TAIYUAN, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao said China will keep consistent macro-economic policies, promote
structural adjustment, develop new growth sectors, improve growth quality and
increase people's livelihood to ensure stable and fast economic growth.
He made the remarks when visiting factories and mines
in north China's Shanxi Province Saturday and Sunday. Shanxi is a leading energy
base with pillar industries of coal, metallurgy and chemical products.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C), who is
also a member of the standing committee of the Political Bureau of the
Communist Party of China Central Committee, has lunch with miners at the
Tashan coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province July 5, 2009. Wen was on
an inspection tour to the province from July 4 to 5. (Xinhua/Yao
Dawei)
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Visiting Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Company Ltd.,
Wen said the steel sector must eliminate backward production capacity, speed up
merger and restructuring and link steel sector with information technology, new
materials and recycle economy to make the sector strong.
While visiting Taiyuan Heavy Machinery (Group)
Company Ltd., the premier said high-end products could ensure a stable market
share and China would made structural adjustment and expanding domestic demand,
especially consumption, as long-term and basic principles to cope with the
global economic downturn.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd, R)
shakes hands with miners at the Tashan coal mine in north China's Shanxi
Province July 5, 2009. Wen was on an inspection tour to the province from
July 4 to 5. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)
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In the visit of other companies, Wen stressed that
only those that own high and key technology, independent intellectual property
rights and high-end products could maintain long-term competitive edges.
It was especially important to develop new growth
sectors through boosting new energies, new materials, biological medicines,
energy saving technology and environmental protection, Wen said.
The premier also visited a retired miner's home in
Datong.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C), who is
also a member of the standing committee of the Political Bureau of the
Communist Party of China Central Committee, praises deaf-mute workers with
hand language at the Foxconn scientific and technical zone in Taiyuan,
capital of north China's Shanxi Province July 4, 2009. Wen was on an
inspection tour to the province from July 4 to 5. (Xinhua/Yao
Dawei)
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Jiao Jianzhong, 65, said he left his shanty three
years ago and moved into the community built to relocate miners living at
subsiding areas above coal mines.
Wen said he was happy to see that Jiao's living
conditions had improved.
Wen said coal miners should not be forgotten as they
contributed a lot to the country's coal sector and industrialization. He
promised more measures to improve miners' life and complete social security to
ensure better life for the public.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L, front)
communicates with deaf-mute workers with hand language at the Foxconn
scientific and technical zone in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi
Province July 5, 2009. Wen was on an inspection tour to the province from
July 4 to 5. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)
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He visited Tashan mine, with 15 million tonnes of
annual production capacity and about 800 miners, under Datong Coal Mine Group.
Wen descended about 460 meters through a 7-kilometer
tunnel into a pit to meet miners working underground. Wen inspected their
working processes and had dinner with them at noon.
He also asked the miners to pay much attention to
safety during his two-hour stay in the pit.
Premier Wen stresses technological
innovations in coping with financial crisis
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
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