(Observation of the NPC and CPPCC) Why did China set the GDP growth target for this year to over 6%?
China News Service, Beijing, March 5 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) "More than 6%", the economic growth target that was "fade out" last year is not unexpected to reappear in the report on the work of the Chinese government this year. It is indeed a move to review the situation.
It has been China's practice for many years to set expected targets for the current economic growth rate in the government work report.
The reason for breaking the convention last year was an extraordinary move in an extraordinary period: At that time, the global new crown epidemic spread rapidly, and the prospect of the world economy was highly uncertain. The Chinese economy, which has been deeply integrated into the world economy, also faced considerable risks and challenges.
Rather than setting an unrealistic goal hastily, it is a responsible approach not to set a specific quantitative target for economic growth.
But now, the situation is completely different.
China's economy is back on track, with major economic indicators picking up across the board, with GDP breaking through the one-hundred-billion-yuan mark, making it the only major economy in the world to achieve positive growth.
In view of this, China is fully equipped to set economic growth targets based on its actual conditions.
Resetting economic growth targets is not only necessary but also necessary.
According to the official plan, China will basically achieve socialist modernization by 2035, including the total economic output and the income of urban and rural residents to a new level, and the per capita GDP will reach the level of a moderately developed country.
As Yang Weimin, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Economic Committee, said, from the perspective of doubling the total economic output or per capita income in 15 years, China needs to achieve an average annual GDP growth of 4.73%.
This is a goal with quantitative indicators. To achieve this goal, we must start now.
Therefore, in order to realize the long-term development vision, it is very necessary for China to set economic growth targets this year.
As for setting the specific target at 6% or more, it is also the result of starting from reality.
After entering the new stage of development, China has been working hard in recent years to play down the excessive emphasis on GDP growth and focus more on promoting high-quality economic development and building a new development pattern.
The year-on-year growth rate of China's economy last year was 2.3%.
Affected by factors such as a low base number, China's economic growth rate is expected to rebound significantly in 2021, and many economists predict that it may exceed 8%.
Taking into account the actual recovery of economic operation, the target of 6% or more is not considered high. The local area should not be too tight and there is no time for transformation, which will help to advance reform and innovation to a deeper and higher level, and create a good environment for high-quality development. .
In the past few years, when the government set economic growth targets, it was often expressed as “around”.
The term "above" not only implied the "lower limit" of economic operation, but also reserved room for timely adjustment and improvement in accordance with changes in the situation and consolidation of the economic fundamentals.
In addition, more than 11 million new jobs in urban areas, urban surveyed unemployment rate of about 5.5%, consumer price increase of about 3% and other supporting targets also reflect the requirements for maintaining economic operations within a reasonable range.
Taking the above factors into consideration, the expected target of China's economic growth this year has been adjusted to over 6%, taking into account the needs of the present and the long-term, and is a practical and responsible approach.
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