The China Development Forum 2014 (CDF2014) - approved by the State Council and sponsored by the Development Research Center of the State Council - will be held from March 22 to 24.

The 2014 China Economic Situation Seminar was held on Dec 21 – 22, in Beijing, which brought in more than 1,200 participants from local government and State-owned and private enterprises to get the opinion of experts and scholars on the country's economy, in 2014.

Li Wei, minister of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC), met with Iwao Okamoto, president of the Japan-China Economic Association (JCEA).

France's Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, gave a speech on Sino-French cooperation at the 19th Sino-French Economic Seminar.

China's State Council Development Research Center (DRC) organized a Sino-French Roundtable on Aging with France's Victor Segalen Foundation.

The DRC minister Li Wei, met with Singapore's ambassador to China, on Oct 14.

The DRC's vice-minister, Zhang Junkuo, met with a Cuban delegation, led by Aomero Acosta.