Huang Ju, a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has urged Shanghai, China's largest industrial base and financial center, to make new contribution to the country's modernization.
Huang, who was formerly the CPC chief of Shanghai, made the call when he joined the deputies to the National People's Congress(NPC) from Shanghai, in their panel discussion on the government work report made by Premier Zhu Rongji Wednesday.
The Shanghai NPC deputies are in Beijing attending the on-going First Session of the 10th NPC, China's top legislature.
He hoped that Shanghai, in building itself into one of the international economic, financial, trade and shipping centers in the new century, should play the role as a central city and join hands with the entire Yangtze Delta area so as make new contribution to China's modernization.
Huang spoke highly of the Report on the Work of the Government made by Premier Zhu, saying the nine pieces of experience summed up by Zhu are the crystal of the wisdom of the whole Party and the whole people.
On the economic work, Huang called for efforts to further expand domestic demand, maintain a sustained, healthy and rapid economic growth rate, improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth, continue to carry out the pro-active financial policy and steady monetary policy, give priority to agriculture, the countryside and farmers, increase the farmers' income, improve the management of state-owned properties, establish a social security system, and expand employment.
(Xinhua News Agency March 7, 2003)
