Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Hu Jintao (4th L, front), Wen Jiabao (4th R, front), Jia Qinglin (3rd L, front), Li Changchun (3rd R, front), Xi Jinping (2nd L, front), Li Keqiang (2nd R, front), He Guoqiang (1st L, front) and Zhou Yongkang (1st R, front) are present at the closing meeting of the Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 14, 2011. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, on Monday endorsed the country's 12th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development.
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the closing meeting of the annual parliamentary session.
Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang attended the meeting.
Wu said that during the session, the NPC deputies spoke highly of the great achievements made in social and economic development in the 11th Five-Year Plan period, and agreed that the 12th Five-Year Plan is an important document guiding China's social and economic development for the years ahead.
The new plan should be meticulously studied and fully implemented to achieve remarkable progress in boosting scientific development and substantial progress in transforming the economic growth pattern, Wu passed on the voices of the NPC deputies in his closing speech.
Further, Wu said that the deputies summarized the significance and experiences in completing the socialist system of laws with Chinese characteristics, and reached the consensus that the completion is an important milestone in the history of building a socialist democratic legal system.
For China, the 12th Five-Year Plan period is crucial to building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and critical to deepening the reform and opening up and accelerating the transformation of the economic growth pattern.
