10th Five-Year Plan

The basic tasks set out in the 10th Five-Year Plan were:

1) To ensure an average annual economic growth of about 7 percent.

2) To increase the country’s GDP to 12,500 billion yuan by 2005, with a per-capita average of 9,400 yuan.

3) To increase the number of urban employees and the number of surplus rural laborers working in the cities to 40 million each, and to control the registered urban unemployment rate at around 5 percent.

4) To keep the market prices stable, and to maintain a balance between international revenue and expenditure.

5) To optimize and upgrade the industrial structure, and strengthen China’s international competitiveness.

6) To ensure that the primary, secondary and tertiary industries account for 13 percent, 51 percent and 36 percent of the country’s GDP, respectively, with those employed by these industries making up for 44 percent, 23 percent and 33 percent of the total of employed in the country.

7) To improve the national economy and IT level of the society.

8) To put into operation of more infrastructure facilities.

9) To bring under effective control the disparity between various regions in development, and promote urbanization.

10) To raise R&D spending to over 1.5 percent of the GDP, and strengthen sci-tech innovation capabilities, thereby speeding up technological progress.

11) To increase the gross enrolment rates of junior high and senior high schools as well as higher education institutions to over 90 percent, 60 percent and 15 percent, respectively.

12) To reduce the natural population growth rate to less than 9 per thousand, and capping population at no more than 1.33 billion by 2005.

13) To increase the forest coverage to 18.2 percent, and the urban green rate to 35 percent. The total amount of major urban and rural pollutants discharged will be reduced by 10 percent as compared with those 2000, and more measures would be taken to protect and save natural resources.

The Plan also called to increase the growth of disposable income for urban residents and the net income for rural residents to 5 percent each. In addition, it also set the objectives to increase the per-capita housing space for urban residents to 22 sq m by 2005, and to ensure that 40 percent of all households in China get access to cable TV.

Another key objective prescribed in the Plan was to improve medical and health services in both urban and rural areas, and to enrich the people’s cultural lives.