Xi's views on development

Xi Jinping delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the 95th anniversary of the Communist Party of China on July 1, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]

Top priority

In a ceremony to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China held on July 1, 2016, Xi said: "Development is the top priority in governing the country and reviving the nation, and it holds the key to solving all the problems confronting China."

He said that as the largest developing country in the world, China is still in the primary stage of socialism and will remain so for a long term, and the principal problem in our society is how to meet the ever-growing material and cultural needs of the people.