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Chinese President Jiang Zemin said in Beijing Tuesday that building
a well-off society in an all-round way means to achieve an
all-round development in the economic, political and cultural
areas.
It
is the concrete manifestation of the important thought of "three
represents" which was made the guide to action for the whole Party
at the 16th National Party Congress in November last year, he
stressed.
It
conforms to the strategic thinking of Deng Xiaoping for realizing
modernization in stages and also falls in with the actual national
conditions and the will of the people, he said.
Jiang made the remarks at a full-member meeting of the Jiangsu
provincial delegation of deputies to the National People's Congress
(NPC), China's top legislature.
"This is of great significance in rallying the popular support,
inspiring the people to work, accelerating the pace of
modernization and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese
nation," he said.
"The central task in building a well-off society," he said, " is to
release and develop productive forces," adding that "it is,
therefore, necessary to optimize the economic structure and put
emphasis on improving economic performances so as to strive to
quadruple GDP in the first 20 years of this century."
Jiang stressed the necessity of blazing a new trail for
industrialization by relying on the development of science and
technology and of making institutional innovation so as to bring
the socialist market economy to perfection.
To
realize a well-off society, he noted, it is necessary to realize a
harmonious development of both urban and rural areas and among
different regions.
He
urged efforts to place agriculture and rural development in the
first place as the foundation of the national economy, promote
urbanization and amass more resources for the development of the
middle and western parts of the country to reduce regional
disparities.
He
reiterated the necessity of a sustainable development in both
economic and population development and in both resources and
environment so as to steer the whole society onto the path of
development featuring developed production, wealthy life and
well-protected ecology.
Jiang encouraged the people in Jiangsu, an economically developed
coastal province in east China, to go faster and give vent to the
burst of vitality of the latent labor, knowledge, technology,
management and capital in the province.
(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2003)
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