Interpreting China through top leaders' remarks during the Two Sessions
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Editor's note: During the recently concluded annual meetings of China's legislative and advisory bodies, top leaders from the Communist Party of China (CPC) participated in a number of panel discussions with lawmakers from different provincial-level regions and political advisors from various sectors of society. Listed below are some of their most noteworthy remarks from this year's Two Sessions, highlighting the most pressing issues for both politicians and the public.
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Xi Jinping
"Shanghai should use its courageous, pioneering spirit and youthful vigor to be innovative in its methods for advancing reform and should continue to serve as a vanguard and pioneer for opening-up and innovation. The city should speed up measures that will help it establish itself as a globally influential center for technology and innovation."
— At a Shanghai Delegation panel discussion, March 5
"We should protect the environment just as we would protect our own eyes and treat it as if it were our own life. We must do a good job on the Sanjiangyuan National Park pilot project, promoting and coordinating ecological engineering, energy-saving, and emission-reduction, as well as environmental protection. Let Qinghai be a famous symbol of a beautiful China."
— At a Qinghai Delegation panel discussion, March 10
"Innovation is the military's core competitiveness and the driver to advancing fighting capacity. It should be given a key position in China's military development. Military innovation should be included in the national innovation system, and collaboration should be encouraged between the army and the people to create a system conducive to scientific and technological innovation in national defense."
— At a PLA Delegation panel discussion, March 13
Li Keqiang
"We will continue with structural reform, in particular supply-side structural reform, and implement an innovation-driven strategy. During this period of economic transition, new needs will appear. The supply-side reform is providing new supplies through innovation. Do not look down upon service sectors like housekeeping and senior care. They are growing industries and will provide more jobs than traditional industries. If we can break the frame hindering development, we may get more profits than from the heavy and chemical industries."
— At a Shandong Delegation panel discussion, March 6
"Where does the vitality lie? It lies among our people. How can we stimulate people's vitality? It requires administrative streamlining and further reforms. How would it work if anybody who wants to start a business has to go through a complicated procedure to do so? Our government is for the people. So we must be determined to continue delegating power and improving our services so as to unleash market vitality and people's creativity."
— At a Chongqing Delegation panel discussion, March 8
Zhang Dejiang
"We should vigorously promote the optimization and upgrading of industry, phasing out overcapacity, promoting the quality and efficiency of traditional industries, and accelerating the development of new growth momentum. We should deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises, support private economic development, and improve the business environment. In agriculture, we have to make efforts to build a modern agricultural industrial system, production system, management system, and security system, in order to improve agricultural quality, efficiency, and competitiveness. And we should focus all of our work on people's wellbeing, firmly supporting people's livelihoods and solving outstanding concerns to the people, so that they will lead more satisfactory lives."
— At a Jilin Delegation panel discussion, March 8
Yu Zhengsheng
"We should fully and faithfully implement the policies of 'one country, two systems', 'Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong', 'Macao people governing Macao', allowing a high degree of autonomy, acting strictly in accordance with the Constitution and the basic laws, and supporting the administrations of chief executives and the governments of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. We encourage CPPCC members from Hong Kong and Macao to play active roles in both the mainland and in their respective regions, contribute to the deepening cooperation between the two, and extensively participate in projects benefitting young people."
— At the opening meeting of the Fourth Session of the 12th CPPCC National Committee, March 3
Liu Yunshan
"While strictly implementing a management system for Party officials, we should inspire and care for them in a better way, especially for those who work at the front line for a long time, so as to make them concentrate on their work with confidence and assurance. We should optimize the path for development and improve standards for evaluation of Party officials, taking responsibility for those who dare to bear the burdens."
— At a Ningxia Delegation panel discussion, March 8
Wang Qishan
"As long as we have a stronger Party, as long as our officials stick to the Party Constitution and its policies, as long as we focus more on the general public than ourselves and have the courage to assume responsibility, there shall be no insurmountable challenges."
— At a Beijing Delegation panel discussion, March 5
Zhang Gaoli
"We should step up construction for a happy and harmonious new Gansu, led by five developmental concepts that are innovation-driven, coordinated, green, oriented toward global progress, and beneficial to all. Gansu should integrate local development with the 'Belt and Road' initiative, making itself an important gateway for westward opening and a strategic base for sub-regional cooperation."
— At a Gansu Delegation panel discussion, March 8
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