Published by: World Tibet Network News, Thursday, January 25, 1996

Source: Qinghai People's Broadcasting Station, Xining, in Standard Chinese 2300 gmt 22 Jan 96

Text of report by Chinese radio from Qinghai Province

The provincial economic restructuring work conference was held in Xining on 22nd January. The major subjects of this conference were to examine and sum up the 1995 work and to study and arrange the 1996 tasks for restructuring the economic and housing system.

After the summation and review of the reform work, the conference participants maintained that last year our province took the reform of state-owned enterprises as a key link and made new headway in deepening enterprise reform and other auxiliary reform.

The conference set forth the province's 1996 economic restructuring targets and tasks, as follows: We should comprehensively enliven the state sector of the economy; accelerate the pace of enterprise reform ; promote deep reform of the social security system dominated by the old-age and unemployment insurance systems; speed up the establishment of a market system; deepen the reform of the circulation system; reform the system for managing state property; accelerate the change of government functions; implement the measures for reforming the macrocontrol system; strengthen the macrocontrol system; facilitate the reform of the urban housing system; [words indistinct]; particularly expand the scale of opening up; [words indistinct]; promote lateral economic cooperation; realistically attend to the popularization of science and technology and education among rural and pastoral areas; make realistic headway in various reform tasks under the new situation of realizing two fundamental changes; and strive to make a

good start in successfully realizing the Ninth Five-Year Plan and various reform tasks.