《纲要（草案）》把建设资源节约型、环境友好型社会摆在突出位置，提出了明确任务和措施，规划了一批节能重点工程、循环经济示范试点工程、生态保护和环境治理重点工程。认真落实这些任务和措施，将会明显提高资源利用效率，基本遏制生态环境恶化的趋势。我们一定要坚持不懈地努力，为人民群众创造清洁、良好的生活和工作环境，为子孙后代留下蓝天绿地、碧水青山。
Building a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society is given a high priority in the Outline (draft). It specifies clear tasks and measures and lists a number of key energy-saving projects, demonstration projects for developing a circular economy, and key projects to protect the ecology and improve the environment. Conscientiously fulfilling these tasks and measures will significantly increase the efficiency of resource consumption and basically halt the ecological and environmental deterioration. We must work ceaselessly if we are to create clean and pleasant living and working conditions for the people and leave our future generations with blue skies, GREen land, clear water and verdant mountains.
三是促进区域协调发展。《纲要（草案）》分别提出了不同区域发展的重点任务，要求健全协调互动的市场机制、合作机制、互助机制和扶持机制。《纲要（草案）》根据各个区域资源、环境承载能力和发展潜力，将国土空间划分为优化开发、重点开发、限制开发和禁止开发四类主体功能区，实施不同的区域政策。同时，强调积极稳妥地推进城镇化，发挥城市群的带动和辐射作用。
Third, we must promote balanced development among regions. The Outline (draft) defines the key tasks for the development of different regions. It calls for improving the market mechanism, the mechanism for promoting cooperation, the mechanism for mutual assistance and the support mechanism to ensure balance and interaction among different regions. The Outline (draft) groups state-owned land into four types of development priority zones -- optimal development zones, key development zones, restricted development zones and non-development zones -- based on resources, the carrying capacity of the environment, and development potential. Different policies will be adopted for different zones. In addition, the document emphasizes the need to actively and steadily promote urbanization to take full advantage of the leading role of groups of cities in driving development.
四是着力增强自主创新能力。这是《纲要（草案）》的一个特点。要按照自主创新、重点跨越、支撑发展、引领未来的方针，加快建设创新型国家，全面提高原始创新能力、集成创新能力和引进消化吸收再创新能力。《纲要（草案）》提出，适应国家战略需求，启动一批重大科技专项，涉及信息、生物等战略产业领域，能源、资源、环境和人民健康等重大紧迫问题，以及军民两用技术。实施好这些重大专项，对于整合有限的科技资源、加快攻克事关全局和长远的科技难关，带动相关领域技术水平的整体提升，具有重大的现实意义和深远的战略意义。提高自主创新能力，最根本的是加快科技教育发展和人才队伍建设，《纲要（草案）》对此也作了全面部署。
Fourth, we must strive to increase our capacity for independent innovation. This features strongly in the Outline (draft). We need to follow a policy of making independent innovations and "leapfrog" advances in key areas of science and technology and supporting and guiding future development. We need to more quickly turn
五是深化改革和扩大开放。过去二十多年，我国经济社会发展取得的一切成就，都是同坚定地推进改革开放分不开的。要完成新阶段的发展任务，也必须坚定不移地全面深化改革和扩大开放。《纲要（草案）》提出，要加快完善社会主义市场经济体制，形成有利于转变经济增长方式、促进全面协调可持续发展的体制机制。要加强对改革的总体指导和统筹协调，在推进经济体制改革的同时，继续推进政治体制改革、文化体制改革和社会管理体制改革。正确处理改革发展稳定的关系。要按照统筹国内发展和对外开放的要求，实施互利共赢的开放战略，以开放促改革促发展。在扩大开放中重视维护国家经济安全。
Fifth, we must deepen reforms and open further to the outside world. None of the achievements made in China's economic and social development during the past 20 some years would have been possible if we had not resolutely carried out the reform and opening up policy. In order to complete the tasks for the present phase of development, we must unwaveringly and comprehensively deepen reforms and open still wider to the outside world. The Outline (draft) contains the requirement to speed up improvement of the socialist market economic system, and establish systems and mechanisms conducive to changing the pattern of economic growth and promoting comprehensive, balanced and sustainable development. We need to improve overall guidance and coordination for reforms and continue to promote reform of the political and cultural systems and the system of social management while carrying out economic restructuring. Reform, development and stability must be properly balanced. In line with the requirement to balance domestic development and opening to the outside world, we will follow a win-win strategy in opening the country and promote reform and development by opening wider to the outside world. In opening wider to the outside world, we must pay particular attention to safeguarding
六是努力建设和谐社会。这是推进经济社会发展的重要目标和保障。《纲要（草案）》提出，要做好人口工作，扩大就业，健全社会保障体系，不断提高人民生活水平和健康水平，加强公共安全建设，加强社会主义民主政治建设和文化建设，完善社会管理体制。经过今后五年的努力，使我们的社会更加和谐，让人民群众生活得更加美好！
Sixth, we must work hard to build a harmonious society. This is an important objective of social and economic development and guarantee for it. The Outline (draft) calls for doing a good job in population work; creating more jobs; improving the social security system, people's living standards and health and public safety; building socialist democracy; promoting cultural proGREss; and improving the system of social management. By working hard over the next five years, we can certainly make
