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

Meanwhile, Guangdong phased out outmoded production facilities. In 2005, more than 390 small businesses that failed to meet industrial standards were shut down. The same year saw Guangdong's energy consumption for every 10,000 yuan of GDP stand at 0.79 tons of standard coal, the lowest in China and equivalent of 65.8 percent of the national average.

In the first half of 2006, the national per-unit energy consumption went up 0.8 percent on average, but the indicator in Guangdong went down 2.5 percent. The observers accredited these achievements to efficient policy execution by the provincial government.

Wang Xiaoguang believed the scientific outlook on development was a result of the fact that economic and social development had entered a new era and it summed up experiences of China's reform and opening up over the past three decades. It also resulted from the integration of concepts of development in economy, society, politics and cultures, he added.

As a new measure to practice the scientific outlook of development, the State Council, China's cabinet, has recently approved the masterplan of urban and rural development of Southwestern China's Chongqing. It was the nation's first masterplan for coordinated development of urban and rural areas.

The plan aims to eliminate discrimination against rural people, which was partly caused by the current residence registration system, and to narrow the income gap between the urban and rural residents.

Under the masterplan, redundant labors in rural areas will be encouraged to flow into urban areas, migrant workers will be facilitated to turn into urban residents, resources will be distributed in a balanced way between urban and rural areas, and the residence registration system and land control and land use regime will be reformed.

Attending the 17th CPC National Congress, Huang Daowei, party chief of Qinzhou City, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said,"The scientific concept of development is not a catchphrase, but an orientation of China's future development, which conforms to the experience and trend of global development. To achieve scientific development, we should do our work in real earnest."

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