Hu backs SEZ on further reforms
| A combined photo shows President Hu Jintao (L) placing flowers at the statue of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (R) at Lianhua Hill Park in Shenzhen yesterday.Xinhua |
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| Fireworks explode to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone at the Civic Center square in Futian District yesterday.Sun Yuchen |
THE Central Government will continue to support the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to pilot further reforms, President Hu Jintao told a gathering in Shenzhen to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the SEZ.
Hu hailed Shenzhen as a miracle in the world’s history of industrialization, urbanization and modernization.
“The Central Government will, as always, support the brave exploration of the special economic zone as well as its role of testing and carrying out reforms ahead of others,” Hu told nearly 2,000 people representing all walks of life in Shenzhen at a gathering at University Town in Nanshan District.
Hu called on the SEZ to spearhead in accelerating the transformation of the economic growth model, which was a “significant, strategic task concerning the country’s overall economic and social development.”
Hu called for “promoting an overall economic, political, cultural and social structural reform.”
He also called for expanding socialist democracy and speeding up the construction of a socialist country under the rule of law.
Source： Shenzhen Daily Editor： 洪志科