Expert Sets 6 Specific Development Goals for China

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Expert Sets 6 Specific Development Goals for China

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Hu Angang, a renowned Chinese expert in the study of national conditions and professor of Tsinghua University, held that the goal system of China's development by 2020 may be summarized as six aspects---"growth, a great power, affluent people, national security, improvement of international competitiveness and sustainable development".

China will have quadrupled its gross economic volume by 2020, with the average annual GDP growth rate topping 7 percent from 2001 to 2020. In the meantime, China's GDP will be 16 times as much as that of 1978 by constant prices, one-fifth of the world's total, while the per-capita GDP will by then reach or approach the international level, making the country the world's biggest economic entity. Besides, the trade growth will surpass the economic growth, with China's trade volume making up about 10 percent of the world total and the country jumping to the second major trading country from the present sixth.

In the coming 20 years the relative gap between China's overall national strength and that of the United States will be reduced to two-fold from three-fold, making the country a world power with dominant ability.

The per-capita income level will see a constant improvement, rising from the current low-middle to the middle or above the middle level, while the life quality of the people will become noticeably better. The per-capita schooling years and life expectancy will witness an overall enhancement. The human development index will reach a fairly high level from today's mediocre level. Absolute poverty will be eliminated from population, and China will be built into a "Xiaokang" (" Well-off ") society of common prosperity.

National security and unification must be safeguarded. At the same time, defense and combat capability in high-tech conditions should be increased, the mechanization and informationization of the military be completed so as to achieve a leapfrog development of military modernization.

By 2020 Chin's international competitiveness will have climbed from the present backward 30th-40th placing to the world's top 10.

By 2010 the population natural growth rate will have been kept within 5 percent and zero growth been achieved by 2020. Forest coverage will reach 20 percent in 2010 and 23.4 percent in 2020. Construction of safety nets for the prevention of all kinds of disaster will be intensified and the emergency management & aid system will be established.

According to Hu Angang, China's economic, social and sci-tech development will enter its "prime time" in the next 20 years. By grasping this opportunity to speed up development, all the aforesaid goals will be realized.

By PD Online Staff Zhu Lizhen

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