The full name of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan is: Outline of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China. The 12th five-year plan starts and ends at 20 1 1-20 15. Starting from 1953, the state began to make short-term and medium-term planning in a five-year cycle. The first "five-year plan" is called "the first five-year plan" for short. Moreover, the period from 2006 to 20 10 happened to be 1 1 of the five-year plan put forward by our country, so we also called it "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" for short.