Circular of the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce concerning the Implementation of the 11th Five-year Development Plan for
the Domestic Trade

Shang Jian Zi [2006] No.126

The competent commerce departments of each province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, city specifically
designated in the state plan and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

This Ministry, under the Outline of the 11th Five-year Development Plan for the National Economy and Society of the People’s Republic
of China and according to the State’s uniform arrangement, promulgated the 11th Five-year Development Plan for the Domestic Trade
(hereinafter referred to as the Plan) on July 27, 2006. For the purpose of making a good job in the implementation of the Plan, issues
concerned are notified as follows.

1.

Study earnestly and improve understanding

The Plan is the programmatic document to guide the development of our country’s circulating industries for five years or for an even
longer time. It is ranked as a special plan of State level. The competent departments in all localities shall pay high attention
to, study earnestly, and master profoundly the guiding ideology of the Plan. They shall understand sufficiently the importance of
implementation of the Plan in giving further play to the domestic trade in respect of inducting production, enlarging consumption,
increasing employment, prompting the development of economy and society and improving people’s living standard. And they shall elevate
the consciousness of the implementation of the Plan and take it as the key work to develop domestic trade.

2.

Arrange overall and implement strictly

The commerce departments in each locality shall, in accordance with the Plan, strengthen the leadership, plan deliberately, arrange
thoroughly, do a good job in implementing level by level and guarantee that liabilities and measures be properly used. In light of
the actual stations of each locality, they shall study and formulate the medium and long-term development plans for the domestic
trade of this region as soon as possible, and in principle, the formulation and publication of these medium and long-term plans shall
be completed in the first half of 2007 and be reported to this Ministry for archival file. On this base, they shall accelerate the
study and formulation of the policies and measures to promote the domestic trade of their regions, release the guiding list of encouraging
and restricting development of construction projects of domestic trade in time and lead social funds to follow in a right way, so
as to guarantee the implementation of the Plan in a successful way.

3.

Reinforce coordination and follow to evaluate

The commerce departments of each locality shall reinforce coordination with related departments, set up an inter-department coordination
mechanism jointly with departments concerned, cooperate closely, make a jointly force to push forward the implementation of the Plan.
They shall establish an annual following supervision system, medium-term evaluation system and medium-term check system, enhance
supervision and check on the implementation of the Plan, pay attention to summarize and study the new circumstances occurring during
the implementation of the Plan, and resolve new problems. And they shall cooperate the Ministry actively to check and supervise the
implementation of the Plan and report the conduction situation and summery of the implementation of the Plan in the previous year
at the beginning of each year.

The General Office of the Ministry of Commerce

November 28, 2006