党的十六届五中全会对我国未来经济社会发展进行了全面部署,提出了建设社会主义新农村的重大历史任务,这充分体现了贯彻落实科学发展观、全面建设小康社会和经济社会全面协调可持续发展的客观要求,已经成为新时期全党全社会的重大战略课题。要完成这一重大历史任务,关键是要大力推进科技进步和创新。最近,胡锦涛总书记在上海考察 The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee has fully deployed our country’s economic and social development in the future and put forward major historical tasks for building a new socialist countryside. This fully demonstrates that implementing the scientific concept of development, building an overall well-to-do society and overall economic and social coordination The objective requirement of sustainable development has become a major strategic issue for the entire party and society as a whole in the new era. The key to completing this major historical task is to vigorously promote scientific and technological progress and innovation. Recently, General Secretary Hu Jintao visited Shanghai