2009 Work Review of the 2010 Guangdong Provincial People’s Government Work Report

The year 2009 that just passed was the most difficult year since our province entered the new century. It was also the year when our province actively responded to the international financial crisis, maintained stable and rapid economic and social development, and achieved great results in reform, opening up, and modernization. A year of remarkable achievements. Facing the severe economic situation, the provincial government, under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the Provincial Party Committee, and with the supervision and support of the Provincial People's Congress and its Standing Committee and the Provincial CPPCC, resolutely implements the central government's instructions on maintaining growth, ensuring people's livelihood and stability Deploy various decisions and arrangements, plan scientifically, face difficulties, turn crises into opportunities, make progress amidst crises, take the implementation of the "Outline of the Reform and Development Plan for the Pearl River Delta Region (2008-2020)" as the main axis, and vigorously promote the "Three Promotions and One" "Maintain", go all out to maintain growth, seize the opportunity to expand domestic demand, promote transformation with an eye to the future, and provide solid benefits to people's livelihood. This has not only effectively curbed the decline in economic growth, but also created favorable conditions for the sound and rapid economic and social development in the next step. We have basically completed various goals and tasks set by the Second Session of the 11th Provincial People's Congress, and taken new solid steps in the grand process of promoting scientific development and promoting social harmony.

——The economic growth target was successfully achieved. Responding to the international financial crisis early, acting quickly and striking hard, promoted stable and rapid economic growth. The GDP was 3.9082 billion yuan, an increase of 9.5% over the previous year, and the per capita GDP was 40,748 yuan, an increase of 8.4%, all of which achieved the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" goals ahead of schedule. The total fiscal revenue and local general budget revenue from Guangdong reached 905.2 billion yuan and 364.9 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 6.9% and 10.3%.

——Major progress has been made in the adjustment of industrial structure. For the first time, some cities in the Pearl River Delta region have seen a positive trend in which per capita GDP growth is higher than GDP growth. The proportion of the three industries in the province was adjusted from 5.4:50.3:44.3 in the previous year to 5.1:49.3:45.6. The tertiary industry has become the primary driving force for economic growth, with a contribution rate of 49.1%. Industrial economic benefits have improved significantly. The total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 27.7% from January to November, and the total profits of provincial state-owned enterprises increased by 84.2% for the whole year. The output value of high-tech products reached 2.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%. Advanced manufacturing industries such as automobiles, ships, nuclear energy, and wind power are developing rapidly. Modern agriculture advanced steadily, and the added value of agriculture increased by 4.9%. Total emissions of sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand are expected to decrease by 5.8% and 5.4% respectively.

——Promote coordinated regional development to achieve new breakthroughs. The economy of the Pearl River Delta region has maintained steady and rapid development, and its overall competitiveness has been further enhanced. Significant progress has been made in the integration of Guangzhou and Foshan, and the integration process of the three major economic circles of Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaoqing, Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou and Zhuzhong-Jiang has accelerated. The development of the east and west regions of Guangdong has accelerated, with the GDP growth rates of the five cities in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and mountainous areas being 2.6, 0.9 and 1.5 percentage points higher than the provincial average respectively.

——People’s lives continue to improve. The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 21,575 yuan, and the per capita net income of rural residents was 6,907 yuan, with actual growth of 12% and 10.7%. There were 1.723 million new urban jobs, and the registered urban unemployment rate at the end of the year was 2.6%. The number of people participating in social security and the total amount of social security funds rank first in the country, and 3.65 million farmers participate in rural social pension insurance. Social undertakings such as education, health, culture, and sports have flourished, and society has maintained harmony and stability.

——Counterpart support for the restoration and reconstruction work of “three counties and one district” in Wenchuan, Sichuan and Gansu has achieved significant results. 721 aided construction projects have been started and 423 have been completed, with a total of 7.59 billion yuan of funds in place. The start rate, completion rate and funding rate reached 97.3%, 57.1% and 69% respectively. The task of rebuilding residents' housing in the disaster area has been basically completed. 16 primary and secondary schools and a number of public living facilities have been handed over as a whole. The production and living conditions of the people have been significantly improved.

In the past year, we have mainly focused on the following tasks:

(1) Earnestly implement the Pearl River Delta "Planning Outline" and promote the economic integration of the Pearl River Delta. Convene a province-wide mobilization meeting and on-site meetings in 9 cities in the Pearl River Delta to formulate decisions and plans for the implementation of the "Outline Plan", study and refine and step by step promote the experimental zones, demonstration areas, important bases, and key projects proposed in the "Outline Plan", A new round of "scientific development, pioneering and piloting" craze was quickly set off across the province. Signed cooperation agreements with six national ministries and commissions to jointly promote the implementation of the "Planning Outline". Guiding opinions on promoting regional economic integration in the Pearl River Delta were issued, and five integrated special plans including infrastructure, industrial layout, urban and rural planning, public services and environmental protection were compiled and implemented. Start the construction of inter-city rail transit in Dongguan-Huizhou and Foshan-Zhaozhou, accelerate the construction of expressways along the Guangzhou-Shenzhen River and the Guangzhou-Zhuhai West Line, and promote the interconnection of transportation infrastructure in the region.

(2) Persist in expanding investment, promoting consumption and stabilizing foreign trade, and promote stable and rapid economic growth. Improve and implement a package of measures to expand domestic demand and promote stable and rapid economic development to effectively expand investment demand. The provincial and municipal governments have signed strategic cooperation agreements with major banking institutions, with credit lines reaching 2 trillion yuan. Accelerate the implementation of the "Ten New Projects", driving fixed asset investment across society to 1,335.3 billion yuan, an increase of 19.5%.

We have improved the mechanism for promoting major projects. 33 projects including China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Huizhou)'s 12 million tons oil refining and Units 1 and 2 of Shantou Huaneng Haimen Power Plant have been completed and put into operation. 74 new projects including Guangzhou Xijiang Water Diversion, Jieyang Chaoshan Airport, and Taishan Nuclear Power Phase I Project have been completed and put into operation. Construction has started, and the preliminary work of projects such as AVIC General Aircraft, Rail Transit Equipment Industrialization Base, and Nuclear Power Equipment Industrial Base has been solidly advanced. Seven projects, including the "big and small" project of China Resources Haifeng Power Plant, have been approved by the state to carry out preliminary work. We will conscientiously implement policies such as bringing home appliances, automobiles, and farm machinery to the countryside, replacing old cars and home appliances with new ones, and taking paid vacations. We will take the lead in piloting the national tourism and leisure plan in the country, and promote key consumption such as home appliances, cars, tourism, housing, and information services to maintain strong consumption. The total retail sales of consumer goods is 14,892 billion, an increase of 16.3%. We vigorously promoted the "Northward and Westward Expansion of Guangzhou Products" and held more than 130 promotional activities in key domestic cities, with a turnover of more than 580 billion yuan. Market supply and price control and supervision were strengthened, and the consumer price index fell by 2.3%. Actively supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, the provincial government has allocated an additional 2.2 billion yuan in funds to support small and medium-sized enterprises in solving financing difficulties and other problems. It is estimated that the private economy will contribute 54% to the province's GDP growth. Increase support for the development of foreign economic and trade, encourage processing trade enterprises to sell domestically and domestically, and focus on promoting the expansion of exports of mechanical and electrical products, high-tech products and general trade. Organized and participated in more than 300 economic and trade negotiation activities, established platforms such as Guangdong Yifa.com and Guangdong-Hong Kong International Trade Link, and tried every means to seize orders and expand the market. The province's total foreign trade import and export volume reached 611.12 billion U.S. dollars, of which exports were 358.96 billion U.S. dollars, which changed from a decrease of 31.1% and 23.6% in January to an increase of 32.3% and 23.5% in December, and a decrease of 10.8% and 11.5% for the whole year, showing a continuous decline. The trend has narrowed and is generally better than the national trend, with the total exports accounting for 1.6 percentage points in the national proportion.

(3) Promote the adjustment, optimization and upgrading of industrial structure and accelerate the construction of modern industrial system. Vigorously promote the construction of six major industries and eight major carriers, and the modern industrial system has begun to take shape. Accelerate the development of high-end service industries. The development of producer services such as modern logistics, finance, exhibitions, technology services, and business services is accelerated. E-commerce and cultural and creative industries are booming. The overall scale of the financial industry has caught up with Hong Kong. The service industry accounts for 10% of the GDP. The proportion increased by 1.3 percentage points. Formulate and implement 12 key industry adjustment and revitalization plans including equipment, automobiles, steel, ships, and electronic information to promote the rapid development of advanced manufacturing with equipment manufacturing as the main body. Projects such as BYD's electric vehicles and GAC's own-brand passenger cars are accelerating. The province's automobile output reached 1.13 million units, ranking among the top in the country. The 300,000-ton super oil tanker with independent intellectual property rights at Longxue Shipbuilding Base was successfully built and delivered for use. The construction of equipment manufacturing bases such as Guangzhou's medium and low-speed diesel engines, Nansha's heavy machinery equipment and power transmission and transformation equipment has accelerated. The layout of the coastal petrochemical industry belt has basically been formed. The China-Venezuela joint venture Nanhai (Jieyang) Petrochemical 20 million tons/year super-heavy oil processing project has been approved by the state to carry out preliminary work. The China-Venezuela joint venture Guangdong refining and chemical integration project has also chosen the East Island of Zhanjiang. Implement a special plan for high-tech industrialization and accelerate the construction of national high-tech industrial bases such as information industry and bioengineering. Zhuhai Aviation Industry National High-tech Industrial Base was approved, and 68 projects were included in the national high-tech industry development project plan, with a total investment of 7.48 billion. Yuan. Actively cultivate strategic emerging industries and accelerate the development of "four new and one soft" industries such as new displays, new energy, new light sources, new communications and software, making our province one of the most competitive emerging industry bases such as flat panel displays in the country. Accelerate technological transformation and technological innovation, and actively promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. We eliminated 2.4 million tons of backward steel production capacity, 10.39 million tons of cement production capacity, and shut down 5.53 million kilowatts of small thermal power plants. Actively carry out provincial-ministerial cooperation in pilot demonstration provinces for economical and intensive land use, and vigorously promote the "three olds" renovation of old towns, old factories, and old villages, as well as land reclamation and land development and consolidation. The consumption of construction land for the new GDP of 100 million yuan has dropped by 11% year-on-year. %; 537,000 acres of farmland were replenished through the development of garden and hillside land, doubling the previous year; the new round of land use master plan was approved by the State Council, reducing the number of cultivated land by 5.23 million acres compared with the previous round of planning, and increasing the scale of construction land by 6.35 million mu. We organized and implemented ten new energy-saving projects, and the energy consumption per unit of GDP and industrial added value exceeded the annual target. Strengthen the construction of environmental protection infrastructure. All coal-fired units with an installed capacity of more than 125,000 kilowatts in the province have completed desulfurization projects. Municipalities at and above the prefecture level have basically built harmless treatment facilities for domestic waste. Counties in the east, west and north regions have basically built centralized domestic sewage treatment facilities. The daily sewage treatment capacity exceeds 10 million tons.

(4) Pay close attention to independent innovation and strive to enhance core competitiveness. The action plan for building an innovative Guangdong has been implemented in depth, and ten major innovation projects have been vigorously promoted. Innovation economic performance and corporate innovation capabilities rank first in the country, and the comprehensive index of regional innovation capabilities ranks second in the country. The construction of the innovative talent team has achieved a historic leap, with 5 new academicians of the two academies and 11 chief scientists of the national "973" program. Comprehensively promote industry-university-research cooperation between provinces and ministries and provincial academies, build 64 provincial-ministry industry-university-research demonstration bases and 9 innovation alliances, organize and guide more than 2,200 science and technology commissioners from universities and research institutes across the country to settle in more than 3,000 companies, radiate and drive 1 More than 10,000 enterprises have been transformed and upgraded. The provincial-ministerial industry-university-research cooperation has added more than 700 billion yuan in output value and more than 100 billion yuan in profits and taxes in four years.

Provincial academies cooperated to transfer and transform more than 400 scientific and technological achievements of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, achieving an output value of more than 13 billion yuan. The construction of innovation platforms has been accelerated and efficient, and a number of major national-level innovation platforms have been added. The South China new drug research and development platform has become one of the major national biopharmaceutical creation platforms. The construction of major innovation clusters such as the Guangzhou International Bio-Island and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Circle is progressing smoothly. Formulate and implement industrial technology roadmap plans, and achieve breakthroughs in key technologies in key areas such as energy conservation, emission reduction, and digital equipment. Guangsheng digital audio codec technical specifications have officially become national standards and been incorporated into the international standard system. Promote the integration of science and technology and finance, implement policies such as government procurement of independent innovation products, and further optimize the independent innovation environment. The construction of high-tech industrial development zones has achieved new results, with industrial added value reaching 310 billion yuan, an increase of 23.4%. Quality supervision work has been strengthened, and new achievements have been achieved in the implementation of the strategy of winning by quality. The quality competitiveness index of our province's manufacturing industry has ranked first in the country. In-depth implementation of the intellectual property, technical standards and famous brand-driven strategy, the province's number of invention patent applications and authorizations ranked first in the country, with an increase of 14.8% and 49.3% respectively. China's famous brand products and China's well-known trademarks ranked first in the country.

(5) Strengthen the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" and promote the stable and rapid development of agriculture and rural economy. Improve and implement various agricultural subsidy policies, achieve bumper harvests in agricultural production, and increase grain production. Vigorously develop characteristic and efficient agriculture, and improve the production efficiency of high-quality vegetables, fruits, flowers, tea, southern medicine, poultry, and pigs. The pace of modern agricultural construction has accelerated, and the agricultural science and technology system has been further improved. 1.25 million acres of modern standard farmland have been built, and 97 counties (cities, districts) have introduced implementation plans for the reform and construction of grassroots agricultural technology extension systems. The level of agricultural industrialization management has improved, with 43 new provincial-level modern agricultural parks and 48 leading agricultural enterprises. The construction of agricultural product quality and safety systems has been strengthened, and a market access system has been initially established. The forestry industry has developed steadily, and Camellia oleifera and precious tree species have developed rapidly. The livestock industry continues to grow, and the marine fishery economy remains prosperous. The construction of new rural areas has been advanced in an orderly manner, and the improvement of village appearance and village planning have been strengthened. The drinking water safety problem of 3.8 million rural residents has been solved. Complete the rural road reconstruction task and realize the hardening of roads from towns to organized villages one year ahead of schedule. The construction of Lechang Gorge and Wantou water conservancy project is progressing smoothly.

(6) Promote the "dual transfer" of industry and labor to promote the development of the Pearl River Delta and accelerate the revitalization of the east, west, and north of Guangdong. Implement the strategy of upgrading the Pearl River Delta to drive the east-west and north-west regions, and hold on-site meetings and working meetings in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong to promote the east-west and north-west regions of Guangdong to accelerate the transfer of industries from the Pearl River Delta region and promote the transfer of rural labor for employment. The provincial finance department has allocated 4.5 billion yuan of special funds in advance to support the provincial demonstration industrial transfer park through competitive selection. The industrial transfer park has become an accelerator for economic development in underdeveloped areas. The 33 provincial industrial transfer parks achieved an industrial output value of 92.44 billion yuan and a tax revenue of 4.82 billion yuan, an increase of 19.3% and 21.7% respectively. Vocational and technical education has reached a new level. The province's total enrollment of secondary vocational and technical education and the number of students in schools rank first and second in the country respectively. The enrollment of secondary vocational schools and technical schools has increased by more than 30%, and 17 students have been transferred from underdeveloped areas. Thousands of people. The pace of transfer of rural labor skills training and employment accelerated, with 824,000 people being trained and 1.285 million new transferred jobs, an increase of 40.9% and 20.8% respectively. The layout of human resources has been further optimized. While new urban employment in the Pearl River Delta has declined, new urban employment in the east-west and north-west regions has increased by 4.8%, and 737,000 rural laborers have been transferred to nearby places for employment, an increase of 23.6%.

(7) Comprehensively deepen the close cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and enhance the level of open economy. A decision was issued to promote closer cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, and a joint meeting on cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Guangdong and Macao was successfully held. Guangdong and Hong Kong have jointly formulated a cooperation framework agreement and jointly prepared special plans for "building a high-quality living circle in Hong Kong" and "infrastructure construction". CEPA and the pilot policy of opening up the service industry to Hong Kong and Macao have been implemented, and pilot projects such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Dongguan's RMB settlement of goods trade with Hong Kong and Macao, and Hong Kong and Macao-funded banks' establishment of "different places and same city branches" in Guangdong have been solidly advanced. We will work with Hong Kong and Macao to respond to the international financial crisis, implement the Pearl River Delta "Planning Outline", expand domestic and overseas markets, and help achieve effective results in the transformation and upgrading of Taiwan-funded enterprises in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. The pace of construction of major cooperation projects between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has accelerated, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project has started smoothly. The "Hengqin Master Development Plan" was approved by the State Council, the Hengqin New District was officially launched, and the relocation of the University of Macau to Hengqin is progressing smoothly. The development of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Loop and the Qianhaihai area in Shenzhen is actively promoted. Accelerate the strategic transformation of foreign economic and trade development, optimize the export product structure, implement the export market diversification strategy, and increase exports to ASEAN, India and other countries against the trend. Efforts will be made to promote the construction of national processing trade transformation and upgrading demonstration zones, and support processing trade enterprises in creating brands and expanding domestic sales. Taking advantage of the opportunity of international market adjustment to expand imports, imports of resources, energy, important technical equipment, etc. grew rapidly. With the help of important platforms such as the Canton Fair, Hi-Tech Fair, and China Expo, we can effectively expand the space for international exchange and cooperation development. Successfully held the International Friendship Cities Conference, the International Consultation Conference on Guangdong Economic Development, the International Tourism and Culture Festival, the East Guangdong Overseas Chinese Expo and the First Foreign Exchange Expo. The main leaders of the province have led the team to promote international economic and trade cooperation, and signed various economic and trade cooperation projects with Japan, South Korea, Australia and relevant ASEAN countries worth US$18.8 billion.

Paying close attention to attracting investment, the actual utilization of foreign direct investment reached 19.54 billion US dollars, of which the service industry accounted for 38.8%, and there were 83 new and capital increase projects by the world's top 500 companies. The construction of China-Singapore (Guangzhou) “Knowledge City” and other projects is progressing steadily. The pace of "going global" has accelerated, guiding enterprises to steadily promote the acquisition of high-quality overseas assets, strengthening overseas resources and energy cooperation, and adding US$1.5 billion in overseas contracted investments. Actively participate in the construction of the my country-ASEAN Free Trade Area, establish a cooperation council mechanism or economic and trade dialogue coordination mechanism with Vietnam, Singapore, etc., and the China-Vietnam (Shenzhen-Haifang) Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone has been successfully constructed. Breakthroughs were made in the construction of special supervision zones such as Guangzhou Nansha and Shenzhen Qianhaiwan Bonded Port. Guangdong and Taiwan have made new progress in exchanges and cooperation, and regional cooperation in the Pan-Pearl River Delta continues to deepen. Overseas Chinese affairs and foreign affairs work have been strengthened.

(8) Pay close attention to reforms in key areas and key links to enhance the vitality of systems and mechanisms that promote scientific development. In accordance with the requirements of the departmental system, the reform of the administrative management system has been steadily promoted, the reform of provincial government agencies has been fully completed, and the reform of municipal and county government agencies has been steadily advanced. The clean-up of the fourth round of administrative approval items of the provincial government was basically completed, and 570 administrative approval items were canceled or adjusted, accounting for 53.6% of the total. The reform of the classification of public institutions and the reform of the personnel system are in full swing. The pilot systems of administrative management and social management in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shunde, Foshan and other places have achieved remarkable results. Actively promote the reform of expanding the management authority of county-level governments, launch pilot projects to expand authority and strengthen towns, and accelerate the construction of central towns. Start working on the main functional area plan and complete the plan for equalization of basic public services. Further decentralize the approval authority for local investment projects and launch "through-train" services for 1,000 key enterprises in the province. The agency construction system for provincial non-commercial projects is steadily advancing. The reform of state-owned enterprises further deepened, and the value maintenance and appreciation rate of state-owned capital reached 117.4%. Deepening the comprehensive reform of rural areas has been carried out in an orderly manner, the reform of the collective forest rights system has achieved remarkable results, and a new approach of "dividing shares but not mountains, and sharing benefits but not forests" has been explored. Guangzhou, Foshan, Huizhou, Zhongshan and other places have steadily advanced their pilot projects for coordinated urban and rural comprehensive reforms. The province's rural credit cooperatives have basically completed bill payment and the establishment of a unified legal person, and Guangzhou, Dongguan and Shunde rural credit cooperatives have been established as rural commercial banks. Pilot work on establishing small loan companies and village and town banks was accelerated. The Shenzhen GEM was successfully launched, and 12 companies in our province were listed. We will steadily advance the reform of resource and energy prices such as water and electricity and the reform of environmental prices such as sewage treatment fees.

(9) Vigorously develop social undertakings and make every effort to protect and improve people's livelihood. Provincial fiscal funds used to improve people's livelihood, balance regional public service levels, and help cities and counties enhance their development potential reached 111.1 billion yuan, accounting for 75.5% of total expenditure, an increase of 1.8 percentage points from the previous year. Activities such as the "Southern Guangdong Spring Warming Action" were organized, and every effort was made to help college students, migrant workers and other groups find employment, and the employment situation remained stable. Improve provincial pension insurance adjustment methods to achieve provincial coordination of social pension insurance and barrier-free transfer of pension insurance relations within the province. Comprehensively solve the problem of pension security for people who leave state-owned enterprises early. Launch new rural social pension insurance pilots and policy rural housing insurance pilots. Properly handle labor disputes and effectively maintain harmony and stability in labor relations. Improve the social assistance system. There are new developments in the cause of persons with disabilities. We will innovate the poverty alleviation working mechanism and promote poverty alleviation development that "plans to households and responsibilities to individuals". Launch the implementation of the “Thousands of Schools Supporting Thousands of Schools” and the action plan of sending educational resources to the countryside. The process of universalizing high school education has accelerated, and the gross enrollment rate of high school education has reached 79.9%, an increase of 7.9 percentage points. The construction of the modern vocational education system has been solidly advanced, and the reform of the zero-tuition enrollment and zero-distance employment talent model in secondary vocational education has become an advanced model in the country. The scale, structure and quality of higher education have been developed in a coordinated manner, and the gross enrollment rate has increased to 27.5%. Continue to solve the problem of the transfer of substitute teachers in primary and secondary schools, and make solid progress in the "equivalent" salary and welfare benefits for primary and secondary school teachers and the implementation of performance-based pay. We will vigorously develop cultural undertakings, strengthen the construction of public cultural infrastructure and rural grassroots cultural networks, and expand the coverage of the public cultural service system. The cultural market and cultural industry are prosperous and orderly, and literary and artistic creations are fruitful, with a number of widely influential radio, film and television masterpieces such as "Latent", "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and "Autumn Joy" emerging. Cantonese opera was successfully selected into the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list. Actively cooperate with the series of activities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the National Day. Deepen the reform of the medical and health system, issue opinions on accelerating the development of private medical institutions, and implement 6 major public health service projects and 9 basic public health service projects. Accelerate the renovation of dilapidated buildings and the construction of equipment and equipment in township health centers in old revolutionary areas. Strengthen public health emergency response capabilities and effectively prevent and control major epidemics such as influenza A (H1N1). The rural drug supply and supervision network is fully covered. The construction of a strong province with traditional Chinese medicine and the health project of "treating diseases before they are cured" by traditional Chinese medicine have achieved phased results. Comprehensively promote urban residents' medical insurance and include all retirees of closed and bankrupt state-owned enterprises and 2.8 million college students and secondary vocational and technical school (including technical school) students into urban residents' medical insurance. The participation rate of new rural cooperative medical care reaches 97.5%. Establish a target responsibility system for urban housing security and increase efforts in the construction of affordable housing. The work of creating livable urban and rural areas has been comprehensively promoted, air pollution control in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration and pollution control in key rivers such as Tamsui River have been carried out, and the environmental quality of the province has improved. The pace of construction of forestry ecological provinces has accelerated, with 9 new forestry ecological counties, significant results have been achieved in the construction of key ecological projects, and the forest coverage rate has reached 56.7%.

The province's urban and rural water conservancy disaster prevention and reduction projects and dangerous reservoir removal and reinforcement projects are in full swing, and the ability to prevent floods, droughts and winds has been further improved. The medals and total scores of the 11th National Games ranked second in the country, and preparations for the Guangzhou Asian Games, Asian Para Games and Shenzhen Universiade were progressing in an orderly manner. The population control tasks assigned by the state have been completed, and the low fertility level has been further stabilized. Ethnic areas have accelerated their development, and ethnic and religious relations have maintained harmony. Counterpart assistance work such as aiding Tibet and Xinjiang and supporting the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir area are solid and effective. The work on women, children, the elderly, civil air defense, meteorology, earthquakes, geology, statistics, archives, local chronicles, counselors, literature and history has been further strengthened.

(10) Strengthen the democratic legal system and the government's own construction, and optimize the scientific development environment. Carry out in-depth study and practice of the scientific outlook on development activities and emancipate the mind study and discussion activities to form a powerful driving force to respond to the international financial crisis and promote scientific development. Vigorously promote the rule of law in the province and build a government ruled by law. Consciously accepted the supervision of the Provincial People's Congress and its Standing Committee and the democratic supervision of the CPPCC, and handled 24 suggestions from the National People's Congress deputies and 24 proposals from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; 617 suggestions from the Provincial People's Congress deputies; 633 proposals from the Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference; and 8 proposals from the Provincial People's Congress. pieces. 19 local regulations were submitted to the Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee for review and 13 government regulations were formulated and revised. Close contact with various democratic parties, trade unions, Communist Youth League, Women's Federation, etc., the scientific and democratic decision-making mechanism in accordance with the law has been continuously improved, and Guangzhou's democratic and legal reform pilot has achieved breakthroughs. The reform of the urban community management system and the construction of rural communities have been solidly advanced, and the village (resident) self-governance system has been continuously improved. We have carried out online political inquiry, and made new progress in the disclosure of government affairs, factory affairs, and village (residential) affairs. The role of social organizations and industry associations has been effectively brought into play. Carry out in-depth "Fifth Five-Year Plan" law popularization and promote the establishment of rule-of-law cities and rule-of-law counties (cities, districts). Promote the construction of a clean government and further improve the corruption punishment and prevention system. Auditing and supervision work have been strengthened. The construction of the town and street comprehensive management petition and stability maintenance center has been accelerated, and the petition and stability maintenance work has been solidly advanced. Strengthen comprehensive management of social security and carry out in-depth crackdowns. Strictly guard against and resolutely combat infiltration, sabotage and terrorist activities by hostile forces at home and abroad. We will continue to carry out special rectifications on product quality and food and drug safety, intensify efforts to combat unfair competition and combat fraud, counterfeiting, and smuggling, and further standardize market order. We have vigorously carried out investigation and management of potential safety hazards and special rectification in key industries and fields, and the safety production situation has steadily improved. The emergency management system continues to improve. National defense construction and militia reserve work have been strengthened, military-civilian unity building work has been solidly advanced, and the military, government, military and civilians have become more united.

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