四.The quantltv and quallty of Press conferences hlt a record h lgh. The SCIO hosted a total of 68 Press eonferenees in 2005，uP from 41 and 60 Press eonferenees 11eld in 2003 and 2004 resPeetively.More Press eonferenees were held in 2005 than any other year sinee 1993.Invited to tllese eonferenees were rePresentatives from nearly 40 State Coun- eil dePartments suell as the Ministry of ForeignAffairs，theNationalDevelovment and Reform Commission，the Ministry of Edueation，the Commission for Seienee， Teehnology and Industry for National Defense，ete. The Press serviee ofthestateCouneil dePartments and tlle Provinees，munieiPali- ties and autonomous regions also made great strides in 2005，all with the la电est number ofPress eonferenees everheld.In- eomPlete statisties show 51 StateCouneil dePartments ineluding the Foreign M inistry，the Ministry of Edueation，the Ministry ofHealthandtheMinis仰ofPub- lie Seeurity，organized 390 Press eonfer- enees on tlleir own.31 Provinees，muniei- Palities and autonomous regions ineluding Beijing，Heilongjiang，Sllanghai，Guangxi and Chongqing held 630 Press eonferenCes· Three tiers oftheChineseGovernment of Provinees，munieiPalities and autono- mous region扮held a total ofl，0 88 Press eonferenees in 2005，eomPared to nearly 900 in 2004. Based on what had been aehievCd in 2004，tlle SCIO made further headway in the eoordination and Planning ofthePress briefing serviee in 2005，bringing abouta eonstant imProvement in the quality of Press eonferenees.Theyweremadetobet- teraddressPublieeoneernsinatimelyfash- ion with enhaneed news value，们leProgress ean be illustrated from three asPeets: (l)Press eonferenees were held on ma- jor events，hot一button issues and breaking news.FOrexamPle，attheeritiealjuneture of the Sino一U.S.and Sino一EuroPean tex- t ile trade negotiations，we invited Com- meree Minster Bo Xilai to a Press eonfe卜 enee on rhe afternoon of May 30，briefing the nledia on the Cllinese Governments， attitudes and stanees.Just a few hours af- ter the Shenzhou 6 manned sPaeeeraft landed on oetober 17，we weleorned Tang X ianming，Direetor of China Manned- SPaee Engineering offiee，who gave a gen- eral Pieture oftheshenzhou6mission.Jia Youling，China’5 ChiefVeterinary offieer and Direetor Geneml oftheVeterinaryBu- reau of the Ministry ofAgrieulture，sPoke about the highly Pathogenie bird flu dis- ease on the Cllinese malnland and el】’o rts made to Prevent and eontrol the ePidemie on three seParate oeeasion on May 27， oetober 28 and Deeemberl4. (2)In aeeordanee with the requirements ofPromotingoPennessofCPCaffairsand imProving transPareney in CPC，5 work as Put forward at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 1 6th CPC Central Commlttee，the SCIO made intensified efforts to armnge Press eonferenees for heads of the CPC Central Committee daPartments.on Janu- ary 31，one day after the“No.l Doeument，，oftheCPCCentralC0mmittee was issued.we invited Chen Xiwen. DePuty Direetor of the ot，fi ee of Central FinaneialW匕rk Leading GrouP，to sllare his insights on the offieial doeumentaswell as China’5 rural eeonomy and rural Polieies.W臼ng Zaixi，场ee Minister ofthe TaiwanW心rk offiee of tlle CPC Central Committee，exPounded on CPC Cenrral Committee’5 Poliees toward Taiwan and other related issUes at the three news eon- ferenees held on January 28，Marell 15 and May 3 resPeetively at tlle invitation oftlle SCIO.On July7，we had Li Jingtia一1， DePuty Head of the Leading GrouP for Edueation CamPaign to Preserve tlle Ad- vaneed Nature ofCPCMembersandt!一en Viee Minister oftheorganizationDePart- ment of the CPC Celltral Committee，ina Press eonferenee to brief the media on the education camPaign oftlzeCPC. (3)Th eSCI0hostedpresseo一lferenees in regard to imPortant events and eonvell- tions as well as the release of signifieant governrnent white PaPers.on August 30， we held a Press eonferenee on tlle eom- memoration oftlle60thanniversaryofthe vietory oftheChinesePeoP!e，sV叭lrofRe- 5 istanee Against JaPanese Aggression and tlle world，5 anti一faseist war，offering
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