We need to do a good job regulating economic activities. We will focus on development of modern high-capacity coalmines while combining or upgrading small and medium-sized ones. We will accelerate development of oil and gas resources, gradually establish an oil storage system and speed up the planning and building of oil and gas pipelines. We will accelerate the development of power grids, build more high-quality thermal power plants, vigorously develop hydropower stations and accelerate the development of nuclear energy and renewable energy sources such as solar energy, biomass energy, wind power and geothermal energy. We will intensify efforts to shore up weak links in coal transportation routes and develop embarkation ports and other major aspects of the transportation infrastructure. We will carefully maintain a proper balance among the different means of transportation to ensure rational distribution of transportation resources and improve the overall efficiency of the transportation industry. We will further standardize the management of power use to make it more orderly, launch the trials of the "efficient power plant" power-saving scheme and set up a long-term mechanism for improving the demand side management of power. We will do more to balance supply and demand in coal, electricity, oil and transportation and first of all ensure that household requirements of the people as well as demand in key areas and institutions such as hospitals, schools, banks, grain and fertilizer are met.

2. We will focus on rural economic development and make substantial progress in building a new socialist countryside.

We need to consolidate, improve and strengthen policies for supporting agriculture and giving favorable treatment to farmers, provide more support for agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and promote restructuring of agriculture and the rural economy.

1) We need to steadily expand grain production. We will continue the project to industrialize the production of high-quality grain varieties and continue to develop large state commercial grain bases. We will improve the policy of granting direct subsidies to grain growers and general direct subsidies for agricultural supplies, and increase the amount of subsidies for growing superior grain varieties and purchasing agricultural machinery and tools. We will carry forward the minimum purchase price policy for key localities and key grain varieties. We will set up a sound food security warning system to strengthen monitoring and regulation of grain production, storage and imports and exports.

2) We need to vigorously promote the development of modern agriculture. We will improve agricultural technology and equipment and facilities for basic research in agricultural science and widen the application of advanced applied agricultural technologies. We will step up efforts to develop cotton, oilseed and sugar crop production bases, encourage localities to develop intensive livestock, poultry and aquatic farming as appropriate for local conditions, and continue the projects to cultivate superior varieties and breeds, to protect vegetation and to set up demonstration zones for modern agriculture. We will do a good job developing the system for quality and safety inspection of agricultural products and the system for preventing and controlling animal epidemics, and improve the comprehensive system of agriculture-related services.

3) We need to continue improving working and living conditions in the countryside. We will accelerate the project to improve soil fertility, build more small and medium-sized water conservancy facilities, support water-saving efforts in large irrigated areas and the building of drainage pumping stations in the central region, and step up efforts to renovate dilapidated reservoirs. We will increase investment in rural roads and water, gas and electricity facilities. We will provide safe drinking water for another 32 million rural residents, add 5 million to the number of rural households using methane and support improvement of roads connecting county seats and townships and the building of roads to villages. We will upgrade rural power grids and extend power grids to more areas without electricity in the central and western regions.

4) We need to accelerate the development of rural social programs. We will exempt all rural students receiving compulsory education from paying tuition and miscellaneous fees. We will continue to provide free textbooks to students from poor families and living allowances to poor students staying in dormitories. We will complete the project to develop modern distance learning at the elementary and middle school level and the task of making nine-year compulsory education generally available and basically eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged adults in the western region. We will continue the project to build and renovate rural boarding schools and begin work to improve rural middle school buildings in the central and western regions. We will vigorously develop the rural health service system, focusing on health clinics in towns and townships, and expand the area covered by the new rural cooperative medical care system. We will begin building multipurpose cultural centers in towns and townships and carry forward the project to extend radio and TV coverage to all villages and the project to screen more movies in rural areas.

5) We need to expand channels for increasing rural incomes. We will expand secondary and tertiary industries in the countryside, accelerate development of highly efficient cash crops and livestock, poultry and aquatic products, improve the quality and safety of agricultural products, increase income from farming, livestock, poultry and aquatic breeding and forestry, promote industrialized management of agricultural production and support development of leading enterprises. We will develop rural economic cooperatives and strengthen county economies. We will give rural residents vocational training of all types to help them become better qualified to get jobs or start their own business.