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The 9th Five-Year Plan (1996-2000)
(China.org.cn)
Updated: 2006-04-14 10:02

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee adopted the
Proposal on the Ninth Five-Year Plan on National Economy and Social
Development and Long-Range Objectives to the Year 2010 on September 28,
1995. It was the first medium-length plan made under a socialist market
economy, and a cross-century development strategy.

The basic tasks stipulated in the Plan were: to complete the second phase
in the modernization drive; to cap population growth at 300 million by
2000; to quadruple per capita GNP as compared to 1980; to eliminate
poverty; and to speed up the establishment of a modern enterprise system.

Long-range objectives to the year 2010 were: to double 2000��s GNP; and
to continue to build the socialist market economic system. 

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