The fundamental question is whether a richer nation will also be a happier nation? The answer is: "Maybe".
So it's time China built a health service and education system on the principles of socialism with Chinese characteristics to make concrete progress toward a xiaokang society.
Sino-US relations have experienced many cycles of ups and downs over the past four decades due to various domestic and global pressure. Now, as China is in a leadership transition, Beijing and Washington face an open door to further this critical bilateral relationship, said former US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman.
Many people think now is the right time to share the experience of managing China's fast-track economy.
Innovation in existing crossbreeding and cultivation technologies remains the future direction for China's agriculture, said Han Guiqing, president of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Domestic consumption. Two grim words that to those unfamiliar with the business pages sound like something a waif-like English lady died from prematurely in the 18th century.
Green progress, which President Hu Jintao emphasized in his report to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, has remained one of the hot topics among delegates in the past few days.
In the report, Hu drew an unprecedented parallel between ecological progress and economic as well as political development.
Chen Min'er, deputy Party secretary of Guizhou, said the province sees green progress as a way to catch up with more developed areas in the east.
Chang Wenyu thought he would be unemployed when the quarry he worked for in a small city in East China was ordered to close out of environmental concerns.
China's newly proposed strategy to build a "maritime power" will not lead to marine hegemony, analysts said as the country is engaged in heated discussion of the leadership's call to develop the marine economy.
The report delivered by the Communist Party of China General Secretary Hu Jintao to the 18th National Congress of the CPC on Thursday, highlighted the achievement of the Party in guiding the nation through the storms that have battered the global economy and the course the nation will chart in the future.
Ecological and environmental concerns were given outstanding weight throughout the Party leadership's report to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Thursday.
Minsheng, or people's livelihoods, is now a ubiquitous word in official documents and speeches, showing the importance the government has attached to improving the quality of people's lives over the past 10 years.