China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin has urged large corporations to improve their innovative capability so as to achieve sound and rapid economic growth.

"Innovative capability is the driving force of a company's restructuring and transformation of economic growth pattern," Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said during a visit to north China's Shanxi Province from March 24 to 28.

He also called on large companies and corporations in Shanxi to develop a recycling economy and urged industrial restructuring, energy conservation, and environmental protection.

(Xinhua News Agency March 29, 2007)