Stories of CPC: Promoting high-quality development in Zhejiang

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The local government in Zhejiang province has made unremitting efforts to promote high-quality development serving people's interests and improving their wellbeing, a regional Party secretary said at a meeting held in Hangzhou on Friday.

By Ma Yujia

China SCIOUpdated: November 23, 2018

The local government in Zhejiang province has made unremitting efforts to promote high-quality development serving people's interests and improving their wellbeing, said Che Jun, secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), while addressing a briefing with the theme of "Promoting high-quality development" held in Hangzhou, the provincial capital, on Friday.

A briefing organized by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), with the theme of "Promoting high-quality development", is held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on Nov. 23, 2018. [Photo/People.cn]


In order to promote high-quality development, Zhejiang has made great efforts to promote reforms in the current digital era, such as "One-stop government service reform" offering greater convenience to the public, he said.

As a pioneering role, Che said, Zhejiang is actively involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, developing various types of high-technology in a spirit of openness and win-win cooperation and advancing ecological progress. It has witnessed great economic and social development, a vivid reflection of the achievements of reform and opening-up across China.

Song Tao, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), delivered a speech at the meeting, saying it was necessary to respect people-centered and all-round development. He called on international political parties to play a leading role and work together to make contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Shen Mingquan, secretary of CPC Committee of Anji County in northwestern Zhejiang, shared a topic with foreign guests on how primary-level Party organizations were playing an important role in promoting development. He cited the examples of Yucun, Lujia and Huangdu villages, explained how villagers had achieved great success in protecting the environment while developing a scale economy and promoting common wealth.

Gao Hongbing, vice president of Alibaba Group, shared his company's story of innovation in the digital economy. He said that as a private company, Alibaba was a beneficiary and practitioner of China's reform and opening-up and was willing to share its experiences with the world.

During the briefing, Elsayed Mahmoud, deputy speaker of House of Representatives of Egypt; Arshad Dad, secretary-general of Tehreek-e-Insaf of Pakistan and Peter Goodfellow, president of the National Party of New Zealand shared their impressions of the astonishing achievements of China, including Zhejiang, in recent times under the leadership of the CPC, and called for international cooperation to promote high-quality and innovation-driven development.

This was the second edition of the series initiated by the IDCPC this year marking the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up, showing how regional CPC committees implemented the major strategic decisions of the CPC Central Committee and the achievements made.

Another aim is to present real and vivid CPC stories to the world, enabling the international community to better understand China's development.

Almost 400 representatives of over 80 political parties from 35 countries attended the briefing co-hosted by the IDCPC and the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC.

The previous edition, with the theme "Reform and opening-up holds the key to the destiny of contemporary China," was held in Shenzhen,a city known for pioneering China's reform and opening-up efforts, on May 27.

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