The Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the CPC

It was convened in Beijing from October 26 to 29, 2015. The Plenary Session listened to and discussed Xi Jinping's Work Report entrusted by the Central Political Bureau, and elaborated and adopted the “Proposals of the CPC Central Committee on the Thirteenth Five-Year. Plan for National Economic and Social Development”. The Plenary Session stressed that the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan period is the decisive stage for building a moderately prosperous society, and the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan must be formulated closely around achieving this objective.

The Plenary Session specified the strategic plan of the Party and the State during the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan period, and identified the guiding ideology, basic principles, target requirements, basic concepts and major initiatives for development, outlining the blueprint for national development in the next five years. The Plenary Session put forward the guiding ideology of China's development in the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan period as: Holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively implementing the spirit of the 18th Party Congress and the 3rd and 4th Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and taking Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of “Three Represents”, the “Scientific Outlook on Development” as a guide, deeply implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches, adhering to the comprehensive completion of a well-off society in all respects, comprehensive deepening reform, comprehensively following the rule of law, and strictly governing the Party's strategic layout, adhering to the development as the first priority, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of development, accelerating the formation of the institutional mechanisms and development methods that lead to the new normal of economic development, maintaining strategic determination, adhering to the stability of steady progress, and promoting economic building, political building, cultural building, social building, ecological civilization and Party building in a coordinated way, ensuring the completion of a moderately prosperous society as scheduled, and laying a more solid foundation for achieving the second hundred-year goal, and realizing the Chinese Dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The Plenary Session put forward new target requirements for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects: the economy will maintain medium-to-high speed growth, the GDP and per capita income of urban and rural residents will be doubled by 2020 compared to 2010 on the basis of improving the balance, inclusiveness and sustainability of development, the industries will move to the middle and high-end levels, the contribution of consumption to economic growth will increase significantly, and to the urbanization rate of the household population will accelerate. The modernization of agriculture will make a significant progress, the people's living standards and quality of life generally will be improved, the rural poor under China's current standards will be eliminated from poverty, all poor counties will be removed, and overall regional poverty will be resolved. The quality of the nation and the level of social civilization will be improved significantly. It will be realized an overall improvement in the quality of the ecological environment. All aspects of the system will become more mature and more established, the modernization of national governance system and ruling capacity of the Party will make a significant progress.

The Plenary Session stressed that to achieve the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period development goals, to solve the development problems, to build development advantages, it must firmly established and effectively implemented the concept of innovation, coordination, green, open, shared development. This marks a profound change in the overall situation of China's development. Comrades of the whole Party should fully understand the great practical significance and profound historical significance of this change. The Plenary Session pointed out that innovation is the first driving force leading development, coordination is an inherent requirement for sustainable and healthy development, green is a necessary condition for sustainable development and a significant expression of people's pursuit of a better life, openness is the necessary path to national prosperity and development, and sharing is the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Emphasis on adhering to innovative development, coordinated development, green development, open development, shared development, is a profound change with regard to the overall situation of China's development. The decision of the Plenary Session recommended to fully implement the policy that the couple can have two children, actively carry out actions to cope with the aging of the population, and promote the balanced development of China's population.