Ma Kai: the national economy has maintained steady and rapid growth

Introduction: Xinhua Beijing, August 25 - Ma Kai, director of the development and Reform Commission, reported to the 17th session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress that since this year, the national economy has continued to develop in the direction expected by macro-control, maintained steady and rapid growth, and made new progress in various social undertakings -- the policy of supporting and benefiting agriculture has been further strengthened, and the situation of agricultural production is good One is to reduce agricultural taxes on a larger scale Second, we will significantly increase investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers Third, we will stabilize grain purchase prices and curb the excessive increase in the prices of agricultural materials Fourth, we will strengthen the building of comprehensive agricultural production capacity It is estimated that the annual grain planting area is 1.56 billion mu, an increase of 36.31 million mu over last year -- continue to strengthen the regulation and control of fixed asset investment, especially the real estate market, and the momentum of over rapid growth of investment has been curbed In the first seven months, urban fixed asset investment increased by 27.2%, down 3.9 percentage points year on year National real estate development investment increased by 23.5%, down 3.2% and 5.1% respectively compared with the first quarter and the same period last year; commodity housing price increased by 11%, down 2.5% compared with the first quarter -- we will continue to push forward structural adjustment and see rapid growth in industrial production In the first seven months, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 16.3%, a year-on-year slowdown of 1 percentage point, and the sales rate of industrial products reached 97.7%, a year-on-year increase of 0.2 percentage points -- further curb unreasonable energy demand, and ease the contradiction between supply and demand of coal, electricity and oil transportation By the end of July, the coal storage of the direct power supply plant reached 2011 million tons, an increase of 8.48 million tons on a year-on-year basis, returning to the normal level The power shortage continued to ease, with a year-on-year decrease of 67% in July -- residents' income and consumption grew steadily, while price growth slowed down In the first half of the year, the per capita cash income of farmers was 1586 yuan, an actual increase of 12.5%, up 1.6 percentage points year on year; the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 5374 yuan, an actual increase of 9.5%, up 0.8 percentage points -- we will implement sound fiscal and monetary policies and ensure a stable fiscal and financial operation The fiscal revenue has maintained a rapid growth In the first seven months, the national fiscal revenue was 1935.9 billion yuan, an increase of 15.2% year-on-year, 21.4% excluding the factors of export tax rebate; the fiscal expenditure was 1466.1 billion yuan, an increase of 15.1%; the revenue exceeded the expenditure by 469.9 billion yuan, an increase of 62.7 billion yuan year-on-year -- the export of foreign trade grew rapidly, and efforts were made to curb the export of energy intensive products In the first seven months, the total volume of import and export reached 765.9 billion US dollars, up 22.8% year on year Among them, exports reached US $407.9 billion, an increase of 32%; imports reached US $358 billion, an increase of 13.8%, a year-on-year drop of 27.8% -- further strengthen employment and reemployment, and make new progress in social security In the first seven months, 6.65 million new jobs were created in cities and towns, 73.9% of the annual target 2.97 million laid-off workers were reemployed, including 720000 "4050" workers -- steady progress was made in various reforms, and the impetus for economic development continued to increase The State Council issued the opinions on deepening the reform of the economic system in 2005, which further clarified the key points of the reform, detailed the reform tasks, significantly increased the efforts to promote the reform, and made progress in the reform of key areas -- vigorously implement the strategy of invigorating the country through science and education and comprehensively develop various social undertakings The compilation of the outline of the national medium and long term plan for science and technology development has been basically completed The government oriented investment mechanism for rural compulsory education is being formed The construction of the public health system has been promoted in an all-round way, the construction of the public cultural system has been continuously strengthened, and the work of environmental protection and ecological construction has been further strengthened -- actively promote the strategy of western development and revitalization of old industrial bases in Northeast China, and promote coordinated development of regional economy We have further increased support for the western region, and increased financial support for structural adjustment and key construction projects in the northeast region.