6. Making great efforts to improve the government's style of work. We will
adhere to the principle of "people first and government for the people." We will
maintain a scientific outlook on development and a correct attitude toward our
performance, and be realistic and pragmatic in our work. We must strictly
enforce the Statistics Law. We will work to establish a scientific system for
evaluating government performance and a system for comprehensively evaluating
economic and social development. We must resolutely oppose formalism and the
practices of falsifying reports. We cannot build any more "image projects" or
"vanity projects" that waste both money and manpower. We will reduce the number
of meetings and documents and improve their style. We should strictly
standardize and regulate all kinds of inspections, evaluations and all other
activities to determine compliance with standards. We should conscientiously
follow the guiding principles of the State Council's Third Conference on Clean
Government and intensify our efforts to build a clean government and combat
corruption, focusing on reforms and institutional development. In conjunction
with the Education Campaign to Preserve the Advanced Nature of Party Members, we
will strengthen the education, management and oversight of public servants and
work hard to turn them into a contingent of public servants with whom the people
are satisfied.
Fellow Deputies,
Strengthening national defense and developing the army constitute a task of
strategic importance to our modernization drive and an important guarantee for
safeguarding national security and reunification. Guided by Mao Zedong's
military thinking, Deng Xiaoping's thinking on army building in the new period
and Jiang Zemin's thinking on national defense and army building, we will
improve army building in all its aspects. We will enable our army to fulfill its
historic mission for the new century and new period, focusing on the two
historic objectives of ensuring that the army is capable of winning any war it
fights and that it never degenerates. We will always assign paramount importance
to the ideological and political development of our army to ensure that the
orientation of its development is correct. Taking the military strategy for the
new period as our overall guide, we will actively promote the revolution in
military affairs with Chinese characteristics and enhance the army's ability to
use IT in fighting integrated warfare in defense of the country. We will
intensify scientific and technological training for soldiers to turn out a new
type of highly competent military personnel. We will greatly strengthen
defense-related research and modernize our weaponry and equipment. We will
continue to carry out the reform and development of our defense-related science
and technology industries. We will complete the task of reducing the size of the
army by 200,000 troops. We will improve the army's logistics to strengthen its
support capability. The army must be run strictly in accordance with the law and
made more standardized. We will make the People's Armed Police more proficient
and more capable of responding to emergencies. We will raise the people's
awareness of the importance of national defense, improve the national defense
mobilization system and strengthen the army reserves. Governments at all levels
must vigorously support the development of national defense and army building
and strengthen the solidarity between the army and the government and between
the army and civilians.
Fellow Deputies,
We will unswervingly implement the principle of "one country, two systems,"
under which Hong Kong people administer Hong Kong and Macao people administer
Macao with a high degree of autonomy, and we will act in strict accordance with
the basic laws of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. We
will give our full support to the chief executives and governments of the two
regions in administering the regions in accordance with the law and in enhancing
their governance capability. We will increase the mainland's exchanges and
cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao in the fields of the economy, trade,
education, science and technology, culture and health, and promote the long-term
prosperity, stability and development of the regions.
