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Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders on Monday joined lawmakers in panel discussions on the government work report, which was delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at the parliament's annual session. Hu said efforts should be focused on economic construction to ensure steady and fast economic growth. "We should pay more attention to coordinated and sustainable development in an all-around way, and mobilize the initiative of all people to form a great force to boost the country's modernization drive," Hu said while talking to National People's Congress deputies from the coastal province of Jiangsu. He stressed the need to upgrade the industrial structure as a way of transforming the mode of the country's economic development. He also underlined the importance of conserving energy, reducing emissions and promoting scientific innovation. Transformation of the mode of development and economic restructuring are the most pressing tasks at present for the Chinese government, Wen said in the government work report. These measures are the "key to solving the problems of unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development" in China, he said. Developed regions are at the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, and efforts should be made to push forward reform in key areas and in critical sectors, according to Hu. He also called for greater reform and opening-up in China's coastal regions and fostering new growth engines there. | 
