During his inspection tour in east China's Jiangsu Province from October 22 to 24, Premier Wen Jiabao reiterated the significance of upholding a scientific concept of development to achieve coordinated development.
"We should seriously study and implement the essence of the Fifth Session of the Sixteenth Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, adhere to the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the importance of 'Three Represents' as the guiding ideology, implement a scientific concept of development throughout the modernization drive, and make substantial efforts to shift economic and social development onto the track of a human-based and coordinated development," he said in talks with Jiangsu residents.
Wen, also a Standing Committee member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, visited several companies, schools, communities, and talked with local officials and ordinary folk. He was accompanied by state councilors Hua Jianmin and Chen Zhili.
Having heard reports from local officials, Wen praised the province for its achievements in building an affluent society and in its modernization drive. He urged Jiangsu to make greater efforts to achieve even more development.
Wen also spoke with two university graduates who had secured employment with the held of Nanjing Talents Service Center, a job placement agency that helps children from poor families.
Wen also visited an elementary school in Nanjing, which has a high enrolment of children of migrant workers. These children should grow up under a sound environment of equality and care, he said.
At the home of Li Wang'an, in a local community known as the Workers' New Village, Wen talked with the hosts about their living conditions. He urged local officials to do more for the people to make residential areas safe, harmonious, civilized and prosperous.
"Communities are the cells of a city," he said. "Stability of a city relies on the peace of its communities."
(Xinhua News Agency October 25, 2005)
