The Central Economic Working Conference, which concluded Thursday
in Beijing, is of great importance for China to jump-start the
10th five-year plan (2001-2005), says an editorial carried in
our Daily on Friday, December 1.
Based on a thorough
review of the international and domestic situation and a summary
of this year's economic work, the three-day conference, convened
by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
set forth guidelines and plans for economic work in the year
2001, the editorial says.
The editorial hails
the country's major achievements in 2000, including its adherence
to the guidelines of increasing domestic demand, implementation
of a proactive fiscal policy and a moderate monetary policy,
maintenance of a relatively fast growth rate of the national
economy, steady advancement of economic restructuring, realization
of further opening-up to the rest of the world and a major
turn in national economic development.
The achievements
demonstrate the outstanding abilities and skills of the CPC
Central Committee with President Jiang Zemin at the core,
in controlling the economy under complicated domestic and
international situations, and that a series of major decisions,
guidelines and policies adopted by the central leadership
are correct, the editorial emphasizes.
In 2001, China
should continue to increase domestic demand, carry forward
the proactive financial policy and the moderate monetary policy,
and try to consolidate and develop sound economic growth by
utilizing various kinds of macro-control measures, it notes.
It says that the
country should realize further industrialization by developing
the information industry; give greater boost to agriculture
so as to increase the income of farmers; and consolidate and
expand the reform of State-owned enterprise by restructuring
managerial systems and strengthening management.
Meanwhile, the
country should complete its preparations in all fields for
the entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), in a bid
to achieve a higher level of opening-up and to build an export-oriented
economy, the editorial says.
It urges to increase
channels for employment, accelerate the pace of building and
improving the country's social security system and further
enhance living standards.
It also calls for
properly handling the relationship between reform and stability,
so as to boost sustained, fast and healthy development of
the national economy and the overall progress of society.
The fulfillment
of the tasks spelt out at the conference must rely on the
people, as the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics
is a cause of the people, the editorial stresses. The people
are the creator of the cause and its beneficiary as well,
it says.
To arouse people's
enthusiasm, initiative and creativity would ensure the success
of the reform and development as well as the bloom of socialism's
vitality, according to the editorial.
"Market economy
is a great school," the editorial says, urging leading
officials at all levels to be proficient in studying the new
situation and problems, on the eve of the country's forthcoming
WTO entry.
(People's Daily
12/01/2000)
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