【答案解析】Since reform and opening-up, China has entered a period of rapid development, huge progress and profound transformation unprecedented in history. From 1979 to 2003, China registered a 9.4% annual growth rate for its national economy, 7% for people's consumption level and 16% for total import and export volume. China has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world. In 2003, the per capita GDP of China, a country of 1.3 billion people, exceeded USS 1,000 for the first time and its people have on the whole been able to live a moderately comfortable life. // To address the outstanding problems in the national economy, the Chinese Government had taken a series of macro-control measures starting from the second half of 2003, which have yielded positive results within a short period. Some unhealthy and unstable factors in the economic performance have been contained and the national economy has maintained a momentum of stable and relatively fast development. China's GDP in 2004 is USS 1.65 trillion, a 9.5% year-on-year growth, and its total import and export volume to exceed USS 1.1547 trillion, rising from the fourth place in 2003 to the third in the world. // The sustained rapid development of China's economy is attributable to the following factors: the government's adherence to economic development as the central task, and solution to the problems on our way forward and to building socialist market economy as the direction of reform; our relentless efforts for institutional innovation, which has lent a strong impetus to socio-economic development; our policies of "inviting in" and "going out" and active participation in international economic and technical cooperation and competition in a bid to make full use of both domestic and foreign markets and resources.// The first two decades of this century is a period of important strategic opportunities for China's socio-economic development. In the next decade and more, we will strive to seize the opportunity and concentrate on building a society with moderate prosperity, so that in 2020 China's GDP will reach US＄4 trillion, quadrupling that of 2000, and per capita GDP will reach US＄3,000. By that time, China will be more developed economically, with an improved democracy system. advanced science and education and a flourishing culture, its people enjoying a better life in a harmonious society.//