Issued on 2002/7/5

The eighth session of the Zhejiang Federation of Industry & Commerce Congress came to a conclusion in Hangzhou after the agenda was successfully executed.

At the session, deputies examined and approved the work report on the seventh executive committee of Zhejiang Federation of Industry & Commerce and elected 134 executives to form the eighth executive committee for Zhejiang Federation of Industry & Commerce. At the first session of the executive committee, sixty were elected to form the standing committee. Wang Jianyi, president of Hangzhou Futong Group, was elected as vice president of Zhejiang Federation of Industry & Commerce. The congress called on local federations of the industry and commerce across Zhejiang and their members to stand closely behind the CPC central committee with Jiang Zemin at its core, uplift the great banner of Deng Xiaoping's theory, make great efforts to study the great thought of Three Representatives, emancipate the mind and work in the spirit of seeking truth from facts, make a turning point between past and future, and move forward with the time. The congress also called to work under the leadership of the CPC Zhejiang Committee and Zhejiang People's Government, enhance the sense of responsibility and sense of mission, give full play to the federation's advantages in business, people-to-people relation and united front work, follows the principle of serving the government, society and federation members, and make efforts to build the federation into a people-to-people group and chamber of commerce that is firm in politics, complete in organization, and that is down-to-earth and enterprising so as to make new contributions to the progress of Zhejiang's socialist modernization drive and greeting for the successful opening of the 16th CPC congress with unique achievements.

Li Qing, vice president of Zhejiang CPPCC and director of Zhejiang United Front Work Department, CPC, addressed the meeting at the closing ceremony. Xu Juguan, President of Zhejiang Federation of Industry & Commerce made the closing speech.