Guangming Daily, Beijing, October 27 (Reporter Xiao Renfu) On the occasion of the 22nd Journalists' Day, the China Journalist Association released the list and amount of assistance for the 2021 China Journalist Assistance Project on the 27th, with a total of 57 journalists from 3 central news units, 49 local news units in 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, receiving a total of 1.85 million yuan in aid. This is the eighth consecutive year that the China Journalist Association has provided assistance to journalists who have lost their duties, are disabled or seriously ill in the performance of their journalistic duties.
This year's aid work has played a prominent guiding and leading role, paying attention to journalists who have strengthened the requirements of the "four forces," fulfilled their duties and missions, and made positive contributions to the party's news and public opinion cause. For example, Xu Zheng of Xinhua News Agency, Wang Xiaodong of Beijing Youth Daily, Wu Yuqing of Fujian Daily, and Wang Jianlong of Xinjiang Newspaper Media Group have been engaged in editorial checking work and have adhered to their night shift posts for more than 10 years; Huang Meijuan of Anhui Radio and Television Station, Shi Jian of Hunan XiangxiZhou Unity Newspaper, and Wang Shu of Yunnan Zhaotong Daily have long taken root in the grass-roots level, served the masses, and practiced excellent skills diligently and dedicatedly; yin Jieyu of Hainan Radio and Television General Station, Chen Wanjiu of Fuxin City Media Center in Liaoning, and Diao Mingkang of Sichuan Cover Media have been working hard in epidemic prevention and control, poverty alleviation, and so on. Journalists who shouldered their responsibilities and rushed to the front line in major theme propaganda and campaign reports such as flood prevention and disaster relief received assistance.
It is understood that since the establishment of the China Journalist Assistance Program in 2014, the China Journalist Association has distributed a total of 16.82 million yuan in assistance to 371 journalists who were killed, disabled or seriously ill in the performance of their journalistic duties by 214 central and local news units.
Guangming Daily (04/10/2021)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily