Leaders stress high-quality growth

Reform, opening-up, new development engines highlighted in panel discussions

Senior Chinese leaders highlighted the importance of pursuing high-quality development as they joined panel discussions with National People's Congress deputies from different provincial regions on Sunday.

The leaders－Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning and Zhao Leji－are all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

Premier Li Keqiang stressed the need to keep consolidating the economic recovery from the downturn caused by COVID-19 and seeking high-quality growth.

Speaking with legislators from Jiangsu province in their panel discussion, he said the province should further enhance its role as an economic powerhouse, deepen reform and opening-up and strengthen new growth engines.

He also called for steps to bolster spending in areas that are closely related to people's livelihoods and enhance the public's sense of gain from economic growth.

Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, underlined the necessity of attaining high-quality growth as he joined the discussion with legislators from Gansu province.

The province should carry forward the new development philosophy, foster a new development paradigm and work toward new progress in raising the income of residents and enabling prosperity in rural areas, he said.

Wang Yang, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, took part in a panel discussion with NPC deputies from Taiwan province.

He reiterated the importance of upholding the one-China principle and the 1992 Consensus, resolutely thwarting "Taiwan independence "separatist attempts and promoting the peaceful growth of cross-Straits relations.

Wang Huning, a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, called for new steps in promoting high-quality growth while taking part in a panel discussion with NPC deputies from Yunnan province.

He called for measures to boost the leadership of the Party and Party building across the board, with meticulous steps to carry out study sessions on the Party's history.

Zhao Leji, secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China's top anti-graft body, called for faithful implementation of the new development philosophy and pursuing a new path of high-quality growth as he spoke with legislators from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.

He urged unrelenting efforts in improving officials' style of work, steadfast measures to implement the Party leadership's eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct and continuous steps to fight corruption and misconduct at the grassroots level.