Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Premier Zhu Outlines Experience on Government Work
Zhu Rongji, whose five-year term as Chinese premier expires soon, gave considerable length to elaborating his experience in fulfilling the government job, when he delivered the Report on the Work of the Government at the opening of the First Session of the Tenth National People's Congress Wednesday.
Zhu Rongji, whose five-year term as Chinese premier expires soon, gave considerable length to elaborating his experience in fulfilling the government job, when he delivered the Report on the Work of the Government at the opening of the First Session of the Tenth National People's Congress Wednesday.
He summed up his experience in nine aspects as follows:
-- Maintaining the right direction and intensity of macroeconomic regulation and implementing the proactive fiscal policy and the prudent monetary policy;
-- Unswervingly taking economic restructuring as paramount and working hard to improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth;
-- Steadfastly giving priority to solving the problems facing agriculture, rural areas and farmers and consolidating the position of agriculture as the foundation of the national economy;
-- Steadfastly carrying forward the reform of state-owned enterprises and effectively strengthening reemployment work and development of the social security system;
-- Steadfastly opening wider to the outside world and actively participating in international economic and technological cooperation and competition;
-- Implementing the strategy of invigorating the country through science, technology and education, raising the nation's scientific and technological capability for innovation and improving the overall quality of the population;
-- Continuing to take the path of sustainable development and promoting a coordinated development of the economy, population, resources and the environment;
-- Doing everything possible to maintain social stability and creating a favorable environment for reform and development;
-- Continuing to transform government functions and endeavoring to build a clean, diligent, efficient and pragmatic government.