Urban and rural structure optimization in China

Structural changes between the first, second and third industries in the country

	primary industry(%)	Secondary industry(%)	Tertiary Industry(%)
2008	10.3	46.9	42.8
2015	8.9	40.9	50.2
2016	8.6	39.8	51.6
2017	7.9	40.5	51.6
2018	7.2	40.7	52.2

years	2002	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
China's urban population accounts for the proportion of the total population	39.09	51.27	52.6	53.73	54.77	56.1	57.4	58.5	59.58

Urban and rural structure optimization

Significant achievements in poverty alleviation

years	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Poverty reduction (10,000 people)	1650	1232	1442	1240	1289	1386

•       In the past six years, the rural areas have reduced poverty by 82.39 million people, with an average annual poverty reduction of 13.73 million. The cumulative poverty reduction rate reached 83.2% in six years. The incidence of rural poverty also dropped from 10.2% at the end of 2012 to 1.7% at the end of 2018. The incidence of rural poverty in 10 provinces has fallen below 1.0%, and the absolute poverty problem of the Chinese nation for thousands of years is expected to be resolved historically.

•       China's innovative state construction has achieved fruitful results, and major scientific and technological achievements such as Tiangong, Xiaolong, Tianyan, Wukong, Mozi and large aircraft have come out one after another.The contribution rate to world economic growth has exceeded 30%. Foreign trade, foreign investment, and foreign exchange reserves have been at the forefront of the world. China is increasingly approaching the center of the world stage and its influence on the world is growing.

Increase in international economic status

•       In 1978, China’s total economic output ranked 11th in the world, and it has ranked second since 2010.

•       China's GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 9.5%, much higher than the average annual growth rate of 2.9% in the world economy.

•       China’s GDP as a share of world GDP has risen from 1.8% at the beginning of reform and opening up to 15.2%, and its contribution to world economic growth has exceeded 30% over the years.

•       China's major agricultural output has leapt to the forefront of the world, establishing the world's most complete modern industrial system, technological innovation and major engineering success.

•       China is the largest country in manufacturing, the largest country in goods trade, the second largest country in commodity consumption, and the second largest country in foreign capital. China’s foreign exchange reserves rank first in the world for many years.

 Continuous improvement of the market economic system

•       Economic system reform from the theory to the practice of continuous innovation and breakthrough, from the planned economy, supplemented by market regulation, to the planned commodity economy, to the establishment of a socialist market economic system, the party's 18th National Congress has accelerated the improvement of the socialist market economy The system has successfully realized a great transformation from a highly centralized planned economic system to a dynamic socialist market economic system, providing a strong impetus and institutional guarantee for China to stand up and become rich and strong.

•       The basic economic system has continued to be consolidated and improved, and the role of the market has continued to increase.

•       Establish and constantly improve the basic economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay and multiple ownership economies develop together.

•       Continue to promote the reform of state-owned enterprises. The non-public ownership economy has become an important part of the socialist market economy from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong.

•       The modern market system has been gradually established and continuously improved, and the decisive role of the market in resource allocation has been increasingly enhanced.

•       The government's functions have been accelerated, the macro-control system has been continuously improved, and the reform of the “distribution service” has achieved remarkable results. The global ranking of China's business environment has jumped to the 46th.