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.
"It is strictly prohibited to carry out repetitive and overlapping inspections, and inspection beyond authority. Formalism and bureaucracy must be avoided for the primary levels to reduce burden," Premier Li Keqiang stressed at the State Council's executive meeting on Dec 1.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said that China has accomplished its poverty alleviation target of the new era as scheduled and achieved a significant victory that impresses the world.
President Xi Jinping addressed the 2020 meeting of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (SEM) Advisory Board via video link and expressed his congratulations on the 20th anniversary of the board on Dec 3.
Premier Li Keqiang and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Mishustin, co-chaired the 25th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government via video link on Dec 2.
Premier Li Keqiang attended the 19th meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from Beijing on Nov 30 via video link.
President Xi Jinping called for cultivating a closer community with a shared future for China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Premier Li Keqiang held a roundtable meeting with leaders of six international economic and financial institutions via video link in Beijing on Nov 24.