Central economic work conferences in recent years

An annual central economic work conference to analyze current domestic and international economic situations and map out plans for economic work in 2014 started in Beijing on Tuesday.

About a month after the the Communist Party of China Central Committee unveiled a landmark plan to comprehensively deepen reforms, the meeting is expected to put forward overall requirements and major tasks for economic work in 2014.

Following is a review of the central economic work conferences held in the previous five years.

December 15 to 16, 2012

Basic tone: enhancing quality and efficiency of economic growth

Major tasks: China vows to take enhancing quality and efficiency of economic growth as a central task; fully deepen reforms in its economy system and firmly promote opening up; take expanding domestic demand as a strategic basis for the country's development; continue to implement the proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy; continue its control policies on the property market; actively and steadily push forward urbanization; continue to protect foreign investors' rights and interests and their intellectual property rights; avoid pomp and circumstance and take concrete actions to serve the people wholeheartedly; encourage and increase both private and public investment.

December 12 to 14, 2011

Basic tone: making progress while maintaining stability

Major tasks: China vows to enhance and improve macroeconomic regulations to maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth; boost farm produce supplies through the development of agriculture; accelerate economic restructuring to make economic development more self-initiated and coordinated; deepen reforms in key areas and open up to the world; improve people's living standards and innovate the social management mechanism.

December 10 to 12, 2010

Basic tone: ensuring stable and relatively fast economic development while maintaining social stability

Major tasks: China plans to enhance and improve macroeconomic regulations to maintain steady and healthy economic growth; boost farm produce supplies through the development of modern agriculture; accelerate strategic transformation to make economic growth more coordinated and competitive; improve basic public services and innovate the social management mechanism; intensify reforms to promote a shift in the economic growth mode and maintain a mutually beneficial opening-up strategy to broaden international economic cooperation.

December 5 to 7, 2009

Basic tone: promoting the transformation of economic development pattern while maintaining stable and comparatively fast economic growth

Major tasks: China vows to improve macroeconomic regulations in 2010 to ensure stable and relatively fast economic growth and advance structural economic adjustments; lift the quality and efficiency of economic growth; boost rural development; deepen reform and opening up; enhance the momentum and vigor of economic growth; promote a stable increase in exports; improve people's living standards and maintain social stability.

December 8 to 10, 2008

Basic tone: maintaining stable and relatively fast economic growth

Major tasks: China plans to enhance and improve macroeconomic regulations and implement a proactive fiscal policy and moderately eased monetary policy in 2009; step up efforts to increase farmers' incomes and strengthen the development momentum of the agriculture industry and rural economy; speed up the transformation of economic development pattern and structural adjustments; deepen reform and opening up and maintain social stability.