The newly reconstructed Beijing government will pay more attention to improving service and strengthening credit construction, Beijing Mayor Meng Xuenong said in Beijing Friday.
In a meeting with Walter P.S. Kwok, chairman of the Hong Kong Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., Meng said the government's tenure will end in early 2008 and its main task in the coming five years can be described as "New Beijing, Great Olympics".
The city projects to double its per capita GDP to US$6,000 by 2008.
Beijing will establish more preferential conditions and upgraded environment to attract more foreign investment, and administrative efficiency will also be improved to build a service-oriented, credible and law-abiding government, said Meng, who was inaugurated two months ago.
The government will provide full support and service for foreign business development in Beijing, Meng promised.
(Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2003)
