On the afternoon of March 23, Wei Zhaohui, deputy secretary of Huaihua Municipal Party Committee and mayor of Huaihua Municipal Government, presided over a standing meeting of the municipal government. The meeting focused on thoroughly studying and implementing the spirit of an important article recently composed by general secretary Xi Jinping, conveying and studying relevant meetings at the national and provincial levels, and researching and deploying audit rectification and so on.
Wei pointed out in the meeting that president Xi Jinping's important article "Promoting High-Quality Development of the Marine Economy" published in Qiushi magazine provides fundamental guidance for inland regions to advance open development toward the sea and achieve high-quality growth. It is essential to adhere to the principle of using openness to drive reform, development, and transformation by focusing on the core role of Huaihua International Land Port, continuously strengthening foundational support, promoting comprehensive connectivity between main and branch ports while fostering coordinated logistics resource integration across the city, and accelerating the construction of "AI Land Ports." Therefore, efforts should be paid to steadily expand institutional openness, actively explore differentiated and distinctive institutional innovations, deepen regional collaboration, improve closely integrated cooperation mechanisms, cultivate and expand export-oriented industries, and vigorously implement programs to nurture export enterprises, so as to promote the sustained and healthy development of port-linked industries.
Wei listened to the audit rectification report of the city in 2025 and then emphasized the need to improve political standing, consolidate rectification responsibilities, and solidly promote audit rectification in accordance with the requirements for rectification and cancellation. She added that attention must be paid to strengthen collaboration between different departments, persist in treating both the symptoms and root causes, and consolidate the results of rectification, so as to ensure that the effectiveness of rectification can withstand practical experience and public scrutiny.
In the meeting, Wei conveyed the spirit of the 2026 National Business Work Conference and Hunan Provincial Conference on Promoting the Construction of Reform and Opening up Heights in Inland Areas, and reviewed the "Overall Plan for the 2026 Hunan (Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Investment Matchmaking Activities (Draft for Review)" and the "Overall Plan for the Fifth Meeting of the Office of the Joint Conference on Inter-provincial Consultation and Cooperation of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor (Draft for Review)". Then, Wei stressed that great efforts should be made to promote stable and high-quality foreign trade by continuously strengthening the “driving force” of foreign trade, deepen consumption boosting actions by accelerating the construction of a regional consumption center, and carefully build the RCEP economic and trade cooperation brand by planing and implementing a number of "small but profitable" docking activities, so as to deeply integrate Huaihua into the construction of the New Western Land Sea Corridor and further enhance the popularity and influence of this city.
In the meeting, Wei conveyed the spirit of the first plenary session of Directors of Hunan Letters and Complaints Bureau and the joint conference on Hunan Letters and Complaints in 2026. She underscored that the need to adhere to the value orientation of protecting people’s interests by conscientiously handling letters and complaints from the masses, making efforts to tackle and resolve their complaints, strengthening source governance, so as to deeply promote the rule of law in the settlement of their letters and complaints. In addition, we must strengthen our work responsibilities, strictly implement the "321" work mechanism of Hunan Provincial Party Committee, and effectively solve difficult and complex problems across fields and departments.
In the meeting, Wei conveyed the spirit of Hunan Provincial Conference on Cultural Tourism, Radio and Television, Sports, and Cultural Relics in 2026. She pointed out that it is necessary to deeply study and implement president Xi Jinping’s cultural ideas, conscientiously achieve the goal of the Provincial Tourism Development Conference, continuously deepen the protection, inheritance and utilization of cultural relics, fully improve the level of public cultural services, so as to ensure that all tasks of the conference are implemented effectively.
In the meeting, Wei conveyed the spirit of the National Science and Technology Work Conference of 2026 and that of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Work Conference and the Conference on Promoting the Construction of Science and Technology Innovation Heights. She emphasized the need to attach great importance to scientific and technological innovation, enhance the level of scientific and technological innovation platforms, strengthen the tackling of technological bottlenecks, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, so as to empower industrial, economic and social development with scientific and technological innovation.
Some other matters were also discussed in the meeting.
(Translated by Chen Min)