Confidence among bankers and entrepreneurs in the health of China's economy has risen compared with three months ago.
Businesspeople were encouraged by the promise of opportunities in the statement summing up the main points of the Central Economic Work Conference.
China will fully deepen reforms in its economy system and open itself up more next year.
Cutting tax and helping more rural workers settle in cities will be among the reforms pursued through steady economic growth, top policymakers said.
Protect foreign investors' interests
Property controls to be continued
Maintain prudent monetary policy
Special: China Central Economic Work Conference
Chinese authorities vowed to focus on quality and efficiency of economic growth in 2013, showing the determination to ensure economic development.
Expanding domestic demand will be a strategic basis for China's development next year, said a statement issued after a central economic work conference.
China will face a complicated and uncertain situation abroad next year amid expectations that the global economy will grow slowly.
Over-harvesting and poor statistical tracking of caterpillar fungus are major challenges for the sustainable management of the medicinal resource.
Chengdu is poised to become a driver of western China's development as more and more domestic and foreign companies move faster to make investments there, Ge Honglin, mayor of the city, said on Sunday.
China will actively and steadily push forward urbanization next year, with a focus on improving quality of the efforts.
China will encourage and increase both private and public investment next year to effectively bolster the country's economic development.
China's major economic plans for 2013 will be mapped out during the Central Economic Work Conference, which opened on Saturday.