Starting in 2006, the Outline of the 11th Five-Year Program for
National Economic and Social Development (2006-2010) sets major
goals for national economic development in the following five
years:
-- Stable development of the national economy. Maintain an
annual GDP growth of 7.5 percent, and double the 2000 per-capita
GDP; create 45 million employment opportunities for urban residents
and farmer workers respectively; keep prices stable; and maintain
the balance of international revenue and expenditure.
-- Optimizing and upgrading the industrial structure. The
industrial, product and enterprise structures are to be more
rational, and the added value of the tertiary industry will
increase by 3 percentage points in the GDP, with an employment
growth of 4 percentage points of the total labor force. Enhance the
independent innovative capability, increase the proportion of the
expenditure on scientific research and experiments to 2 percent of
GDP, and develop enterprises with independent intellectual property
rights and famous brands, and strong international
competitiveness.
-- A marked growth in the utilization of resources. The energy
consumption for per-unit GDP will decrease by 20 percent; the water
consumption for per-unit industrial added value will decrease by 30
percent; the utilization coefficient for agricultural irrigation
water will grow to 0.5; and the comprehensive ratio for solid
industrial residue used will increase to 60 percent.
-- Enhancing the capability for sustainable development.
Maintain 120 million ha cultivated land; intensify the protection
for fresh water, energy, and important mineral resources; and put
under control the deteriorating trend of ecological environment,
reduce the total volume of released major pollutants by 10 percent,
increase the forest coverage to 20 percent, and control greenhouse
gas emission.
-- Perfecting the market economic system. Make breakthroughs in
the reform and mechanism setup of the administration, state-owned
enterprises, finance and taxation, and banking, and greatly enhance
the capability of market supervision and social management;
coordinate the opening-up and domestic development in a still
better way, and promote the opening economy to a new level.
-- Further improving people's life. An annual increase of five
percent for the per-capita disposable income of urban residents and
for the per-capita net income of rural residents respectively, an
overall growth in the quality of life of urban and rural residents,
and remarkable improvement of the conditions of housing,
communication, culture and environment.
