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

-- To maintain an average yearly 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 about 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 make 98% of local citizens enjoy social security benefits;

-- To increase the average life expectancy of citizens to above 80 years by 2010; the social security index should be kept at at least100;

-- 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 550 billion US dollars, 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% by 2010;

-- To keep the spending on 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.