China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin called for efforts to maintain steady and fast economic development in the national capital.
He made the call during a two-day inspection in Beijing that ended Wednesday.
Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), visited industrial parks, construction sites, enterprises and high-tech zones here. He also spent time with local people and made inquiries about college graduates' employment, the welfare of enterprise staff and local traffic services.
He said, in the face of drastic changes of the international financial situation, the central government has worked out a series of effective measures to cope with and these measures are beginning to pay off.
Jia urged efforts to implement the decisions and deployment made by the central government, to boost domestic demand and maintain stable export growth so as to realize steady and relatively fast economic development of Beijing.
Jia, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee, underlined the importance of providing more job opportunities, especially for college graduates.
He encouraged enterprises to stabilize job posts, people to seek more channels of employment, and college gradates to go to grassroots organizations in urban and rural areas, and to seek employment in the country's western regions and in small and medium-sized enterprises.
(Xinhua News Agency February 19, 2009)