Blueprint 'focuses on growth, livelihoods'

Social development and improving people's livelihoods form the major part of China's next five-year development plan, according to a leading economist and adviser on drafting of the blueprint.

The draft of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) is being discussed by an ongoing top leadership meeting in Beijing before being submitted to the National People's Congress, the top legislature.

The plan centers mainly on citizens' all-around development, said Hu Angang, a professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management.