Below are the key points of the country's achievements in the past five years, from Premier Wen Jiabao's work report:^[2]

• Effectively countered the severe impact of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and maintained steady and fast economic development.
• China's GDP increased from 26.6 trillion yuan to 51.9 trillion yuan, and now ranks second in the world.
• Government revenue went up from 5.1 trillion yuan to 11.7 trillion yuan.
• A total of 58.7 million urban jobs were created.
• The per capita disposable income of urban residents rose by an annual average of 8.8%, and the per capita net income of rural residents rose by 9.9%.
• Rice production in China increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2012.
• Progress was made in key areas of reform; and the open economy reached a new stage of development.
• Made China more innovative. Breakthroughs were made in developing human spaceflight and the lunar exploration program, building a crewed deep-sea submersible, launching the Beidou Navigation Satellite System, developing supercomputers and building high-speed railways. China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was commissioned.
• Successfully hosted the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and the XIII Paralympic Games in Beijing and the World Expo in Shanghai.
• Successfully mitigated the impact of the massive Wenchuan earthquake, the strong Yushu earthquake, the huge Zhugqu mudslide and other natural disasters and carried out post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.
• China's productive forces and overall national strength, its living standards and social security, and its international status and influence all improved significantly.
• Successfully completed the Eleventh Five-Year Plan and got off to a good start in implementing the Twelfth Five-Year Plan.
• Made significant socialist economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress, and wrote a new chapter in building socialism with Chinese characteristics

• Hangzhou mayor Shao Zhanwei died during the congress.

• NPC Official Website