Pan Gang: Balancing urban and rural development can lead to scientific development

"The development of all Chinese enterprises benefits from stability in the social environment and progressive background. Of course Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd, Inner Mongolia, is one of them," Pan Gang said. He is the Party committee secretary and board chairman of the company, which has grown from a small factory into the exclusive dairy food sponsor for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

In 2003, Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd built the first road for Dongshuiquan Village, 20 kilometers from the downtown of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. They also established milking stations in the village and employed farmers in cows breeding, which has turned a poor village into "the seventh pasture" of Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd, with the per capita annual income of over 7,000 yuan.

"Balancing urban and rural development can lead to scientific development. There is a virtuous circle between our companies, farmers, and the environment," Pang said.

"The Scientific Outlook on Development worked out by the central government is timely and has guiding significance. The sooner Chinese enterprises correct their wrong outlook on development, the more efficiently they will conserve energy and protect the environment," Pang Gang added.

Common prosperity is scientific development

"The Scientific Outlook on Development is embodied as common prosperity and harmonious families in our village," Wang Huadong, Party branch secretary of Xialiuzhai Village in Anhui Province said.

Wang Huadong came into office in 1992, bearing the responsibility of updating the underdeveloped village. Thanks to Wang Huadong and other village leaders, funds were collected to drill a well. Wang has organized intensive production and research and development of organic food, and he also encouraged villagers to reclaim barren hills and grow fruit trees.

"Our village gleaned proceeds of over 1 million yuan last year. Food processing and building industries are also conducted in the village and daily wages for every villager is from 20 yuan to 60 yuan. We have realized common prosperity, which to me indicates scientific development," Wang Huadong said.

Independent innovation reflects the Scientific Outlook on Development

Jing Xiangbin, a delegate to the 17th CPC Congress from Pingzhuang Coal (Group) Co., Ltd, Inner Mongolia has continuously discovered the "Science" covered by the Scientific Outlook on Development. Jing was sent to Germany fifteen years ago to learn how to operate imported machines. He trained a group of qualified technicians skilled at operating imported machines after he returned to China, who have finished dozens of technical innovations and greatly improved efficiency.

"Some German experts have expressed their surprise at our technology, and it is from the policy of technological innovation that we benefit," Jing said.

"Technical innovation should be carried out at the old State-owned coal mines for potentiality exploration, but we should also be fully aware of the danger of exhaustion of resources and pay attention to the ecological environment protection," Jing Xiangbin explained.

(China.org.cn, by Yang Xi, October 18, 2007)