China's top lawmaker urged the southwest Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to
build more transportation infrastructure and accept more industries from
developed areas.
Guangxi should try to find a road for development compatible to its own
realities, said Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress (NPC), during his tour of the region which wraps up today.
Wu said the region should use the advantages it has such as low labor costs
and natural resources to develop rural areas.
Wu, who is also member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of
China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, visited local villages,
factories and schools to talk about rural reforms made at the recent Third
Plenary Session of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee.
He said the region should use its advantage of having a lengthy coastline and
many sea ports, to make the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone the top recipient of
development.
During his tour, Wu paid a visit to the Bose Memorial Hall, in Bose City. It
was built to commemorate a 1929 uprising led by revolutionaries including Deng
Xiaoping.
He laid a floral basket in front of the statues of Deng and his comrades.
Deng is known as the Chief Architect of China's 30 year-old Reform and
Opening-up drive.