Yearender: Xinhua top 10 China news events in 2019

Combo photo shows the debut ceremony of China's sci-tech innovation board (STAR market) at the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai, east China on July 22, 2019 (L, top, photo by Fang Zhe); customers trying on 5G cloud-based virtual reality (VR) device at a business hall of China Telecom Beijing Branch in Beijing on Oct. 31, 2019 (R, top, photo by Shen Bohan); an aerial view of the resettlement site for poverty relief relocation in Silin Township of Tiandong County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Aug. 28, 2019 (L, bottom, photo by Cao Yiming) and an aerial view of container freight dock at Jingtang port area of Tangshan Port, north China's Hebei Province on Aug. 15, 2019 (photo by Yang Shiyao). 8. CHINESE ECONOMY MAINTAINS STEADY GROWTH AGAINST HEADWINDS The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from Dec. 10 to 12. It was agreed at the meeting that under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, China has kept pursuing progress while ensuring stability, focused on its supply-side reform, promoted high-quality development, made solid progress in ensuring economic stability, and maintained healthy economic and social development. Meanwhile, the country's progress in achieving the major tasks of the 13th Five-Year Plan met expectations, and new major steps have been made toward finishing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects. China's major annual development targets and tasks can be well completed, and its economic growth rate leads world's major economies. It is estimated that more than 10 million people and about 340 poverty-stricken counties have been lifted out of poverty in 2019. (Xinhua)