REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 1999 PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ON THE DRAFT 2000 PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

(Delivered at the Third Session of the Ninth National People's Congress on March 6, 2000)


Zeng Peiyan, Minister in Charge of the State Development Planning Commission

Fellow Deputies, I have been entrusted by the State Council to report now to this session on the implementation of the 1999 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and on the Draft 2000 Plan for National Economic and Social Development. These are presented for your examination and approval, and also for comments and suggestions from members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

I. Implementation of the 1999 Plan for National Economic and Social Development

II.Regulatory Targets and Major Tasks for Economic and Social Development in the Year 2000

III. Increasing Effective Demand to Promote Sustained, Rapidand Sound Development of the National Economy

Fellow Deputies, Our economic work this year is of great importance as it has a direct bearing on how well we can implement the Ninth Five-Year Plan and on how well China will do as it enters the new century. We will tightly rally around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin at its core, hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and implement thoroughly the spirit of the Fifteenth National Congress of the Party and the third and fourth plenary sessions of the Party's Fifteenth Central Committee. We should have a clear understanding of the current situation and our tasks and seize opportunities to blaze new trails and score more achievements. We should also be full of confidence as we work hard together to attain the targets set in the plan for national economic and social development and lay a solid foundation for realizing the strategic goal for the third stage of our modernization drive.