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.