REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT
(Delivered at the Third Session of the Ninth National People's Congress on March 5, 2000)

Zhu Rongji
Premier of the State Council

Fellow Deputies, On behalf of the State Council, I now submit a report on the work of the government for your examination and approval and also for comments from members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

I.Review of Domestic Work in 1999

II. Adhering to the Policy of Expanding Domestic Demand

III. Working Energetically to Promote Strategic Restructuring of the Economy

IV. Continuing to Advance Reforms and Bringing About Comprehensive Improvement in Management

V.Accelerating the Development of Science, Technology and Education and Promoting Cultural and Ethical Progress

VI.Opening Wider to the Outside World

VII. Developing a Social Security System to Maintain Social Stability

VIII. Keeping the Government Strictly in Line and Making Greater Efforts to Develop the Government Itself

IX. Promoting the Great Cause of Peaceful Reunification of the Motherland

X. Diplomatic Work

Fellow Deputies, This year we will have formidable tasks in carrying out reform and development and maintaining stability, but there are also many favorable conditions that will enable us to make our work a success. Let us rally more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core, hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, adhere to the basic line of the Party, seize the opportunities, blaze new trails in a pioneering and confident spirit, work diligently and carry forward in an all-round manner the cause of reform and opening up and the socialist modernization drive into the new century.