Premier Wen Jiabao has
encouraged domestic enterprises to make breakthroughs in science and
technology development to weather the global financial crisis.
Wen made the remarks during his
inspection tour in east China's Shandong Province from Saturday to
Sunday. It had been the Premier's fourth consecutive weekend inspection
tour outside Beijing this month.
Wen said the government would continue
the current proactive fiscal policy and moderately ease monetary policy
and take it a top task to keep a steady economic growth. In JinJing Group, China's first
glass-manufacturing company with a history of 105 years, Wen was
pleased to see the company had gained steady sales increase with its
independently-developed new products amid the global downturn.
Wen said that technological
breakthroughs were fundamental and long-term solutions which should be
relied on to fight against the economic downturn.
He urged the enterprises in Shandong
to provide better environment for young talent to contribute their
ability and wisdom to technology development.
When inspecting Jigang Group, Wen
asked the steelmaker to improve its products' competitiveness by
carrying out technological innovation, cutting manufacturing cost and
developing energy-efficient products.
Wen also visited privately owned
Shandong Weiqiao Textile Company, the largest cotton textile enterprise
in Asia with more than 150,000 employees.
He said China's textile industry,
which was strongly affected by export market, had encountered many
difficulties caused by the global financial crisis.
Wen urged efforts to create an
environment of fair competition and fight against monopoly to
facilitate the development of private companies.
"It is a must to attach importance to
the development of private businesses and private fund investment in an
effort to deal with the financial crisis and boost economic growth," he
said.
Wen said coping with the financial
crisis and overcoming difficulties in economic development both serve
the purpose of improving people's livelihood and better development of
individuals.
Only when people's lives are improved and secured, will the economic development have a true meaning, Wen said.
(Xinhua News Agency June 30, 2009) |
