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China to rank the third of the world in national strength as a whole in 2020

As released by the Strategic Research Group for Sustainable Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Mar.2, the "Report for China's Sustainable Development Strategy 2004" brought forward a general goal for China to fully realize a well-off society in 2020.


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As released by the Strategic Research Group for Sustainable Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Mar.2, the "Report for China's Sustainable Development Strategy 2004" brought forward a general goal for China to fully realize a well-off society in 2020. This is to serve as a reference for the sectors concerned in their decision-making. It means to use a time-span of around 20 years for the total GDP volume to go twice doubled on the basis of that in 2000, to realize by and large the industrialization with China's national strength as a whole to be placed at the 3rd of the world. And in the meantime it is to meet at large the requirement for a sound cycle of sustainable development.

By 2020, China's informationization and competitiveness will be raised to rank within the 15th of the world, said Niu Wenyuan, chief scientist of the subject group. The area of land-use for the urbanization must not exceed 2 percent of the total territory while its radiated geographical space must not be smaller than 30 times that of its own size. By the time the value created with the consumption/per unit of energy and resources will be raised to 8 or 10 times as against that of 2000, thus approaching by and by the goal as put forward by the international community for sustainable development. By the time of 2020, the 4 cardinal indexes will also come to change in China, namely the Engel index not to exceed 0.35, the Gini index to be kept at 0.35 and 0.40, while the humane-cultural development no lower than 0.80 and to be limited below 1.80 for the dual structure between the urban and rural areas.

By 2020, the average life-expectancy is to reach 76 years of age and the average schooling to overtake 10 years while the average ability for scientific creation and innovation is to reach 25 with the sci-tech contributions to reach 65 percent in the national economy as a whole. "China will overcome effectively such bottleneck problems as a large population, grain, energy resource and resources as well as biological environment restrictive to the sustainable development. Therefore, it can step onto the road for production development, for a better-off life and a good biological environment, in a word a road for civilized development, thereby bringing China into the integral system of a sustainable cycle in the development of economy.

By People's Daily Online


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