一是建设社会主义新农村。《纲要（草案）》把解决“三农”问题放在各项战略任务的首位。强调坚持统筹城乡经济社会发展，按照生产发展、生活宽裕、乡风文明、村容整洁、管理民主的要求，扎实稳步地推进社会主义新农村建设。要进一步提高农业综合生产能力，推进农业结构调整，加强农村基础设施建设，增加农民收入。着力抓好大型粮棉油生产基地、优质粮食产业、农田水利、饮水安全、公路、沼气和农村教育、文化、卫生建设等重点工程。全面推进农村综合改革，基本完成乡镇机构、农村义务教育和县乡财政管理体制等改革任务。培养造就有文化、懂技术、会经营的新型农民。各地方、各部门必须在经济工作思路和重点上有一个大的转变。建设资金要更多地向“三农”倾斜，公共服务要更大范围地覆盖农村，全社会都要大力支持农村发展。
First, we must build a new socialist countryside. Among all the strategic tasks before us, the Outline (draft) gives top priority to solving the problems facing agriculture, rural areas and farmers. There is a heavy stress in the Outline (draft) on the need to continue balancing economic and social development in urban and rural areas and to make steady proGREss in building a new socialist countryside by developing production, improving living standards, fostering more civil behavior, improving the overall cleanliness of villages, and exercising democratic management. We need to increase overall agricultural capacity, promote agricultural restructuring, intensify development of rural infrastructure, and increase farmers' incomes. We will focus on implementing key projects to establish large production bases for grain, cotton and edible oil, industrialize production of superior quality grain varieties, build water conservancy facilities and safe drinking water supplies, build roads and methane production facilities, and develop education, culture and health in rural areas. We must also comprehensively promote overall rural reform and basically complete reform of town and township government bodies, rural compulsory education, and fiscal management in counties and townships. We need to create a new type of farmer who has a good basic education and understands both agricultural techniques and business operations. All localities and government departments must substantially change their thinking and priorities in their economic work. More development funds need to be directed toward solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and public services need to be made more widely available in rural areas. All of society should energetically support rural development.
二是加快推进经济结构调整和增长方式转变。我国当前经济发展中诸多问题的症结，在于结构不合理和增长方式粗放。必须按照走新型工业化道路的要求，从优化产业结构中求发展，从节约资源、保护环境中求发展。《纲要（草案）》提出，要推进工业结构优化升级，促进工业由大变强。这是针对我国工业规模已经不小，但总体素质不高、竞争力不强的现状，而提出的一个重大任务。《纲要（草案）》对推进信息化、发展高技术产业、振兴装备制造业、发展能源原材料工业等方面的主要任务和建设布局作了部署，规划了一批重大建设项目。提出要加快发展服务业特别是信息、金融、保险、物流、旅游和社区服务业，不断提高服务业的比重和水平。
Second, we must accelerate economic restructuring and change of the pattern of economic growth. Many problems impeding
