PThe 4th Session of 12th Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress is going to be held from Jan. 25th - 30th in Guangzhou. Nearly 780 deputies will discuss and vote on the outline of 13th Five-Year Plan, which is expected to be the guidebook for the social and economic construction of Guangdong in 2016-2020.
China aims at build up a comprehensive well-off society by 2020, which is the end of the 13th Five Year Plan. But, Guangdong is expected to accomplish the mission by 2018, 2 years earlier than the goal of the national construction plan. Official data indicates the growth rate of Guangdong GDP might hit 8%, 0.5% higher than the goal set in early 2015.
Guangdong’s guideline of the 13th Five Year Plan is expected to focus on how to tackle with the problems of unbalanced development among different regions of the province.
The session will also discuss and vote on the government’s work report and on the 2016 Draft Plan for Provincial Economic and Social Development, the report on the implementation of Guangdong’s budgets for 2015 and the Guangdong’s budgets for 2016, work report of the Standing Committee, work report of the Guangdong’s High Court and work report of Guangdong People's Procuratorate.