Workers called on to boost innovation

The nation's workers were called on to implement the spirit of the Party's 19th National Congress and improve their work skills at a session attended by President Xi Jinping on Monday.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the opening session of the 17th National Congress of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions held in Beijing.

The working class should hold fast to their ideals and faith, give full play to their enthusiasm, advance reforms and innovations, and improve their work skills, said Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.