"The year 2004 is a crucial year for China's reform and
development," said Premier Wen Jiabao Friday, when he delivered a
report on the work of the government at the opening of the Second
Session of the Tenth National People's Congress.
Wen listed the principal domestic tasks for 2004 as follows:
-- To pay more attention to exercising macro-control, balancing
the interests of all parties, putting people first, and promoting
reform and innovation in accordance with the "five balanced
aspects" (balancing urban and rural development, balancing
development among regions, balancing economic and social
development, balancing development of man and nature, and balancing
domestic development and opening wider to the outside world);
-- To concentrate on resolving prominent conflicts in economic
and social development and acute problems concerning the vital
interests of the people and properly balancing reform, development
and stability;
--To promote all-round, balanced and sustainable development of
the economy and society; and to coordinate the progress of
socialist material, political and spiritual civilizations.
(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2004)
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