Li Changchun (2nd R), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visits deputies to the Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) from North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region and joins their panel discussion in Beijing, March 7, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

At a panel discussion with NPC deputies from north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, urged the region to upgrade its resource industries and meanwhile boost the non-resource industries and strategic fledgling industries to push forward its economic transformation drive.

Li also urged the region to further reform its cultural system.