Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to build a socialist modern Xinjiang that is characterized by unity, harmony, prosperity, affluence, cultural progress and a sound eco-environment, where people live and work in peace and contentment.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when listening to the work reports from the regional government and Party committee.
He arrived in Urumqi, the regional capital, on Tuesday to attend activities marking the region's 70th founding anniversary.
Over the past 70 years, Xinjiang has undergone earth-shaking changes by leading all ethnic groups in the region to firmly safeguard national unity, ethnic unity, and social stability, and continuously promote economic and social development, Xi noted.
Xi called on Xinjiang to actively explore a path of high-quality development that suits its characteristics and is based on its resource endowment and industrial foundations.
He urged the region to develop distinctive and advantageous industries and cultivate competitive industrial clusters.
It's important to promote the deep integration of sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation, and develop new-quality productive forces in line with local conditions, he said.
Xi also urged Xinjiang to advance its cultural tourism industry, enhance ecosystem protection and restoration, play a greater role in promoting domestic and international dual circulation, improve people's livelihoods, and vigorously develop social undertakings so that people of all ethnic groups can broadly participate in the development process and share its fruits.
The president said it is necessary to make every effort to maintain social stability in Xinjiang, stressing the importance of building a public line of defense against terrorism and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.
Xi said that strengthening Party leadership and Party building is the fundamental guarantee for advancing Xinjiang's modernization and urged efforts to improve the long-term mechanism for improving conduct, tightening discipline, and fighting corruption so as to create a political atmosphere of integrity.
Xi stresses building socialist modern Xinjiang
The "soft landing" of the China-EU electric vehicle case will greatly boost market confidence and inject new momentum into China-EU cooperation in automobile trade and investment, a spokeswoman of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said at a press briefing in Beijing on Thursday.
He Yongqian, the spokeswoman, made the remarks after China and the European Union (EU) agreed on the necessity of providing general guidance on price undertakings for Chinese companies exporting battery electric vehicle (BEV) passenger cars to the EU.
"China and the EU simultaneously announced on Monday that they had achieved positive outcomes following multiple rounds of consultations on the EV case, a development that has drawn wide attention at home and abroad. Industry players from both sides have 'highly welcomed and fully endorsed' the outcome, saying the 'soft landing' of the case is expected to greatly boost market confidence and inject new momentum into China-EU cooperation in automobile trade and investment. Some EU politicians have described it as a positive step toward building a sustainable China-EU trade relationship, and said it demonstrated that resolving trade differences through partnership remains feasible," she said.
"Against the current international backdrop, China and the EU, acting in a spirit of mutual respect and within the framework of WTO rules, have properly addressed the EV case, which is of significant positive importance. The outcome will not only contribute to the sound development of China-EU economic and trade ties and help safeguard the stability of the global automotive industrial and supply chains, but will also send a clear and strong signal that both sides are willing to uphold a rules-based international trading order, setting a good example for countries to resolve differences through dialogue and consultation and injecting greater certainty and positive energy into global economic growth," she said.
"China appreciates the spirit of dialogue showed by the EU side and stands ready to work with the EU, building on the current positive outcomes, to further implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two sides, maintain dialogue and communication, and support stable industrial and supply chains on both sides, continue to deepen cooperation on the basis of market principles, and make active contributions to the global green transition," she added.
"Soft landing" of China-EU EV case to significantly boost market confidence: MOC spokeswoman
