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objectives set by 15th CPC Congress achieved (11/06/2002)
In the last five years since the conclusion of the 15th National
Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), major objectives
set by the congress have been achieved.
"By 2000, the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in China
had exceeded 800 US dollars and ordinary people were leading a generally
comfortable life. By 2001, per capita GDP had exceeded 900 US dollars,"
says Qiu Xiaohua, deputy director of the National Statistics Bureau
(NSB).
Bai Hejin from the Macro Economy Research Institute under the State
Development Planning Commission says, "Establishment and improvement
of a socialist market economic system is a major breakthrough in
China's economic reform since the 15th CPC National Congress."
In the last five years, Bai says, the non-pubic economic sector
has become an important force in the national economy, whereas the
market has been playing an unprecedented regulatory role. By the
end of last year, the market had decided prices for 90 percent of
all merchandises and services.
Over the last five years, efforts on poverty elimination have also
proved effective. By 2000, the poverty rate in rural China had been
brought down to around three percent.
Returning state-owned enterprises running in the red to profitability
is a major objective set by the 15th CPC National Congress. This
object had been achieved by the end of 2000, according to the State
Economic and Trade Commission. In 2000, profits from state-owned
enterprises and enterprises in which the state has a controlling
stake reached 239.2 billion yuan (US$28 billion), 1.97 times over
the 1997 figure. In addition, a modern corporate system had been
established in 84 percent of state-owned companies and companies
where the state has a majority stake.
A stable, fast-developing China has won international acclaim.
In the year 2001, Beijing won the right to hold the Olympics in
2008. In the same year, China joined the World Trade Organization.
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"All these have had a significant and far-reaching impact
on the country's development as well as the prestige of the Party,"
says Li Shousheng, a senior official with the State Economic and
Trade Commission." They have not only inspired the Chinese
people with a patriotic sentiment and national pride but also let
the rest of the world see a growing China full of hope."
Chinese communists regard the reunification of their motherland
as their sacred mission. In the last five years, great progress
has been made in this regard. Hong Kong has remained stable and
prosperous after its return, and Macao has come back to the embrace
of the motherland. Increasing economic exchanges and other interactions
across the Taiwan Strait show that the policy of "peaceful
reunification and one country, two systems" is gaining acceptance
by increasing numbers of Taiwan people and that reunification of
the motherland is an unstoppable trend and a common aspiration of
the Chinese people.
(xinhua)
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