2. Focusing on implementing the CPC Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements and carrying out oversight work

China is in an important period of strategic opportunities for its economic and social development as well as a period of serious social problems, and its tasks for promoting reform, development, and stability are arduous and formidable. The Central Committee has made comprehensive arrangements to succeed in this year's work by drawing up the "five points requiring greater attention." It has emphasized the need to give greater attention to improving the quality and performance of economic growth; transforming the pattern of economic development and restructuring the economy; advancing reform, opening up, and independent innovation, and enhancing the vigor and vitality of economic growth, improving people's wellbeing, and maintaining social harmony and stability; and taking both the international and domestic situations into consideration to achieve steady and rapid economic development. The NPC Standing Committee needs to conscientiously implement the Law on Oversight; improve oversight of economic work and the handling of issues affecting people's wellbeing, focus on the "five points requiring greater attention," strive to tighten and improve oversight and increase its effectiveness; implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Central Committee; and ensure this year's tasks and objectives for economic and social development are successfully accomplished.

1) We will focus on transforming the pattern of economic development, and strengthen oversight of economic work. Since the policy of reform and opening up was first implemented, China has made tremendous achievements in economic and social development that have attracted worldwide attention. At the same time, China displays the traits of the new stage of social and economic development. Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis, the existing pattern of economic development is clearly unsuitable; therefore, accelerating its transformation has become an inherent requirement for ensuring sustainable economic development and social harmony and stability. Based on China's particular conditions, at its Seventeenth National Congress, the Party thoroughly analyzed the domestic and international situations we faced, and took accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development and improving and upgrading the industrial structure as urgent and major strategic tasks that have an overall bearing on the national economy. It clearly stated that to promote economic growth, we must shift from relying mainly on investment and exports to relying on a coordinated combination of consumption, investment, and exports; from relying on secondary industry as the major driving force to relying on primary, secondary, and tertiary industries to jointly drive economic growth; and from relying heavily on increased consumption of materials and resources to relying mainly on advances in science and technology, a better quality of the workforce, and innovation in management. That issue was emphasized again at the Central Economic Work Conference in 2009. Accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development and improving and upgrading the industrial structure are important objectives and strategic measures for implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, as well as major tasks of this year's economic work. The NPC Standing Committee needs to carry out its oversight of economic work focusing on this theme, strive to intimately integrate maintaining steady and rapid economic development with accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development, promote transformation in the course of development, and work for development in the course of transformation.

First, by listening to and deliberating the State Council's reports on the implementation of the plan for the first half of 2010 and the implementation of the central budget for the same period, the reports on the central government final budget and the auditing work for 2009, and examining and approving the final budget for 2009, we will urge the implementation of a proactive fiscal policy, a moderately easy monetary policy, and other macro-control policies; check compliance with the requirements to boost consumer demand, actively yet prudently press ahead with urbanization, make basic public services more equal and guide the orderly relocation of industries; and promote steady and rapid economic development.

Second, by listening to and deliberating the State Council's reports on the development of the service sector and the culture industry, we will urge the implementation of policies and measures for supporting the development of emerging industries, promote restructuring, and foster new areas of economic growth.

Third, by checking compliance with the Law on Energy Conservation and the Law on the Promotion of Cleaner Production, we will promote the implementation of the Resolution of the NPC Standing Committee on Addressing Climate Change and relevant laws; encourage key industries to carry out technological upgrading aimed at conserving energy, reducing its consumption and developing the circular economy; and improve and upgrade traditional industries, to ensure that the targets for conserving energy and reducing emissions set forth in the Outline of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan are met on schedule.

Fourth, by checking compliance with the Law on Scientific and Technological Progress, we will help improve the scientific and technological innovation system based on the combined efforts of enterprises, universities and research institutes, increase our independent innovation capacity, and promote the application of scientific and technological advances in production.

Fifth, by listening to and deliberating the State Council's report on national food security and inspecting compliance with the Law on Popularization of Agricultural Technology, we will promote the implementation of policies to support and benefit agriculture, rural areas, and farmers; strengthen agricultural and rural infrastructure; accelerate the development of modern agriculture; oversee and inspect the implementation of the plan for increasing grain production capacity by 50 million tons nationwide and the completion of the task to reinforce the country's dilapidated large reservoirs; promote the building of a new socialist countryside; and ensure stable and increasing agricultural production and as well as steady income increases for farmers.

Sixth, focusing on relevant special topics, we will continue to carry out follow-up investigations and studies on the implementation of the central government's investment plan, and urge relevant departments to carefully study and handle the suggestions contained in the Standing Committee's reports on these investigations and studies and the comments put forward by Standing Committee members during their deliberation to promote the smooth progress of major investment projects of the central government.

Seventh, by inspecting compliance with the Law on the Protection of Investments by Compatriots from Taiwan, we will strengthen protection of the legitimate rights and interests of Taiwan investors on the mainland.