---On the morning of 23rd January, 
                        the 2011 New-Year-Talk for Retired Staff was held. HRC 
                        leaders and all the retired HRC staff attended the symposium 
                        which was presided over by Deputy Secretary of HRC's CPC 
                        Committee Mr. Xie Yiming. 
                         Director of HRC Ms. Cheng made a report 
                        to the participants from the perspectives of scientific 
                        researches and work concerning public welfare, international 
                        cooperation and exchange, industrial scale and economic 
                        growth, internal management and logistics, party building 
                        and promotion of cultural and ideological progress, and 
                        the working plan for 2011 was also announced. 
                        
                           Mr. Xie notified the expenditures made 
                        on retirees in 2010 and the allotment of year-end bonus. 
                        He claimed that HRC would continue to care for the working, 
                        studying and living conditions of the retired staff in 
                        the future and make constant improvement on such aspects.
                         After listening to the reports, former 
                        leaders of HRC Mr. Zhu Xiaozhang, Mr. Zheng Naibo, Mr. 
                        Shen Lunzhang and others fully recognized the achievements 
                        made by HRC under the new team of leadership, particularly 
                        the Twelfth Five-year Plan under formulation. They gave 
                        applause to HRC's CPC Committee for strictly implementing 
                        of the national policy concerning retired staff and they 
                        declared that they would give full support to HRC's work.
                        
                           After the talk, all the HRC leaders 
                        and retired staff attended the 2011 New Year Ceremony 
                        for Retired Staff in HRC's Ruidi Hotel. During the ceremony, 
                        on behalf of National Research Institute for Rural Electrification/HRC 
                        and the CPC committee of HRC, Director Cheng gave a passionate 
                        speech and wished all the retirees a happy new year and 
                        good health. HRC leaders, retired and young staff of HRC 
                        jointly gave colorful and wonderful performances. (2011-01-28) 
                      
                      
                      
                      