CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING INSPECTED FUJIAN PROVINCE ON OCTOBER 15-16
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The People's Daily (October 17) published a full-page report on its front page on Chinese
President Xi Jinping's tour of Fujian province and visits to Dongshan County in the city of
Zhangzhou. Later on, October 15, he visited the Gu Wenchang memorial hall, where he learned
about the inspiring deeds of Gu, a former Party chief of Dongshan, and the Guandi cultural
industrial park. On October 16, morning Xi Jinping visited the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian)
Pilot Free Trade Zone, where he urged local authorities to adapt to the evolving situation,
steadily promote institutional opening up, and make new achievements in expanding high-level
opening up. That afternoon, Xi Jinping was briefed on the work of the CCP provincial
committee and the provincial government of Fujian, and gave instructions for the province's
future work. He urged the province to break new ground in deepening integration between
scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation and said efforts must be made
to accelerate the establishment of institutions and mechanisms to support all-around innovation,
promote integrated reform of institutions and mechanisms pertaining to education, science and
technology, and talent in a coordinated manner, and develop new quality productive forces in
line with local conditions. Xi Jinping asked Fujian to upgrade its free trade zone development,
engage further in the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and build itself into a core area
of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. He also asked Fujian to set an example in promoting
coordinated regional development and integrated urban-rural development, push forward the
building of national ecological conservation pilot zones, and move faster in establishing
national demonstration zones for boosting the marine economy in the cities of Fuzhou and
Xiamen. He urged all-out efforts on economic work in the fourth quarter of this year to strive
to achieve the annual economic and social development goals. Xi Jinping additionally
underscored the importance of promoting cross-Strait cultural exchanges and enhancing the
sense of the Chinese national and cultural identity among Taiwan compatriots.
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