Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju urged state-owned enterprises to take the advantage of reform of state assets management to optimize structure, speed up innovation of systems and management, and a new development environment.
Huang was speaking during an inspection tour of key state-owned enterprises in central China's Hubei Province when he participated in a national conference on the reforms of state-owned enterprises and re-employment between June 5 and 9.
Deepening the reform of state assets management system was of great importance to building a relatively well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating China's modernization drive, Huang said.
He urged all regions, departments and the state-owned enterprises to be bold in exploration and practice. Their priorities were the study of the provisional regulation on supervision and management of the state assets, the set-up of state assets supervisory bodies and promotion of corporations at large and medium-sized enterprises.
He called on enterprises to minimize the influence of SARS on economic development, reduce taxes and provide small loans to laid-off workers.
(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2003)
