December 20 witnessed the grand opening of National Spiritual Civilization Awarding Ceremony in Beijing. 27 cities were awarded National Civilized Cities, 899 villages won National Civilized Villagers and 1794 units were honored National Civilized Units. YRPG (headquarters) was awarded National Civilized Unit in the third Group. This was the first time for YRPG to be honored, and was a landmark in its history.
Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Director of the Spiritual Civilization Development Steering Commission,delivered a speech. He stressed that we should comprehend the spirit of the seventeenth session of the Sixth Plenary Session; we should grasp the opportunity, move with the time and apply the targets, policies and deployment into the practice of spiritual civilization, thus lay a solid foundation for the construction of a comprehensive moderately prosperous society in thought, spirit, popular support and culture. Liu Yandong, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, announced the resolution on the third awarding of National Civilized Cities, Civilized Townes and Civilized Units. Liu Yunshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, presided the conference.
YRPG has long been attaching profound importance to civilization establishment, and deeming cultural and ideological progress as the motive for the sound and fast development of the group. The Party Committee puts spiritual civilization in the agenda and takes the following measurements:

• Forming a long-term mechanism with accountability step by step under the measurements of spiritual civilization
• Integrating civilization with production and operation, the work of the labor union and league with the improvement of the overall quality of the employees
• Disseminating basic moral norms, civic morality, professional ethics and family virtues via Yangtze River News, internet and bulletin boards and so on
• Understanding the employees and encouraging their participation in two civilizations by the establishment of reasonable advisory platform as well as proposals and forums of the employee representatives
• Focusing on the employee's ideological and political education, offering education and guidance and caring the employees in their life, which contribute to the harmony and stability of the group

Besides, the group fulfilled its due responsibilities as an outstanding enterprise in the establishment of a civilized city, join surban-and-rural, social voluntary services as well as the concerns on ideological and moral education for the disadvantaged social groups. The spiritual civilization of the group has made great achievements for recent years with awards such as Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province, Civilized Unit Model of Jiangsu Province and Advanced Unitof National Spiritual Civilization awarded in succession.
 National Civilized Unit was the highest honor of the country in spiritual civilization, evaluated by accounting all the contributions a unit has made in spiritual civilization. Since it was the first time that the group won the prize, it showed the pains the group has gone through, its general spirit and the responsibility. Staff of YRPG was full of energy to step on a new journey and establish a pharmaceutical enterprise with international competitiveness with confirmed resolution.