Why did the "14th Five-Year Plan" not set economic growth targets?

NDRC response

  On March 8, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. Hu Zucai, a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, introduced at the meeting that the draft outline of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for national economic and social development retained GDP as the main indicator, and at the same time The indicator value is set as the average annual growth "maintained within a reasonable range and proposed in each year as appropriate." This expression is the first in the history of the five-year plan.

  Why is there no specific economic growth target?

  Hu Zucai responded that this is actually based on qualitative expressions and implicit quantitative expressions.

"This is an adjustment made from the overall and overall situation of advancing the modernization drive, fully grasping the development trend of the '14th Five-Year Plan' and the internal and external environment, after careful argumentation, repeated comparison and selection, and in-depth research."

  Hu Zucai said: "Our economy has turned to a stage of high-quality development. We cannot simply use GDP growth as a hero, let alone ignore the consequences of quality, efficiency and the ecological environment for the sake of economic growth."

  But on the other hand, realizing modernization also requires reasonable growth. my country is still the largest developing country in the world. Development is still the basis and key to solving all problems. The draft outline has effectively addressed both needs.

  Hu Zucai explained that the economic growth goals are mainly qualitative and implicitly expressed, which does not mean that GDP growth is not required. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party proposed that the per capita GDP will reach the level of moderately developed countries by 2035, which implies the future. my country's GDP growth rate in 15 years needs to be kept within a reasonable range.

At the same time, other major indicators in the draft outline, such as unemployment rate, energy consumption intensity, and carbon emission intensity, are related to GDP. These indicators give specific figures, which implies that efforts should be made to make economic growth and potential economic growth. The growth rate remains the same.

  In addition, it is certain that the GDP growth rate will be maintained at a certain speed after multiple convergence calculations.

Hu Zucai said: "Considering that there are still great uncertainties in the external environment in the past five years, not setting a specific quantitative growth target will help more actively, proactively and calmly respond to various risks and challenges, and enhance development flexibility. , Leaving room to deal with uncertainty is also conducive to guiding all parties to focus on improving the quality and efficiency of development."

  Hu Zucai added that compared to five years, the annual situation is easier to study and judge. Therefore, in the annual work, the annual growth target can be determined according to the situation according to the internal and external environmental changes and economic operation conditions. The actual value is a specific value. Determined in the year.

Intern reporter Dai Xiaopei