Yesterday, the full text of a proposal that will play a crucial
role in shaping the country's development over the next five years
was issued, after being adopted at the 5th session of the 16th
Communist Party of China Central Committee that ended one week
before.
The Proposal on the 11th Five-year Plan on National Economy
and Social Development was divided into ten parts, and will
provide the basis for drafting the 11th Five-Year Plan
(2006-2010).
It said the first two decades of this century are of great
importance to China's development, and the next five years
especially so.
It included the aim of fully implementing a scientific concept
of development, coordinating regional development and making China
an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly society.
In terms of the global environment, the proposal highlighted
several challenges that the country would face.
The global economy would develop in a more uneven manner and
competition for natural resources, markets, technology and human
resources would be stiffer, it said, whilst trade protectionism is
expected to take new forms.
Domestic problems identified included unbalanced development
between urban and rural areas, an extensive mode of economic
growth, irrational economic structuring, weak independent
creativity, difficulty in solving problems relating to agriculture,
rural areas and farmers, and great employment pressures.
The draft of the 11th Five-Year Plan will be reviewed at the 4th
session of the 10th National People's Congress next March.
(Xinhua News Agency October 19, 2005)