Highlights of Government Work Report


MAJOR TARGETS FOR 2018
-- GDP growth of around 6.5 percent
-- CPI increase of around 3 percent
-- China will open doors wider to foreign investors this year by completely opening up its general manufacturing sector and expand access to a number of other sectors like telecommunications, medical services, education, elderly care, and new-energy vehicles
-- China will further reduce the poor rural population by over 10 million, including 2.8 million people who are to be relocated from inhospitable areas
-- Over 11 million new urban jobs, the surveyed urban unemployment rate within 5.5 percent, and the registered urban jobless rate within 4.5 percent
-- Basic parity in personal income growth and economic growth
-- A steady rise in import and export volumes, and a basic equilibrium in the balance of payments
-- A drop of at least 3 percent in energy consumption per unit of GDP, and continued reductions in the release of major pollutants
-- China will cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 3 percent and achieve a continuous decline in PM2.5 density in key areas
-- Rates for mobile internet services will be cut by at least 30 percent in 2018
-- Substantive progress in supply-side structural reform, basically stable macro leverage, and systematic and effective prevention and control of risk
- Two gynecologists punished for research misconduct
- Chinese scholars publish biologics guideline in international journal
- Beijing to host world humanoid robot games
- Smart planting pod brings farm to urban homes
- Young artisan transforms Miao embroidery into modern fashion accessories
- Xi's speech marking 100th anniversary of trade union federation published