Future Objectives

The Main Indexes of Shanghai’s 11th Five-Year Plan

--To maintain an average annual GDP growth rate at above 9% with the city’s GDP reaching 1.5 trillion yuan (in terms of comparable prices) by 2010;

--To increase the percentage of the added value of the tertiary sector in the city GDP to more than 50% by 2010; the figure for urban areas should rise to about 80%;

--To increase the percentage of the added value of the non-public sector in the city’s GDP to about 50% by 2010;

--To cut the energy consumption in unit GDP production to about 20% by 2010;

--To control the urban unemployment rate within 4.5% by 2010, and include 98% of local citizens in the social security network;

--To increase the average life expectancy of citizens to above 80 years by 2010; the social security index should be kept above100;

--To keep the percentage of spending on R&D projects in the city GDP at above 2.8% by 2010;

--To make sure new work force has received at least an average 14.5 years of education by 2010;

--To boost the city’s port trade to US$550 billion, the containers handled to 24 million TEUs, the number of passengers crossing local airports to above 80 million by 2010;

--To increase the Internet penetration to about 68% of the long-term population by 2010;

--To keep the investment into environment protection projects at 3% of the city GDP; more than 80% of household and industrial waste are treated before being discharged into local rivers, 80% of urban sewage is treated, and 85% of the year is rated good-air days by 2010.