Main Targets of Shanghai`s Ninth Five-Year Plan

-- To maintain the average yearly GDP growth rate at 10-12%;

-- To ensure the average annual growth rate of 14% in the city's industrial output value;

-- To ensure the average annual growth rate of 3.5% in the city's agricultural output value;

-- To boost the city's foreign trade to 38 billion US dollars, including export of 20 billion US dollars, by the year 2000;

-- To lift the city's volume of domestic sales of consumer goods to 195 billion yuan by the year 2000;

-- To attract foreign investment with a contracted value of 37.5 billion US dollars and with actual utilization of 24 billion US dollars during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period;

-- To maintain an average annual hike of 3-5% in the employees' salary and farmers' net income after deducting the inflation factor;

-- To ensure that the average per capita living space reaches 10 square metres in the urban area; apartments account for 70% of the city's total residential housing; and the city gas pipeline extends to 90% of local households;

-- To readjust the ratio among the tertiary, secondary and primary industries to 45:53:2 by the year 2000;

-- To ensure that the contribution made by scientific and technological progress to the city's economic growth will reach 50% by the year 2000;

-- To enroll 164,000 students at the city's institutions of higher learning and vocational schools by the year 2000;

-- To ensure that by the year 2000, the city shall have a contingent of 1.71 million professionals, with 1,224 professionals among an average of 10,000 local residents and 2,200 among an average of 10,000 local workers;

-- To extend the average life expectancy of Shanghai residents to 76.5 years by the year 2000;

-- To actively carry out the "National Fitness Promotion Programme" and to ensure that 40% of local residents regularly take part in sports activities and the city will have 50-60 gymnasiums and stadiums which are up to the standards for hosting international comprehensive sport events.