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Top leaders join panel discussions of lawmakers
By (Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-07 10:23
China's top leaders, including Chairman Jiang Zemin of the Central Military
Commission and Premier Wen Jiabao, joined the panel discussions of lawmakers and
political advisors on separate occasions Saturday and expressed their views on
the development of the country.
Jiang Zemin joins
discussions by deputies from Shanghai.
[xinhua] | After listening to legislators
from Shanghai, China's biggest metropolis, Jiang called for efforts to seize the
strategic opportunity of the first 20 years of the new century to boost
development in order to continue improving the people's living standard and to
grasp the initiative in international competition.
"To accelerate development, we must join international economic and
technological cooperation in a wider scope and a broader field and at a higher
level, make full use of domestic and international markets, and optimize the
allocation of resources," Jiang said.
In developing an outward-oriented economy, it is imperative to pay equal
importance to introducing foreign capital and technology and encouraging Chinese
enterprises to go abroad for business operations, with emphasis placed on the
fields of modern services, equipment manufacturing and new and high technology,
he said.
Jiang also stressed the importance of innovation in science and technology,
management systems and the cultural sphere in the nationwide pursuit of
coordinated development of socialist material civilization, political
civilization and spiritual civilization.
Premier Wen, during discussions with legislators from the northeastern
province of Heilongjiang, focused on the rule of law, saying that governments at
all levels should administer according to law and all government workers should
learn to handle economic and social affairs according to law.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference, China's top advisory body, spoke positively
on the implementation of the "one country, two systems" principle and the basic
laws since Hong Kong and Macao returned China.
Jia told members of the advisory body from Hong Kong and Macao that the
central government always believes the overwhelming majority of Hong Kong and
Macao compatriots support the principle, and compatriots in the two regions are
fully competent and have their ways to manage the two regions well.
Wu Guanzheng, head of the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s Central Discipline
Inspection Commission, concentrated on the establishment and perfection of an
anti-corruption system that fits the country's socialist market economic system,
when he joined legislators from Shandong Province in east China.
During discussion with legislators from the wealthy southern province of
Guangdong, Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, emphasized the necessity to establish and
carry out a scientific approach to development in line with the realities of
China's reform, opening up and modernization drive.
Luo Gan, also a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC
Central Committee, called for efforts to crack down on various crimes and help
resolve the problems of the ordinary people in order to maintain social
stability and a good public order, during discussion with lawmakers from Fujian
Province in east China.
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