Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday concluded his inspection
tour of the eastern Anhui Province, showing concern for local
economic development and people's livelihood.
During his four-day visit, he went to Wuhu, Fuyang and the
provincial capital, Hefei, touring factories, villages, communities
and disaster-hit areas.
Chinese President Hu Jintao
watches the growth conditions of wheat during his inspection to the
Wangjiaba Town in Funan County, east China's Anhui Province, Jan.
12, 2008. Hu made an inspection tour to Anhui from Jan. 11 to
14.
He dropped in on scientific research institutes and enterprises
engaging in independent innovation, including the Institute of
Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a local
forklift factory and automobile manufacturer Chery.
The president placed his emphasis of the tour on the shift of
the local economic development mode, improvement of independent
innovation capabilities and industry structure upgrading.
While inspecting factories, Hu visited production workshops,
central control rooms, laboratories and testing centers, carefully
listening to introductions and examining products.
He was delighted to see independent innovation achievements made
by these enterprises and research institutes, encouraging them to
continue to tackle key problems by emancipating the mind and
sticking to the path of independent innovation with Chinese
characteristics.
When visiting Chery, the country's largest Chinese-owned
automobile manufacture with a brief history of 11 years, Hu
carefully observed car accessories and engine models while
discussing with enterprise leaders the development of the country's
auto industry.
Along a production line, Hu watched the process of car
assembling.
Noting that Chery car exports had amounted to more than half of
the country's total, Hu said independent innovation was core
competitiveness, and the enterprise should invest more in research
and development and "take a larger stride" in innovation.
In the CAS Institute of Plasma Physics, renowned for joining the
11 billion euro (US$16.3 billion) ITER project aimed at incubating
a sustained solution of energy production, Hu learned carefully
about the latest contribution made by China to the largest ever
scientific research program under multinational collaboration.
He was delighted to see that China's Experimental Advanced
Super-conducting Tokamak, made by Chinese scientists, had put the
nation into an international advanced camp of the field.
Plasma physicists said the ITER, initiated by the United States
and the Soviet Union, is an enlarged equipment like "Tokamak," a
Russian word referring to a machine producing a doughnut-shaped
magnetic field for confining a plasma. Tokamak is one of several
types of magnetic confinement devices and the leading candidate for
producing fusion energy.
The multi-nation collaborated ITER, designed to use abundant
resources of deuterium and tritium collected from seawater to
produce energy, and, subsequently electricity, is expected to be
completed in 2016.
In November 2006 China signed the Agreement on the Establishment
of the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization for the Joint
Implementation of the ITER Project. Also signing was the European
Union, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United
States.
Hu told researchers that independent innovation could gain the
nation new edge in development. He encouraged them to make
breakthroughs in key technologies that "the economic and social
development is badly in need".
Braving snow and a cold front, the Anhui native also visited
local families to inspect community services and learn of the life
condition of locals.
He went to a water project along the Huaihe River to see the
construction progress of flood prevention and control
facilities.
Chinese President Hu
Jintao?inspects the Anhui Heli Co., Ltd. in east China's Anhui
Province, Jan. 13, 2008. Hu made an inspection tour to Anhui from
Jan. 11 to 14.
President Hu Jintao (2nd L
front) inspects the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of
Plasma Physics in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province,
Jan. 13, 2008. Hu made an inspection tour to Anhui from Jan. 11 to
14.
President Hu
Jintao?talks with a villager during his inspection to the
Wangjiaba Town in Funan County, east China's Anhui Province, Jan.
12, 2008. Hu made an inspection tour to Anhui from Jan. 11 to
14.
President Hu
Jintao?talks with a worker during his inspection to the Chery
Automobile Co. Ltd., one of the biggest home-grown car makers in
China, in Wuhu, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 11, 2008. Hu made
an inspection tour to Anhui from Jan. 11 to 14.
President Hu
Jintao?inspects the Wangjiaba Town in Funan County, east
China's Anhui Province, Jan. 12, 2008. Hu made an inspection tour
to Anhui from Jan. 11 to 14.
Chinese President Hu
Jintao?inspects the Chery Automobile Co. Ltd., one of the
biggest home-grown car makers in China, in Wuhu, east China's Anhui
Province, Jan. 11, 2008. Hu made an inspection tour to Anhui from
Jan. 11 to 14.
Chinese President Hu
Jintao?inspects the Yicang community service center in Hefei,
capital of east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 13, 2008. Hu made an
inspection tour to Anhui from Jan. 11 to 14.
(Xinhua News Agency January 15, 2008)
