11th Five-Year Plan

The following are the main targets China sets for the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010), listed in The Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development:

Economic growth:

1) GDP up 7.5 percent annually from 18.2 trillion yuan in 2005 to 26.1 trillion yuan in 2010; and 2) Per-capita GDP up 6.6 percent annually from 13,985 yuan in 2005 to 19,270 yuan in 2010;

Economic structure:

1) The share of service industry’s added value in GDP up from 40.3 percent in 2005 to 43.3 percent in 2010; 2) The share of employment in the service industry up from 31.3 percent to 35.3 percent in 2010; 3) The share of R&D spending out of total GDP up from 1.3 percent in 2005 to 2 percent in 2010; and 4) The rate of urbanization up from 43 percent in 2005 to 47 percent in 2010.

Population, resources and environment:

1) Population to be controlled at around 1.36 billion in 2010; 2) Energy consumption per unit of GDP down by 20 percent in five years; 3) Water consumption per unit of industrial added value down by 30 percent in five years; 4) The coefficient of effective use of water for irrigation up from 0.45 percent in 2005 to 0.5 percent in 2010; 5) The rate of comprehensive use of solid industrial waste up from 55.8 percent in 2005 to 60 percent in 2010; 6) The total acreage of cultivated land down from 122 million hectares in 2005 to 120 million in 2010; 7) The total discharge of major pollutants down by 10 percent in five years; and 8) Forest coverage up from 18.2 percent in 2005 to 20 percent in 2010.

Public services, and people's livelihood:

1) The average length of education up from 8.5 years in 2005 to nine years in 2010; 2) The coverage of basic old-age pension in urban areas up from 174 million people in 2005 to 223 million people in 2010; 3) The coverage of the new rural cooperative medi-care system up from 23.5 percent in 2005 to over 80 percent in 2010; 4) New jobs created for urban residents reaching 45 million in five years; 5) The number of rural laborers transferred to non-agriculture sectors reaching 45 million in five years; 6) Urban registered unemployment rate to be controlled at 5 percent by 2010 (4.2 percent in 2005); 7) Per-capita disposable income of urban residents up 5 percent annually in five years—from 10,493 yuan in 2005 to 13,390 yuan in2010; and 8) Per-capita net income of rural residents up 5 percent annually in five years—from 3,255 yuan in 2005 to 4,150 yuan in 2010.

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Major Projects to Be Undertaken for Building a New Countryside in 2006-2010

1) Large grain, cotton and edible oil production bases and quality grain projects, including breeding of improved strains, plant disease and insect pest prevention and control, and popularization of farm machinery.

2) Fertile soil projects, aimed at transforming medium- and low-yield farmland into high-yield cropland.

3) Crop protection projects, aimed at improving grassroots centers for harmful organism monitoring and control, building some demonstration bases for locust control by ecological and biological means, farm chemical safety testing centers and biotechnology testing centers, to reduce to the minimum the dangers brought about by plant diseases, insect pests, weeds, mice and other harmful living things.

4) Transformation of large irrigated areas and that of large draining pump stations in the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui.

5) Improved strain and fine breed projects, aimed at building crop germplasm resources banks, crop improvement centers, fine strain breeding bases, farms of live stock, poultry and aquiculture pure breeds, aquiculture genetics and breeding centers, crop germplasm resources farms and testing centers.

6) Animal epidemic prevention system, comprised of six subsystems for animal disease monitoring, prevention and control, quarantine and supervision, veterinary medicine quality supervision and remnant control, and technical support and material supply for animal epidemic prevention.

7) Agricultural product quality control and safety supervision system, at national, regional, provincial and county levels.

8) Rural drinking water safety, aimed to provide safe drinking water to 100 million rural residents.

9) Rural roads, aimed at building and transforming rural roads leading to all towns and villages with ready conditions.

10) Rural methane, mainly for daily use in rural households, in addition to large and medium-sized projects in some large animal and poultry farms.

11) Electricity to village and green energy county projects, aimed at establishing 50 green energy demonstration counties, and enable 3.5 million rural households without power supply to get access to electricity.

12) Rural medical care system, mainly to cover rural areas in central and west China.

13) Rural family planning service system, mainly to cover rural areas in central and west China.

14) Transfer of rural labor force, aimed at providing technical training and employment service to rural laborers.

Key projects for revitalizing China's equipment manufacturing industry

1) Large high-efficiency clean generating equipment: million kilowatt-grade nuclear power generating units, supercritical thermal power generating units, gas-steam combined cycle generating units, integrated gasification combined cycle generating units, large cycle fluidized-bed boilers, large hydropower generating units and pumped storage generators, large air-cold units, and large wind-driven generators.

2) Super-high voltage power transmission equipment: technology for manufacturing key equipment for 500-kilovoltage and 750-kilovoltage direct current transmission facilities, and development of complete-set equipment for 1,000-kilovoltage alternative current and 800-kilovoltage direct current power transmission.

3) Complete sets of large ethylene equipment: localization of million-ton-grade ethylene equipment and complete sets of equipment for paraxylene, terephthalic acid and polyester.

4) Large coal chemical equipment: equipment for liquefaction and gasification of coal, and coal-to-alkene equipment.

5) Comprehensive coal mining equipment: large comprehensive underground mining, conveyance and dressing equipment, and large open-cut mining equipment.

6) Large metallurgical equipment: large continuous rolling mills for cold and hot rolled steel sheet, and complete sets of plating equipment.

7) Large shipping equipment: large offshore oil engineering equipment, 300,000-ton ore and crude oil ships, 10,000-TEU or bigger container ships, liquefied natural gas tankers, and supporting equipment for high-tech, high-value added ships and large-power diesel engines.

8) Rail transport equipment: mastering the core technology and commercial production of trains that travels 200 kilometers or more per hour and new subway cars.

9) Equipment for environmental protection and comprehensive utilization of resources: large environmental protection equipment for air pollution control, treatment of urban and industrial wastewater and solid waste; and equipment for the utilization of sea water and treatment of discarded unserviceable motor vehicles.

10) Numerical-control machine tools: improving the standards of large, precision, high-speed numerical-control equipment and numerical-control systems as functional parts.

Major high-tech projects

1) Integrated circuits and software: establishing integrated circuit research and development centers, industrializing the technology for 90-nanometer and smaller integrated circuits, and developing basic software, middleware, large key applied software and integrated systems.

2) New-generation networks: building next-generation Internet demonstration projects, a nationwide digital TV network and mobile communication demonstration networks with independent property rights.

3) Advanced computing: making breakthrough in technology for petaflop computer systems, building grid-based advanced computing platforms, and commercializing the production of teraflop computers.

4) Biomedicine: building a number of demonstration projects for commercial production of vaccines for major diseases and gene-modified medicines, improving the modern traditional Chinese medicine system, and enhancing the capability for new medicine invention and production.

5) Civil airplane: developing planes for trunk and branch lines, general-purpose planes and helicopters, as well as advanced engines.

6) Satellite application: developing new meteorological, oceanographic, resource and telecommunication satellites, and poison- and pollution-free thrust augmented carrier rockets; building earth observation and navigation positioning satellite systems and facilities, and application demonstration projects for civil satellite ground systems.

7) New materials: building demonstration projects for commercial production of high-performance new materials badly needed in information, biological and aerospace industries.

Key transport infrastructure projects

1) Railway: six railways for passenger transportation, including one between Beijing and Shanghai; five inter-city railways, including the one between Beijing and Tianjin; and the upgrading of five existing railways, including the one between Datong and Qinhuangdao.

2) Highway: 14 expressways, including the one from Beijing to Hong Kong and Macao.

3) Port: transit systems for the transportation of coal and imported oil, gas and iron ore, and containers transport systems at 12 seaports, including those in Dalian, Tianjin and Shanghai; coal transit and storage bases in eastern and southern China.

4) Shipping: the third-phase project for dredging the deepwater channel at the estuary of the Yangtze River, the course at the estuary of the Pearl River, channel dredging in the Yangtze and Pearl River valleys and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal; and accelerating port construction along inland rivers.

5) Airport: expansion of ten airports, including those in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou; relocation of the two airports in Kunming and Hefei; and make airports in central, western and northeastern China to accommodate flights on branch lines.