The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be held in Beijing from October 8 to 11.

The decision was made by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at a meeting on Thursday.

Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

During the meeting, participants also discussed suggestions on the country's 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) for national economic and social development.

Some of the key points discussed and affirmed at the meeting include the following:

China should maintain its stable and rapid pace of economic growth in the 2006-2010 period, improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth, speed up the strategic adjustment of economic structure, and avoid major ups and downs for the economy.

Transforming methods of growth should also be accelerated over the next five years, with a focus on developing a recycling economy and constructing an energy-saving, environment-friendly society.

The nation should improve its capacity of independent innovation, which serves as a key foundation for its continued economic structure adjustment and transformation of growth.

Over the next five years, China should pay more attention to social equity and democracy, and to serving the people's interests.

Development of economy and society, of cities and the countryside, and of different regions should be more balanced and harmonious in the 2006-2010 period.

The country's industrial sector shall give support to the development of the agricultural sector, while the better developed urban areas should do the same to the underdeveloped rural areas.

In the five years to come, China will persist in its reform toward the establishment of a socialist market economy and a more vigorous and open social system.

(Xinhua News Agency September 30, 2005)