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12th five-year plan to be drawn up

2010-01-19 18:10 BJT

 

2010 is the final year of 11th five-year plan. This means its time to draw up the plan for next five years. The official from the National Development and Reform Commission says the plan for 2011 to 2016 will focus on solving China's economic bottlenecks, as well as raising incomes.

Xu Xianping is vice director of the National Development and Reform Commission. He says China's economy grew rapidly in past thirty years. There were also great improvements in social development and the standard of living. But the period also saw structural and deeper problems. The 12th Five Year Plan must take these into consideration and address important issues for long term development.

Enlarging domestic demand should be the strategic principle for fast, smooth development. The plan should deepening income distribution reform, increase incomes for farmers and urban low salary earners to support enlarging domestic consumption.

Improving people's livelihood should be a fundamental goal.

Xu Xianping, Vice Director of National Dev't & Reform Commission, said, "The 12th Five-Year Plan should take more active employment policies and provide more jobs. The policies should also support employment and entrepreneurship."

Xu says the plan should promote coordinated development between urban and rural areas. Migrant workers must gradually be given urban residence and a large population of farmers must enjoy the results of reform.

The 12th five-year plan must also stress innovation, energy conservation and environmental protection.

Editor: Zheng Limin | Source: CCTV.com