党的十七届五中全会《关于制定十二五规划的建议》提出,坚持把保障和改善民生作为加快转变经济发展方式的根本出发点和落脚点。本文提出了若干扩大城乡居民消费的政策建议。 The Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Proposal on Formulating the 12th Five-Year Plan put forward that it is necessary to insist on ensuring and improving people’s livelihood as the fundamental starting point and ending point for speeding up the transformation of economic development mode. This paper presents a number of policy recommendations to expand the consumption of urban and rural residents.