Right development path

The central government knows the challenges the country is facing and will try to address them in carrying out the 12th Five-Year Plan

In the 32 years since China's reform and opening-up, a market economy has been introduced and modern infrastructure constructed. The country's 1.3 billion people enjoy much-improved livelihoods and free compulsory nine-year education has been introduced for all school-aged children and healthcare and social security have been made available.

In these 32 years, a closed Chinese society has become open. Indeed, there has been an unprecedented expansion of individual freedoms - freedom of thought, freedom of movement, and freedom to pursue economic opportunity.