President Hu Jintao, top legislator Wu Bangguo and Vice President Zeng Qinghong on Tuesday joined panel discussions with the country's lawmakers and political advisors on state issues.

Deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top advisory body, are?in Beijing?to attend the annual full sessions of the two organs.

CPPCC National Committee Chairman Jia Qinglin also participated in such discussions.

They are all in the nine-member Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the top decision-making body of the ruling party.

Discussing with advisors from central China's Hunan Province, Hu stressed the government should strengthen the support to agriculture, focus on steadily increasing the income of farmers, and make great efforts to build new countryside.

The president said China must combine energy-saving and environmental protection in the course of building a harmonious society which in the meantime requires political and economic improvement.

"We should always give top priority to and properly resolve issues related to the concerns of the public," Hu said.

While joining Shanghai lawmakers in a group discussion Tuesday morning, Wu Bangguo said the municipality should improve the conduct of officials and promote a sound and clean official atmosphere.

"Officials in Shanghai are generally good," said Wu, adding that the financial hub plays an indispensable role in China's economic development, and that it should boost scientific innovation and accelerate economic restructuring.

While talking with lawmakers from Hong Kong and Macao, Jia Qinglin spoke highly of the work of the governments of the two special administrative regions and said the central authorities will strictly follow the Basic Law of the two regions.

Joining discussions with deputies from the prosperous Jiangsu Province in east China, Zeng Qinghong called for the ethical improvement of government work and the promotion of thrifty and clean lifestyle.

Vice President Zeng Qinhong (R) shakes hands with a deputy during the panel discussion of the deputies from east China's Jiangsu Province to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 6, 2007.

Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with a deputy during the panel discussion of the deputies from northwest China's Gansu Province to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 6, 2007.

Li Changchun (L), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, shakes hands with a deputy while attending the panel discussion of the deputies from south China's Guangdong Province to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 6, 2007.

Wu Guanzheng (L), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, shakes hands with a deputy during the panel discussion of the deputies from east China's Shandong Province to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 6, 2007.

Luo Gan (C, back), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, speaks during the panel discussion of the deputies from southeast China's Fujian Province to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 6, 2007.

(Xinhua News Agency March 7, 2007)