| Jiang's
report boosts confidence (11/13/2002)
Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin's report at the 16th National
Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will give people
greater confidence as they strive to get rich, delegates to the
Party congress and experts said.
"People will find that they have a broader array of choices
when making investments and starting businesses," delegate
Lang Guoqing said.
Jiang Zemin said in his report: "It is necessary to foster
notions and form a business mechanism in conformity with the basic
economic system in the primary stage of socialism and create a social
environment in which people are encouraged to achieve something
and helped to make a success of their career."
In this regard, the government is expected to take a series of
measures, such as breaking monopolies, providing a freer environment
for investors, reforming administrative examination and approval
procedures, rectifying market economic order, and lowering the access
threshold for investors.
"Ordinary people will have more say in the decision-making
process," said Zhang Guangqiang, a congress delegate from Northwest
China's Shaanxi Province.
Zhang noted that a major content of building a well-off society
is to improve socialist democracy and the legal system to better
safeguard and respect people's political, economic and cultural
rights.
Jiang Zemin said in his report that all legitimate income, from
work or not, should be protected, which has garnered intense reactions.
"This brilliant exposition further assures the income distribution
results under the current basic distribution system," said
Su Hainan, director of the Labour Salary Institute under the Ministry
of Labour and Social Security.
"The immediate and vital interests of ordinary people will
be firmly protected so long as we strictly carry out the essential
points of distribution system reform," Su said.
Regarding the protection of legitimate income, Su said current
criminal laws and anti-smuggling laws have clearly delineated the
fight against illegal incomes grabbed through corruption, tax evasion,
smuggling and fake production.
Other laws and regulations, including the labour law, have made
prescriptions on protecting legitimate work income.
Furthermore, policies on the commercialization of achievements
in scientific research stipulate that scientific research personnel
may be paid with income from stocks or may deduct a percentage of
money from the scientific achievements' direct income, according
to Su.
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