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: China builds moderately prosperous society in all respects

July 1, 2021

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, announced that China had realized its first centenary goal — building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
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Strategy for large-scale development of western China
Jan. 16, 2000
Deng Xiaoping's south tour talks
Jan. 18 – Feb. 21, 1992
Putting forward policy of 'one country, two systems'
January 1982
Zunyi Conference
Jan. 15-17, 1935

Richard Nixon visits China
Feb. 21 to 28, 1972
Dayawan nuclear power plant
February 1994
The outline development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was unveiled
Feb. 18, 2019
China established its first Antarctic research station
Feb. 15, 1985

Emancipation of serfs in Tibet
March 28, 1959
The National Science Conference
March 18, 1978
A community with a shared future for mankind
March 23, 2013
The second plenary session of the seventh CPC Central Committee
March 5-13, 1949

1st Digital China Summit held in Fuzhou
April 22, 2018
Hainan was made a province
April 13, 1988
First annual conference of Boao Forum for Asia held in Hainan
April 12-13, 2002
Guidelines for Coordinated Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region approved
April 30, 2015

Strategy for Invigorating China through science and education
May 26, 1995
Three Gorges Dam completed
May 20, 2006
Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations held in Beijing
May 15, 2019
China's COMAC C919 makes maiden flight
May 5, 2017

National Climate Change Program
June 3, 2007
Mao Zedong Thought established as CPC's guiding ideology
June 11, 1945
China launched Shenzhou-9 spacecraft
June 16, 2012
China completes deployment of BeiDou navigation system
June 23, 2020

Qinghai-Tibet Railway opens
July 1, 2006
The founding of the Communist Party of China
July 1, 1921
Hong Kong's return to the motherland
July 1, 1997
Four matters of confidence
July 1, 2016

China's first domestic maglev train completed
Aug. 14, 2001
Special economic zones
August, 1980
Nanchang Uprising
Aug. 1, 1927
Beijing Olympic Games
Aug. 8, 2008

First volume of 'Xi Jinping: The Governance of China' was published
September 2014
Autumn Harvest Uprising
September 1927
China issued white paper on human rights progress
Sept. 22, 2019
The Belt and Road Initiative
Sept. 7, 2013

The Long March
October 1934 – October 1936
China's 1st atomic bomb detonation
Oct. 16, 1964
Baotou Steel No. 1 blast furnace inaugurated
Oct. 15, 1959
China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project
Oct. 30, 1952

The Chinese Dream
Nov. 29, 2012
Household responsibility system
Nov. 24, 1978
Soviet Republic of China holds 1st congress
Nov. 7, 1931
Fendouzhe sets national deep-sea diving record
Nov. 10, 2020

The Wayaobu Conference
Dec. 17, 1935
Sino-British Joint Declaration
Dec. 19, 1984
Chang'e-3 lunar probe and moon rover 'Yutu'
Dec. 2, 2013
Qinghai-Tibet and Kangding-Tibet highways
Dec. 1954