Xi stresses steadily promoting economic growth

Xi stresses steadily promoting economic growth

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged efforts to steadily promote economic growth and continue improving people's lives.

During a two-day inspection tour to Tianjin that ended Wednesday, Xi learned about the development of agriculture, high-tech industries, ecological urban planning and employment in the city.

While visiting the Binhai New Area, Xi said the area should play a leading role in the city's economic development and Tianjin should restructure industries and transform the economic growth pattern.

Xi also urged the city to promote the intensive and clustered development of industries, as well as rapidly develop the service industry.

He also visited the Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology & Medicine, located in Binhai New Area, where he recognized the work of the many returned overseas students-turned staff there.

Xi further stressed capacity building for indigenous innovation as well as innovation based on introducing and learning from existing scientific and technological developments.

The Binhai New Area, established in 1994 as a growth engine for the area surrounding the Bohai Bay in north China, has generated an economic output representing over half of Tianjin's total.

Meanwhile, Xi also visited the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, a cooperation project between China and Singapore. He expressed the hope that the eco-city will provide a good example for resource-saving and environmentally-friendly societies.

Also during his trip, Xi asked Tianjin to improve its agricultural self-reliance.

While visiting a vocational training center in Tianjin, Xi encouraged college students to be ambitious as well as down-to-earth in their job hunts.

He asked college students not to shy away from working at the grassroots level and in tough places and urged them to issue extraordinary performances in ordinary job situations.

Additionally, Xi stressed finding employment for the youth, especially college graduates, and poor urbanites, veterans and migrant workers. He also urged authorities to make efforts to provide sound vocational training and improve the employment service system in an effort to ease structural unemployment.

Xi also required relevant authorities to assist college graduates who start their own businesses as well as those who have difficulty finding jobs.

China will see a record-high 6.99 million people graduate from college this year, up 2.8 percent year on year, according to official figures.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said at a recent meeting that China faces a tough employment situation due to tempered economic growth in the past few months of this year.

習近平在天津考察

新華網天津５月１５日電 中共中央總書記、國家主席、中央軍委主席習近平５月１４日至１５日在天津考察時強調,當前我國經濟運行總體良好,各項事業健康發展.要正確判斷形勢,按照黨的十八大精神和中央關于今年工作的各項部署,增強信心,綜合施策,扎實工作,穩中求進推動經濟持續健康發展,持續努力保障和改善民生,在全面建成小康社會的征程上不斷邁出堅實步伐.

１４日一早,習近平從北京乘坐城際列車前往天津,在中共中央政治局委員、天津市委書記孫春蘭和市長黃興國陪同下,開始考察調研.

習近平十分關心夏糧形勢.在列車上,他就向隨行的農業部門負責人了解全國夏糧生產情況.到武清站一下列車,他直接來到南蔡村鎮丁家瞿阝村的小麥大田,仔細察看小麥長勢,向農民詢問田間管理和預產情況,叮囑當地干部加強農技服務,搞好田間管理,努力爭取夏糧豐收.他強調,一個國家只有立足糧食基本自給,才能掌握糧食安全主動權,進而才能掌握經濟社會發展這個大局.他希望天津加快發展現代都市型農業,努力提高糧食自給能力,為確保國家糧食安全多作貢獻.

隨后,習近平來到濱海新區,得知這里的經濟總量已經占到天津經濟總量一半以上,十分高興.他指出,要以濱海新區為龍頭,積極調整優化產業結構,加快轉變經濟發展方式,推動產業集成集約集群發展.同時,要加快發展服務業,形成與現代化大都市地位相適應的服務經濟體系.習近平強調,保持我國經濟社會發展良好勢頭,實現"兩個一百年"奮斗目標,都需要進一步深化改革,下大氣力解決體制機制弊端.天津要充分利用濱海新區平臺,先行先試重大改革措施,努力為全國改革發展積累經驗.

習近平來到位于濱海新區的天津國際生物醫藥聯合研究院,觀看了該院自主研發產品展示,察看了分析測試中心、藥物篩選中心等,詳細了解國家創新藥重大專項課題研發情況.看到這里集聚了一批高水平的海外歸國創業人員,習近平充分肯定他們為祖國科技事業和人民健康所作出的努力.他指出,科技創新是提高社會生產力和綜合國力的戰略支撐,必須擺在發展全局的核心位置.我們要充分發揮科技資源豐富、科技人才眾多的優勢,建設科技創新高地,不斷提高原始創新、集成創新和引進消化吸收再創新能力,促進科技和經濟深度融合.

中新天津生態城是中國、新加坡兩國在生態城市建設領域的重大合作項目.習近平來到這里,聽取了生態城規劃建設情況介紹,察看了規劃實景沙盤和建設展板,并考察了生態城智能電網綜合示范服務中心.習近平對生態城建設取得的成績表示肯定.他指出,生態城要兼顧好先進性、高端化和能復制、可推廣兩個方面,在體現人與人、人與經濟活動、人與環境和諧共存等方面作出有說服力的回答,為建設資源節約型、環境友好型社會提供示范.

保障和改善民生,是習近平調研的重要內容.他來到人力資源發展促進中心,了解中心提供的就業服務項目,并同正在現場的招聘人員和應聘大學生親切交談,詳細詢問有關情況.他還前往天津職業技能公共實訓中心,了解職業技能培訓情況,并同高校畢業生、失業人員、農村富余勞動力等代表座談.習近平強調,保障和改善民生是一項長期工作,沒有終點站,只有連續不斷的新起點,要實現經濟發展和民生改善良性循環.在聽取了座談會上各位代表的發言后,習近平指出,就業是民生之本,解決就業問題根本要靠發展.要切實做好以高校畢業生為重點的青年就業工作,加強城鎮困難人員、退役軍人、農村轉移勞動力就業工作,搞好職業技能培訓、完善就業服務體系,緩解結構性失業問題.他勉勵當代大學生志存高遠、腳踏實地,轉變擇業觀念,堅持從實際出發,勇于到基層一線和艱苦地方去,把人生的路一步步走穩走實,善于在平凡的崗位上創造不平凡的業績.他要求有關部門加大對高校畢業生自主創業支持力度,對就業困難畢業生進行幫扶,增強學生就業創業和職業轉換能力.

調研期間,習近平聽取了天津市委和市政府工作匯報,對天津近年來的工作給予充分肯定.他強調,加強和改善黨的領導,是實現經濟社會持續健康發展的根本保障.各級黨委要改進領導經濟工作的方式方法,善于為經濟工作把握方向、謀劃全局、提出戰略、制定政策、推動立法、營造環境；要堅持從大局出發、從黨和人民利益出發、從黨性原則出發進行決策,努力提高決策能力和水平；要充分發揮黨的政治優勢,全面做細、做實、做好群眾工作,充分激發人民群眾的積極性、主動性、創造性.

王滬寧、栗戰書和中央有關部門負責同志陪同考察.