(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-10-21 15:55

BEIJING -- The Communist Party of China on Sunday wrote the "scientific outlook of development" into its amended Constitution to make it the keynote of the country's overall development in years to come, but observers say the implementation of the policy is not an easy job.

Possible challenges to the central government's authority might come from some local governments and enterprises which have their own interests, the observers warn.

Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of CPC, has called at the Party's 17th National Congress on cadres and people across the nation to change their minds to meet the scientific development, and the new perception of development should be spread in every corner of the country.

The congress, which concluded Sunday, urged that major problems that hinder the implementation of the scientific outlook of development should be solved.

The perception was put forward by the CPC Central Committee in 2003 and has since become China's national strategy aimed at balanced and sustainable growth, as the country, the fourth largest economy in the world, is suffering from deterioration of environment and an enlarged poor-wealthy gap.

Chinese leaders have been repeatedly calling for coordinated development between urban and rural areas, among different regions, between economic and social development, between the development of man and nature, and between domestic development and opening up to the outside world.

But achieving scientific development has been an arduous task, to which challenges come from profit-seeking local governments and officials, observers believed.

On August 19, a molten aluminium spill occurred at a workshop under Weiqiao Pioneering Group Co., Ltd. in Zouping County, East China's Shandong Province. The accident, which happened only one month after the production facility had began operation, killed 16 people and injured another 59 with a direct economic loss estimated at more than 6.6 million yuan (about 860,000 U.S. dollars).

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