This Day, That Year

Item from March 26, 1986, in China Daily: Delegates from across the country arrive at the Great Hall of the People for yesterday's National People's Congress session. Premier Zhao Ziyang yesterday delivered a report to the NPC on the Seventh Five-Year Plan (1986-90), which stressed economic reform, fixing an appropriate growth rate for the economy and improvement of people's living standards.

Reform is also a keyword of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15), which aims to accelerate the country's transformation of its economic growth model to maintain healthy and stable growth.

This year is seen as a crucial one for comprehensively deepening reform and the final year for completing the tasks set out in the 12th Five-Year Plan.