BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will adopt stricter measures to boost energy conservation this year to meet the goal set by an important five-year plan, Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, said Wednesday."It's the last and decisive year for us to realize the goals set by our country's 11th Five-Year Plan," Xie said at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature."The current energy conservation situation lags far behind the goal set in our plan and our task is still formidable," said Xie, one of China's leading negotiators for climate change talks.Under the 11th Five-Year Plan ending this year, China pledged to cut energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 20 percent, or four percent each year, but consumption fell by a margin much smaller than the set target during the past four years.The per unit GDP energy consumption fell only 14.38 percent from the 2005 level.Xie said the Chinese government will enact a series of measures this year to boost energy conservation, including the introduction of an accountability mechanism for provincial governments and tight control of projects of high energy consumption and high pollution.China announced in November it aimed to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent compared with 2005 levels.
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders joined lawmakers Wednesday in discussions on the work report of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.In the deliberation with lawmakers from central China's Henan Province,Hu said he totally agrees with the report delivered by Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, at the annual session of the NPC, China's supreme legislature.In addition, Hu urged the province, a leading grain grower in China, to make efforts to improve its agricultural production capacities, ensure supplies of farm produce and sharpen its agricultural competitiveness in the world. Chinese President Hu Jintao (R, front) joins a panel discussion with deputies to the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress from central China's Henan Province in Beijing, China, March 10, 2010Hu also said emphasis should be put on improving people's livelihood, especially in education, employment, social security, health care and housing.He also stressed promoting the progress of non-profit cultural programs and cultural industry to meet people's demands.Addressing deputies from Shanxi Province, top legislator Wu Bangguo pledged the NPC Standing Committee would be open to the supervision of the deputies and the people.Wu said the top priority of the legislative work this year is to shape a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.Wu vowed to speed up legislation efforts for the formation of such a system.In the deliberation with NPC deputies from Hebei Province, Premier Wen Jiabao said he entirely endorses the legislative report, while calling on the province to intensify its efforts in transforming the economic growth pattern and readjusting industrial structures.The province should push ahead the structural readjustment of traditional industries, cultivate new pillar industries and vigorously develop service industries such as finance, insurance and logistics, Wen said.Vice President Xi Jinping discussed the report with lawmakers from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He urged to further promote harmony and stability in regions inhabited by ethnic minorities.He Guoqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, joined deputies from Inner Mongolia.In the discussion, He, also chief of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, called for intensified efforts in combating corruption.Concrete efforts should be made to establish gradually an effective anti-corruption system, He said.Zhou Yongkang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, joined lawmakers from Sichuan Province.Practice has repeatedly proved the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics is a good system, said Zhou, citing the achievements in reconstruction of quake-devastated Sichuan Province and China's comparatively fast recovery from the global financial crisis.
BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China defended its move to reduce its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, saying the United States should take steps to promote confidence in U.S. dollar .Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the comment Thursday when responding to questions on China's sale of U.S. Treasury securities last December.Qin said the issue should be viewed from two perspectives.He said on the one hand, China always followed the principle of "ensuring safety, liquidity and good value" in managing its foreign exchange reserve. And when it came to how much and when China buys the bonds, the decision should be made taking into account the market and China's need, so as to realize rational deployment of China's foreign exchange property, he said.And on the other hand, the United States should take concrete steps to beef up the international market's confidence in the U.S. dollar, Qin said.The way to view the issue was similar to doing business, he said.China trimmed its holdings of U.S. debt by 34.2 billion U.S. dollars in December 2009, leaving Japan the largest holder of U.S. Treasury securities, the U.S. Treasury Department reported on Feb. 16.As of the end of November last year, China held 789.6 billion U.S. dollars of U.S. Treasury bonds.
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang has urged law enforcement departments at all levels to ensure their work practices are just and incorrupt to better solve social conflicts and uphold justice."Currently, our country is experiencing a period when social conflicts are prominent and more and more cases have emerged in the judicial field," Zhou told a plenary meeting for the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the CPC Central Committee here Monday."More people are expecting to protect their own rights through judicial channels and they also have a higher requirement for just law enforcement," said Zhou, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee."However, many people's ideas, abilities and working styles in the judiciary who enforced the law still left much to be desired," he said, adding that many proposals raised during the just-concluded annual parliamentary and political advisory sessions were about law enforcement.Zhou urged related departments at all levels to "carefully" study these advices and proposals and investigate and correct mistakes.
SHANGHAI, March 23 (Xinhua) -- There has been no timetable for the construction of a maglev line project between Hangzhou and Shanghai, a spokesman of the Shanghai municipal government said Monday.The project is still undergoing feasibility studies, the official said when responding to media reports last week which said the construction is expected to start this year.The proposal of the ultra-high-speed maglev line, with an estimated cost of 22 billion yuan (3.22 billion U.S. dollars), was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in 2006.When completed, the line is expected to cut the travel time between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of the neighboring Zhejiang Province, to half an hour from the current 2.5 hours.
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BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's banking regulator asked lenders to keep credit growth at reasonable pace in 2010 and vowed to tighten supervision on property loans amid increasing risk of asset bubbles."Banks should reasonably control new loans, better manage the pace and try to achieve balanced issuance and steady growth of credit quarter by quarter, " Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) at a meeting on Tuesday.Despite regulator's repeated warnings on risks hidden from the record 9.6 trillion yuan of new loans last year, banks rushed to lend more than 1 trillion yuan in the first month of this year in fear of the expected tighter loan policy in 2010 after the credit binge last year as media reported.An official with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China told Xinhua the credit growth in the first ten days of January was a little bit fast, and turned smooth in the last days of the month.According to the statement posted on CBRC's Web site on Wednesday, Liu said the regulator will pay special attention to the changes in the property market, strictly enforce relevant policy, and beef up the "window guidance" over credit to the real estate sector.But he restated banks should continue to support first-time home buyers.Liu also told banks to continue lending to fund rural development, small business, consumer spending and environmental protection.He said banks should keep adequate capital and heed of resurgence of bad loans.
TAIPEI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Hu Jintao's talk to Taiwan business people during his Spring Festival visit in Fujian Province delivered goodwill to Taiwan, media and scholars on the island said.Leading newspapers in Taiwan including the China Times and the United Daily News followed the developments of Hu's four-day inspection tour in Fujian, which faces Taiwan.Hu ended his tour on Feb. 15 after visiting Zhangzhou, Longyan and Xiamen and celebrated the Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, with local residents and Taiwan compatriots living in Fujian.Hu told Taiwan business people the mainland would try its best in everything that would benefit Taiwan compatriots, and "we will honor our words."Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd L), who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), talks with a businessman (1st L) from China's Taiwan Province, at the Zhangpu Pioneer Park of Taiwan farmers in Zhangzhou, east China's Fujian Province, Feb. 12, 2010He also said the negotiation on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between the mainland and Taiwan would "put into full consideration the interests of Taiwan compatriots, especially those of farmers."The China Times carried a commentary saying the message conveyed in Hu's speech to Taiwan business people was worth careful reading by Taiwan authorities.The online edition of the Central Daily News also released a commentary headlined "Hu Jintao celebrates Spring Festival in Fujian, delivers goodwill to Taiwan people."Hsu Wun-Pin, a renowned lawyer in Taiwan, said Hu's visit highlighted the role of culture and kinship in cross-Strait relations.Hsu's ancestors lived in Tong'an, now a district of the coastal city of Xiamen.Tamkang University prof. Chang Wu-yueh said Hu's choice of visiting Taiwan businessmen in cities that saw thriving cross-Strait exchanges during the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation clearly displayed the mainland's high expectations of cross-Strait relations.
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that keeping the RMB exchange rate basically stable had played an important role in facilitating the recovery of the global economy from the worst financial crisis in decades.When the global economy was worst hit between July 2008 and February 2009, the real effective exchange rate of the RMB has risen by 14.5 percent, Wen told a press conference after the annual parliament session. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao smiles during a press conference after the closing meeting of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 14, 2010.