China's development pattern switch called strategic

President Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivering an important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC, which concluded in Beijing on Oct 29, 2020. - Xinhua

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Shaping the new development pattern of "dual circulation" in the five-year period starting in 2021 is China's "strategic choice" in improving its socioeconomic growth and fostering new strengths in international economic cooperation and competition, President Xi Jinping said.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark when elaborating on the proposals for the formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035 at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, which was held last week.