President Xi Stresses Meeting People's Desire during Inspection to Anhui

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Party and government officials to map out reform measures catering to people's desire, anticipating "many hardships" to be solved in the country's reform.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks during his inspection tour to east China's Anhui Province from Sunday to Wednesday on the region's implementation of the 2016-2020 national development plan.
Acknowledging the pressure from downward economic trends and growing social issues, Xi said that bottom-line responsibility to ensure people's livelihoods should be fulfilled and reform should start with the issues people feel most strongly about.
He noted that as supply-side structural reform deepens, some employees will be laid off, thus the government should pay more attention to employment, create more jobs, and implement and improve assistance measures.
Xi cited methods such as encouraging businesses to arrange more job openings, creating public welfare jobs as well as policy support to help people find jobs as soon as possible.
The president urged various local regions to bear in mind their own realities when following development plans to optimize current supply structures, improve product quality, foster new industries and offer new products and services.
During his inspection tour, Xi visited old revolutionary base area, rural areas, university and research institutes as well as enterprises to learn the social-economic development situation.
For his first stop on Sunday, Xi visited the Jinzhai County of Luan City, an old revolutionary base area, to learn about local people's livelihood.
He said China's poverty reduction drive has now entered the home stretch, which requires the government to be resolute and accomplish the toughest job.
To achieve the goal, well-targeted assistance should be provided to the poor, and every project and measure should be carried out carefully, Xi said.
"We sincerely hope that the central government's key requirements on poverty reduction can be implemented here so as to win the tough battle against poverty. Our Party and government should work with full love for the people, especially people in the old revolutionary areas. We should not let down the wishes of the revolutionary martyrs and should try our best to drive up the economy in these areas and let the people there live a happy life. I believe you surely will fulfill this historic mission, and I wish all the best to you," Xi said to the local people.
On Monday afternoon, Xi visited the Xiaogang Village of Fengyang County - the pioneer of China's rural reform in 1978 and where the farmers first carried out household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output.
Xi encouraged the villagers to be enthusiastic in planting grain and increase efficiency, so that it will bring more economic profits for them.
Seeing the sound infrastructure facilities in the village and farmers' living conditions, Xi said the drastic changes in Xiaogang Village mirror China's overall development since 1978, and it's showing that reform is the only way out for the country.
The President went to the provincial capital Hefei on Tuesday, visiting the University of Science and Technology of China as well as its Institute of Advanced Technology.
He listened to briefing on the university's various achievements on scientific and technological research and also visited labs and talked with students.
Xi commended the university and Anhui Province's achievements on scientific and technological research, and called for the students and researchers to focus on innovation and contribute more to China's modernization.
"School life is a very important period for the young students. At this stage, you should concentrate on your studies without distraction. Master all kinds of knowledge to serve the 1.3 billion people, the Chinese nation and the state. Be sure to study hard, study both the academic knowledge and how to be a decent person, before your enter the society," said Xi.
Xi spoke highly of the province's efforts and achievements in social-economic development, expecting it to further emancipate their mind, do practical work and be enterprising and innovative, so as to find a new way for the rise of China's central regions.
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