国内英语资讯:China Voice: China to move closer to centenary goals in 2017_时事

国内英语资讯:China Voice: China to move closer to centenary goals in 2017

BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- As 2017 begins, a significant year on China's political calendar, the world is watching closely on how China moves toward its two centenary goals.

Although China's development is in a period of strategic opportunities, the world's second largest economy is facing complex external and internal environments.

Externally, people are concerned with the sluggish recovery of the global economy, lack of growth momentum, weak trade and investment, and the backlash against globalization, not to mention terrorist attacks and the refugee crisis.

Internally, China's decades-long reform drive is now in a deep-water zone where easier reforms have been accomplished and remaining reforms are hard nuts to crack.

In the face of the need to rebalance the economy, China is tackling problems regarding reform, development and stability.

Yet despite these challenges, Chinese people are more confident than ever that the country will realize its two centenary goals, pegged to the 100th anniversaries of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the People's Republic of China.

According to the twin goals, by 2020 China's GDP and per-capita income should double from 2010 levels, and the building of a moderately prosperous society should be complete. By the middle of this century, China should become a modern socialist country that is "prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious."