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Vice-premier stresses geological prospecting

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-22 13:29

Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang has called for greater efforts to enhance domestic geological prospecting to ensure the country's resource reserves and supply.

Chinese government has made ensuring resource supply a major task to maintain a long-term, stable and relatively fast economic development, Li said in a letter to the China Mining Congress and Expo 2009 being held in Tianjin.

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He called for promotion of technology innovation to improve the efficiency of resource exploration and utilization and make the mining industry develop in an environment-friendly way.

Li also stressed international exchange and cooperation in mining industry, which could contribute to the world's sustainable development.

The three-day event, which opened Tuesday, attracted more than 3,500 government officials, entrepreneurs and experts from over 50 countries.