President Xi Jinping underlined high-quality growth as the primary task for China in building itself into a modern socialist nation in all respects, saying that the nation must unswervingly deepen reform and opening-up and pursue in-depth transformation in its model of development. He made the remarks when attending a deliberation with his fellow deputies from the delegation of Jiangsu province, at the first session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2023.
The president, who represents Jiangsu province as a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, told his fellow deputies from the province during a deliberation on Sunday that the nation must accelerate steps to attain a high level of self-reliance in science and technology, a requirement for promoting high-quality growth.
He also stressed the need to translate the outcomes of growth into improvements in the people's living standards and continue enhancing the sense of gain, happiness and security for the general public.
He encouraged the province, which accounted for 10 percent of China's GDP and 12.9 percent of its foreign trade volume last year, to build up its manufacturing sector, promote the growth of strategic emerging sectors and accelerate the growth of the digital economy.
"The General Secretary and the representative of Jiangsu discussed the state of affairs,and put forward the ardent hope of Jiangsu to 'continue to work hard, forge ahead,and continue to be in the forefront of high-quality development'.In the next step,we will deeply study and implement the General Secretary's important speech,vigorously promote the construction of ecological civilization,win the battle of pollution prevention and control with greater efforts,protect and promote biodiversity in a more systematic way,promote the construction of environmental infrastructure with higher standards,serve the high-quality development of the economy with more practical measures,and fulfill the requirements of continuing to be in the forefront of high-quality development with practical actions."said Wang Tianqi, Deputy to the National People's Congress.
"The General Secretary exchanged views with the NPC deputies from Jiangsu and discussed the state affairs together,which further directed the path of development for Jiangsu.We should further integrate our thoughts and actions,into the General Secretary's important speech by basing on our functions,such as employment and income increase,social security and benefit the people,talent introduction and training,and labor rights protection,and make better contributions to the human society in writing a new chapter of the new Jiangsu modernization construction."said Zhang Tong, Deputy to the National People's Congress.
"We were very excited to be in the same conference room with the General Secretary to discuss the state affairs.The General Secretary stressed that we should firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development,which pointed out a direction,for our next agricultural scientific research work.We should select crop new varieties with better quality,disease resistance and high yield,develop green and efficient new technologies,and develop healthy food with high added value,so as to strengthen and improve agricultural science and technology,help boost rural industry revitalization and make farmers rich,and make our contribution to the construction of an agricultural powerhouse."said Li Qiang, Deputy to the National People's Congress.
"In his important speech,the General Secretary pointed out that we should give full play to the leading and supporting role of technology-based backbone enterprises.According to the requirements of the General Secretary,we will build our State Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology into a globally influential industrial science and technology innovation center,gather innovation resources and innovative talents from all over Jiangsu,the country and the world to serve the development of Jiangsu's strategic emerging industries,and make due contributions to the creation of innovation peaks and industrial peaks in Jiangsu."said Gao Jifan, Deputy to the National People's Congress.
