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maintaining stable employment is mounting. Our innovation capacity in key areas
needs to be improved. Some local governments have serious budgetary deficits. In

forestalling and defusing risks in the financial sector and other areas, we face
formidable tasks. We still have a long way to go in protecting the environment.
And many weaknesses in areas that are important to people’s basic needs wait to
be addressed.
There is also room for improvement in the work of the government. Both
pointless formalities and bureaucratism persist to varying degrees. A small
number of officials fail to fulfill their responsibilities and are unwilling or unable to
carry out their duties. Instances of corruption still occur in some sectors.

We will face these problems and challenges squarely, make every effort to
make improvements, and do all we can to live up to our people’s expectations.

II. Achievements in the 13th Five-Year Plan Period and
Major Targets and Tasks for the 14th Five-Year Plan Period

Over the past five years, China has scored historic new achievements in
economic and social development.

The economy performed stably overall, and its structure was continuously
improved. GDP increased from less than 70 trillion yuan to over 100 trillion yuan.
Much was accomplished toward making China a country of innovators, with
major advances in manned spaceflight, lunar exploration, deep-sea engineering,
supercomputing, quantum information, and other areas.
China’s success in poverty alleviation has been recognized by the international
community. Its entire rural poor population, 55.75 million in number, was lifted

out of poverty, including more than 9.6 million registered poor people who were
relocated from inhospitable areas; and regional poverty was successfully
eradicated. The daunting task we set ourselves to eliminate absolute poverty has
thus been successfully accomplished.
Agricultural modernization was steadily advanced, and good harvests were
recorded for five years running. The goal of granting urban residency to 100
million people from rural areas and other permanent residents without local

household registration was met. More than 21 million housing units in run-down
urban areas were rebuilt.
Solid steps were taken to implement major regional development strategies.
Pollution prevention and control efforts were intensified, resources and energy
were used more efficiently, and there was a notable improvement in the

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