January 17

Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos and delivered a keynote speech. He issued a strong call in support of economic globalization, emphasizing that economic globalization was an objective requirement for the development of social productive forces and the inevitable result of scientific and technological progress. He stated efforts should be made to adapt to and guide economic globalization and dissolve the negative impact of economic globalization so as to benefit each country and people and achieve are balance of economic globalization.

March 15

The 5th Session of the 12th NPC adopted the General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China.

April 26

The first aircraft carrier independently designed and built by China was unloaded into the water.

May 5

China's self-developed C919 large passenger aircraft made its first flight. This was China's first large civil trunk aircraft developed in accordance with the latest international airworthiness standards and with full independent intellectual property rights.

May 14–15

The 1st Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech, stressing that the Belt and Road should be built into a road to peace, prosperity, openness, innovation and civilization. From April 25 to 27, 2019, the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping was present at the opening ceremony and gave a keynote speech, emphasizing the need to follow the principle of achieving shaved growth through discussion and collaboration, adhere to the concept of openness, greenness and cleanliness, strive to achieve high standards, benefit people's livelihood and sustainable goals, and promote the high-quality development of the Belt and Road. In the six years since Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, the volume of China's trade with countries along the Belt and Road totaled more than US$6 trillion and its direct investment in these countries exceeded US$90 billion. A general interconnection framework consisting of six corridors, six routes and multiple countries and ports had been put in place and a large number of cooperation projects have been established, with successful implemention of all the projects proposed at the 1st Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

May 18

A trial exploitation of methane hydrate at the Shenhu waters of the South China Sea was successfully completed, making China the first country in the world to succeed in exploiting methane hydrate in the sea.

June 21

An executive meeting of the State Council planned for boosting the sharing economy and fostering new growth drivers.

June 25

The Chinese Standard high-speed train EMU(electric multiple-unit) was named Renaissance and put into operation on June 26. China started to own independent intellectual property rights over the high-speed train technology.

June 28

China launched its first independently developed new-type 10,000-ton destroyer.

July 1

Xi Jinping attended the inaugural ceremony of the fifth term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the 20th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to the motherland. In his speech, Xi Jinping pointed out that the central government would unswervingly implement the policy of “One Country, Two Systems” by adhering to the following two principles: first, to be fully committed to the policy and to ensure that it would remain unchanged and be unwaveringly upheld; second, to make sure its implementation in Hong Kong would advance in the right direction and would not be bent or distorted in practice.

On the same day, Xi Jinping attended the signing ceremony for the Framework Agreement on Deepening the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation in the Development of the Greater Bay Area held in Hong Kong, making the construction of the Greater Bay Area a national strategy. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the Planning Outline for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on July 12, 2018.

July 8

The State Council issued the Development Plan for New Generation Artificial Intelligence.

July 9

The Civil Aviation Administration of China issued a production certificate for the ARJ21-700 aircraft, the first production certificate for jets in China. The ARJ2700 aircraft was a short- to medium-range regional turboprop aircraft with full intellectual property rights and was independently developed in accordance with the international civil aviation regulations, the first of its kind in China.

July 11

The PLA Support Base in Djibouti was established.

July 14–15

The National Financial Work Conference was held, which decided to establish the Financial Stability Development Committee of the State Council, and laid out arrangements for the “three-in-one” financial work of serving the real economy, preventing and controlling financial risks and deepening financial reforms.

July 28

A ceremony was held by the CPC Central Military Commission, at which Xi Jinping honored awardees of the “August 1 Medal” and certificates, and presented banners to the organizations and institutions that received honorary titles.

July 30

A military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PLA was held at the Zhurihe Joint Training Base, and Xi Jinping reviewed the parade. On August 1, Xi Jinping addressed the meeting to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PLA, pointing out that the CPC's absolute leadership over the armed forces was the essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, a crucial political advantage of the Party and the country, and the essence of army building and the soul of a strong army. It was imperative to enhance political loyalty of the armed forces, strengthen them through reform and technology, and run them in accordance with law. Efforts should be made to modernize national defense and the armed forces and to build the people's army into a world-class army.

September 3–5

The 9th BRICS Summit was held in Xiamen, Fujian Province. Xi Jinping presided over the Summit and delivered a speech, stressing the need to promote the economic pragmatic cooperation, increase cohesion of development strategies, promote the development of the international order toward a more just and rational direction, boost the people-to-people exchanges, and jointly usher in the second “Golden Decade” of BRICS cooperation.

October 18–24

The 19th CPC National Congress was convened. It adopted the report entitled “Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects and Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” which came to the major political condusion that the socialism with Chinese characteristics had entered a new era, the principal contradiction facing Chinese society had evolved into the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life, established the historical position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, formed the basic policy of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and set the goal of securing a decisive victory in fully build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and embarking on a journey to building a modern socialist country. The Congress adopted the Constitution of the Communist Party of China （Revised） that included Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, along with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Important Theory of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development, as the Party's guiding ideology.

October 25

The 1st Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee elected Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, and Han Zheng members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and elected Xi Jinping general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. It also appointed Xi Jinping as chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission and approved Zhao Leji as secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

November 19

The State Council issued the Decisions on Abolishing the Interim Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Business Tax and Amending the Interim Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Value-Added Tax. The reform of value-added tax replacing business tax was fully completed.

November 30–December 3

The High-Level Dialogue of the CPC with World Political Parties was held in Beijing. On December 1, Xi Jinping addressed the opening ceremony with a keynote speech, pointing out that political parties in different countries should enhance mutual trust, strengthen communication and cooperation, and explore to establish a new type of political party relationship by seeking common ground while reserving differences, showing mutual respect and learning from each other on the basis of new international relations. He called for the formation of a multifarious multi-level international political party exchange and cooperation network to gather great forces for building a human community with a shared future.

December 14

The CPC Central Committee released the Decision on Adjusting the Leadership and Command System of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force. From 0:00 on January 1, 2018, the armed police force was to be placed under the unified control of the CPC Central Committee and the CPC Central Military Commission, and was to be incorporated into the organizational structure of the  Central Military Commission and no longer in that of the State Council.

December 18–20

The Central Economic Work Conference was held. Xi Jinping pointed out at the Conference that promoting high-quality development was the fundamental requirement for determining China's development approach, formulating economic policies, and conducting macroeconomic regulation at present and in the period to come and that it was imperative to accelerate the establishment of the indicator system, policy system, standard system, statistical system, performance system and assessment system, build and upgrade the mechanisms for advancing high-quality development, and help the economy keep making new progress in achieving high quality development. The Conference summarized and elaborated on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era.

December 30

The CPC Central Committee issued the Opinions on Establishing the System for the State Council to Report to the NPC Standing Committee on the Management of State-owned Assets. In October 2018, the 6th Session of the 13th NPC Standing Committee reviewed the Comprehensive Report of the State Council on the Management of State-Owned Assets in 2017 and the Special Report on the State-Owned Assets of Financial Enterprises in 2017. This was the first time the State Council reported to the NPC Standing Committee on the management of state-owned assets according to the standard of “multiple criteria and full-coverage.”

From: Chronicle of the People's Republic of China (October 1949—September 2019), edited by The Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, PP.283-293.