Beijing Prospect

Approaching the turn of the millennium, Beijing has mapped its blueprint for tomorrow: By 2010, Beijing will achieve an all-round development of economic and social development. The functions as political and cultural center will be further enhanced and brought to perfection. It will become the best city with the most developed culture, education, science and technology, social ethics and conventions and democracy and legal system. An economic system suited to the characteristics of the capital will be completed, led by a new and high technology industry, with developed tertiary industry, rational industrial Structure and high efficiency and high quality. The people's living standards will be raised to a higher level on the basis of a comfortable level. The city environment will be further improved and the city's management level will be improved markedly. By 2010, the GDP will be double that of 2000 and a fairly perfect socialist market system will take shape. The comprehensive strength of the economy, science and technology and social development will reach or surpass in some aspects the levels of capital cities of middle developed countries. By the mid-21st century, Beijing will become a modern international metropolis.With full confidence, Beijing is on its march into the new century.