Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has urged authorities responsible for statistics, surveying and mapping, food and tobacco to implement the government's scientific outlook on development.

Addressing their annual working meetings, Zeng urged the statistics authorities to innovate in their methods and improve accuracy and authority.

Related authorities should continuously improve their surveying and mapping work so as to provide a quality service for the country's construction, he said.

Zeng also urged food production and reserve authorities to do their best to ensure stable increases in food production and farmers' incomes, while safeguarding relatively stable supply and prices in the food market.

China should complete tasks on tobacco production and sale and enhance monitoring and management so as to promote the tobacco industry to develop in a healthy, continuous and sustainable way.

(Xinhua News Agency January 28, 2008)