The annual Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from Dec 16 to 18.
The annual Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from Dec 16 to 18, as Chinese leaders charted course for the economy in 2021.
China is willing to boost cooperation with all other countries for mutual benefit and win-win results, Premier Li Keqiang said in a speech delivered via video link on Dec 14, to an event celebrating the 60th anniversary of signing the Convention on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
President Xi Jinping urged the international community to pursue a new approach to climate governance that highlights green recovery and pledged China's further commitments for 2030 to tackling the global climate challenge at the virtual Climate Ambition Summit on Dec 12.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Dec 11 presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to analyze the economic work for 2021.
“More efforts should be made to deepen system and mechanism reform to unleash the productivity and creativity of scientific research personnel, helping more of them concentrate on research,” Premier Li Keqiang said.
Premier Li Keqiang met with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Beijing on Dec 8, 2020 via video link.
Efforts should be made to enhance basic research and application-oriented innovation with new development concepts to build China into an innovative country, Premier Li Keqiang, also head of the National Science and Technology Leading Group, said at a meeting of the group on Dec 7.
