Shanghai to be more innovative, sustainable, inclusive and greener
Shanghai Municipal Government unveiled its 13th Five Year Plan (2016-20) on Feb 1, stating it aims to become a more innovative, more sustainable, more inclusive as well as greener city, in line with the central government’s development concepts.
The major task set out by the plan is to foster stable economic development over the next five years with an aim of no less than 6.5 percent GDP growth per year.
Another key aim for the city is to develop into a global scientific and technological innovation center. The plan also targets changing the city’s development mode, creating a better and cleaner living environment, developing new ways for opening up and reform, and balancing the protection of people’s livelihoods in the free market.
Goals establishing regulating international market-oriented legal systems and developing the city into an international hub of finance, trade and shipping, have also been laid out.
A total of 25 core indicators for Shanghai’s economic and social development have also been put forward, about 25 percent less than those in the previous five-year plan. The indicators will assess areas such as development quality, people’s livelihood, and ecological environment.
Among them, there are 11 obligatory targets related to citizens’ vital interests, such as the renovation of 2.4 million square meters of old residential buildings. There are seven environmental targets, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total. The plan sets up a goal to lower PM2.5 levels to 42 micrograms per cubic meter by 2020.
The combined goals aim to create a modern socialist city and moderately prosperous society.
The major task set out by the plan is to foster stable economic development over the next five years with an aim of no less than 6.5 percent GDP growth per year.
Another key aim for the city is to develop into a global scientific and technological innovation center. The plan also targets changing the city’s development mode, creating a better and cleaner living environment, developing new ways for opening up and reform, and balancing the protection of people’s livelihoods in the free market.
Goals establishing regulating international market-oriented legal systems and developing the city into an international hub of finance, trade and shipping, have also been laid out.
A total of 25 core indicators for Shanghai’s economic and social development have also been put forward, about 25 percent less than those in the previous five-year plan. The indicators will assess areas such as development quality, people’s livelihood, and ecological environment.
Among them, there are 11 obligatory targets related to citizens’ vital interests, such as the renovation of 2.4 million square meters of old residential buildings. There are seven environmental targets, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total. The plan sets up a goal to lower PM2.5 levels to 42 micrograms per cubic meter by 2020.
The combined goals aim to create a modern socialist city and moderately prosperous society.