fully improving quality and efficiency, significantly enhancing the company’s strength; persevering in solving problems, stimulating vitality in every possible way, and deeply promoting reform and development; unswervingly emphasizing the rule of law, unwaveringly promoting compliance, and