The Chinese government pledged Monday to push forward the transformation of its economic development pattern next year while maintaining stable and comparatively fast economic growth.
Participants at the three-day annual Central Economic Work Conference agreed that the global financial crisis highlighted the urgency to transform China's economic development pattern.
The government would focus more on economic structure adjustment and improving the quality and efficiency of economic growth in 2010, according to a decision made at the conference.
More efforts would be spent to deepen economic system reform and enhance the momentum and vigor of economic growth.
The Central Economic Work Conference comprises policy-making officials from central and provincial-level governments, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.