Bio-based Materials China News

China announces to cut its GDP growth target to 7.5% in 2012, according to Premier Wen Jiabao's announcement in his government work report delivered to the National People's Congress on March 5^th, 2012. This is the first time for the Chinese government to lower its economic growth target after its years-long efforts to maintain an 8% economic growth rate for seven consecutive years. The major reason of cutting GDP growth target is that the Chinese government plans to focus on accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development and making economic development more sustainable and efficient so as to achieve higher-level and higher-quality development over a longer period of time.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government has been releasing a series of "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", such as the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for New Materials Industry", the "Plan for Grain Processing Industry (2011-2020)", the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Industrial Technology Innovation (2011-2015)", the "Twelfth Five-Year Implementation Plan for Multiple Utilization of Crop Stalk", the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Clean Production", etc. Based on the above policies, as one of strategic emerging industries, biomaterial industry will undoubtedly enter a stage of rapid development.