Delivering the Report on the Work of the Government at the opening of the First Session of the Tenth National People's Congress Wednesday, Premier Zhu Rongji outlined the general requirements for the government work this year, which were set forth by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

These requirements are^-- Take Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents as our guide;

- Earnestly carry forward the spirit of the Sixteenth Party Congress;

- Steadfastly give top priority to development in the Party's governance and rejuvenation of the country;

- Vigorously respond to difficulties and challenges caused by changing domestic and international environments;

- Continue to follow the policy of expanding domestic demand as well as the proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy;

- Further deepen the reform and open still wider to the outside world; accelerate the strategic readjustment of the economic structure; - promote a sustained, rapid and sound development of the national economy and integrate speed with structure, quality and efficiency;

- Correctly handle the relationships among reform, development and stability; effectively improve the development of democracy and the legal system and the promotion of spiritual civilization and Party building;

-- And promote a coordinated development of socialist material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization.

(Xinhua)