11月24日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平出席全国劳动模范和先进工作者表彰大会并发表重要讲话。习近平强调，要大力弘扬劳模精神、劳动精神、工匠精神。

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for efforts to promote and encourage the spirit of model workers, the value of work, and the pursuit of fine workmanship. Xi made the remarks while delivering a speech at a gathering to honor model workers and exemplary individuals on November 24.

社会主义是干出来的，新时代是奋斗出来的。劳动模范是民族的精英、人民的楷模，是共和国的功臣。

Socialism was established through action, and the new era will be no different. Model workers are elites of the Chinese nation, role models for the people and heroes of the republic.

——2020年11月24日，习近平在全国劳动模范和先进工作者表彰大会上发表的重要讲话