In the first year of the eleventh "five-year plan" period, the province expects its GDP to increase by 9 percent and its energy consumption per GDP unit to drop by 3 percent.

The retail sales of commodity goods, the fixed asset investment and foreign trade are to go up by 14 percent, 15 percent and 10 percent respectively.

The CPI, the urban registered unemployment rate and the natural growth of population will be kept within 3 percent, 3.8 percent and 0.75 percent respectively.

The local government's fiscal revenue, the urban residents' disposable income and the farmers' net income will grow by 10 percent, 7 percent and 4.5 percent respectively.

-- from Guangdong Provincial Government Report 2006