Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talks with
workers at a workshop of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd.
(CNHTC) in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. Wen Jiabao
made an inspection tour in Shandong from June 27 to June 28. (Xinhua/Yao
Dawei) Photo
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JINAN, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese 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.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talks with
workers at a workshop of Weiqiao Textile Company Ltd. in east China's
Shandong Province. Wen Jiabao made an inspection tour in Shandong from
June 27 to June 28. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) Photo Gallery>>>
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.
BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The
Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) published a report, entitled "Creation 2050:
Science, technology and China' s Future", Wednesday as a long-term strategy for
the country's development of science and technology.
Lu Yongxiang, president of the CAS and vice chairman of
the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), addressed the
report-issuing conference here, disclosing that over300 CAS experts had been
involved in preparing the report. Full story
BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- China
will support eleven national research programs with at least 62.8 billion yuan
(9.2 billion U.S. dollars) in one and half year to achieve breakthroughs in key
technology development, the government said Wednesday.
Areas covered by the programs included advanced
numerically controlled machine tools, trunk-line aircraft, new-generation
broadband wireless mobile communications network, and high-end central
processing units and software. Full story
