On March 10, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao joined a panel discussion with deputies at the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress from north China's Hebei Province in Beijing.

In the discussion, Wen said he completely 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.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao joins a panel discussion with deputies at the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress from north China's Hebei Province in Beijing.

Wen called on the province to intensify its efforts in transforming its 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.

“Hebei should put more efforts into accelerating technological innovations, upgrading product quality and cutting energy consumption and carbon emissions instead of expanding in scale,” he said.

The premier also urged the province to intensify its efforts in developing high-tech industries such as new energy, new material, electronics and biological medicine and change the current industrial structure dominated by the steel industry.

Steel output accounts for more than one third of the province’s total industrial output, according to the Hebei Provincial Development and Reform Commission.

On January 30, Premier Wen for the first time went to a village in Chengde, Hebei to seek public opinions for the government work report he is to deliver at the annual session of the National People's Congress.

By Guo Changdong