CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING

China's official newsagency Xinhua reported that on January 23, 2018 Xi Jinping General Secretary and chairman of the CCP CC, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and Chairman of the Leading Group for Deepening the Reform of the Central Government, presided over the second meeting of the leading group and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that 2018 will be the first year to implement the spirit of the 19th Party Congress and the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up. He stressed the importance of doing a good job in reform, carrying forward the spirit of reform and innovation and pushing forward new ideas for innovation. The meeting emphasised the need for more fair and equitable allocation of social welfare resources, safeguarding the credibility of public welfare undertakings, improving the training to achieve more skilled workers and giving professional workers a sense of honour, pride, and a sense of motivation to stimulate skilled workers, initiative and creativity.The meeting emphasized that major international science programs and major science projects should follow the requirements of the national innovation-driven development strategy and plan opening up and cooperation in science and technology from a global perspective, and enhance the innovation capability and international influence in the frontier fields of our strategy.It stressed the need to reform and develop the Confucius Institutes and get them to serve as an important tool of diplomacy with Chinese characteristics and an important force of communication.The meeting emphasized the need for establishing a dispute settlement mechanism for "one belt, one road" and establishing an effective litigation, mediation and arbitration convergence mechanism to resolve the "Belt and Road" business and investment disputes in accordance with the law, protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and foreign parties on an equal footing, and create a stable, fair and transparent business environment for the rule of law. The meeting focussed on the pharma sector and pointed out that in order to reform and perfect the policy of guaranteeing and using generic drugs it is necessary to focus on promoting generic drug R & D innovation, improve quality and efficacy, improve the ability of drug supply support, and better protect the needs of the general public.The meeting stressed that to strengthen and standardize the management of scientific data, it is necessary to adapt to the situation of big data development, strengthen the security protection of important data infrastructure, determine the data security level and establish data sharing and an external exchange of security review mechanism for government decision-making, public safety, national defense construction and scientific research.
Politburo Standing Committee members Li Keqiang, Zhang Gaoli, Wang Yang and Wang Huning attended the meeting.Members of the Leading Group for Overall Deepening Reform of the Central Government attended the meeting and the leading comrades of the Central Government and responsible comrades of the central and state departments concerned attended the meeting.






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