China revealed its tentative principal tasks and measures for economic and social development in 2005 in a report submitted to the National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, Saturday to be examined and approved by NPC deputies.

The report on the implementation of the 2004 plan for national economic and social development and on the 2005 draft plan for national economic and social development, done by the National Development and Reform Commission, calls for particular emphasis to be placed on work in the following fields.

-- Continuing to strengthen and improve macro regulation to maintain steady and rapid economic growth.

"We must ensure the proper focus and intensity of regulation, give full play to the role of market forces and pay more attention to economic and legal means in consolidating and building on our achievements in macro regulation," says the report.

-- Beefing up agriculture, especially grain production, and raising farmers' incomes. "We will continue to coordinate development of urban and rural areas, promote agriculture through industry, develop rural areas through urban development, and follow a principle of giving more, taking less and loosening control. We will adopt comprehensive measures to steadily increase grain output, agricultural efficiency and rural incomes," says the report.

-- Working hard to adjust the industrial structure and accelerating industrial upgrading.

The report says China will accelerate the rejuvenation of the equipment manufacturing industry, energetically develop new and high-tech industries, promote optimization and upgrading of traditional industries and accelerate development of service industries.

-- Vigorously changing the way the economy grows and pushing ahead with resource conservation and environmental protection.

-- Making full use of the strengths and initiative of all regions and promoting coordinated development of their economies.

-- Vigorously promoting all reforms to provide fresh impetus to economic and social development.

-- Striving to raise the quality and level of opening up and making better use of both domestic and international markets and resources.

-- Doing employment and social security work well and constantly improving people's lives.

-- Promoting development of science, technology, education and all other social undertakings and striving to build a harmonious socialist society.

"This year we have other important task to perform, formulating the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Program Through the Year 2020," the report says.

Editor: Catherine