Senior official urges growth of old industrial base in NE China
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A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has urged Liaoning Province in the country's northeastern rustbelt to make more efforts to restructure and rejuvenate its industries.
He Guoqiang, head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), made the remarks while visiting Liaoning's cities of Dalian, Yingkou, Panjin and Shenyang from April 13 to 17.
He inspected several old industrial facilities and factories and gave high praise to the efforts of local officials to redevelop the area through structural and technological reforms.
China has been implementing strategies to rejuvenate old industrial bases and Liaoning should take the advantage of the opportunity to ramp up its economic restructuring, technological upgrading and industrial innovation, He said.
He, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, visited some of the province's newest tech-oriented companies and encouraged them to focus on emerging industries of strategic importance, improve independent innovation capability and shore up core competition capacity.
He also visited Lingang Industry Park at Changxing Island of Dalian, Liaobin New District of Panjin and the urban planning exhibition hall of Shenyang, the provincial capital.
"Urban construction and development should be scientifically guided, wherein high standards and a gradual mode of development should be observed," said He, who emphasized that displaced residents should be properly resettled and that environmental protection should be prioritized.
While inspecting rural areas in Panjin, a well-known rice production base, He came to the home of a villager by the name of Du Songhuai in Wangjia Village of Dawa County.
"Fellow villagers and I just hope that policies benefiting farmers would remain consistent, prices for agricultural production materials be stable and construction of irrigation facilities be intensified," said Du.
He reassured Du that his three wishes were in line with the policies being eyed by the Party and the government.
"The central government will work to ensure policies beneficial for rural residents remain consistent and unchanged, while taking effective measures to protect farmers' interests and trying hard to improve conditions for living and production in rural areas," He promised.
