The ongoing 16th CPC National Congress, which began on November 8,
is participated in by over 2,000 delegates representing 66 million
Party members. Women delegates account for 18 percent of the total.
Who are they? And what are they thinking about the Party's
important event? China.org.cn presents their stories in a series.
Chen Yanhua: A Woman Standing Firmly Against Corruption
As
deputy secretary of the CPC Ningbo City Committee, whose main
responsibility is discipline supervision and inspection, Chen
Yanhua was elected a delegate to the 16th
Party Congress.
After several corruption cases took place in Ningbo, Zhejiang
Province, negative public opinions spread in the city. Therefore,
in 1998, Chen Yanhua was appointed secretary of the Discipline
Inspection Committee of the CPC Ningbo City Committee. When probing
into corruption cases concerning leading officials, Chen found that
corruption usually started with accepting gifts or money. As there
was a lack of supervising mechanism in the personnel system, it was
difficult to curb corruption -- authorities at higher levels
finding it hard to deal with such an issue; colleagues of the same
unit feeling embarrassed; and those at lower levels having no way
to supervise their supervisors.
Under the support of the CPC Ningbo City Committee, the project of
Integrity Publication was launched. The enlarged session of the CPC
city committee held in 2001 added a new item to its agenda: all the
16 leading officials of the city had to report their own integrity
status (such as the use of official cars, housing, income,
financial situation of spouse and children), and then listen to
comments of the attendants. After Secretary Huang Xingguo took the
lead, 721 officials with the city government followed suit. A
department chief turned in lots of gift certificates and made
stricter regulations for himself and other people in his
department.
The Integrity Publication project strengthened the supervision
within the Party, while the 96178 Corruption Report Center
encouraged the supervision from the people. The public complaints
effectively curbed the phenomenon of illegal charge, illegal
apportion, rampant fining, etc. Last year, Chen and her colleagues
inspected 51 cases concerning officials failing to carry out their
responsibilities, and 41 persons were disciplined.
"Discipline inspection should follow the trend and stand in the
front line of reform," said Chen. Currently, with the improvement
of the city's supervision mechanism, a new pattern combining
supervision from the Party with that of the people and the media is
taking shape in Ningbo.
Lin Mingyue: A Delegate of Taiwan Origin
Born in Taiwan, Lin Mingyue has been working in the mainland for 22
years. "I am lucky to have witnessed a great era ever since I
returned to mother land," She said. Lin was very fond of Chinese
culture. In 1971, she went to Japan to study, together with her
husband and they left Japan for the united States in 1973. Inspired
by the "Message to Taiwan Compatriots" delivered by the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress on the New Year's Day
of 1979, the couple returned to Shanghai, taking with them their
six-year-old son, and began working with the Shanghai Harbor
Bureau.
In
the early 1980s, while computer technology had been universally
applied in advanced ports of other countries, Shanghai harbor is
still a virgin ground in this regard. As an expert of computer
sciences, Lin was determined to change the situation. Supported by
the bureau leaders, she selected Gaoyang Port as her experimental
spot to develop data systems for handling capacity statistics and
three other functions, making Gaoyang the first port in Shanghai
and the country to conduct computerized operation. Two years later,
the "Shanghai Gaoyang Production Management Information System" was
completed and put into operation in the port's 22 departments.
Through this system, more than 200 items were monitored on screen
and over 200 types of charts were printed. Its data system covered
75 percent of the port's operation, efficiently solving difficult
problems such as over-dated goods and waif goods while saving labor
force and storage space for the port. Her port management system
was evaluated as the first class of its kind applied in
international ports, and became a key project promoted by the
Ministry of Transportation. In 1985, Lin joined the Communist party
of China.
In
recent years, Lin has devoted herself to the information network
construction of Shanghai Port. This is a key step to build Shanghai
Port into a huge and modern international container hub. Now, 23
companies of the port have had their websites linked, which has
improved the management and enhanced the competitive of Shanghai
Port. The handling capacity of the international port has reached
6.4 million standard containers in 2001, four times of that in 1995
(1.52 million). Shanghai is currently the third biggest port in the
world.
Beside the delegate to the CPC 16th National Congress, Lin Mingyue
is also a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference, the executive commissioner of the All-China Women's
Federation, vise-president of All-China Taiwan Compatriots
Association and president of the Shanghai Taiwan Compatriots
Association. She has done a lot in promoting the exchanges between
the two sides across the straits; offering help to Taiwan youths
who are studying or working in the mainland; and showing concern
for senior people of Taiwan origin who live in the mainland. Lin is
highly acclaimed among the Taiwan compatriots.
Dong Weiping: A Bold and Honest Woman Entrepreneur
Dong Weiping, President of the Baida Group in Hangzhou, has been a
CPC member for 23 years. As an outstanding entrepreneur, she was
selected the delegate to the CPC 16th Congress.
Ten years ago, when Dong first took over the leading position, the
company was in a heavy debt of over 70 million yuan. Now, under her
management, the former department store has grown into a listed
incorporation with an annual profit of over 50 million yuan. Its
business scope has also expanded to cover tourism, restaurants,
hotels as well as foreign trade. With "Honesty and Trust" as their
motto, the employees of Baida all work one-hearted to realize the
slogan of "offering one hundred percent services to the
society."
Dong said that Baida owes its development to the timely seizing of
opportunities. In 1992, when Dong was appointed general manager of
Baida, she decided to transfer her company into an incorporation
instead of remaining as a state-owned company relying on
preferential policies. But it was hard for the employees to accept
the idea that they should become stock holders of their own
company, which was considered very risky for them. In order to win
the support, the CPC committee of the company organized seven
lectures to explain the new concept and the company's development
plan to the employees, who finally gave their full support. "Should
the Party Committee had not taken the initiative, we would have not
accomplish the task of convincing the employees in such a short
time. Neither could we have finally seized the important growth
opportunity." Dong said.
Dong believed that honesty and trust are as important as the
scientific management for an enterprise's development. The success
of her company, to a great degree, comes from the good services of
its more than 1,000 employees who believe in honesty and trust. By
the end of 2001, a total of 92. 32 million yuan had been made out
of the 68 million yuan of state investment in Baida, creating a
high capital-return rate of 39 percent.
(China.org.cn November 17, 2002)