Top leaders call for pushing forward reform, opening-up (China Daily) Updated: 2006-03-07 05:54
President Hu Jintao, top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao joined
lawmakers and political advisors from all over the country in group discussions
yesterday, calling for hard work to push forward China's reform, opening-up and
modernization drive.
The 10th National People's Congress (NPC), the Chinese legislature, and the
10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference (CPPCC), China's top advisory body, are holding their annual full
sessions in Beijing. The session brings together more than 5,000 lawmakers and
advisors.
"Deepening reform and expanding the opening-up is key to promoting the
socialist modernization drive in China," said Hu, also general secretary of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), while exchanging views
with NPC deputies from East China's Shanghai Municipality.
"We shall unswervingly adhere to the orientation of reform and ... constantly
improve the quality of the opening-up."
During discussions with legislators from East China's Jiangsu Province, Wu,
chairman of the 10th NPC Standing Committee, pointed out that in order to attain
the goals set for national economic and social development in the 11th Five-Year
Plan (2006-10) period, the country must spare no efforts to develop science and
technology, raise the quality of its work force, and enhance the overall
innovation capability.
Referring to unbalanced development for the country's different regions,
Premier Wen told the NPC deputies from Gansu, a remote, underdeveloped province
in Northwest China, to be well prepared for "an arduous struggle on the way to
modernization."
"We can surely make progress in boosting economic and social development in
Gansu with our unremitting efforts," said Wen, who had worked in Gansu for many
years as a youth.
While visiting CPPCC members from the Hong Kong and Macao special
administrative regions (SARs) and joining their discussions, Jia Qinglin,
chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee, pledged that the central
authorities would continue to implement the principle of "one country, two
systems." Jia also vowed to give full support to the chief executives and
governments of the two SARs, and to promote "development and harmony" in Hong
Kong and Macao.
Joining the discussions of lawmakers from Tianjin municipality and Shandong,
Guangdong and Fujian provinces respectively, Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, Wu
Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan, all members of the Standing Committee of
the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, voiced their opinions on a
wide range of issues. They discussed the opening-up and development of the
coastal regions, the tightening of Party discipline, the fight against
corruption, the development of culture, and the protection of public security
and social order.
(China Daily 03/07/2006 page2)
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