Transcript The 12th Five-Year Plan and Economic Cooperation Between

The 12th Five-Year Plan and
Economic Cooperation
Between China and Belgium
Ye Fujing
January 26, 2011
Main Contents
• Ⅰ. Five year plan;
• Ⅱ. The 12th Five year plan;
• Ⅲ. Bilateral economic cooperation
Ⅰ. Five-Year Plan
• 1. What is the five-year plan
• 2. The process of “five-year plan”
elaboration
1. What is the five-year plan
• It is China's strategic plan of national economy
and social development.
• It provides strategic objectives, directions,
guidlines and roadmaps for
1) national economic aggregates,
2) upgrade of industrial structure,
3) science and technology innovation,
4) social undertakings,
5) economic reform,
6) opening up to outside world,
7) great construction projects.
• It includes binding and non binding indicators
2. The process of “five-year plan”
elaboration
• 1. The main process
• 2. The procedures and mechanisms
• 3. The role of the ruling party in the
formulation of Five-Year Plan
Ⅱ. The 12th Five-Year Plan
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1. Theme of the 12th Five-year plan
2. Basic requirements
3. The major targets
4. The main tasks and measures
3. Theme of the 12th five-year plan
• Acceleration of the transformation of the
economic development pattern
• —Laying more stress on the "people first"
principle,
• —Paying more attention to comprehensive,
sustainable development and overall planning
and coordination,
• —Putting more emphasis on securing and
improving people's livelihood to promote social
equality and justice
4. Five basic requirements of the 12th
five-year plan
• Major task: Economic strategic restructuring;
• Important support: The promotion of scientific
and technological progress and innovation;
• The aim and fundamental end: Ensuring and
improving people's livelihood;
• Focal point: The building of a resource-saving
and environment-friendly society;
• Powerful driving force: Reform and openingup.
5. The major targets in the next five
years (1)
• 1.INDICATORS:
• TO maintain stable and relatively fast economic
growth;
• TO achieve major development in economic
restructuring;
• TO universally raise people's incomes at a
relatively fast pace;
• TO remarkably enhance social construction;
• TO continuously deepen reform and opening-up;
5. The major targets in the next
five-year plan (2)
• 2.GOALS:
• TO achieve substantial progress in transforming
the economic development pattern;
• TO remarkably strengthen the country's
comprehensive national power, international
competitiveness and capability in shielding
against risks;
• TO make notable progress in meeting people's
living and cultural demands;
• TO further consolidate the foundation for the
making of a better-off society in an all-round way.
6. The main tasks and measures(1)
• Boosting domestic demand, maintaining stable and
relatively fast economic development;
• Pushing forward rural modernization, maintaining
coordinated development in rural and urban regions;
• Establishing a modern industrial system and
enhancing the core competitiveness;
• Promoting balanced development among regions,
and actively yet prudently proceeding urbanization;
• Accelerating a resource-conserving, environmentfriendly society, improving the ecological civilization
level
6. The main tasks and measures(2)
• Enforcing the strategy of rejuvenating the nation
through science,education and talented personnel;
• Reinforcing social construction and establishing and
improving a fundamental public service system;
• Promoting cultural development and prosperity,
raising the national cultural soft strengths;
• Accelerating the pace of reform in an all-round way
with greater resolve and courage;
• Pursuing a mutually-beneficial strategy of openingup and making more efforts to further open up to the
outside world
7. Boosting domestic demand
• Establishing a long-term mechanism to expand
consumption,
• Optimizing investment structures,
• Quickening pace of the building of a new growth pattern
that is jointly driven by consumption, investment and
exports.
8. Establishing a modern industrial
system
• Transforming and upgrading the manufacturing
sector,
• Developing strategic emerging industries,
• Accelerating the growth of the service sector.
• Constructing the modern energy industry
• Boosting the building of a comprehensive
transport system
• Raising the level of informatization
• Encouraging the marine economy.
9. Pushing forward urbanization in
a positive and sound manner
• To improve urbanization layout and form
• To strengthen management of
urbanization.
10. Accelerating the building of a
resource-saving and environmentfriendly society
• To actively respond to climate change
• To develop recycling economy
• To strengthen resource conservation and
management
• To intensify environmental protection
• To strengthen the ecological protection
and construction of disaster prevention
system
11. Enforcing the strategy of
rejuvenating the nation through
science,education and talented
personnel
• Upgrade scientific innovation ability,
• Perfect technology innovation mechanism,
• Accelerate education reform and
development;
• Cultivate talented personnel
12. Reinforcing social construction
• Promote employment, and construct harmonious labor
relations;
• Rationally adjust the distribution of income;
• Increase the ratio of people's incomes to the national
income and the ratio of workers' incomes in the primary
distribution of national income;
• Perfect the social security system that covers urban and
rural residents;
• Accelerate the reform and development of the healthcare
sector;
• Properly handle contradictions among the people;
• Take concrete measures to secure social harmony and
stability.
13. Give great impetus to economic
system reform
• Promote reform of the administrative
system;
• Accelerate the reform of the fiscal and
taxation system;
• Deepen the reform of the financial system;
• Promote resource products price and
factor market reform;
• Accelerating social management reform
14. Pursue a mutually-beneficial
strategy of opening-up
• Optimize the structure of foreign trade;
• Raise the level of utilization of foreign
capital;
• Accelerate the enforcement of the strategy
of "going out";
• Actively participate in the global economic
governence and regional cooperation.
Ⅲ. Lift the Level of Bilateral
Economic Cooperation
• 1. Economic complementary
• 2. New great engine for bilateral economic
cooperation
15. Lift the level of bilateral
economic cooperation
• The two economies are highly
complementary thus having a great
cooperation potential;
• Belgium’s labor productivity is significantly
above the EU average;
• Its chemicals, basic metal and metal
products and food/drinks/tobacco have
great competitive advantages
16. The five-year plan will provide a
new great engine for bilateral
cooperation
• China is aiming to promote domestic
consumption through a variety of measures,
such as boosting the minimum wage for its
workers and building an improved social safety
net;
• Changes like these will hasten the rise of a
middle class that wants the same cars,
appliances, fashion, medical care and other
amenities that have long been enjoyed by
consumers in the Western world
16. The five-year plan will provide a
new great engine for bilateral
cooperation
• The Chinese government is also putting an intensive
focus on strategic emerging industries, with more highvalue work in areas like healthcare, energy and high
technology.
• And China warmly welcome foreign businesses to help
develop these sectors by entering joint ventures and by
conducting more research and development in China.
• We can strengthen cooperation in such fields as hightech industries, strategic emerging industries,
commercial service, and energy saving and
environmental protection.
16. The five-year plan will provide a
new great engine for bilateral
cooperation
• China has embraced high-speed rail and has
developed its infrastructure at a tremendous
rate.
• The Chinese and Western governments are
working together on a variety of transportation
issues;
• The two sides also have the potential to enlarge
technology cooperation and personnel
exchanges in infrastuctures.
16. The five-year plan will provide a
new great engine for bilateral
cooperation
• My country will continue improving services and
management in a bid to form a better
environment for trade and investment,
• We will further protect intellectual property rights
and improve market order to provide a good
environment for each other's companies.
16. The five-year plan will provide a
new great engine for bilateral
cooperation
• Cooperation that will put millions of our people
to work.
• Cooperation that will develop technologies to
solve the most pressing environmental,
economic and social challenges facing the world
today.
• This is the great opportunity before China and
Belgium.
• We just have to seize it.
Thank you!