To improve the structural tax reduction and ease the burdens on companies and individuals, the government will practice new personal income tax law, halved or cut taxes for small and micro-sized companies and further expand scope of value-added tax (VAT) reform;
To increase people's income, the government will adopt a more proactive policy of employment and introduce minimum-income system in 2012 in a bid to raise the people's income and boost consumption;
To optimize structure of fiscal expenditure, the government will conduct more fiscal injection into education, medical care and the agricultural industry so as to improve the people's well-being.
To narrow regional gap between the eastern region and the central and western regions, the government will continue to promote economic structural adjustment and coordinate development among regions. (XIC)