Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stressed the importance of promoting domestic consumption during a three-day inspection tour of the central Hunan Province, which ended on Sunday.

Wen said the key to a sound economic future lay in continuing to "unswervingly" implement the government's policies to deal with the international economic downturn.

Local governments should further develop energy-efficient and environment-friendly industries and put priority on a recycling and green economy, Wen said.

The enhanced economic power of central and western regions, whose economies profited from central government support policies,added vigor to the country's economic development and should continue to be supported, he said.

(Xinhua News Agency June 14, 2009)