China's development has reached a crucial stage.

Only 10 years is left for us to achieve the goal of turning ourselves into an all-round xiaokang (moderately well-off) society. In the long term, China's growing prosperity and progress is beyond doubt and difficult to stop. In the short term, new, profound and complex changes will take place in domestic and international spheres.

China's development faces new risks and challenges. Various challenges brought about by complex external environments, and problems of imbalance, disharmony and non-sustainability are cropping up constantly and becoming difficult to avoid.

Does the period of significant strategic opportunities for the country's development still exist? Can we continue to strive for a favorable international environment for our development? These are important matters of awareness that involve making scientific judgments about and correctly handling international and domestic situations. These are major strategic subjects, too, which concern fulfillment of the goals of China's reform and development.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said the country was still in a period of significant strategic opportunities, during which it could accomplish a great deal. Also, its development has precious historical opportunities.

We should grasp the law of development in a scientific manner, actively adapt to environmental changes, and firmly seize the historical opportunities to effectively resolve all kinds of contradictions, and more energetically and efficiently push forward our country's reform and opening-up, and socialist modernization. The major strategic judgment, which concerns the overall situation of the CPC and the country's cause, clearly points out the historical position of present-day China, and would determine the direction of our march into the future.