Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, March 05, 2002
Premier Outlines General Requirements for 2002
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji outlined the general requirements for 2002 in his government work report to the Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) Tuesday.
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji outlined the general requirements for 2002 in his government work report to the Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) Tuesday.
The requirements are:
-- To further carry out the spirit of the important speech made by Jiang Zemin at the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the spirit of the fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the 15th CPC Central Committee under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the spirit of the 15th CPC National Congress;
-- To correctly size up the complicated volatile international political and economic situation in line with the requirements of the idea of "Three Represents" and resist and overcome the risks and difficulties on the road ahead in order to maintain economic and social stability.
-- To continue the principle of expanding domestic demand, continue to deepen reform, open wider to the outside world, accelerate economic restructuring, overhaul and correct the market order, and improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth in order to promote a sustainable, rapid and healthy development of the national economy and overall social progress.
-- To take effective steps to promote spiritual civilization, improve democracy and the legal system and strengthen the Party building, and transform the functions of the government.
The premier called on the whole country to unite, display industry and thrift in building up the country and greet the convocation of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with new achievements in reform and opening up and in the modernization drive.