Graphics shows key data of 2015 written in the government work report at the 2016 annual session of China's National People's Congress. (Xinhua/Ma Yan)

Key figures and facts in China’s government work report

Key figures for the year of 2016

- Increase gross domestic product (GDP) by a rate between 6.5 and 7 percent;

- Keep the growth of consumer price index (CPI) at around 3 percent;

- Pursue a more proactive fiscal policy with a deficit of 2.18 trillion yuan ($335.38 billion), 560 billion yuan more than that of last year and accounting for 3 percent of GDP;

- Add more than 10 million urban jobs with a registered urban unemployment rate at no more than 4.5 percent;

- Pursue a prudent monetary policy that is flexible and appropriate while the growth of the broad money supply (M2) being set at about 13 percent;

Main goals for next five years

- Double the 2010 GDP and per capita personal income by 2020;

- Annual economic growth of at least 6.5 percent in next five years;

- Aggregate economic output exceeding 90 trillion yuan;

- Permanent urban residents accounting for 60 percent of China's population;

- Registered permanent urban residents accounting for 45 percent of China's population;

- Expansion of high-speed railways in service to 30,000 kilometers while the network linking more than 80 percent of big cities;

- Water consumption, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP down by 23 percent, 15 percent and 18 percent respectively;

- Poverty relief of all rural residents falling below the current poverty line, and poverty alleviation in all poor counties and areas;

- 50 million new urban jobs;

- One-year increase in average life expectancy.