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Main tasks of five-year plan accomplished.
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>Premier Zhu says main tasks of five-year plan accomplished (10/1/2000) Chinese
>Premier Zhu Rongji said in Beijing Saturday during a grand reception marking
>the 51st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China that
>main tasks set in the country's 1996-2000 five-year plan have been
>accomplished. About 1,500 people, including representatives from across the
>country and foreign diplomatic missions in Beijing attended the reception. Zhu
>told them that China is now enjoying a "significant turn for the better" in
>the country's economic development. "We have endeavored to do a good job in
>all fields and attained remarkable achievements," he said. "Social demand is
>rebounding on all fronts and economic growth accelerating, as evidenced by the
>apparently improving efficiency, growing revenues, sound and stable financial
>operation and a fairly rapid rise in foreign trade." In addition, the premier
>said the reform of the state-owned enterprises are making progress, and the
>process of China's entry into the WTO is picking up speed. Science,
>technology, education and other social undertakings are making further
>headway. "The main tasks set by the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000) have been
>successfully completed," he said. "The 10th Five-Year Plan is to be
>implemented as of next year." Zhu said China will in the new century enter a
>new stage of development, which will bring about a "comfortable life for the
>whole society" and "expedite the socialist modernization drive." The premier
>said China's national economy will continue to enjoy a sustainable, rapid and
>sound growth in the years to come. In particular, Zhu said China will speed up
>the building of an information-based national economy and society, with which
>to stimulate the industrialization process and optimize the industrial
>structure in an all-round way. (Xinhua)
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