Eight major tasks were set for the economic agenda in 2007 at
the Central Economic Work Conference.
First, to persistently strengthen and improve macro control to
maintain and promote the sound economic development trend. It is of
vital importance to keep the consistency and stability of China's
macro economic policy, further put into practice macro
control-related policies and measures and try to carry out
preemptive and moderate adjustments in a suitable and timely manner
in accordance with new changes in economic operation, so as to
actively guide social expectations and ensure stable and rapid
economic development. Efforts should be intensified to balance the
relationship between investment and consumption and between
internal and external demand, while devoting more energy to expand
domestic consumption. The present work should focus on the rational
control of investment growth and optimizing the investment
structure. Persistent efforts should be made to encourage consumer
spending, especially farmers' consumption to accelerate the
adjustment of national income distribution and improve the income
level and purchasing power of farmers and low-income residents in
the urban areas. While maintaining a suitable growth of exports and
the use of foreign capital, China is to actively expand imports and
increase investment outside China. China will continue with its
prudent fiscal and monetary policies, increase support to key and
weak areas, apply various monetary policy tools to strengthen
liquidity management, reasonably control credit availability and
optimize the credit structure. Great attention should be paid to
guide and effectively regulate the real estate market. Efforts
should be made to coordinate the relationship among financial,
monetary, industrial, land and social development policies.
Economic, legal and necessary administrative means should be used
to make macro control more reasonable and effective. Special
efforts should be made to ensure the implementation of all kinds of
policies, principles and tasks.
Second, to focus on the economic development in the rural areas
in order to promote the building of a new socialist countryside. As
an extremely important national strategic policy of the Party,
issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers must be
carefully dealt with. The work to promote and stabilize agriculture
so as to increase farmers' income allows no relaxation. Persistent
efforts should be made to coordinate the economic development in
urban and rural areas, to encourage industry to support agriculture
and cities to support the countryside, and to practice the
principles of giving more, taking less and relaxing control to
tangibly consolidate and strengthen the agricultural foundation.
Work also needs to be done to develop the rural economy in an
all-round way, to increase farmers' income and to gradually set up
a mechanism for coordinated development of agricultural and
industrial sectors. Especially, at a time of rapid economic growth
and high financial revenue, the country should try to seize the
opportunity to continuously consolidate, improve and strengthen all
kinds of policies to support and benefit the farmers. Tangible
inputs should be made to projects involving agriculture, rural
areas and farmers so as to make the development of modern
agriculture the driving force for the building of a new socialist
countryside. Farmers' overall quality is to be enhanced so that
they are going to play a more effective role as the major force in
reviving the rural areas. The basic infrastructure construction in
the rural areas should be strengthened while the development of the
social welfare undertakings in the rural areas should be
accelerated and various reforms in the rural areas be
continued.
Third, to actively promote the optimization and upgrading of
industrial structure by strengthening energy conservation and
ecological protection. With an irrational economic structure and an
extensive economic growth mode, and in the historical process of
industrialization and upgrading of consumption structure, China is
faced with serious conditions in terms of energy resource
conservation and ecological protection and hard tasks in saving
energy and reducing pollution. A consensus on concept must be
reached to help all parties concerned to make up their mind and
make great efforts to achieve tangible results. Effective measures
should be taken to find any potential method to reach the goal of
energy conservation and pollution reduction. To eliminate outdated
production mode should continue to be an important method to adjust
and optimize the industrial structure. To strengthen the government
responsibility should be regarded as the key to realize the goal of
saving energy and reducing pollution and discharge. The improvement
of the market-based regulatory mechanism should be used as the
basic means to achieve the energy-saving targets. The promotion of
law-abiding governance should act as an important guarantee for the
job. The supervision role of public opinion should be brought into
full play. A healthy, energy-saving and environment-friendly
consumption mode and sound social habits should be encouraged so
that the whole society will involve themselves in the development
of a energy-saving and environment-friendly society.
Fourth, to improve the country's capacity of innovation and to
accelerate the development of an innovation-oriented country.
International science and technology progress and China's
modernization drive require us to speed up the development of an
innovation-oriented country. The country must take a road of
independent innovation with Chinese characteristics and try to make
tangible efforts to keep up with other countries, and to keep
improving local enterprises' innovative capacity in an open
environment and their capability to integrate, digest and absorb
imported technologies in accordance with the National Long- and
Middle-term Program of Sci-Tech Development. Enterprises are to be
granted a principal status in technological innovation and all
kinds of mechanisms and policies are to be made more reasonable to
speed up the implementation of major sci-tech programs. China has
set up the goal of growing into an innovation-oriented country, so
people need to be resolute to solve all kinds of problems and try
to fulfill the historical mission of raising the capacity of
independent innovation through careful, solid and hard work.
Fifth, to implement an overall strategy of regional development
and promote a sound development of urbanization. Efforts should be
made to develop and improve a nationwide unified market, to improve
the mechanism for coordinating the development of different regions
and to support the growth of local pillar industries. The eastern
region should be encouraged to transfer their industries to the
central and western regions. Efforts should be made to improve
labor division and cooperation mechanism so as to realize optimal
resource distribution in as many fields as possible. The state will
increase its support to the construction of basic infrastructures
and public services in less-developed regions. To accelerate the
development of old base areas of the Communist-led forces in the
first half of the 20th century, ethnic minority concentration areas
and impoverished areas. To push forward the planning of key
development zones so that they can serve as a scientific basis for
coordinated regional development. Efforts should be made to carry
on with the improvement of basic infrastructures and ecological
environment in the western region, focusing on the development of
science and technology, education, pillar industries and key areas.
The grain production capability of China's northeastern area should
be strengthened. Support will be given to the research and
development of major equipment of general machines in the hope of
making breakthrough in this regard. It is important to put into
practice the polices for promoting the development of China's
central region and to support the industrial transfer from China's
eastern region and overseas to the central region. The country's
relatively rich eastern area should take a lead in adopting the new
mode of industrialization, continuously promote mechanism
innovation, and accelerate the optimization and upgrading of
economic structure and also the transformation of the economic
growth mode. To step up urbanization should focus on enhancing the
comprehensive development capacity of cities and ensuring an
orderly transfer of rural population. Efforts should be made to set
up and improve the low-rent housing supply system in urban areas,
standardize the affordable housing system, continuously improve the
housing conditions for low-income people in urban areas. The
research and planning work on developing city clusters should be
strengthened to guide the coordinated development of big as well as
small and medium-sized cities.
Sixth, to continue the reform of systems and accelerate the
formation of the mechanism that helps to put into practice the
scientific outlook on development. To set up such a mechanism is
the main task in the furtherance of reform in the years to come.
The country should persist in the socialist market economy reform
direction and make more efforts in the reform process to accelerate
economic and social development and to take a road of scientific
development. System and mechanism bottlenecks that are responsible
for extensive economic growth mode, instable macro-economic
operation and inharmonious factors are to be steadily tackled
through reforms in key areas and key links. The reform of
state-owned enterprises will concentrate on the improvement of
corporate competitiveness and governance. The reform of
administrative governance, as well as investment, financial and
taxation systems, will focus on the transformation of government
functions. The reform of the financial system will focus on the
improvement of the legal person management structure and the
optimization of the financial structure. The reform in the social
area targets the establishment of a fair social security system. In
the process of reform, the priority should be given to balancing
the relationship among reform, development and stability so as to
continuously enhance the rationality of reform-related decisions
and the coordination among reform measures. It is important to
press ahead with mature reform measures and properly deal with
changes in interest sharing resulting from the reform so as to
ensure the reform goes on smoothly.
Seventh, to persist in the mutually beneficial and win-win
strategy of opening up and open the country wider to the outside
world. With the end of transition period after China's WTO
accession, the country is faced with new changes in its practice of
opening up. Efforts should be made to urgently adjust and improve
the export-oriented economic development mode on the basis of
consolidating and expanding existing achievements, so as to improve
the country's level in foreign trade development and foreign
capital use, to cope with new problems resulting from the expansion
of the service sector, to strengthen the country's capability of
participating in the economic globalization and safeguarding the
national economic security, and to push China's foreign
trade-related work to a new level. Focusing on the optimization of
the composition of exported commodities, the country should speed
up its efforts in transforming the foreign trade growth mode. There
is an urgent need to improve the quality of foreign capital use by
importing advanced technologies, managerial experience and overseas
talents. The “going-out” strategy should be continued.
Eighth, to put people first and continuously promote social
harmony. Tangible work should be done to increase employment and
income redistribution. Great importance should be attached to the
employment of members from “zero employment families.” More
employment guidance and services should be offered to college
graduates. The mechanism of wage negotiation should be improved to
effectively safeguard labors' legitimate rights. Efforts should be
intensified to increase the income of people earning less. Polices
should be made more rational so as to steadily increase the size of
the middle-income group. To strengthen tax collection and
administration to achieve effective adjustment of the distribution
of high-income earners and supervision on the income distribution
in monopoly industries should be strengthened. It is of vital
importance to accelerate the construction of a social security
network to make the urban social insurance system cover more
people. Endowment insurance, medical insurance and industrial
injury insurance should be expanded to enterprises of various types
of ownership. The government should continue to improve the
security system for urban low-income families. The supervision on
and administration of social security funds should be strengthened.
The efforts to develop the country's education, health care and
culture should be accelerated. To offer people more fair
opportunities in education and to strengthen quality-oriented
education should be put on the top of the government's agenda.
Efforts should be made to help the rural areas, the central and
western regions, and the poor, border and ethnic minority
concentration areas enjoy more educational resources. The policies
on scholarship, fellowship and student loans should be carefully
implemented, so that children from poor families can enjoy equal
education opportunities. Public health care should always stick to
the nature of public welfare and a good medical care system that
covers residents in rural and urban areas should be set up as soon
as possible. While the public health and medical service system is
improved, the reform scheme on the health care system should be
accelerated. Efforts should be made to accelerate the development
of the country's cultural undertaking and culture industry and
offer various affordable cultural services so as to better meet
people's demand in terms of the cultural life. Tough actions should
be taken to crack down on various crimes to ensure social
stability. To improve the work safety guarantee mechanism and curb
the trend of frequent occurrence of serious accidents should be
given top priority, so as to ensure the security of people's life
and their property.
(China.org.cn)