On January 15, CMEC 2020 Party Building and Business Work Meeting was held in Beijing, attended by over 300 persons including CMEC leaders, heads of departments, subsidiaries, overseas agencies and hosted organizations, representatives of retired leaders, Party Secretary of the Retirement Party Branch and staff representatives of CMEC. CMEC Party Secretary and Chairman Bai Shaotong attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Deputy Party Secretary and General Manager Fang Yanshui conveyed the guiding principles adopted at SINOMACH’s work meeting for 2020 and made a report on the business work of CMEC. Deputy Party Secretary Yu Bo made a report on the Party building of CMEC. Discipline Inspection Commission Party Secretary Wang Tianyi made a report on improving Party conduct, promoting integrity and combating corruption. The meeting was chaired by CMEC Deputy General Manager Zhang Jianguo.

Fang made a report entitled “Make an Overall Plan on Maintaining a Steady Market, Implementing Reform, Promoting Integration, Enhancing Core Competitiveness, and Further Promoting High-quality Development of CMEC”, pointing out that in the complex environment in 2019 as the global economy slowed down and domestic and overseas risks and challenges significantly increased, CMEC fully implemented the requirements on rectification of problems found in the process of disciplinary inspections conducted by the central government and SINOMACH, carried out educational activities under the theme of “Staying True to Our Founding Mission” in an in-depth way, made deployments by centering on national strategies and tasks assigned by SINOMACH, adopted a full range of targeted measures, effectively optimized the market structure, continued to improve the market-based operating mechanism, accelerated scientific and technological innovation, expand high-level cooperation for mutual benefits and win-win results, made resolute decisions to defuse and actively guard against major risks, made progress while maintaining stability and ensuring high-quality development.

2020 is the final year for the implementation of the 2018-2020 Strategic Planning and the year for planning the “14th Five-year Plan” period. At the meeting, Fang made arrangements for the following 10 major tasks that need to be completed in 2020: 1. Uphold the Party’s leadership and effectively give play to the political advantages; 2. Foster an environment for overseas market development; 3. Strengthen domestic market development and coordination between the domestic market and the overseas market; 4. Deepen resource integration and internal/external coordination; 5. Strengthen and improve internal management; 6. Advance the implementation of the scientific & technological support system; 7. Enhance the investment/financing management level and capital operation capabilities; 8. Increase the level and competence of HR support; 9. Focus on long-term development and make a plan for the “14th Five-year Plan” period; 10. Integrate into SINOMACH Engineering Group and seize new development opportunities.

Yu Bo made a report entitled “Guiding the High-quality Development of CMEC by Strengthening Party Leadership and Increasing the Quality of Party Building”, indicating that in 2019, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the CPC CMEC Committee under the leadership of the CPC SINOMACH Party Committee, fully implemented the guiding principles of the Party’s 19th National Congress as well as the second, third and fourth plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, fully implemented the general requirements for Party building in the new era, carried out educational activities under the theme of “Staying True to Our Founding Mission”, acted in line with the work arrangements made in the Party building work meeting for 2019, took enhancing the Party's political building as the overarching principle, effectively strengthened the leadership of the Party, and provided a strong guarantee for steady and all-around development of CMEC.

In 2020, under the leadership of the CPC SINOMACH Committee, Party organizations of CMEC at all levels will complete the following six tasks: 1. Strengthen the political leadership and lay a solid foundation for the reform and development of CMEC; 2. Strengthen the guidance by thought and lay a solid ideological foundation for the business development of CMEC; 3. Strengthen Party building, and enhance the capabilities of basic-level Party branches to organize and unite the people and the combat capabilities of such Party branches; 4. Strengthen organizational building and consolidate the foundation for talent reform and development of CMEC; 5. Strengthen the discipline and ensure leaders of the company are loyal to the Party, have moral integrity, and demonstrate a keen sense of responsibility; 6. Strengthen the development of cultural and people’s organizations, and ensure better development of CMEC in the future.

Wang Tianyi made a report entitled “Focus on the Main Business, Fully Strengthen Party Self-governance and Provide a Strong Guarantee for the High-quality Development of CMEC, summarizing the work of CMEC for improving Party conduct, promoting integrity and combating corruption in 2019 and made arrangements for the work of 2020.

In 2020, the Discipline Inspection Commission of CMEC made a work plan on the following eight aspects: 1. Take enhancing the Party's political building as the overarching principle, resolutely uphold General Secretary Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and resolutely uphold the Party Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership; 2. Earnestly perform its responsibility for assisting the Party Committee in work and strive to achieve effective results; 3. Continue to implement the CPC Central Committee's eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct and take actions against formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance; 4. Adhere to “Three Differences” and achieve better results in accountability for overseeing discipline compliance by conducting four forms of oversight over discipline compliance; 5. Continue to strengthen publicity and education about combating corruption and promoting integrity on the basis of the actual situation and focus on practical results; 6. Intensify efforts to address both the symptoms and root causes of corruption, take coordinated action to make employees not dare, not able, and not want to commit corruption; 7. Make disciplinary inspections and rectifications, and ensure that disciplinary inspections have cut like a blade through corruption and misconduct; 8. Set a higher standard for discipline inspectors and ensure they are loyal to the Party, have moral integrity, and demonstrate a keen sense of responsibility.

At the meeting, outstanding functional departments, business units and projects for 2019 were commended.

On the afternoon of the same day, the participants of the meeting made full and in-depth panel discussions about the business work report made by Fang, actively made suggestions on the high-quality development of CMEC in 2020, and summarized the suggestions at the brief meeting which was subsequently held..