China National Policy Report: New Realm: From Development as the Hard Truth to Scientific Development Outlook

Author: Lian Yuming, Wu Jianzhong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Fifteenth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee held that development is the hard truth and the key to solving all problems in China. The Sixteenth Plenary Session, while emphasizing the hard truth of development, further proposed to firmly uphold the overall guidance of the Scientific Outlook on Development, adhere to people-centeredness, transform development concepts, innovate development models, improve development quality, and firmly shift economic and social development onto a track of comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development. This is the five-year plan formulated by the new central leadership collective. China Policy Report focuses on economic turning points, social restructuring, urban shifts, and rural transformation, as China enters a new round of competition amid the backdrop of societal transformation. Scientific development, people-centeredness, a harmonious society, and a moderately prosperous society in all respects mark the new era of institutional innovation under the reform and opening-up. This report is a non-confidential summary of the interim findings of research on China's national policies, national conditions, and national strength. Fully aware of the series of changes that have occurred since China's economy and society entered a new strategic critical period, this study conducts an in-depth analysis of cyclical and regular content. Based on this, in conjunction with the comprehensive launch of the "11th Five-Year Plan," the research team has dynamically and systematically organized policy viewpoints and data involved, with related results to be released in due course.