做好“十三五”时期经济社会发展工作,实现全面建成小康社会目标,必须着力把握好三点。

To achieve success in our work to promote economic and social development during the period of the 13th Five-Year Plan and finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, we must keep to the following three guidelines:

一是牢牢抓住发展第一要务不放松。发展是硬道理,是解决我国所有问题的关键。今后五年是跨越“中等收入陷阱”的重要阶段,各种矛盾和风险明显增多。发展如逆水行舟,不进则退。必须毫不动摇坚持以经济建设为中心,推动科学发展,妥善应对风险挑战,使中国经济这艘巨轮破浪远航。

First, give top priority to development

Development is of primary importance to China and is the key to solving every problem we face. During the next five years, we must take particular care to avoid falling into the "middle-income trap," and we need to address an increasing number of problems and risks. Pursuing development is like sailing against the current: you either forge ahead or drift downstream. We must remain committed to economic development as our central task, endeavor to promote sound development, and respond effectively to risks and challenges so as to ensure that China's economy, like a gigantic ship, breaks the waves and goes the distance.

二是大力推进结构性改革。当前发展中总量问题与结构性问题并存,结构性问题更加突出,要用改革的办法推进结构调整。在适度扩大总需求的同时,突出抓好供给侧结构性改革,既做减法,又做加法,减少无效和低端供给,扩大有效和中高端供给,增加公共产品和公共服务供给,使供给和需求协同促进经济发展,提高全要素生产率,不断解放和发展社会生产力。

Second, make major headway in carrying out structural reform

At present, we face problems both with aggregate supply and demand and with our structures. The structural problems are more acute, and reform should be conducted to adjust these structures. While working to achieve an appropriate expansion of aggregate demand, we need to give particular emphasis to structural reform on the supply side, reducing supply in some areas while increasing it in others. This means that we need to reduce ineffective and lower-end supply while increasing effective and medium- and high-end supply, increase the supply of public goods and services, ensure that development is driven by both supply and demand, and improve total-factor productivity. This should enable us to unleash and develop productive forces.

三是加快新旧发展动能接续转换。经济发展必然会有新旧动能迭代更替的过程,当传统动能由强变弱时,需要新动能异军突起和传统动能转型,形成新的“双引擎”,才能推动经济持续增长、跃上新台阶。当前我国发展正处于这样一个关键时期,必须培育壮大新动能,加快发展新经济。要推动新技术、新产业、新业态加快成长,以体制机制创新促进分享经济发展,建设共享平台,做大高技术产业、现代服务业等新兴产业集群,打造动力强劲的新引擎。运用信息网络等现代技术,推动生产、管理和营销模式变革,重塑产业链、供应链、价值链,改造提升传统动能,使之焕发新的生机与活力。

Third, accelerate the shift in driving forces for development

In the course of economic development, it is only natural that old drivers of growth are replaced by new ones. As conventional driving forces weaken, it is critical that new driving forces emerge and that the conventional ones undergo a transformation so that new twin engines are formed; only then is it possible to upgrade the economy and achieve sustainable growth. This is the crucial period in which China currently finds itself, and during which we must build up powerful new drivers in order to accelerate the development of the new economy. We need to move faster to develop new technologies, industries, and forms of business, boost the development of a sharing economy through institutional innovations, create sharing platforms, and develop emerging industry clusters such as high-tech and modern service industry clusters, thus creating strong new engines. We will use network-based information technology and other modern technologies to drive changes in models of production, management, and marketing, create new industry chains, supply chains, and value chains, and transform and upgrade conventional drivers, thus injecting them with new vitality.

从根本上说,发展的不竭力量蕴藏在人民群众之中。9亿多劳动力、1亿多受过高等教育和有专业技能的人才,是我们最大的资源和优势。实现新旧动能转换,推动发展转向更多依靠人力人才资源和创新,既是一个伴随阵痛的调整过程,也是一个充满希望的升级过程。只要闯过这个关口,中国经济就一定能够浴火重生、再创辉煌。

Ultimately, it is the people who are the inexhaustible source of power that drives development. A workforce of over 900 million, of whom over 100 million have received higher education or are professionally trained: this is our greatest resource and strength. Obviously, replacing old drivers of growth with new ones and achieving a shift in development toward greater reliance on human resources, human capital, and innovation is a process of painful adjustment. But it is at the same time an upgrading process with great promise. We just have to get through this process, and we can, without question, reinvigorate the economy and ensure its dynamic growth.

展望今后五年,我们充满必胜信心。如期实现全面建成小康社会目标,人民生活将会更加美好,中国特色社会主义事业前景一定会更加光明!

Looking ahead to the next five years, we are fully confident that we will finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects within the set timeframe, that our people will enjoy better lives, and that there will be an even brighter future for the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.

 三、2016年重点工作

I now want to discuss the major areas of work for 2016.

今年是全面建成小康社会决胜阶段的开局之年,也是推进结构性改革的攻坚之年。

This is the first year of the decisive stage in finishing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and a crucial year in carrying out structural reform. To ensure that the government's goal for this year is accomplished, we must do the following: