Fresh approach

The Chinese economic locomotive needs new fuel to stay roaring ahead.

Aiming for a "harmonious society" also calls for a genuine and universal sense of fairness and well-being. The current approach to development, which is conspicuously preoccupied with economic growth, needs a change to meet that goal.

The 12th Five-Year Plan carries high expectations precisely because this country has arrived at a new threshold where reforms in some fields have almost exhausted their potential and long-defaulted reforms in others have had to be kick-started.