Vice premier urges township enterprises to contribute more in building new socialist countryside
9/12/2008 16:40
Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu today urged the country's township
enterprises to contribute more in building a new socialist countryside and
forming a new pattern that integrates economic and social development in urban
and rural areas.
Hui made his appeal in a congratulatory letter to a forum
held in this eastern China's booming city to mark and review the development of
township enterprises in the last 30 years.
Since 1978 when China began the
reform and opening-up program, township enterprises have risen to become a major
part of the country's economy. They have made historic contributions in creating
jobs for surplus rural work forces, increasing farmers' income and bringing
prosperity to rural areas, he said in the letter.
Township enterprises should
implement the Scientific Outlook on Development and take active measures in
coping with changing international and domestic economic situations in order to
achieve sound and fast development, he said.
The forum, held by the Ministry
of Agriculture and Jiangsu provincial government, was attended by officials,
experts and more than 300 township entrepreneurs.
Statistics released by the
Ministry of Agriculture showed by June this year China had more than 238,000
major township enterprises with an annual sales volume of five million yuan each
(about US$730,000).
In the first half, the country's township enterprises
generated3.89 trillion yuan in value-added output, a growth of 11.62 percent
over the same period last year.
Xinhua
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