| Hohhot: The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region should make use of its own advantages to sustain a steady and relatively fast economic growth, China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin said during a three-day trip to the region that ended on Monday.
The region should coordinate its economic development with its natural resources and environment, and strengthen ecological and environmental protection in order to build a "green barrier" in northern China, said Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Inner Mongolia should be a strategic base of new energies, he said when inspecting local companies in the region, whose businesses mainly focused on clean use of coal, development of new energies and agricultural products.
Jia urged enterprises in Inner Mongolia to play a key role in innovation, and encouraged the region to develop a "green and ecological agricultural and husbandry industry, with local characteristics."
During his inspection in Inner Mongolia, the first provincial-level ethnic autonomous region in China, Jia also called on the authorities to improve people's living standards, and step up education on ethnic unity.
"People will self-consciously protect the ethnic unity only when they feel good in the community and live a well-off life," Jia said when visiting a farmer named Xin Jinzhuang who just moved into a new apartment thanks to financial subsidies provided by local government.
When meeting with representatives of non-communist parties, the business circle and people without party affiliation in Inner Mongolia, Jia also urged them to make stepped-up efforts to push forward the united front cause.
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