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China's new cabinet should continue to maintain a sustainable and
comparatively rapid development of the national economy and improve
people's living standards, new Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in
Beijing Tuesday morning.
This is "one goal" China's new cabinet will strive to achieve, the
premier told a press conference, adding that it is vital for the
government to maintain continuity and stability of policies and
stick to the policy of expanding domestic demand and implement the
proactive fiscal policy, in order to achieve the goal.
The new premier put the work of his new cabinet in a nutshell of
"four phrases", namely, to "achieve one goal", "implement two key
policies", "solve three major economic problems" and "promote
reforms in four major aspects".
The two key policies are: to realize the strategic economic
restructuring and continue to open up to the outside world.
The three major economic problems are: how to solve unemployment
and social security system, how to increasing fiscal revenue and
cut public spending, and how to correct and standardize the
economic order.
The "reforms in four aspects" are: the reform of the rural economy,
the reform of state-owned enterprises, the reform of financial
system and the reform of governmental agencies.
Wen said that rural reform covers rural taxation system, grain
purchase and sales, subsidies to farmers, the rural financial
system and rural medical and health service.
The premier said China will continue to regard state-owned
enterprise reform as the central task of the overall economic
reform, aiming at establishing a modern corporate system, and in
the meantime, China will promote the reform of the system for
managing state assets.
He
said that while establishing and improving the financial regulation
system, his government will take steps to speed up the reform of
state-owned financial enterprises so as to establish a modern
financial enterprise system in its true sense.
The premier laid out a number of principles necessary for achieving
the above objectives.
He
stressed the necessity of giving priority to the development of
agriculture and rural economy, and of promoting a coordinated and
well-balanced development between urban and rural areas.
He
encouraged the eastern areas of China to seize the opportunities to
accelerate development and renovate and revitalize old industrial
bases and the western part to implement the western China
development strategy.
The premier said that his government will take full advantage of
the opportunities brought about by China's accession to the WTO to
open wider to the outside world.
He
pledged continued efforts to implement the sustainable development
strategy and the strategy of developing the country by relying on
science and education so as to achieve steady economic and social
development.
China will strive for a proper balance among development speed,
dimension of reform and social bearing capacity in order to realize
the perfect integration of reform, development and stability, he
added.
(Xinhua News Agency March 18, 2003)
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