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BEIJING -- China's development has been advancing in a new historic journey since late 2017, when Chinese President Xi Jinping noted at the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress that China's economy was transitioning from a phase of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development. To forestall and defuse various kinds of risks and proactively address challenges brought by external changes, China needs to focus on taking care of its own matters and improving the quality of development, Xi has said. It is widely believed that this new vision for development, featuring innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development, benefits not only China, but the world as a whole. "China will work with other countries to build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity," Xi said in his speech at World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda in January. OPEN WORLD ECONOMY China's ... » Learn More about Xi on China’s pursuit of high-quality development

Video Player Close BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China's development has been advancing in a new historic journey since late 2017, when Chinese President Xi Jinping noted at the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress that China's economy was transitioning from a phase of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development. To forestall and defuse various kinds of risks and proactively address challenges brought by external changes, China needs to focus on taking care of its own matters and improving the quality of development, Xi has said. It is widely believed that this new vision for development, featuring innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development, benefits not only China, but the world as a whole. "China will work with other countries to build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity," Xi said in his speech at World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda in ... » Learn More about Xiplomacy: Xi on China’s pursuit of high-quality development

The concept “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” was written into the report that President Xi Jinping delivered in 2017 at the 19th CPC National Congress, making it an important part of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This has clarified the relationship between development and environmental protection—where protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity. According to the communique of the fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, China should continue to uphold the concept of “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” optimize the layouts of the territorial space, improve supporting policies on ecological functional zones, attach great importance to protecting the ecological environment and providing more quality eco-products, establish a value realization mechanism for eco-products, improve market-based and ... » Learn More about Promoting the value of eco-products with ‘green GDP’

Video Player Close The fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 4, 2021. Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan attended the opening meeting of the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC. Wang Yang, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, delivered a work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee to the session. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisory body opened its annual session Thursday afternoon in Beijing. Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders attended the opening meeting of the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), held at the Great Hall of the People. At the meeting, the agenda for the session was reviewed and ... » Learn More about China’s top political advisory body opens annual session

Video Player Close -- This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, as well as the starting point on a new journey to fully building a modern socialist China -- Premier Li Keqiang is expected to deliver a government work report, which will be closely watched as China has emerged among the first countries to restore economic growth. -- This year's two sessions are expected to garner more attention from home and abroad as lawmakers will deliberate a blueprint for China's development in the next five to 15 years. -- Topics including high-quality economic development, sci-tech innovation, rural vitalization, eco-protection and "dual circulation" development paradigm will draw much attention. -- The two sessions returning to its traditional March schedule is an embodiment of China's success in effectively containing the COVID-19 epidemic. BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisory body started its ... » Learn More about China’s key political season kicks off, pooling strength for modernization drive

The two sessions starting Thursday will discuss the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035, which has drawn widespread attention at home and abroad since it was proposed by the top authorities in late October. According to the proposal, China is likely to become a medium-level developed country in terms of per capita GDP by 2035. As President Xi Jinping said in a statement on the proposal: "It is entirely possible for China to meet the current high-income countries' standards by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and to double the economic aggregate or per capita income by 2035." Nation on road to achieving target Economists have little doubt that China will become a high-income country, based on current standards, by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan. According to World Bank criteria, a country with per capita gross national income of $12,535 is defined as a high-income ... » Learn More about China has potential to realize 2035 goal

At the critical moment when the world is joining forces to stop the spread of COVID-19, top epidemiologists of China and the United States exchanged views on Tuesday -- an encouraging sign for bilateral cooperation as well as the global battle against the still raging pandemic. In an online talk organized by the University of Edinburgh, leading Chinese respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan and top US infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci have called for more efforts to enhance global solidarity and cooperation to beat the deadly virus. Their remarks are a reflection of the growing global public consensus that the human race should join hands and work together to beat the pandemic, and that this is the only way out of the calamity. As the two medical heavyweights have noted, if the virus is stamped out in one country but allowed to spread uninhibited in other parts of the world, it will mutate at a fast pace through cross-border transmissions and rekindle the outbreak ... » Learn More about Top Chinese, US epidemiologists’ talk encouraging sign in global fight against pandemic

Ministry of National Defense says China will not pursue hegemony or expansion The Chinese military will adamantly protect the nation's sovereignty and security, safeguard equality and justice, and be a staunch ally in maintaining world peace, the Ministry of National Defense said in a statement on Monday. A guideline on international military cooperation, signed by President Xi Jinping, who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission, came into effect on Monday. With 48 articles in eight chapters, the guideline provides a detailed and comprehensive framework for carrying out major tasks related to international military cooperation, such as event planning and risk management. It is also the "first regulation of its kind for the Chinese military in the new era, meaning its global military cooperation has reached new heights in terms of regulating and standardizing practices", the ministry said. In recent years, some people have claimed that China is changing its ... » Learn More about Guideline sets out framework to advance military cooperation