Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday urged Party and
government officials to better serve the people and live
frugally.
"Our quality of life is improving, but we should keep a clear
mind and carry forward our glorious traditions," he said when
joining a panel discussion with lawmakers from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality during the annual full session of the National People's
Congress (NPC), the top legislature of the country.
The Chinese government has taken strong measures to step up
efforts towards stamping out corruption and building a clean
government. In the past four years, around 30 NPC deputies and
members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
(CPPCC) have been ousted.
Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee, took the opportunity of the panel discussion to
call for a nationwide effort to modernize the agriculture sector,
increase farmers' income, and build a new socialist
countryside.
"We should effectively change the mode of economic growth, and
go all-out for industrial restructuring, innovation, energy
conservation, and environmental protection, while deepening reform
and opening-up."
In a separate panel discussion with NPC deputies from the Jilin Province, Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing
Committee, said the draft property law, which was put up for
deliberation at the ongoing NPC session, is a basic law on
regulating the property ownership and will play a supporting role
in the Chinese-style socialist legal system.
Wu said legislation must combine the Party's opinions with the
people's will under the principle of "putting people first," with
the goal of safeguarding the fundamental interest of the
people.
Joining the discussion of lawmakers from Guizhou Province, Premier Wen Jiabao called on the Guizhou people to
build more infrastructure projects, develop industries that suit
local conditions, curb desertification, and continue with their
poverty alleviation efforts.
Senior leaders Zeng Qinghong and Wu Guanzheng, while joining the discussions of
lawmakers from Xinjiang and Qinghai respectively, voiced their opinions on
a wide range of issues, including building a harmonious society and
a new socialist countryside, and the fight against corruption.
(Xinhua News Agency March 9, 2007)
