BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday presided over a State Council executive meeting to hear a report on promoting the building of a beautiful China, study work on foreign capital utilization, and mull ways to strengthen the training of skilled personnel.

The meeting adopted guidelines on bolstering the nursing workforce and optimizing nursing services, and draft rules on implementing the Law on Guarding State Secrets.

It noted that China's ecological environment has seen continued improvement, and called for efforts to coordinate pollution reduction with carbon reduction and work to keep skies blue, waters clear and lands pollution-free.

China will expand its opening-up of key areas, optimize policy implementation, facilitate foreign investment further, and renew its catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment, according to the meeting

Policy coordination should be strengthened to integrate work toward the carbon goals and ecological protection with the expansion of investment and consumption, and with the cultivation of growth drivers, according to the meeting.

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It also highlighted the important role of foreign-funded enterprises in fostering China's new development paradigm, and urged further measures to attract and utilize foreign capital.

China will expand its opening-up of key areas, optimize policy implementation, facilitate foreign investment further, and renew its catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment, according to the meeting.

On the training of skilled personnel, the meeting ordered efforts to strengthen research on the job market to cultivate skilled talent that is in short supply and in demand among enterprises.

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Efforts should be made to step up policy support, make good use of funds such as training subsidies, and enhance employment services for key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers, the meeting said.

It urged efforts to strengthen the nursing workforce and optimize nursing services to meet the people's demand for medical services, and ordered efforts to attract more talent to the nursing sector.

It also stressed the importance of guarding state secrets in accordance with laws and regulations, and called for measures to eliminate related hidden dangers and plug loopholes in a timely manner. 

Meanwhile, Li has urged counselors of the State Council and researchers of the China Central Institute for Culture and History to give full play to their unique roles and contribute to the development of the cause of the Party and the country.

Li made the remarks in a speech after he presented certificates to newly appointed counselors and researchers on Wednesday.

Since the establishment of the mechanisms, counselors and researchers have made positive contributions to the cause of the Party and the country for over 70 years, Li said.

Li urged counselors and researchers to carry out in-depth research, grasp the real situation of the economy, and offer their wisdom for the work of the government.

He called on them to carry forward fine traditional Chinese culture, create cultural masterpieces, and boost exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.

Li also expressed the hope that counselors and researchers will give full play to their role as bridges to build extensive consensus and pool more strength for the nation's development.