This undated photo shows Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) talks with a job-seeking graduate at the human resource market of Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Hu inspected the province from Dec. 12 to Dec. 14, 2008. [Xinhua]

President Hu Jintao called for maintaining a stable and healthy economic growth amid the challenges in industrial restructuring, export, employment and people's lives during his visit to northeast Liaoning Province from Friday to Sunday.

Hu paid a visit to Liaoning, a center of heavy industries, after the annual Central Economic Work Conference, setting the tone for next year's economic development, closed on Wednesday.

"Our top economic target next year is to maintain a stable and healthy growth," he said at a meeting with the provincial officials. "We should be clear about the serious challenges and difficulties from home and abroad but also realize the great opportunities and favorable conditions in it."

He listed several works the country would do, such as to seriously implement macroeconomic policy, to boost economic restructuring, to greatly enhance capacities for independent innovations, to control pollution and protect the environment and to deepen the reform and opening-up.

This undated photo shows Chinese President Hu Jintao (front,C) visits the Shenyang Blower Works Group Co., Ltd. in northeast China's Liaoning Province. Hu inspected the province from Dec. 12 to Dec. 14, 2008. [Xinhua]

Hu also stressed that to maintain social stability was very important when the economic development faced some problems.

During his visit here, the president paid visits to three large state-owned enterprises.