Thankful Words from the Community-Based Anti-Drug Cadres in Guizhou Province Regarding the “Sunshine Project” (6)

Ding Xiangming: Provide policy support for the re-employment of the rehabilitated persons

(Han nationality, born in December 1964, member of Chinese Communist Party, full-time anti-drug cadre at the sub-district committee office of Beijing Road, Honghuagang District, Zunyi City. Ding Xiangming regarded the job placement of addicts as a breakthrough in anti-drug work, gave consideration to the personal strengths and family conditions of the drug addicts, contacted a number of enterprises in the area, and solved employment problem for a lot of drug addicts. Having been engaged in anti-drug work for more than ten years, Ding encountered cold-shoulders, survived fling abuses, received numerous grievances, but always firmly believed that the job is full of love and that he can make a difference in the anti-drug work and can help the drug addicts returning to society. Ding has repeatedly been honored as advanced individual of the provincial, municipal, and district anti-drug work.

Thankful words

I have been engaged in anti-drug work since 2000 and helped 22 addicts for job placement so that they can return to society. I have summarized the following reflections during my work. First, we should carry out humane admonition and show no discrimination towards addicts. We should follow the principles of “not giving up them in terms of ideology, not discriminating them in terms of emotion, not putting off responsibilities in work”, and earnestly safeguard the rights of drug addicts in the community so that they can feel the warmth from the party and the government and return to society in verity. Second, because many employers are picky in personnel recruitment, we should carry out coordination through multiple channels and strive for the participation of more functional departments and enterprises so as to broaden employment channels for drug addicts, unclog employment opportunities, improve employment environment, strengthen the construction of placement and admonition institutions and staff, and provide policy support for the re-employment of the rehabilitated persons.