-- Keeping the CPI increase stable at about 4 percent.

-- Total imports and exports should grow by 8 percent.

-- The RMB exchange rates will be kept basically stable. The broad money supply in 2009 will be increased by about 17 percent.

-- A total 4 trillion yuan of investment, including 1.18 trillion yuan from the central government, will be made from the fourth quarter of 2008 to the end of 2010, primarily on housing for low- to moderate-income families, projects to improve the wellbeing of rural residents, infrastructure, social programs, environmental protection, economic restructuring and technological upgrading, as well as on post-earthquake reconstruction.

-- Total investment in fixed assets will grow by 20 percent.

-- Total retail sales of consumer goods will rise by 14 percent.

-- The central government will allocate a total of 716.1 billion yuan to support agriculture, rural areas and farmers, an annual increase of 120.6 billion yuan.

-- Strive to keep the country's grain output stable at 500 million tons.

-- Allocate a fund of 20 billion yuan to promote technological transformation of enterprises.

-- Strive to raise government spending on R&D up to 1.58 percent of GDP in 2009.

-- Foreign loans and foreign direct investment in China in 2009 are expected to reach 25.8 billion and US$92.4 billion respectively.

-- China's direct investment overseas is expected to grow by 13.2 percent.

-- The percentage of treated urban sewage is expected to reach 69 percent and percentage of urban household waste safely handled should reach 67 percent.

-- Shut down backward iron foundries with a total capacity of ten million tons, backward steel mills with a total capacity of six million tons, backward paper mills with a total capacity of half a million tons and backward power plants with a total capacity of 15 million kilowatts.

-- Water consumption per 10,000 yuan of value-added by industry is expected to drop by 5.6 percent, while the percentage of industrial solid wastes that are comprehensively utilized will reach 65.9 percent.

-- The number of urban residents participating in the basic old-age insurance program is expected to grow by 4.2 percent.

-- Beginning in 2009, secondary vocational education will be free for students from poor rural families and for all students enrolled in agriculture-related programs.

-- The gross enrollment ratio for senior high schools is expected to reach 77 percent. College enrollment will reach 6.29 million. Postgraduate enrollment will reach 475,000.

-- Make proper arrangements to rebuild schools, hospitals and other public facilities. Ensure that more than 95 percent of students in quake-hit areas will move into permanent school buildings by the end of this year.

(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2009)