critics of the 11th five year plan of China

Although the 11th five year plan was made in 2005, I still have to bring forward some weak points in it.

In the first chapter, the general guiding principle is proposed as a human oriented scientific view of development. It's a good point. However, when we obviously fall into an increasingly deteriorating environment, human oriented point of view must also include an implication of sustainable development. Actually the most critical factor of sustainable development is a new energy plan.

In the past several centuries, we exploited the nature at will. Now we begin to see the consequences. Flood, mudflow, drought, desertification, and new stubborn diseases become increasingly common. So we have to begin to think about what we can do to stop it or at least mitigate it. Going green is a buzz word today. Apparently a sustainable energy plan will play a vital role in going green. Energy plan is a system project. In one hand, Efficiency of fossil fuel can be improved and depollution of fossil fuel before and after burning is also important. In addition, alternative energy such as solar panel, wind power, nuclear power should be seriously and urgently considered and researched.

The second point is that the proportion of basic science R&D investment is too low. We can not be proud of being a world factory. Actually, currently we are. If we don't increase the investment of basic research, we will not have enough potential to prepare for applied research and thus we will be tied in the lower end of value chain. It's absolutely not sustainable.

Finally, investment policy on public education is less satisfactory. Although the 4% goal was set in the 90s of the last century, it is not reached even now. Low financial income leads to deficient budget on education. This is always the excuse of Chinese government officials. I have to argue this excuse is nonsense. It is about determination and persistence. Even in a poor rural family, money can be saved for education. Moreover, if government has not enough money for education, why so many splendid government office building are constructed? why the salary of public servants was raised several times in recent few years? It's too much for me to call government to account for this issue. In a word, public education especially in rural areas is an unavoidable duty of government. There is no excuse. There is only consequences.