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accordance with the demands made by the Government Work Report, use reforms as the basis for overall plan- ning, and promote reforms and construction in Guangxi.
Deputy (Wei Shurang) said: The Government Work Report ran through the theme of reforms and opening up. It encouraged the people to work hard. [passage omitted]
More Agriculture Investment Urged OW 290353 Beijing XINHUA in English 1643 GMT 28 Mar 88
[Text] Beijing, March 28 (XINHUA)—A Chinese agri- cultural expert today appealed for more investment in agriculture to enable to harvest 500 million tons of grain annually by the end of this century.
This appeal was made by Huang Shunxing of Taiwan origin, a deputy to the Seventh National People's Con- gress (NPC), while examining the Government Work Report delivered by Acting Premier Li Peng to the current NPC session Friday.
He also urged the Government to better coordinate the work of agrotech research institutes and train more agrotechnicians.
China's 1988 budget projects a 15 percent rise in expen- ditures for agriculture. "That's fine, but not enough,' said Huang, 65, who served as a member of the "Legis- lative Yuan" in Taiwan for 8 years and returned to the mainland 3 years ago.
This is because most of the increased expenditures will be spent as subsidies for higher grain prices, and to farmers growing sugar-bearing crops or raising pigs, he explained.
"From a long-term point of view," he said, "providing subsidies is not a good method. The key lies in increasing agriculture's own vitality."
In the past 2 years. Huang visited villages in 20 prov- inces and autonomous regions. He found that some rural areas were short of such capital goods as chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and plastic sheets.
He also discovered that some provinces had diverted the funds for agricultural development to expanding rural factories or had cut back expenditures for agriculture.
Agricultural research institutes have few exchanges of information, resulting in redundant research projects and making it impossible to spread research results promptly. Some agrotechnicians have switched to other jobs because of low earnings.
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Huang urged the Government, while increasing expen- ditures for agriculture, to take effective measures to make sure that such expenditures are really used for agriculture.
"While increasing production of chemical fertilizers and other capital goods, we must crack down on speculators and profiteers," he said.
According to Huang, the Government should streamline agrotech research institutes, and make unified arrange- ments for research projects.
He called on research institutes to exchange information in time to promote the spread of research results.
He proposed that the Government provide special sub- sidies and preferential treatment to those engaged in agricultural research and production.
Ji Pengfei Meets NPC, CPPCC Hong Kong Delegates HK260400 Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE in Chinese 0937 GMT 25 Mar 88
[Report: "Ji Pengfei Calls on Hong Kong and Macao NPC Deputies, CPPCC Members"]
[Text] Beijing, 25 Mar (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE) As they knew that Ji Pengfei, director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, would call on the NPC deputies and CPPCC members from Hong Kong and Macao today, many Hong Kong and Macao reporters this morning came to cover this event very early.
At 0900, accompanied by Li Hou and Lu Ping, deputy directors of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. Ji Pengfei arrived at the guest house where the Guangdong delegation is staying. As soon as he stepped out of his limousine, he said hello to the reporters who had been waiting there for a long time.
This time, the NPC deputies from Hong Kong and Macao are staying in the guest house of the Central Organization Department. They talked with Director Ji in a plain meeting room. When learning that the deputies this time are not staying in a luxury hotel, Ji Pengfei smiled and said: “You are NPC deputies, so you may not mind the hardships here."
Ji Pengfei asked with deep concern why Deputy Fei Yimin had not come to Beijing, and asked Ma Wanqi about the living conditions of the deputies here.
Wang Minquan told Ji Pengfei that she had been elected as an NPC deputy for the first time. She wanted to know how to better perform her duties and have more knowl- edge about the actual situation, as the NPC only holds one session a year.
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