Wen Jiabao Chaired A State Council Executive Meeting To Analyze The Economic Situation In The First Quarter.

Premier of State Council

The meeting pointed out that since the beginning of this year, China's economy has been running smoothly and the national economy has started well.

The meeting held that the environment at home and abroad is still extremely complex, and there are still many uncertainties and uncertainties.

From the international perspective, the economy of the major economies has resumed growth, but the prices of commodities such as grain and oil have been rising continuously in the international market. The inflationary pressure is expanding from the emerging economies to the developed economies. The world economy has not yet embarked on the track of normal growth, and now there are some new variables.

From the domestic perspective, although there are many favorable conditions for development, there are also many challenges. The main reason is that prices are rising faster, inflation expectations are increasing, the volume of real estate market is shrinking, the housing prices in most cities are still rising, and macroeconomic regulation and control still face greater pressure.

We must remain sober minded, enhance our sense of hardship, calm down and observe, calm down and cope with difficulties and prepare for risks.

The meeting stressed the importance of maintaining the continuity and stability of macroeconomic policies, improving pertinence, flexibility and effectiveness, persisting in handling the relationship between maintaining stable and rapid economic development, adjusting the economic structure and managing inflation expectations, resolutely preventing prices from rising too fast, consolidating the good momentum of economic development, and striving to achieve the goal of economic and social development this year.

At present, we should focus on the following tasks:

(1) earnestly implement a prudent monetary policy.

We should handle the relationship between controlling the total amount of money and improving the structure, controlling the relationship between inflation and promoting economic growth, making comprehensive use of various price and quantity tools such as open market operation, deposit reserve ratio and interest rate to further improve the RMB exchange rate formation mechanism, and control the scale of social investment in a reasonable range, and guide commercial banks to increase credit support for key areas and weak links, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, rationally adjust the proportion of medium and long term loans and short-term loans, raise the proportion of direct financing, eliminate the monetary factors of inflation, and meet the rational financial needs of the real economy.

(two) do everything possible to keep the general price level basically stable.

This is the primary task of this year's macroeconomic regulation and control, and also the most urgent task.

We must implement the comprehensive plan of the State Council on stabilizing the general price level, and take various measures to comprehensively cope with the pressure of rising prices at home and abroad from controlling money, developing production, ensuring supply, invigorating circulation, and strengthening supervision.

(three) consolidating and expanding the effectiveness of the real estate market regulation.

We must stick to the direction of regulation and control and relax the regulation and control.

We must strictly control speculative investment housing demand, strive to increase market supply, stabilize market expectations, and control housing prices at a reasonable level.

We should conscientiously grasp the construction of affordable housing, decompose the implementation of the tasks of indemnificatory housing construction, and make arrangements for the construction and completion plans of the projects to be made public so as to enable the masses to supervise.

We should promptly establish a management system for the construction, allocation, operation and exit of affordable housing.

Efforts to increase the supply of ordinary commodity housing can not be relaxed.

(four) do a good job of agriculture and grain production without delay.

We should make every effort to do a good job in agricultural production in the spring, earnestly strengthen the field management of wheat in the middle and later stages, further implement the planting area of early rice, strengthen scientific and technological guidance and service in spring sowing, do well in disaster prevention and reduction, pest control and prevention, and strengthen the supply and protection of agricultural supplies, and strive to win a good harvest of grain and oil in summer.

We should continue to implement the responsibility system of "rice bag" governor and the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket", and do a good job in the construction of circulation system of agricultural products.

We should comprehensively strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation and water conservancy, and enhance the ability of agriculture to withstand natural disasters.

(five) promote the sound and rapid development of foreign trade.

We should maintain stable foreign trade policies, accelerate the pformation of the development mode of foreign trade, further optimize the structure of import and export, persist in developing trade with science and technology, win the market by quality and diversify the market, actively promote the pformation and upgrading of processing trade, strive to create new advantages in participating in international competition and cooperation, and comprehensively enhance the quality and efficiency of foreign trade.

We should do well in the work of "Introduction" and "going out", accelerate the implementation of the "going out" strategy, and focus on preventing risks and improving efficiency.

(six) great efforts should be made to improve energy conservation and emission reduction.

We must resolutely curb the excessive growth of high energy consumption and high pollution industries, increase the entry threshold for energy consumption and emission standards, and intensify the implementation of differential electricity tariffs and punitive electricity price policies.

Strengthen the responsibility of energy saving and emission reduction targets.

We will accelerate the implementation of key projects for energy conservation and emission reduction.

(seven) actively promoting the pformation of development mode.

We should accelerate the pformation and upgrading of industries, accelerate the development of strategic emerging industries, promote the great development of the service industry, and improve the development environment of small and medium-sized enterprises. We should speed up the establishment of a long-term mechanism for expanding consumption through deepening the reform of income distribution system and fiscal and taxation system, improving the social security system, ensuring the improvement of people's livelihood and improving the consumption environment.

Efforts should be made to further intensify work, thoroughly carry out special rectification of food and drug safety, and resolutely investigate and punish various illegal and criminal acts that endanger people's lives and health.

The meeting required that all regions and departments should conscientiously achieve ideological understanding, organize leadership in place and carry out various tasks in place.

We should focus on overall consideration and grasp the key points, and strive to do a good job in the important work of overall relationship and long-term impact.

Establish and improve the accountability system, improve performance appraisal, serious accountability, improve the credibility and execution of the government.