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Full Text: Report on the Work of the Government (2)

Over the last year, we mainly undertook the following work. 1. Strengthening and improving macro-control and promoting steady and rapid economic development. We carried out a proactive fiscal policy and a moderately easy monetary policy. We comprehensively implemented and constantly improved the package plan for addressing the global financial crisis. We significantly increased government spending, implemented structural tax reductions, rapidly increased supplies of money and credit, made our...

Cross-Strait agreements on fishing, farm produce, product quality to take effect

Three agreements signed by Chinese mainland and Taiwan negotiators to cooperate in farm produce quarantine, employment of fishermen, and to deal with different product quality standards are to take effect on Sunday, mainland sources said Friday. The three agreements were reached on Dec. 22 last year at talks between the mainland\'s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Taiwan\'s Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), which handle cross-Strait issues on behalf of their...

Output of geographic information industry to hit 100 bln yuan in China this year

The output value of the geographic information industry was expected to reach 100 billion yuan (about 14.6 billion U.S. dollars) this year, an association official said Monday. "The geographic information industry has entered a stage of fast development in recent years," said Cong Yuandong, secretary general of the China Association for Geographic Information System (GIS). Contrasted with the booming industry, China was lacking in professionals with relevant GIS skills, Cong told...

President Hu calls for greater development in China\’s west

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) visits Shizuishan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Hu Jintao called for more efforts to promote social, economic development in the underdeveloped western areas of the country during his three-day visit to northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from March 21 to 23. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for more efforts to promote social, economic development in the underdeveloped western areas of the country. Hu made the call during...

Full Text: Report on China\’s national economic, social development plan (14)

4. We will earnestly implement all plans and policies for promoting regional development and make development among regions more balanced. 1) We will intensely promote the large-scale development of the western region. We will promptly formulate guidelines for thoroughly carrying out the strategy for large-scale development of the western region (2010-2019) and introduce plans for implementing them in a timely manner. We will continue to launch a number of key projects to develop...

Full Text: Report on China\’s national economic, social development plan

The following is the full text of the Report on the Implementation of the 2009 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and on the 2010 Draft Plan for National Economic and Social Development, which was submitted on March 5 for review at the Third Session of the 11th National People\'s Congress and was adopted on March 14. [color=#000080\']REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2009 PLAN FOR [color=#000080\']NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT [color=#000080\']AND ON THE 2010...

Chinese premier responds to "arrogance" charge (4)

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Senior Chinese Commerce Ministry official on trial for corruption

The highest-ranking former official of China\'s Ministry of Commerce ever to stand trial stood in the dock Thursday to be charged with accepting bribes. Former senior inspector Guo Jingyi, 44, is alleged to have accepted bribes valued at 7.65 million yuan (1.12 million U.S. dollars) -- 6 million yuan in cash and 1.65 million yuan in properties, a court official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Guo entered the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, predecessor of the...

China to beef up support for disabled: vice premier

Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu (2nd L), also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council Working Committee on Disability chairman, addresses a committee work conference in Beijing, capital of China, on April 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Friday pledged more government efforts to enhance social security and social services for the country\'s 83 million people with disabilities. "Building the two systems of...

Mainland expects to speed up economic pact discussion through joint efforts

The Chinese mainland and Taiwan should work together toward the goal of signing the cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) as soon as possible, a spokesman said here Wednesday. In response to a question whether the pact will be signed in June, Yang Yi, a spokesman of the State Council\'s Taiwan Affairs Office, told a regular press conference that the two sides should work together "towards this target." But when the pact would be signed depends on the progress...