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development as well as risks and challenges unknown before. The whole Party
must keep in mind the trust the people have placed in us and the great
expectation they have of us. We must aim higher and work harder and
continue to pursue development in a scientific way, promote social harmony,
and improve the people’s lives so as to complete the glorious and arduous
tasks bestowed on us by the times.

I. Our Work in the Past Five Years

and the Basic Experience We Have Gained in the Past Ten Years

Over the past five years since the Seventeenth Party Congress, we have
marched boldly on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. During
these five years, we have overcome numerous difficulties and risks and
achieved new successes in building a moderately prosperous society in all
respects.
The Seventeenth Party Congress adopted a comprehensive plan for
promoting reform and opening up and socialist modernization and attaining
the grand goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. To
implement this decision of the Seventeenth Party Congress, the Central
Committee has held seven plenary sessions, at which decisions were made and
implementing steps adopted on the following issues of underlying importance:
deepening reform of the administrative system, promoting rural reform and
development, improving and strengthening Party building in a new
environment, formulating the Twelfth Five-Year Plan and promoting reform
and development of the cultural sector. During the past five years, we have
fulfilled the goals of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan and made good progress in
implementing the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and we have made new and major
achievements in all fields of our work.
The economy has developed steadily and rapidly. China’s overall national
strength has grown considerably. The gross domestic product (GDP) reached
47.3 trillion yuan in 2011, and government revenue increased by a wide
margin. The overall agricultural production capacity has increased and grain
output has gone up year after year. Fresh progress has been made in adjusting
the industrial structure, and the infrastructure has been extensively upgraded.
Urbanization has been steadily advanced, and development between urban and
rural areas and between regions has become better balanced. Notable progress

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