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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.
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.
(Xinhua News? Agency? March 7, 2004)
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