China will take a step forward in its centralized drug bulk-buying program, and make it a regular and institutionalized practice to lower medical costs for the general public, the State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Jan 15.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected the preparatory work of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing on Jan 18.
Efforts should be made to enhance epidemic prevention and control while ensuring people's basic living necessities, Premier Li Keqiang urged at the State Council executive meeting on Jan 15.
President Xi Jinping called for ensuring a good start for fully building a modern socialist country.
The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Jan 7 to hear a series of work reports.
Premier Li Keqiang stressed meticulous regulation amendments concerned with farmers' interests at an executive meeting of the State Council on Jan 4.
Premier Li Keqiang heard a report on the third-party assessment of implementation of the regulation on improving the business environment while chairing the State Council executive meeting on Jan 4, and urged greater efforts to remove barriers and provide stronger legal underpinning for the business environment.
President Xi Jinping on Dec 31 hailed the country's hard-won achievements in COVID-19 response, economic recovery and poverty eradication in the "extraordinary" year of 2020.