Tie Ning was re-elected chairman of the China Writers Association and chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles

According to the official WeChat public account of China Writers Network: On December 16, at the first plenary committee of the tenth session of the China Writers Association, Tie Ning was elected as the chairman of the China Writers Association.

According to the official WeChat public account of China Art News: On December 16, at the first plenary committee of the eleventh session of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Tie Ning was elected as the chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

On December 15, the second plenary session of the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association was held in Beijing. Tie Ning, chairman of the China Writers Association, presided over the meeting. (Source: China Writers Network)

According to public resumes, Tie Ning was born in Beijing in September 1957, his ancestral home is Zhao County, Hebei Province, and he was the chairman of the Hebei Writers Association and the vice chairman of the China Writers Association. In November 2006, she was elected president of the Chinese Writers Association, becoming the third president of the Writers Association after Mao Dun and Ba Jin.

In November 2011, Tie Ning was re-elected as the chairman of the China Writers Association. In December 2016, she was elected as the president of the China Writers Association for the third time, and also as the chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. This is the first time that a single person has concurrently served as the chairman of the China Writers Association and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Tie Ning was an alternate member of the 16th and 17th Central Committees, and a member of the 18th and 19th Central Committees.

According to the China Writers Network, Tie Ning began to publish literary works in 1975. His major works include 4 novels such as "Rose Gate", "Big Bath Girl", "Stupid Flower", etc., and more than 100 novels and parts such as "Oh, Fragrant Snow", "Twelfth Night", "Red Shirt Without Buttons", "Opposite", "How Far Is Forever", "Irina's Top Hat", etc., as well as more than 4 million words of essays and essays, etc., and more than 50 kinds of novels and essays have been published. In 1996, the 5-volume "Tie Ning Anthology" was published by Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, and in 2006, the 9-volume "Tie Ning Works Series" was published by the People's Literature Publishing House. In 2016, the collection of essays, "Eyes Filled with Tears as Ears," was published by Triptych Bookstore. The 2017 novel collection The Flying Winemaker was published by the People's Literature Publishing House. His works have won six national literary awards, including the "Lu Xun Literature Award", and more than 30 awards for novels and essays in major Chinese literary journals. The film "Oh, Xiangxue", written by him, won the grand prize of the 41st Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the "Golden Rooster Award" and "Hundred Flowers Award" of Chinese films. Some of his works have been translated into English, Russian, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Turkish, Thai and other languages. In May 2015, he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Lettres des Arts et des Arts et Des Beaux-Arts.

In December this year, Tie Ning said in an interview with Guangming Daily, "Literature and art are a basic way for people to understand and imagine the world, and in this new era, writers and artists especially bear a major responsibility, that is, to understand life, to understand the world, and to convey their understanding and ideals to the people, to enlighten and inspire people spiritually, to create a better life, and to promote social progress." ”

According to Xinhua News Agency, on the morning of December 14, the 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 10th National Congress of the China Writers Association opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the conference and delivered an important speech. Tie Ning, chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the China Writers Association, delivered an opening speech.

According to the China Writers Network, Tie Ning said in his opening speech that literature and art are the work of establishing the heart of the country and the soul of the nation, and cultural self-confidence is the deepest and most powerful foundation of a country and a nation. To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we need the great spirit of perseverance and perseverance, and we need literature and art to light up the lamp of courageous and resolute progress. We literary and art workers must bear in mind the two overall situations, be concerned about the greatness of the country, closely focus on the long-term goal of becoming a socialist cultural power and the grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, consciously shoulder the mission and task of raising the banner, gathering people's hearts, cultivating new talents, revitalizing culture, and displaying an image, adhere to the socialist core value system, strengthen a high degree of cultural self-confidence, and vividly display the historic achievements, historic changes, and accumulated fresh experience of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era with excellent literary and artistic works of both literary quality and beauty. Promote the common prosperity of the people's spiritual life, stimulate the unprecedented cohesion and centripetal force of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, consolidate the common ideological foundation for the unity and struggle of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and provide a strong ideological guarantee and a strong spiritual driving force for opening up a new situation in the cause of the party and the country in the new era.

Source: Xinhua News Agency, China Writers Network