——中国将坚持优先发展教育，全面提高人的素质，把经济发展建立在提高人力资本质量的基础上。对于中国这样的发展中大国，大力提升教育水平，全面提高人的素质，是经济发展的优势、动力和源泉。我们要尽快把经济增长从依靠增加人力资本数量转变到依靠提升人力资本质量上来。这是适应技术进步、转变经济发展方式的需要，是适应人口结构变化、实现可持续发展的关键。我们要全面落实国家中长期教育规划纲要，更好地统筹发展各级各类教育，大力促进教育公平，全面实施素质教育，着力培养创新型人才，推动教育事业科学发展，加快从教育大国向教育强国、人力资源大国向人力资源强国迈进。这将为中国经济持续发展提供强大的智力支撑。
- China will continue to develop education as a priority, bring about all-round human development, and promote economic development on the basis of improving the quality of human capital.For a major developing country like China, boosting education and improving quality of human resources will drive economic development and make it more competitive. We will act quickly to achieve economic growth by increasing the quality of human capital rather than by just using more workers. This will enable us to catch up with the progress in technology and change the model of growth, and it holds the key for us to adapt to demographic changes and achieve sustainable development. We will fully implement the outline of the national medium- and long-term plan for education and promote balanced development of education at different levels and of various types. We will ensure equitable education for all, promote well-rounded development of people, train innovation-oriented talents, and advance education in a scientific manner. And we will move faster to make China not only a big country but also a strong country in both education and human resources. This will provide strong intellectual impetus for sustaining China's economic development.

——中国将坚持创新驱动，加快建设国家创新体系，大力增强科技对经济社会发展的支撑能力。加快转变经济发展方式，必须依靠科技支撑和引领。“十二五”时期，我们要把科技工作摆在更加突出的位置，深化科技体制改革，从根本上解决科技与经济脱节的问题；加大科技投入，把研究与试验发展经费支出占国内生产总值的比重从1.75%提高到2.2%。瞄准世界科技发展前沿，加强基础研究和战略高技术研究，集中力量突破一批核心关键技术。提升知识产权创造、应用、保护、管理能力，激发全社会创新活力。加快应用新技术、新材料、新工艺、新装备改造提升传统产业。大力培育和发展战略性新兴产业，现阶段重点培育和发展节能环保、新一代信息技术、生物、高端装备制造、新能源、新材料、新能源汽车等产业，力争形成新的支柱性产业，在新一轮科技革命和产业革命中赢得发展的主动权。
- China will continue to build an innovation-driven society, speed up the development of an innovation system, and enhance the role of science and technology in driving economic and social development. R&D is crucial in guiding our efforts to accelerate the change of growth model. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, we will give greater priority to R&D, deepen reform of science and technology institutions, and address the root causes of R&D not fully meeting the need of economic development. We will increase input in science and technology and raise the share of budget for R&D in GDP from 1.75% to 2.2%. We will follow closely the latest progress in overseas frontier technologies, strengthen basic research and the research of high technologies of strategic importance, and pool resources to make breakthroughs in developing core technologies. We will enhance capacity to create, utilize, protect and manage intellectual property rights and bring into play the creativity of the whole society. We will accelerate the upgrading of traditional industries by using new technologies, new materials, new techniques and new equipment. We will vigorously develop strategic emerging industries, with a focus at this stage on industries related to energy conservation, environmental protection, new-generation information technology, biotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials and new energy vehicles. Our goal is to develop new pillar industries so as to gain initiative for development in the new scientific revolution and industrial revolution.

——中国将坚持节约资源和保护环境，走绿色、低碳、可持续的发展道路，显著提高资源利用效率和应对气候变化能力。节约资源、保护环境是实现可持续发展的必由之路，是我国的一项基本国策。我们将加快构建有利于节约资源和保护环境的产业结构、生产方式和消费模式，促进人与自然的和谐统一。“十二五”期间，把非化石能源占一次能源消费比重提高到11.4%，单位国内生产总值能源消耗和二氧化碳排放分别降低16%和17%，主要污染物排放总量减少8%至10%。我们要健全法规和标准，强化目标责任考核，理顺能源资源价格体系，加强财税、金融等政策支持，推动循环经济发展，大力培育以低碳排放为特征的工业、建筑和交通体系，全面推进节能、节水、节地、节材和资源综合利用，保护与修复生态，增加森林碳汇，全面增强应对气候变化能力。
- China will continue to save resources and protect the environment, follow the path of green, low-carbon and sustainable development, use resources in a more efficient way, and develop stronger capacity for tackling climate change. To conserve resources and protect the environment is crucial to achieving sustainable development, and this is one of China's basic state policies. We will speed up the building of an industrial structure, a mode of production and a model of consumption that are conducive to resource conservation and environmental protection, and promote harmony between man and nature. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, we will raise the share of non-fossil energy in primary energy consumption to 11.4%, reduce energy consumption and C02 emission per unit of GDP by 16% and 17% respectively, and cut total discharge of major pollutants by 8%-10%. We will improve laws, regulations and standards, strengthen performance-based accountability, overhaul the pricing mechanism for energy and resources and increase fiscal, taxation, financial and other policy incentives. We will promote circular economy, develop low-carbon industrial, construction and transportation systems, promote energy, water, land and material conservation and integrated resource utilization, preserve and repair the eco-system, increase forest carbon sink, and build stronger capacity for tackling climate change.

——中国将坚持以人为本，更加重视保障改善民生，走共同富裕的道路。我们所做的一切都是为了让全体人民生活得更好，这是检验我们一切工作的标准。我们要以共享发展成果为目标，以保障改善民生为重点，全面推进社会建设。坚持把增加就业作为经济社会发展的优先目标，为全体劳动者创造公平的就业机会。调整国民收入分配格局，努力实现居民收入增长和经济发展同步、劳动报酬增长和劳动生产率提高同步，逐步提高居民收入在国民收入分配中的比重，提高劳动报酬在初次分配中的比重。城镇居民人均可支配收入和农村居民人均纯收入年均增长超过7%。实现城乡基本养老、基本医疗保障的制度全覆盖，全国城镇保障性住房覆盖面达到20%。
- China will continue to put people's interests first, pay more attention to ensuring and improving people's well-being and pursue common prosperity. Everything we do is to enable all the people to have better lives, and this is the criterion to measure the performance of all of our work. Our goal is to bring the benefit of development to all, ensure and improve people's well-being, and advance social progress in all respects. We will give priority to job creation in promoting economic and social development and create equitable job opportunities for all. We will adjust income distribution, ensure that personal income grows in step with economic growth and that labor remuneration grows in step with increase of productivity. We will gradually raise the share of personal income in national income distribution and the share of labor remuneration in primary distribution. We expect that per capita urban disposable income and per capita rural net income will both grow by more than 7% annually. We will put in place systems providing basic old-age care and basic medical and health care for the whole urban and rural population, and extend the coverage of government-subsidized housing to 20% of the urban population.

——中国将继续深化改革开放，坚决破除体制机制障碍，进一步增强可持续发展动力。中国过去30多年的快速发展，靠的是改革开放，未来的发展进步，也必须依靠改革开放。我们要继续推进经济体制和政治体制改革，为经济社会发展注入强大动力。坚持和完善基本经济制度，加快财税金融、要素价格、垄断行业等重点领域改革，力争取得明显进展。坚持依法治国，从制度上改变权力过分集中而又得不到制约的状况，保障人民的民主权利和合法权益，维护社会公平正义。
- China will continue to deepen reform and opening-up and resolutely remove institutional hurdles to increase the momentum of pursuing sustainable development. China owes its rapid development in the past 30 years and more to reform and opening-up, and this will be equally true for its future development and progress. We will continue to advance both economic and political structural reform to create strong impetus for economic and social development. We will uphold and improve the basic economic system, speed up fiscal, taxation and financial reform, reform of prices of factors of production, reform of monopoly sectors and other important fields, and strive to make major progress in these reforms. We will exercise governance pursuant to law and address the institutional causes for over-concentration of power and lack of checks on it. We will protect people's democratic rights and their lawful rights and interests so as to uphold fairness and justice.