A Profound Understanding of the Distinctive Characteristics of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Discourse on the Working Class and Trade Union Work

At the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and commending national model workers and advanced workers, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, emphasizing: “The 20th National Congress of the CPC clarified the central task of comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. This central task is the theme of the era for our country’s workers’ movement.” Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important discourses on the working class and trade union work, putting forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies. These have profoundly answered directional, fundamental, and strategic questions such as why the working class should be relied upon wholeheartedly in the New Era, how to rely on the working class wholeheartedly, what kind of trade unions to build, and how to build trade unions. They have further enriched and developed Marxist theory on the workers’ movement, possessing distinctive characteristics, providing a fundamental guide for the development of the Party’s workers’ movement cause and the conduct of trade union work in the New Era, promoting historic achievements and all-round progress in the Party’s workers’ movement cause. This is of great significance for the innovative development of the workers’ movement cause and trade union work in the New Era, and for uniting and mobilizing hundreds of millions of workers to contribute their wisdom and strength to comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

在庆祝中华全国总工会成立100周年暨全国劳动模范和先进工作者表彰大会上，习近平总书记发表重要讲话，强调：“党的二十大明确了以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的中心任务。这一中心任务，就是我国工人运动的时代主题。”党的十八大以来，习近平总书记就工人阶级和工会工作作出一系列重要论述，提出一系列新理念新思想新战略，深刻回答了新时代为什么要全心全意依靠工人阶级、怎样全心全意依靠工人阶级，建设什么样的工会、怎样建设工会等方向性、根本性、战略性问题，进一步丰富和发展了马克思主义工运理论，具有鲜明特性，为新时代党的工运事业发展和做好工会工作提供了根本遵循，推动党的工运事业取得历史性成就、实现全方位进步，对于新时代工运事业和工会工作创新发展，团结动员亿万职工为全面建设社会主义现代化国家、全面推进中华民族伟大复兴贡献智慧和力量，具有十分重要的意义。

Manifesting the Theoretical Character of Upholding Fundamental Principles and Breaking New Ground

彰显守正创新的理论品格

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “The theoretical innovation we promote is theoretical innovation on the basis of practice, not utopian speculation sitting in an ivory tower. We must insist on discovering truth in practice, developing truth, using practice to realize truth, and testing truth.” Advancing Chinese-path modernization is an unprecedented pioneering undertaking. Contemporary China is experiencing the most extensive and profound social changes in its history, and is carrying out the most grand and unique practical innovation in human history. This is an era that needs theory and can certainly produce theory, an era that needs thought and can certainly produce thought. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, China’s trade union work has upheld fundamental principles and broken new ground. Trade unions at all levels have closely focused on the central tasks of the Party in the New Era and the new journey, uniting and mobilizing China’s working class to keep pace with the Party’s steps and march at the forefront of the times, composing a magnificent chapter in China’s workers’ movement. The development of practice calls for theoretical innovation, and innovative theory guides the advance of the times. New practices and new developments provide powerful impetus and broad space for innovating Marxist theory on the workers’ movement.

习近平总书记强调：“我们推进理论创新是实践基础上的理论创新，而不是坐在象牙塔内的空想，必须坚持在实践中发现真理、发展真理，用实践来实现真理、检验真理。”推进中国式现代化是一项前无古人的开创性事业，当代中国正经历着我国历史上最为广泛而深刻的社会变革，正在进行着人类历史上最为宏大而独特的实践创新。这是一个需要理论而且一定能够产生理论的时代，这是一个需要思想而且一定能够产生思想的时代。党的十八大以来，在以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚强领导下，我国工会工作守正创新，各级工会紧紧围绕新时代新征程党的中心任务，团结动员我国工人阶级紧跟党的步伐、走在时代前列，谱写了我国工人运动的壮丽篇章。实践发展呼唤理论创新，创新理论指引时代前行。新的实践和新的发展，为创新马克思主义工运理论提供了强大动力和广阔空间。

Engels pointed out: “Every new insight into a science implies a revolution in the terminology of that science.” [1]1 Friedrich Engels, “Preface to the Second Edition of Capital, Volume I,” in Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work both adheres to the basic principles of Marxism and keeps pace with the times, conforms to the requirements of development, continuously expands the breadth and depth of understanding, dares to speak new words that predecessors have not spoken, and constantly guides new practice with new theory. For example: upholding the Party’s overall leadership over the workers’ movement cause and trade union work; strengthening the ideological and political guidance of workers; advancing the reform of the industrial worker contingent; maintaining political security in the labor field; deepening the reform of the trade union system; promoting trade union organizations and trade union work to continuously enhance their vitality in upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground; building a knowledge-based, skilled, and innovative workforce; vigorously promoting the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and the spirit of craftsmanship; fostering a social trend of honoring labor and a professional ethos of striving for excellence; and so on. This series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies stands at the forefront of the development of the times, profoundly summarizing the valuable experience of more than a hundred years of the Party leading the workers’ movement cause and trade union work. It manifests the theoretical character of Marxist theory on the workers’ movement advancing with the times, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and has become an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

恩格斯指出：“一门科学提出的每一种新见解都包含这门科学的术语的革命。”习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述，既坚持马克思主义基本原理，又紧跟时代步伐、顺应发展要求，不断拓展认识的广度和深度，敢于说前人没有说过的新话，不断以新的理论指导新的实践。比如，坚持党对工运事业和工会工作的全面领导，加强职工思想政治引领，推进产业工人队伍建设改革，维护劳动领域政治安全，深化工会系统改革，推动工会组织和工会工作在守正创新中不断增强生机活力，建设知识型、技能型、创新型劳动者大军，大力弘扬劳模精神、劳动精神、工匠精神，营造劳动光荣的社会风尚和精益求精的敬业风气，等等。这一系列新理念新思想新战略站在时代发展最前沿，对百余年来党领导工运事业和工会工作宝贵经验进行深刻总结，彰显了马克思主义工运理论与时俱进、守正创新的理论品格，成为习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的重要组成部分。

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The vitality of theory lies in continuous innovation. Promoting the continuous development of Marxism is the sacred duty of Chinese Communists.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work connects history, reality, and the future. It profoundly elucidates the scientific connotation and practical requirements of the socialist trade union development path with Chinese characteristics—the most important achievement of theoretical innovation and practical development in the Party’s workers’ movement cause. It succinctly summarizes the valuable experience of the “Six Upholds,” [2]2 The “Six Upholds” (六个坚持) refer to a set of principles for trade union work, including upholding the Party’s leadership, upholding the principal position of workers, upholding serving workers, upholding the rule of law, upholding reform and innovation, and upholding the mass line. further deepening our Party’s understanding of the laws governing the conduct of the workers’ movement cause and trade union work. It not only better guides our country’s workers’ movement cause and trade union work in the New Era, but also provides solid theoretical support and injects powerful spiritual impetus for uniting and mobilizing the broad masses of workers to be confident and self-reliant, and to bravely shoulder heavy burdens in the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era. To further mobilize and inspire China’s working class and the broad masses of working people to forge ahead on the new journey and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization, it is necessary to profoundly understand the theoretical character of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground in General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work. We must continuously enhance the political, ideological, and action consciousness of arming the mind, guiding practice, and promoting work with the Party’s innovative theory, and better manifest the powerful truth force and practical power of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work.

习近平总书记指出：“理论的生命力在于不断创新，推动马克思主义不断发展是中国共产党人的神圣职责。”习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述贯通历史、现实和未来，深刻阐明中国特色社会主义工会发展道路这一党的工运事业理论创新和实践发展最重要成果的科学内涵、实践要求，精辟概括“六个坚持”的宝贵经验，进一步深化了我们党对做好工运事业和工会工作的规律性认识，不仅能更好指导新时代我国工运事业和工会工作，而且为团结动员广大职工群众在新时代中国特色社会主义伟大实践中自信自强、勇挑重担提供坚实理论支撑、注入强大精神动力。进一步动员激励我国工人阶级和广大劳动群众奋进新征程、建功新时代，为以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业作出新的更大贡献，必须深刻认识习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述守正创新的理论品格，不断增强以党的创新理论武装头脑、指导实践、推动工作的政治自觉、思想自觉、行动自觉，更好彰显习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述的强大真理力量和实践伟力。

Embodying the Fundamental Pathway of the Two Integrations

体现“两个结合”的根本途径

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “To develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the deep foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture is the only way.” The Two Integrations are not only the law-based understanding we have derived in exploring the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, but also the fundamental pathway for adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. An important reason why General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work can be continuously enriched and developed, thereby continuously pushing forward practical innovation in theoretical innovation, is that it consistently adheres to integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with the concrete realities of China’s workers’ movement and with the best of traditional Chinese culture.

习近平总书记指出：“在五千多年中华文明深厚基础上开辟和发展中国特色社会主义，把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际、同中华优秀传统文化相结合是必由之路。”“两个结合”不仅是我们在探索中国特色社会主义道路中得出的规律性认识，也是推进马克思主义中国化时代化的根本途径。习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述之所以能够不断丰富和发展，从而在理论创新中不断把实践创新推向前进，一个重要原因就是始终坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中国工人运动具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合。

Integration with the concrete realities of China’s workers’ movement. Marxism profoundly reveals the universal laws of development of nature, human society, and human thought; reveals the essence, internal connections, and laws of development of things; is a “great tool of understanding”; is a powerful ideological weapon for us to observe the world and analyze problems; and provides us with a scientific worldview and methodology for “interpreting the world.” At the same time, Marxism has a distinct practical character. It is not only committed to scientifically “interpreting the world,” but also to actively “changing the world.” It is the fundamental guiding ideology for our Party to establish the Party and the country, and to rejuvenate the Party and the country. Engels pointed out: “Marx’s whole conception of the world is not a doctrine, but a method. It provides not ready-made dogmas, but points of departure for further research and the method for this research.” [3]3 Friedrich Engels, letter to Werner Sombart, March 11, 1895. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out: “Any thought, if it is not connected with objective and actual things, if there is no objective need for it, and if it is not grasped by the masses of the people, even if it is the best thing, even if it is Marxism-Leninism, it will be ineffective.” [4]4 Mao Zedong, “On Coalition Government” (1945). General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work insists on using Marxism to observe the times, grasp the times, and lead the times; insists on using dialectical materialism and historical materialism to correctly answer major questions in the practice of China’s workers’ movement cause; and proposes correct ideas and effective methods to solve problems. In many aspects, such as deepening trade union reform and construction, serving workers wholeheartedly, and promoting the all-round development of workers, it has put forward many new and major viewpoints. It has enriched and developed Marxist theory on the workers’ movement as a whole, not partially, and systematically, not fragmentarily, promoting Marxist theory on the workers’ movement to be presented to the world in a new image.

同中国工人运动具体实际相结合。马克思主义深刻揭示了自然界、人类社会、人类思维发展的普遍规律，揭示了事物的本质、内在联系及发展规律，是“伟大的认识工具”，是我们观察世界、分析问题的有力思想武器，为我们“解释世界”提供了科学的世界观、方法论。同时，马克思主义具有鲜明的实践品格，不仅致力于科学“解释世界”，而且致力于积极“改变世界”，是我们立党立国、兴党兴国的根本指导思想。恩格斯指出：“马克思的整个世界观不是教义，而是方法。它提供的不是现成的教条，而是进一步研究的出发点和供这种研究使用的方法。”毛泽东同志指出：“任何思想，如果不和客观的实际的事物相联系，如果没有客观存在的需要，如果不为人民群众所掌握，即使是最好的东西，即使是马克思列宁主义，也是不起作用的。”习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述坚持用马克思主义观察时代、把握时代、引领时代，坚持运用辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义正确回答中国工运事业实践中的重大问题，并提出解决问题的正确思路和有效办法，在深化工会改革和建设、竭诚服务职工群众、促进职工全面发展等众多方面提出了许多新的重大观点，对马克思主义工运理论作出了整体的而不是局部的、系统的而不是零散的丰富发展，推动马克思主义工运理论以崭新形象展现于世。

Integration with fine traditional Chinese culture. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out: “We are Marxist historicists; we should not cut off history. From Confucius to Sun Yat-sen, we should sum it up and inherit this precious legacy.” [1]1 Friedrich Engels, “Preface to the Second Edition of Capital, Volume I,” in Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I. The major proposition of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times itself determines that we must never discard the soul of Marxism, nor must we discard the root of fine traditional Chinese culture. Upholding this soul and root is the foundation and prerequisite for theoretical innovation. Fine traditional Chinese culture is broad and profound, providing inexhaustible cultural resources for advancing theoretical innovation. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work is rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese culture, insists on integrating the essence of Marxist thought with the cream of fine traditional Chinese culture and connecting it with the common values that the people use daily without conscious awareness. It is adept at seeking the living source of theoretical innovation from the rich philosophical thought, humanistic spirit, value concepts, and moral norms contained in fine traditional Chinese culture, such as “Achievements are attained through ambition, and undertakings are accomplished through diligence,” [2]2 The “Six Upholds” (六个坚持) refer to a set of principles for trade union work, including upholding the Party’s leadership, upholding the principal position of workers, upholding serving workers, upholding the rule of law, upholding reform and innovation, and upholding the mass line. “The people’s livelihood depends on diligence; with diligence, there is no scarcity,” [3]3 Friedrich Engels, letter to Werner Sombart, March 11, 1895. and “As cutting and polishing, as carving and grinding,” [4]4 Mao Zedong, “On Coalition Government” (1945). thereby expanding the cultural foundation of Marxist theory on the labor movement and endowing the development path of trade unions under socialism with Chinese characteristics with a broader and deeper historical dimension. With the profound insight, keen judgment, and theoretical creativity of a Marxist statesman, thinker, and strategist, General Secretary Xi Jinping deeply grasps the Two Integrations, especially the Second Integration, enriches the cultural life of Marxist theory on the labor movement with fine traditional Chinese culture, promotes the continuous realization of new leaps in adapting Marxist theory on the labor movement to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and displays an increasingly distinct Chinese style and Chinese manner.

同中华优秀传统文化相结合。毛泽东同志指出：“我们是马克思主义的历史主义者，我们不应当割断历史。从孔夫子到孙中山，我们应当给以总结，承继这一份珍贵的遗产。”马克思主义中国化时代化这个重大命题本身就决定，我们决不能抛弃马克思主义这个魂脉，决不能抛弃中华优秀传统文化这个根脉。坚守好这个魂和根，是理论创新的基础和前提。中华优秀传统文化博大精深，为推动理论创新提供了取之不尽的文化资源。习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述扎根中华文化沃土，坚持把马克思主义思想精髓同中华优秀传统文化精华贯通起来、同人民群众日用而不觉的共同价值观念融通起来，善于从“功崇惟志，业广惟勤”“民生在勤，勤则不匮”“如切如磋，如琢如磨”等中华优秀传统文化蕴含的丰富哲学思想、人文精神、价值理念、道德规范中寻找理论创新的源头活水，拓展了马克思主义工运理论的文化根基，使中国特色社会主义工会发展道路有了更加宏阔深远的历史纵深。习近平总书记以马克思主义政治家、思想家、战略家的深刻洞察力、敏锐判断力、理论创造力深刻把握“两个结合”特别是“第二个结合”，以中华优秀传统文化充实马克思主义工运理论的文化生命，推动马克思主义工运理论不断实现中国化时代化的新飞跃，显示出日益鲜明的中国风格与中国气派。

Highlighting the practice-oriented approach to promoting development

突出推动发展的实践导向

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Our modernization is both the most difficult and the greatest. From this perspective, relying closely on the working class is indispensable.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work not only scientifically grasps the relationship between upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and between the soul and the root, but also connects the “substance” and the “function.” On the level of “substance,” it explores laws and understands essence; on the level of “function,” it strengthens problem orientation and practice orientation. It includes both innovations and breakthroughs in Marxist theoretical viewpoints on the labor movement and strategic deployments and practical requirements for the cause of the labor movement and trade union work, clarifying the roadmap and task book for the cause of the labor movement and trade union work. The “unity of substance and function” and “substance is precisely function” make theoretical innovation and practical development complement and enhance each other, profoundly embodying the distinctive practical character of Marxism, and pointing the way forward for motivating the broad masses of workers and staff to forge ahead with the attitude of strivers at the new historical starting point.

习近平总书记指出：“我们的现代化既是最难的，也是最伟大的。从这个角度看，紧紧依靠工人阶级是必不可少的”。习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述不仅科学把握守正与创新、魂脉和根脉的关系，而且贯通“体”和“用”，既在“体”的层面探索规律、认识本质，又在“用”的层面强化问题导向、实践导向，既有对马克思主义工运理论观点的创新和突破，又有对工运事业和工会工作的战略部署、实践要求，明确了工运事业和工会工作的路线图和任务书。“体用合一”“即体即用”，使理论创新和实践发展相辅相成、相得益彰，深刻体现了马克思主义的鲜明实践性，为在新的历史起点上推动广大职工群众以奋斗者姿态砥砺奋进指明了前进方向。

Gathering the mighty force of the working class. Advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-path modernization has an infinitely bright prospect, but the road ahead will not be smooth sailing. From overcoming “bottleneck” core key technologies and accelerating the achievement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, to accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system and promoting industries to move toward the mid-to-high end of the global value chain, and then to coordinating domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles, using the certainty of high-quality development to respond to the uncertainty of drastic changes in the external environment—without the working class playing the role of the main force through hard work, honest work, and creative work, it is very difficult to achieve. This requires gathering the infinite wisdom and strength contained in the working class and stimulating the creativity and innovation vitality of the whole society. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work makes original contributions to answering the major theoretical and practical question of how to fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of hundreds of millions of workers and staff to unite and strive for Chinese-path modernization. It emphasizes focusing on promoting high-quality development, mobilizing and encouraging the vast numbers of workers and working people to make contributions and innovate; it calls for adapting to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation to comprehensively improve the quality of the workforce; it advocates deeply practicing the core socialist values and vigorously promoting the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and the spirit of craftsmanship; it aims at advancing common prosperity and steadily improving the well-being of the vast numbers of workers and working people. We must, through concrete actions, study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work, effectively unite the working class more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi

汇聚工人阶级的磅礴力量。以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业，前景无比光明，但前路不会一帆风顺。从攻克“卡脖子”关键核心技术，加快实现高水平科技自立自强，到加快建设现代化产业体系，推动产业向全球价值链中高端迈进，再到统筹国内经济工作和国际经贸斗争，以高质量发展的确定性应对外部环境急剧变化的不确定性，没有工人阶级通过辛勤劳动、诚实劳动、创造性劳动发挥主力军作用，是很难实现的。这就必须把蕴藏在工人阶级中的无穷智慧和力量凝聚起来，激发全社会创新创造活力。习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述对解答如何充分调动亿万职工群众的积极性、主动性、创造性，为中国式现代化建设而团结奋斗这一重大理论和实践课题作出原创性贡献，强调要聚焦推动高质量发展，动员激励广大职工和劳动群众建功立业、创新创造；要顺应新一轮科技革命和产业变革，全面提升劳动者素质；要深入践行社会主义核心价值观，大力弘扬劳模精神、劳动精神、工匠精神；要着眼推进共同富裕，稳步增进广大职工和劳动群众福祉。我们必须以实际行动学习好、贯彻好习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述，切实把工人阶级更加紧密地团结在以习近平同志为核心的党中央周围，脚踏实地、奋发进取、拼搏奉献，用创造拥抱新时代，以奋斗铸就新辉煌。

Promote high-quality development of trade union work. China’s trade unions are the bridges and bonds linking the Party with the masses of workers, are important social pillars of the socialist state power, and are the representatives and defenders of workers’ interests. Our Party has always attached great importance to the role of China’s working class and trade union organizations, leading the workers’ movement from one victory to new victories. Under the new circumstances, trade union work can only be strengthened, not weakened; it can only be improved and elevated, not stagnated. With the in-depth development of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the employment patterns of laborers have become more diverse, and the composition of the working class is constantly evolving. How to promote high-quality development of trade union work and better play the role of bridges and bonds linking the Party with the masses of workers has become an urgent practical issue we must address. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the working class and trade union work, personally planning and guiding the reform of the industrial workforce building and trade union reform, delivering a series of important speeches and issuing a series of important instructions, steering and setting the direction for the workers’ movement and trade union work, forming General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work. These important discourses emphasize the need to adhere to the correct political direction, closely unite the broad masses of workers and working people around the Party; to adhere to a people-centered work orientation, sincerely serve the masses of workers and promote their all-round development; to deepen trade union reform and construction, continuously enhance leading capacity, organizational capacity, and service capacity, making original contributions to promoting high-quality development of trade union work.

推动工会工作高质量发展。我国工会是党联系职工群众的桥梁和纽带，是社会主义国家政权的重要社会支柱，是职工利益的代表者和维护者。我们党历来高度重视我国工人阶级和工会组织的作用，领导工运事业不断从胜利走向新的胜利。新形势下，工会工作只能加强，不能削弱；只能改进提高，不能停滞不前。随着新一轮科技革命和产业变革深入发展，劳动者就业形态更加多样，工人阶级队伍构成不断发展变化。如何推动工会工作高质量发展，更好发挥党联系职工群众的桥梁和纽带作用，成为我们必须回答的紧迫实践课题。习近平总书记高度重视工人阶级和工会工作，亲自谋划指导产业工人队伍建设改革和工会改革，发表一系列重要讲话、作出一系列重要指示，为工运事业和工会工作领航掌舵、把关定向，形成习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述。这些重要论述强调要坚持正确政治方向，把广大职工和劳动群众紧紧团结在党的周围；要坚持以职工为中心的工作导向，竭诚服务职工群众、促进职工全面发展；要深化工会改革和建设，不断增强引领力、组织力、服务力，对推动工会工作高质量发展作出原创性贡献。

On the new journey, we must adhere to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the working class and trade union work as the fundamental guidance, raise our political stance, firmly grasp the era theme of China’s workers’ movement, consciously use the spirit of reform to plan and advance trade union work, innovate organizational systems, operational mechanisms, activity methods, and working approaches, push trade union work to a new level, ensure that trade union work always finds the right direction around the Party’s central tasks and better serves the overall situation of advancing Chinese-path modernization.

新征程上，必须坚持以习近平总书记关于工人阶级和工会工作的重要论述为根本遵循，提高政治站位，牢牢把握我国工人运动的时代主题，自觉运用改革精神谋划推进工会工作，创新组织体制、运行机制、活动方式、工作方法，推动工会工作再上新台阶，使工会工作始终围绕党的中心任务找准方向、更好地服务推进中国式现代化的大局。

(The author is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Beijing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center)

（作者为北京市习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心特约研究员）

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