2016 is the beginning year of the 13th Five-Year Plan to complete the well-being society and the beginning year of Sichuan to construct powerful province. What will Sichuan do in a new year? On the Fourth Session of the 12th Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, Mr. Yin Li, Acting Governor of Sichuan Provincial People's Government delivered Report on the Work of the Government and elaborated 9 goals and 10 tasks of 2016 in economic and social development.

    9 Targets of Sichuan in Economic and Social Development

    1. Local GDP will increase over 7%.

    2. Total investment in fixed assets will increase about 10%.

    3. Total retail sales of consumer goods will increase about 10%.

    4. Export and import will increase higher than national average.

    5. Local general public budget revenue will increase about 10%.

    6. Urban and rural income will increase about 8% and 9% respectively.

    7. Registered urban unemployment rate will be lower than 4.5%. 
   
　  8. Consumer price index will be the same as national average.

　  9. Complete the national tasks concerning energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection.

   
　  10 Highlighted Tasks:
　

　  Task 1: Stabilize economic growth with all means
　  Most importantly, maintaining regular operation of enterprises in order to promote the healthy development of substantial economy.

　  Stabilizing and enlarging effective investment.

　  Taking the advantages of project year to highlight the construction of 631 major projects and 100 provincial level key projects, initiating and implementing a batch of major and landmark projects in the 13th Five-Year Plan, striving to achieve annual industrial investment of 750 billion and technical improvement investment of 550 million, enlarging effective consumption demands, 
   
　  Implementing paid vacation system, encouraging peak vacation and flexible working schedule, promoting tourism consumption, sparing no efforts to change the downward trend of export and import, implementing qualified export and import strategy and export growth plan of local brands, accelerating the development of service trade and service contracting, and exploring to build “Single Window” system of international trade.
　
    Task 2: Promoting comprehensive innovation and reform systematically

Comprehensive innovation and reform is the No. 1 Project of the 13th Five-Year Plan. Sichuan will strive to form a batch of replicable and widely applied reform experiences and major policies.
  

    Promoting massive entrepreneurship and innovation, continuously enhancing the reform of rural property right system, completing the releasing of permission of contracted land management rights, deepening the reform of state-owned forests and promoting the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives.
　
　  Task 3: Accelerating the construction of modern agricultural system 
    
　  Including promoting the construction of powerful province of advanced manufacturing.

　  Implementing Sichuan Action Plan of Made in China 2025, initiating the the construction of manufacturing innovation center, research and development of high-end equipment, smart manufacturing and so on, accelerating to promote the development of 5 high-end emerging industries.

　  Implementing “Internet Plus” manufacturing pilot demonstration and the double project of high-tech enterprises, fastening the development of modern service industries,
　　
　  Implementing 300 Demonstration Projects, accelerating the construction of kernel cities, 6 regional central cities and influential counties of service industry, building 20 provincial level service industry agglomerations, implementing “Giant Panda” international brand strategy, developing inbound tourism, holding successfully International Tourism Investment Conference and so on, striving to achieve the tourism revenue of 720 billion yuan, and vigorously promoting the development of modern agriculture.

　  Task 4： Highlighting the major tasks in structural reform

    Developing special action of lowering cost and increasing benefits
　　
　  Implementing national policies concerning lower the cost of substantial enterprises, releasing relevant measures, removing monopoly service charges, lowering government charge standard, concentrating on cleaning up the unreasonable charge of banks in order to enhance financing service level, increasing the proportion of direct financing enterprises, and reducing financing cost of enterprises.

　  Solving overcapacity actively and stably

　  Solving zombie companies prudently and orderly as much as possible through mergering and reorganization instead of bankruptcy and liquidation, and addressing to find new employment.

　  Seeking to reduce the number of unsold homes.

　  Taking the housing system of purchasing and renting as orientation to deepen rural housing system reform, implementing new policies of real estate, promoting the effective docking of rebuilding rundown urban areas, public rental housing, rental marketing, and stocked commercial houses.

　  Improving the quality of products made in Sichuan.

　  Task 5： Deepening opening and cooperation

　  Integrating “One Belt and One Road” and the Yangtze River Economic Strategies actively.
　
　  Promoting the construction of channels linking Sichuan and outside. 。

　  Creating opening and cooperative platforms.

　  Accelerating the construction of China-South Korea Innovation Industrial Park. China-Germany Innovative Industry Cooperation Platform and China-France Chengdu Ecological Park.

　  Task 6: Making full efforts to promote poverty alleviation
　
　  Implementing precision poverty alleviation and 10 special annual working plan, allocating the action plan of poverty alleviation to village level and citizens in accordance with the overall requirements of precision in 6 aspects, making 1.05 million people, 2,350 villages and 5 counties to get rid of poverty.

　  Highlighting the major regions of poverty alleviation.

　  Innovating new systems to promote poverty alleviation.

　  Innovating to promote the collaboration of the Central Government, national institutes and state-owned enterprises, and other provinces to pairing regions in Sichuan in poverty alleviation, and initiating a new round of pairing regions of poverty alleviation.

　  Tasks 7: Strengthening ecological and environmental protection

　  Promoting the ecological barrier construction of the upstream of the Yangtze River continuously.

　  Dealing with environmental pollution with the most severe measures.

    Promoting green and low-carbon recycling development.

　  Promoting the green reform of traditional manufacturing enterprises, enhancing the development of energy conservation and environmental protection equipment industry, accelerating the application of new energy cars and new building industrial products and the construction of national level clean energy demonstration province.

　  Task 8：Enhancing regional, rural and urban development level

　  Promoting regional collaborative development.

　  Guiding and supporting the construction of 5 economic regions and improving regional collaborative and linkage mechanism.

　  Strengthening urban and rural planning.

　  Establishing a questioning system concerning planning violations and enlisting the implementation of urban and rural planning into the economic responsibilities and auditing content of major local government leaders.

　  Promoting continuously “Million Comfortable Housing Projects”, rebuilding 300,000 rundown urban buildings and indemnification housing, and striving to achieve that the ratio of rundown urban buildings and monetized resettlement over 50%.

　  Improving urban management system.

　  Improving the rate of urban population.

　  Implementing promptly reforms to the household registration system and residence certificates comprehensively, promoting migrant workers to become urban citizens, and provide more public services to migrant workers.

　  Striving to make the urbanization rate of household registration population over 31.5% and living urbanization rate of 48.9%.

　  Task 9： Ensuring and Improving livelihood

　  Concentrating funds to work for livelihood.

　  General public budgets of Sichuan maintain about 65%, implementing 10 Livelihood Projects and do well 20 matters.

　  Implementing universal coverage of insurance, promoting the reform of endowment insurance system in government institutes and accelerating the integration of urban and rural medical insurance to achieve full coverage of serious illness insurance.

　  Integrating social assistance, improving the level of urban and rural subsistence allowance, developing charity, deepening tailored services for the disabled.

　  Developing vigorously social affairs.

　  Implementing the tuition-free policy in technical secondary schools and 15 years of compulsory education in minority regions, and guiding some undergraduate colleges to change into applied ones.

　  Promoting the construction of “Healthy Sichuan”, developing the trial of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, and guide more qualified medical resources to work in rural regions.

　  Implementing two-child policy.

　  Highlighting the reconstruction of earthquake-stricken regions.  　

　  Task 10：Strengthening and innovating social management

　  Innovating social management methods.

　  Promoting the construction of “Safe Sichuan”.

　  Implementing the most stringent food and drugs safety supervision, punishing all kinds of illegal behaviors.