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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the media during a press conference shortly after the conclusion of the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 16, 2007. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday that China must adhere to its three-decade-old policy of reform and opening-up in order to develop itself into a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and modernized nation.

Wen made the remarks at a press conference held following the conclusion of an annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature.

"We must hold a belief unswervingly: we are surly able to develop China into a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and modernized nation, as long as we emancipate our mind, keep abreast with the times, and seek truth, as long as we adhere to reform and opening-up, and as long as we adhere to peaceful development, scientific development and harmonious development," he said.

Editor: Yan