Like many students, who skip classes they don't want to take, Pu Lei often decided to stay home and miss school. Unlike most of his peers, he spent the time developing a mobile application that allows students to swap classes and maintain good attendance records.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will convene the fifth plenary session of its 18th Central Committee to outline the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) for national development on Monday, with extraordinary achievements in the 12th plan period.
The new program, aimed at alleviating the burden of people with chronic or terminal illnesses, will be adopted nationwide by the end of 2015.
The appeal by leading economist Wu Jinglian comes as top leadership meets to map out the development program for the next five years.
Measures to reduce rural poverty brewing up success
New insurance program aims to alleviate health poverty
While the need for SOE reform is great and too many SOEs still fight to maintain the troubled status quo, there are also some Chinese SOEs leading by example.
Sectors such as information technology, high-end manufacturing, new-energy vehicles and bio-medicine will all likely benefit from the plan.
Premier Li Keqiang pledges during a meeting with a former senior United States official to continue market-oriented financial reforms.
China can sustain a minimum of 6.5 percent of annual economic growth during the 2016-2020 period, a leading Chinese think-tank expert said in London on Thursday.
China's recent economic downturn is less a sign of catastrophe than of the long-awaited shift to a market economy model that is service-based and consumption-driven.
It is more than necessary to promote the ability to defend financial security during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period.