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Today's world is undergoing extensive and profound changes, at a time when China itself is also undergoing wide-ranging and profound changes. The development of China is heading toward an unprecedented historic stage: with unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
Over the past 30 years, remarkable achievements have been made. China has undergone a historic transformation. Looking toward the future, can Chinese development remain sustainable? And how? Not only are Chinese people but also the international community and foreign friends expressing concern about it.
To answer these fundamental questions, the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward the idea of putting people first and formulated the concept of overall, coordinated and sustainable development as a way to promote overall economic, social and human development at the third Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee in October 2003. It was stressed at the 17th CPC National Congress in October 2007 that a scientific outlook on development is an important guiding principle for social and economic development and a major strategic idea that we must uphold and apply in developing socialism with Chinese characteristics.
China's economic, political, cultural and social construction will be carried out in accordance with the new development outlook, mode and strategy. The scientific outlook on development is not only the direction for China's development and its path, but also a key to understanding and interpreting China.