The PLA Family Planning Leading Group held a meeting on February 17 in Beijing to summarize the family planning work in the 10^th Five-Year Plan period and map out the family planning tasks in the 11^th Five-Year Plan period and in 2006. Li Jinai, member of the Central Military Commission, director of the General Political Department of the PLA and leader of the PLA Family Planning Leading Group, emphasized at the meeting that the scientific outlook on development should be made the guidance in an effort to further enhance the sense of responsibility in doing a better job in the PLA's family planning and to give impetus to a faster and better development.

　　Li stated that the main emphasis of the work should be laid on the grassroots, the priorities should be put on selected units and individuals and key links, and efforts should be made to establish and improve the system of management responsibility so as to make sure that family planning is put into effect at the grassroots. Vigorous endeavor should be made to identify the peculiarities and rules of family planning, to strengthen perspective research, to provide answers to new problems and to summarize new experience in a bid to advance the work of family planning in the army steadily.

　　By Su Daming and Xia Hongping