China s vice premier urges accelerating industrialization, urbanization
From: Xinhua
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has urged the speeding up of industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization in the country, repeating the importance of the economic development mode transformation.
Li made the remarks during his inspection tour of Nanyang City, central China s Henan Province, from Oct. 8-9 on the sideline of a symposium on the construction of the gigantic south-to-north water diversion project.
He inspected the Tianguan Group, a major biofuel company of the country, and the China Lucky Film Corporation, the nation's largest photosensitive materials and magnetic recording media maker.
Li said, to achieve China s industrialization and urbanization it is important for regions to develop their own economy according to their characteristics and advantages and to form a modern industrial structure.
The moves are also essential to expanding the country s domestic consumption and transforming the economic growth pattern, he noted.
After visiting the Costar Group, a high-tech precision optical instrument manufacturer in Nanyang, the vice premier praised the company's efforts in indigenous innovation, saying China s industrialization and corporate development must count on scientific and technological innovation.