The opening ceremony of The Third Session of the Tenth Guangdong Provincial People's Congress

Huang Huahua, Governor of Guangdong Province delivering  the government report

South China's Guangdong Province is expecting a 10 per cent economic growth this year after a 14.2 per cent increase in 04, and is pursuing a more balanced and sustainable development.

Huang Huahua, Governor of Guangdong Province made the remarks in the government work report in the opening ceremony of The Third Session of the Tenth Guangdong Provincial People's Congress held in Guangzhou on Jan. 23rd.

In 2004, Guangdong province experienced a substantial social and economic development and hit the gold of nation's tenth five-year plan a year ahead of schedule. The provincial GDP notched up to 1,604 billion yuan, or one-ninth of China's total economic strength, with a growth rate of 14.2 percent.

The goal '10 per cent growth' this year reflect Guangdong government's determination in pushing forward a more coordinated social and economic development. The resource input in social work is expected to increase. The government will pay more attention in economic efficiency, ecological environment protection and improvement of living standard.

Fixed-asset investment, up 19.9 per cent in 04, targets a 15 per cent growth and improvement of investment efficiency this year. Growth in export and retail sales this year is set at 7 per cent and 12 per cent, which had experienced increase of 25.3 per cent and 13.6 per cent respectively last year.

Besides, urban per capita disposable income and rural per capita net income are estimated to grow by 8% and 4% respectively in 2005. Furthermore the urban registered unemployment rate will be kept within 3.5%, and the natural growth rate of population will be kept within 0.81%.

The provincial government will further its opening-up, reform and structural adjustment, and will fasten its adoption of new economic development pattern. The high-end and heavy industries are expected to take up higher proportion in the province's industrial output this year.

Redoubled effort will be distributed to develop a recycle economy, maintain a sustainable growth, higher the value-added of foreign-oriented economy, strengthen domestic-oriented economy and build a harmonious society.

There are also expected growth in new type of industry, modern service industry, regional cooperation and rural economy.

The government is to continue its self-improvement in administration and management capacity, to accept public's supervision, and to govern the province according to law, in order to build a clean, diligent, efficient and pragmatic government.

Scientific development concept

The aim set in this government work report is to adopt a more people-oriented development pattern and seek for a comprehensive, harmonious and sustainable economic and social development.
- Liang Guiquan, President of Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences

This is a long-term project, and 2005 will be an important year for transformation of the economic growth pattern. Guangdong must desert the blind pursuing of GDP and more efforts should be made to achieve sustainable development and to sharpen the core competitiveness. Knowing the international and national trends of industrial layout adjustment, Guangdong should speed up its industrial structure optimization to secure its leading position in the country in economic development and industrial competition in the coming 20-30 years.
 
The eleventh five-year plan

During the eleventh five-year plan period, Guangdong will continue to make progress in industrialization, urbanization, economic internationalization, and building-up of market economy.
--Li Huiwu, Vice Chairman of Development Research Center, the People's Government of Guangdong Province

Guangdong in nation's eleventh five-year plan period, which will start in 2006, is expected to better its overall planning, renovate its governmental mechanism and experience a coordinated and sustainable social and economic development.

Nation's eleventh five-year plan period will start in 2006, during which Guangdong will face a more fierce competition in international trading as the transitional period of China's entering WTO will end in 2005. Guided by center government's concept of 'scientific development', Guangdong will pay more attention in sustainable development and harmonious regional development. And by the end of 11th five-year plan, Pearl River Delta is estimated to be the first region in China to realize socialist modernization, and people in mountainous areas will enjoy a relative well-off life.  In the period, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao economic integration will be completed, and Pan-Pearl River Delta region cooperation project will have a substantial progress.

Green Guangdong

The "Green Guangdong" concept is of great significance to Guangdong's future development.
--Li Qing, Director of Environmental Protection Bureau of Guangdong Province.

Guangdong is short of energy resource reserve, and need to adopt a concept like recycle economy to maintain its sound and rapid development.

Guangdong will work on an overall plan of developing recycle economy, make related laws and regulations, establish new accounting systems and evaluation mechanism, promote resource saving and better utilization and construct a resource-saving-oriented industrial structure and consumption structure. The province will push forward the development of tertiary industry and hi-tech industry with low pollution and high profit. While the thermal power plant, heavy and chemical industry will be relocated in east and west Guangdong as well as the coastal area, in which the environmental capacity is larger. Besides, projects of large industrial zones where pollution is under proper treatment will be launched. Lastly the scale of industries with high energy consumption or heavy pollution should be restricted.

Editor: Olivia

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