Li Keqiang calls for green, harmonious development

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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (2nd L) inspects the environmental and recycling facilities at Lu'an Group, one of the major coal mining companies in Shanxi Province, in Changzhi City, north China's Shanxi Province, June 10, 2011. Li made an inspection tour in Shanxi Province from June 10 to 11. [Xinhua]

Chinese vice premier Li Keqiang has called for relying on reform and innovation to achieve a green and harmonious development.

Li, member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, remarked this during a study tour in Shanxi Province on June 10-11.

During his stay in the north China province, Li visited industrial parks in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and Changzhi, a coal-mining city,a retired soldiers' house, and the worksite of a housing project for low-income families.

At the Lu'an Group, one of the major coal mining companies in the province, Li showed interest in environmental and recycling facilities that have helped the company make better use of its mineral resources while protecting the environment.

He praised the company for its environmentally friendly and resources-efficient efforts, saying that developing a recycled economy is a must and the only way out for China, a country that suffers from a bottleneck in the resources of energy.

In talks with company staff, the vice premier called for attention on increasing the efficiency of energy while improving the efficiency in utilizing energy. The government is working on a special plan on energy to list the promotion of a recycled economy as its primary concern, he noted.

During his journey, Li also visited the Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group, the country's first heavy machinery plant, and the Rockontrol Industry Co.,Ltd., a Sino-U.S. joint venture and a leader in developing the Internet of Things.

Li also paid a special visit to an elders' house for retired members of the Eighth Route Army, an armed force led by the CPC during the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), to mark the forthcoming 90th anniversary of the Party.

In talks with the veterans, Li thanked them for their fight in bloody battles that had won the national independence and emancipation as well as today's happy life. "The Party and the People will never forget that you are meritorious people," he told the veterans.

In Taiyuan, the vice premier visited a residential compound newly built for low-income families, which is being sold to the needed in an open, transparent and monitored way.

Li walked into the houses to check the quality. In meeting with some local officials, he encouraged them to do a good job in building houses for the poor.

During his trip, Li spoke highly of Shanxi's achievements in restructuring its economy and urged it to deepen the reform and opening-up drive and make a leap-forward progress in the economic development, by taking advantage of its superiority in energy industry compared with other parts of the country.

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