Due to the impact of the European debt crisis and the slow global economic recovery, China has seen its export growth declining month after month since the beginning of the second half of 2011 and finds it more difficult to reap a rapid growth for the whole year.

China's economic and social development has advanced by leaps and bounds over the past 30 years since reform and opening up, and the country's comprehensive national strength has improved significantly.

China began rural tax reform in 2000, popularized it in 2003 and concluded it in 2006.