China should not loose time to deepen reforms: PM designate

Chinese leader Li Keqiang who is officially projected as the new Premier, today said China should not lose any time in deepening reform in key sectors as the country is going through a period full of "unprecedented risks and challenges."

Li, 57, is currently the Vice Premier and is set to take over as the new Premier from Wen Jiabao during the once-in-a-decade leadership change at the Congress of the ruling Communist Party currently underway here.

Li, who holds a Doctorate in Economics, told a discussion of the Party delegates on the speech made by outgoing President Hu Jintao yesterday at the inaugural meeting of the Congress that China should resolutely discard all notions and systems that hinder efforts to pursue development in a scientific way.

Li noted that China remains in an important period of strategic opportunities for its development, the period that is full of "unprecedented risks and challenges."

Under such circumstances, he said, China should accelerate improvement of the socialist market economy and facilitate the change of growth model to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects as well as deepen reform and opening up in an all-round way, official media here reported.

The Party needs to properly handle the relations between the regulators and the market and implement a more proactive opening up strategy to boost the momentum and vitality of development, he said.

Li stressed the importance of keeping to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and make the Scientific Outlook on Development guide China in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

For the past decade, he said, China has made marvellous historic achievements in reform and opening up and modernised the country with theoretical and practical innovations, which have laid a solid foundation for completing the building of a moderately prosperous society.

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