Anhui Delegation Opens to Media

When answering the question asked by the journalist from People's Daily how to invigorate Northern Anhui, Zhang said the development of Northern Anhui plays a very important role in the whole Anhui's development and invigorating Northern Anhui is a sure selection to integrating regional development.

In recent years, Northern Anhui as well as the whole province has taken on fast and good momentum and the life quality of people has been improved. in 2010,the fiscal revenue of Northern Anhui increased by 36 %and net income of the peasants in Norhten Anhui was up 17.7%, whose increasing ranges were higher than the average level of the whole province.

Zhang stressed that 12th Five-Year plan was a golden period of Northern Anhui. Zhang said that we were formulating the development plan for Northern Anhui during 12th Five-Year plan in a bid to make Northern Anhui a very important growth pole of economic development in Anhui and narrow the gap between Northern Anhui and the whole province step by step.

When answering the questions about fighting drought in scientifical ways and ensuring the harvest by the reporter from Hong Kong Commercial News, Wang Sanyun said Anhui was not only an agricultural province but a major grain producing province and played an important role in grain security across the country. Wang added that the drought seen once in 60 years hit Anhui, which affected grain area of about 48000 thousand mu.

Currently, the drought has been eased due to the strong leadership of CPC Anhui Provincial Committee and Anhui Provincial Government, said Wang.

Other deputies such as Li Ming, Shen Weiguo and Chen Shulong also answered the questions asked by the reporters.