Non-CPC party head calls for more, better research

More efforts will be made to conduct in-depth research on the country's major projects and decisions so as to offer better advice for the construction of a modern socialist country, Hao Mingjin, chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, said on Sunday.

Hao, speaking from the sidelines of this year's two sessions. said the association has organized over 20 provincial authorities to conduct surveys and has formed suggestions on an array of major and strategically important national issues over the past five years.

Topics include promoting the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, accelerating the integration of the advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, improving the modernization of the industrial chain, driving the formation of a unified domestic market as well as nurturing more small and medium-sized companies for common prosperity. "Such efforts have promoted the enaction of related policies, the deepening of reform as well as the country's higher-level opening to the outside world," he said.