Hu: Significant Decades Ahead
(Xinhua | March 6, 2003)
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Jintao said yesterday in Beijing that the first two decades of this century are an important, promising era of strategic significance with opportunities that China should firmly seize.
It is also a period in which China will have bright prospects, Hu told the Tibet delegation of deputies to the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature.
During this period, Hu said: "We must work for attaining our set targets and objectives steadfastly." Hu joined Tibetan deputies in their panel meeting to discuss the government work report made by Premier Zhu Rongji.
Hu described Premier Zhu's report as one that is substantial, inspiring and dealing with concrete matters relating to all spheres of work. After reviewing the successes China had scored in the last five years, Hu noted that Tibet has made noticeable progress in its drive for development. He called on people in Tibet to work hard still for faster economic growth and continuous improvements in the livelihoods of the people of all ethnic groups in the autonomous region.
To promote the development of China's vast western regions, Hu called for enhanced efforts to do an even better job in the key aspects of the current work and, at the same time, map out blueprints for successful long-term development.
"We should increase State assistance and give scope to the enthusiasm of various areas in the western regions, while incorporating the role of the government departments to that of the market so as to inject vitality and energy into the development of western China," he said.
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