Communique of 5th plenary session of 19th CPC Central Committee released


- China will prioritize the development of agriculture and rural areas, and fully advance rural vitalization.
- China has built the world's largest social security system in the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020).
- The strength of the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese socialist system has been further demonstrated in the past five years.
- China will work to ensure both development and national security, and continue the Peaceful China initiative at a higher level.
- During the past five years, more than 60 million new jobs were created in China's urban areas.
- China will advance coordinated regional development and a new type of urbanization.
- China will nurture a strong domestic market and establish a new development pattern.
- China will comprehensively deepen reform in pursuit of a high-level socialist market economy.
- China will advance green development and promote harmony between human and nature.
- Vice-premier urges all-out efforts to search for people missing after Gansu mountain torrents
- Zhejiang transforms once-polluted land into industrial park
- China activates Level-IV emergency response for flood control in 5 provincial-level regions
- Flash floods leave 15 dead, 28 missing in Gansu
- Foshan succeeds in curbing the spread of chikungunya
- Death toll in mountain torrents in NW China's Gansu rises to 13