Top leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Friday said China needs new ideas and breakthroughs in the fields of reform and opening-up, so as to improve the national economic scale and the overall national strength.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, Jiang, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said China has entered a new development era of building an overall well-to-do society.

Jiang said in this new era China should upgrade its economic efficiency, rely on scientific and technological advances, and improve its management and supervision to ensure the quality of economic growth.

He also stressed the importance of the implementation of a sustainable development strategy, urging the country to make efficient and rational use of natural resources and strengthen environmental and ecological protection and construction.

Jiang also placed importance on balanced regional development and balanced urban and rural development.

From the historical perspective, China must seize opportunities and make accomplishments in the favorable strategic circumstances in the first one or two decades in this century, he said.

China's present social conditions make it ready for an accelerated pace of socialist modernization development, Jiang said, calling on the whole Party to unite the whole people of all nationalities to seize the opportunity, deepen the reform and opening-up measures, boost development and maintain stability.

Jiang Zemin, in his report to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, said the Party's door is open to all positive factors of the society, including private entrepreneurs, foreign-invested firm employees, self-employed businessmen and freelance professionals, he also said that the Party should advance with the times. What's your opinion?