(Observation of the Two Sessions) Looking at China's next five-year plan from "silent" and "sound"
China News Agency, Beijing, March 8th (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) Chinese people often say that "silent is better than sound at this time", and "nothing is said" often contains the same important information as "what is said."
In the draft of the "14th Five-Year Plan", China rarely does not set specific targets for economic growth in the next five years, and only expresses the GDP index value as an average annual growth "maintained within a reasonable range and proposed in each year as appropriate."
This is the first time in the history of five-year planning.
This kind of "silence" is surprising at first glance, and it is quite reasonable.
From a domestic perspective, China has been working hard in recent years to play down the excessive emphasis on GDP, focusing on promoting the transformation of the economy from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern.
Not setting specific growth targets as a "hard constraint" is a clearer signal, indicating that in the next five years, China will further shift its focus to improving the quality of economic growth. This is undoubtedly progress.
From an international perspective, the current major changes unseen in a century are accelerating. The new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading around the world. Various unstable factors threatening the international political and economic order are increasing. China's economic and social development still faces many risks and challenges.
Under this circumstance, instead of setting a growth target that may not be in line with reality for the next five years, replacing specific numbers with “reasonable ranges” and “as appropriate” will help to reserve room for flexible response to uncertainties and seek truth from facts. , Responsible embodiment.
The absence of specific growth targets does not mean that there are no targets.
In fact, the GDP indicator has been integrated into other related indicators.
In the draft of the "14th Five-Year Plan", China has set clear goals in three important areas closely related to high-quality development: technological innovation, environmental protection, and people's livelihood.
For example, the value-added of the core industries of the digital economy increased to 10% of GDP; the growth of total labor productivity was higher than that of GDP; the energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP were reduced by 13.5% and 18%; the unemployment rate in urban surveys was controlled at Within 5.5%, the growth of per capita disposable income of residents is basically synchronized with the growth of GDP; the average life expectancy will increase by 1 year.
The exact figures show that the senior management has quite firm determination in these areas.
These ambitious voices and the “silent” of the specific GDP growth rate together indicate that the general direction of China’s new five-year plan is to improve the overall efficiency of the economy with new development concepts, and achieve higher quality, more efficiency, more fairness, and more sustainable development. Continuous and safer development.
Considering that China is now the second largest economy in the world and the only major economy that achieved positive growth under the epidemic last year, this new blueprint anchoring high-quality will not only help the sustained and healthy development of China’s economy, but also contribute to the global economy. Recovery brings new impetus and new opportunities. (Finish)