Li Qiang is tasked with reviving the world’s second-largest economy after three years of COVID-19 curbs.
| China’s new Premier Li Qiang said on Monday the country still remains a global investment “highland” and is firmly committed to opening up no matter how the external situation changes.
Making his public debut in a wide-ranging media conference, the former Communist Party secretary of Shanghai and close ally of President Xi Jinping also said China will take measures to boost jobs.“Developing the economy is the fundamental solution for creating jobs,” Mr Li, 63, said during the televised session at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.
Earlier on Monday, Mr Xi said China needs security to develop and must modernise its military to make it a “Great Wall of Steel”, calling for China to step up its ability to safeguard national security and manage public security.Mr Xi was speaking for the first time since the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, unanimously voted to confirm him in a precedent-breaking third term as China’s president.
Mr Xi said China will distribute the fruits of development more equitably, in an effort towards “common prosperity”, his signature policy of reducing wealth gap by ways such as asking private firms to pitch in.
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