On March 7, the 8th Congress of Returned Overseas Chinese and Their Family Members of Hongkou District was held. Qi Quansheng, Party Chief and Chair of Party Group of the Shanghai Federation of Overseas Chinese, attended and delivered a speech. Other attendees included Lu Ming, Deputy District Party Chief and District Governor, Zhu Qinhao, director of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, Shi Baozhen, Chair of the Hongkou District CPPCC, Du Songquan, Deputy District Party Chief, and Zheng Hong, Standing Member of the District Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department.

At the opening meeting, Qi Quansheng, on behalf of the Shanghai Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, affirmed the work of the Hongkou District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. Over the past five years, the district federation has, based on the purpose of "people-oriented and serving returned overseas Chinese", promoted returned overseas Chinese construction through Party construction, strengthened grass-roots construction, and explored the connotation of "three places of cultures", namely, the birthplace of Shanghai style culture, the birthplace of advanced culture, and the gathering place of cultural celebrities, thus making contributions to the economic and social development of Hongkou District. He stressed that the District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese should adhere to the correct political direction and integrate the wisdom and strength of the vast number of returned overseas Chinese and their families into the mission and tasks set by the 20th CPC National Congress. We should give full play to the advantages of high-level talents and technology gathering in the returned overseas Chinese community, and take the development and construction of the North Bund as an opportunity to tell at home and abroad the stories of returned overseas Chinese related to Hongkou, Shanghai and China. We should adhere to the working principle of attaching equal importance to both old and new returned overseas Chinese, and to both domestic and overseas Chinese, establish a contact mechanism among grassroots returned overseas Chinese associations and overseas Chinese associations and care about the returned overseas Chinese and their families, and do a better job in returned overseas Chinese affairs.

On behalf of the District Party Committee, Du Songquan expressed warm congratulations on the convening of the congress. He pointed out that the vast number of returned overseas Chinese and their families and overseas Chinese are valuable forces and resources to promote reform, development and social progress; besides, the organizations of the federations of returned overseas Chinese at all levels are important bridges and ties between the Party and the government and the vast number of returned overseas Chinese and their families and overseas Chinese. Standing at a new starting point, we hope that the District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese will unite the masses of the returned overseas Chinese community around the Party, lead the representatives of the returned overseas Chinese community to participate in the reform and make suggestions, so as to promote the innovative development of the cause of the federation in the new era. We also hope that the federation will establish the working concept of "Greater United Front and Greater Returned Overseas Chinese Affairs", study and solve the major problems and practical difficulties of the returned overseas Chinese federation organizations in the reform and development, support the grass-roots organizations to carry out their work in accordance with the laws and regulations, and earnestly demonstrate the political, progressiveness and mass nature of the returned overseas Chinese federations.

At the congress, the work report of the 7th Committee of the Hongkou District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese was heard and discussed.

Fan Chunyan, Vice Chair of the Hongkou District CPPCC and Chief Member of the Hongkou District Committee of the Zhigong Party, delivered a congratulatory message to the congress on behalf of the district committees of the democratic parties, the Hongkou District Federation of Industry and Commerce and relevant people's organizations.

The congress elected the members of the 8th Committee of Hongkou District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and 55 comrades including Yao Jian were elected as members. At the 1st session of the 8th meeting of the Hongkou District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the chair, vice-chair and standing members of the federation were elected.

At the closing meeting, Zheng Hong, on behalf of the Hongkou District Party Committee, expressed warm congratulations on the success of the congress and the new leadership of the federation. It is expected that the new federation will focus on ideological guidance, deepen theoretical armed forces, consolidate the achievements of group reform, and seize the correct political direction. It should take the whole situation into account with an international vision and an open mind, pay attention to the construction of talents at all levels, and broaden the channels for returned overseas Chinese to offer advice and suggestions. It should focus on the needs of the returned overseas Chinese, explore new ways and measures to serve them, and advance the cause of the federation in a broader field, at a higher and deeper level.

The resolutions of the 8th Hongkou District Returned Overseas Chinese and Family Members' Congress were approved and a letter of respect to the 7th Committee of the Hongkou District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese was read. Besides, all members of the 7th committee were thanked for their contributions to the development of the cause of the federation.

More than 120 representatives of returned overseas Chinese and their family members attended the congress.