CPC sets course for nation's long-term growth

It noted that China will take the real economy as the focus of its economic development, unswervingly build up its strength in manufacturing, quality and cyberspace, and build a digital country.

Participants in the session called for sticking to the central role of innovation in the country's modernization drive and making technological self-sufficiency a "strategic support" for national development with an aim to achieve major breakthroughs in key technologies by 2035, according to the communique.

China will further improve the quality of people's lives, promote the country's cultural soft power and advance green development, the communique said.

The meeting stressed the need to coordinate development and security, and called for efforts to prevent and defuse risks that might affect the country's modernization process, and ensure national economic security as well as social stability, the document said.

While calling for speeding up the modernization of national defense and the military, the meeting also underlined the need to strengthen combat readiness to improve the strategic capability of safeguarding the country's sovereignty, security and development interests, it said.

China is committed to maintaining lasting prosperity and stability in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions as well as advancing the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations and national reunification, the document said.

The country will also uphold peace, development and win-win cooperation and advance the building of a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future for mankind, it added.

The 14th Five-Year Plan will be formulated based on the proposals of the CPC Central Committee, and the final blueprint will be submitted to lawmakers for approval when the National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature, holds its annual session next year.

The 19th CPC Central Committee will hold a news conference on Friday in Beijing to introduce the guiding principles of the key Party meeting.