China underscores development of strategic emerging industries

China vows to boost the development of strategic emerging industries, according to the full text of the Party leadership's development proposals.

China will speed up developing several strategic emerging industries, including new-generation information technology, biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, environmental protection, aerospace, and marine equipment, according to the document.

The proposals call for the deep integration of internet, big data and artificial intelligence with other industries, facilitating the cluster development of advanced manufacturing, building a series of strategic emerging industries as new growth drivers, and nurturing new technologies, new products, new business models and new business forms.

China will also promote the healthy development of platform economy and shared economy, encourage corporate mergers and acquisitions, and avoid low-level repetitive construction, the document said.

China to advance socialist political system

China will further push forward development of the socialist political system, according to the full text of the Communist Party of China Central Committee's proposals for formulating a new five-year development plan and long-range objectives.

The document, made public Tuesday, called for promoting the organic unity of Party leadership, the running of the country by the people, and law-based governance.

It urged efforts to advance the self-improvement and development of a political system featuring socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The document stressed upholding and improving political mechanisms including the systems of people's congresses, Party-led multiparty cooperation and political consultation, regional ethnic autonomy, and community-level self-governance.

While stressing improving the Chinese socialist system of laws with the Constitution at its heart, the document also called for improving the exercise and oversight of supervisory power, adjudicatory power, and procuratorial power to promote judicial impartiality.

The document also underscored the overall development of human rights.