Summary
This book outlines the guiding principles and specific strategies for China's economic and social development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020). The central argument is that achieving a moderately prosperous society requires promoting innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development, with a strong emphasis on supply-side structural reform. The plan aims to address unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable development by focusing on six key areas.
The book details concrete measures such as accelerating the shift in development drivers, reducing ineffective supply while increasing medium- and high-end supply, streamlining administration, and promoting inclusive and green finance. It also highlights significant achievements in scientific and technological innovation, improvements in living standards, and advancements in social development, including education and health insurance coverage.
Key concepts
- Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy — An overall plan for promoting all-round economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress.
- Supply-side structural reform — Adjusting economic structures by reducing ineffective supply and increasing effective supply.
- New vision of development — A new approach to development emphasizing innovation, coordination, green practices, openness, and shared growth.
- Medium-high end development — Promoting industrial development towards medium- and high-end sectors.
- Twin engines — The emergence of new driving forces for economic growth to complement or replace weakening conventional ones.
From the book
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