三、對今年政府工作的建議

III. Suggestions for the Work of the Government This Year

結合過去十年特別是近五年工作的體會，對今年政府主要工作提出以下建議。

Based on an understanding of the work of the past ten years, especially of the past five years, I wish to make the following suggestions for the government's main work this year.

（一）加快轉變經濟發展方式，促進經濟持續健康發展。我國社會主義現代化建設取得的一切成就都建立在經濟持續健康發展的基礎之上，經濟不發展，什么事情都辦不成。我國仍處于并將長期處于社會主義初級階段的基本國情沒有變，人民日益增長的物質文化需要同落后的社會生產之間的矛盾這一社會主要矛盾沒有變，我國是世界上最大發展中國家的國際地位沒有變，發展仍是解決我國所有問題的關鍵。必須堅持以經濟建設為中心，聚精會神搞建設，一心一意謀發展。只要我們牢牢把握發展的重要戰略機遇期，尊重發展規律，創新發展理念，破解發展難題，加快轉變經濟發展方式，在發展中促轉變，在轉變中謀發展，就一定能實現經濟持續健康發展。

要堅定不移地把擴大內需作為經濟發展的長期戰略方針，充分發揮消費的基礎作用和投資的關鍵作用。擴大內需的難點和重點在消費，潛力也在消費。擴大居民消費要在提高消費能力、穩定消費預期、增強消費意愿、改善消費環境上下功夫，不斷提高消費對經濟增長的拉動力。現階段，投資在促進經濟增長中的作用不可低估。我國既有投資能力，又有投資需求，關鍵在于選準方向、優化結構、提高投資的質量和效益。政府投資對社會投資具有十分重要的引導作用，但占全社會投資的比重越來越小，必須進一步放寬民間投資市場準入，激發民間投資活力。

要大力推進轉變經濟發展方式，加快產業結構調整。我國生產力發展水平具有多層次性，回旋余地很大，無論傳統產業還是新興產業、勞動密集型產業還是資金密集型產業，都有發展的空間，重要的是優化資源配置和產業布局，解決產能過剩、核心技術缺乏、產品附加值低的問題，解決低水平重復建設和地區產業結構趨同的問題。必須加快改造提升傳統產業，大力發展高新技術產業，提高產品質量和市場競爭力。要加強政策引導，鼓勵企業跨行業跨區域跨所有制兼并重組，利用市場倒逼機制促進優勝劣汰。以擴大國內市場應用、重要關鍵技術攻關為重點，推動戰略性新興產業健康發展。積極推動信息化和工業化融合，加快建設新一代信息基礎設施，促進信息網絡技術廣泛應用。堅持生產性服務業和生活性服務業并重，現代服務業和傳統服務業并舉，進一步發展壯大服務業。

要順應人民群眾對美好生活環境的期待，大力加強生態文明建設和環境保護。生態環境關系人民福祉，關乎子孫后代和民族未來。要堅持節約資源和保護環境的基本國策，著力推進綠色發展、循環發展、低碳發展。大力推進能源資源節約和循環利用，重點抓好工業、交通、建筑、公共機構等領域節能，控制能源消費總量，降低能耗、物耗和二氧化碳排放強度。要加快調整經濟結構和布局，抓緊完善標準、制度和法規體系，采取切實的防治污染措施，促進生產方式和生活方式的轉變，下決心解決好關系群眾切身利益的大氣、水、土壤等突出環境污染問題，改善環境質量，維護人民健康，用實際行動和成效讓人民看到希望。要做好氣象、地質、地震等方面工作，提高防災減災能力。優化國土空間開發格局，合理控制開發強度，調整空間結構。加強海洋綜合管理，發展海洋經濟，提高海洋資源開發能力，保護海洋生態環境，維護國家海洋權益。

要繼續深入實施區域發展總體戰略，促進區域經濟協調發展。充分發揮各地比較優勢，統籌規劃、分類指導，優先推進西部大開發，全面振興東北地區等老工業基地，大力促進中部地區崛起，積極支持東部地區率先發展，加大對革命老區、民族地區、邊疆地區、貧困地區扶持力度，深入推進集中連片特殊困難地區扶貧攻堅。

1. Accelerating the change of the growth model and promoting sustained and sound economic development

All the achievements we have made in China's socialist modernization are attributable to sustained and sound economic development, without which we would have accomplished nothing.

China is still in the primary stage of socialism and will remain so for a long time. This basic national condition has not changed; nor has the principal problem in our society, that is, production falls short of the ever-growing material and cultural needs of the people, or China's international position as the largest developing country in the world. Development is still the key to solving all our problems. We must keep economic development as the central task and give it our undivided attention.

As long as we make full use of this important period of strategic opportunities, respect the law of development, formulate new thinking on development, solve problems hindering development, accelerate the change of the growth model, spur change in the course of pursuing development, and promote development while working for change, we can certainly achieve sustained and sound economic development.

We should unswervingly take expanding domestic demand as our long-term strategy for economic development, and make full use of the basic function of consumption and the key role of investment. The difficulty in and key to expanding domestic demand lie in consumption, and that is also where the potential lies. To expand individual consumption, we should enhance people's ability to consume, keep their consumption expectations stable, boost their desire to consume, improve the consumption environment and make economic growth more consumption-driven.

In the current stage, the role investment plays in promoting economic growth cannot be underestimated. China has both investment capability and investment demand, but the key is to make investment in the needed sectors, optimize the structure of investment, and improve its performance and returns. Governmental investment is important in guiding nongovernmental investment, but its share of the country's total investment is decreasing, so we must further relax controls over market access for nongovernmental investment and stimulate it.

We should energetically change the growth model and speed up structural adjustment of industry. China's productive forces develop on multiple levels, which gives us plenty of room to maneuver. Industries, whether traditional or emerging, labor-intensive or capital-intensive, all have room for development. The important task is to optimize resources allocation and industrial distribution, and solve the following problems: excess production capacity, the lack of core technology, products with low value-added, low-level and redundant industrial projects, and different regions having similar industrial structures. We must accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, energetically develop new- and high-tech industries, and raise product quality and competitiveness.

We should strengthen policy guidance; encourage enterprise acquisitions and reorganizations across industries, regions and forms of ownership; and allow market forces to determine enterprises' success or failure.

We should promote sound development of strategic emerging industries, with the focus on expanding their share in the domestic market and making breakthroughs in major and key technologies. We should promote the integration of IT application and industrialization, more quickly build next-generation information and communication infrastructure, and spread the use of information network technology.

We should develop and expand the service sector, and attach equal importance to producer and consumer service industries and to modern and traditional service industries.

In response to people's expectations of having a good living environment, we should greatly strengthen ecological improvement and environmental protection. The state of the ecological environment affects the level of people's wellbeing and also posterity and the future of our nation. We should adhere to the basic state policy of conserving resources and protecting the environment and endeavor to promote green, circular, and low-carbon development.

We should greatly boost the conservation and reuse of energy and resources, give priority to saving energy in industry, transportation and construction and in public institutions, restrict total energy consumption, and reduce energy and materials consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. We should speed up adjusting the economic structure and distribution and upgrading related standards, practices, and laws and regulations. We should adopt effective measures to prevent and control pollution and change the way we work and live. We should resolve to solve the problems of serious air, water, and soil pollution that affect the people's vital interests; improve environmental quality, and safeguard people's health, and give the people hope through our concrete action and achievements. We should do our meteorological, geological and seismic work well and become better able to prevent and mitigate natural disasters. We should optimize development of the country's territory, carry out development at a proper pace and adjust its spatial layout. We should strengthen comprehensive marine management, develop the marine economy, become better able to exploit marine resources, protect the marine ecological environment, and safeguard China's maritime rights and interests.

We should continue to fully implement the master strategy for regional development and promote balanced development between regions. We should make full use of the comparative strengths of each region, make plans comprehensively and give guidance tailored to different circumstances. We should give high priority to large-scale development of the western region, fully revitalize the old industrial bases in northeast China, spur the rise of the central region, and support the eastern region in taking the lead in development. We should increase support for old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and poor areas and alleviate poverty in contiguous areas with acute difficulties.