(Rat-month 14), March 3, 1996, Jiang Zemin pointed out that to solve all the problems in China depends upon the development of the economy.

1996, Jiang Zemin's speech pointed out: The economy is the foundation to solve all the problems in China, in the final party members responsible for the comrades of the Fourth Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference eighth meeting to participate in the Eighth National People's Congress four meetings in the end to rely on economic development. In this sense, said concentrate our efforts to boost the economy, and China's modernization, is itself political. Requires leading cadres to talk about politics, will not affect the development of the economy, but also do not have any meaning to go to political instead of economic, on the contrary, but in order to create more adequate political conditions and provide a more powerful political guarantee to ensure that the National People's wholeheartedly better and faster economic construction upswing.