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President Hu Jintao and other leaders said Thursday that China is
at a pivotal stage of reform and development, and a new concept of
development is required to promote coordinated social and economic
growth and harmonious development of the human and nature.
Noting that China is confronted with numerous, unavoidable
issues that call for urgent solution, President Hu said that
persistent efforts must be made to seek truth from facts and to
keep pace with the times, especially to implement the strategic
concept that "the development is the overriding principle" as
advocated by late senior leader Deng Xiaoping.
Hu acknowledged that efforts must be made to strengthen and
consolidate the economy of public ownership and, at the same time,
to encourage, support and guide non-public sector economies.
Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee, said that it is also essential to bear in mind
and implement the scientific concept of development.
Moreover, he said, China must adhere to the strategies of making
overall plans and taking into account rural and urban development,
regional development, economic and social growth, harmonious
development of human and nature, and domestic construction and
opening up to the outside world.
The Chinese president made these remarks while addressing a
group of members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a broad-based national
advisory body, on the side of its ongoing annual session from March
3 to 12.
Hu and other leaders, including Wu Bangguo, chairman of the
country's top legislature, Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice-President
Zeng Qinghong, exchanged views in panel discussions on Thursday
with different groups of CPPCC National Committee members.
On a separate occasion, Premier Wen Jiabao said China is at a
critical juncture of economic development.
"We should, by taking advantage of the crucial strategic period,
do a good job of guiding, protecting and giving full scope to the
enthusiasms of all sides in accelerating the pace of
development".
China should do a good job in macro-economic regulation with
appropriate and effective measures, Wen told members of CPPCC
National Committee representing economic and agricultural
sectors.
Wen said he was convinced that China will overcome various
difficulties and hardships and promote and carry forward the
current good situations as long as "we are a sober-minded and do
things in line with the objective law."
Meanwhile, Vice-President Zeng Qinghong said it is of vital
importance to doing a good job in advancing social and economic
development, and the primary objective of various non-Communist
parties in participating in state affairs is precisely to promote
the country's development.
The vice-president called on non-Communist parties, which are
represented in the CPPCC, to continue offering their proposals so
as to help the Chinese government further improve leadership in
administering the country.
(China Daily March 5, 2004)
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