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The article focuses on the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) held on March 5, 2008. In his government work report, Premier Wen Jiabao discussed China's economic issues, such as problems in economic development, and suggested ways to help try overcome them. Economists, local officials and deputies also shared their thoughts, including the newly appointed chief economist of the World Bank Lin Yifu, who said that China should develop regional small and medium-sized banks to provide financing services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The article offers an overview of the economic and social development plans for China for 2011 to 2015 which were approved at the Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress on March 14, 2011. The plans focus on changing its economic development model to economic restructuring system as well as on the yearly gross domestic product (GDP) growth goal of 7 per cent. The Chinese government also shows interest in expanding domestic consumption to stimulate economic growth.