Top 10 domestic events of China in 2012
Updated: 2012-12-29 20:36
(Xinhua)
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BEIJING - Xinhua News Agency on Saturday unveiled its list of the year's 10 most attention-grabbing events in China.
The events are as follows, in chronological order:
-- China cuts 2012 GDP growth target
At its annual session in March, the National People's Congress, China's parliament, adopted the government work report, in which the country lowered its GDP growth target to 7.5 percent this year after keeping it at around 8 percent for seven consecutive years. The change was made in the face of global turbulence and pressing domestic demand for economic restructuring.
-- Medical reform meets three-year target
The State Council in March issued an implementation plan for reforms in the health and medical care sector in the next three years. According to official statistics, as of the end of 2011 the basic medicare insurance system covered over 1.3 billion people in China, more than 95 percent of the total population, marking the realization of the previous three-year target for the 2009-2011 period to form a universal medicare system.
-- Bo Xilai under investigation; Wang Lijun convicted
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on April 10 decided to suspend Bo Xilai's membership in the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and the CPC Central Committee, as he was suspected of being involved in serious discipline violations in the cases of Wang Lijun and Bogu Kailai. The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection put him under investigation. Bo was later expelled from the CPC and public office and the case was turned over to prosecutors for investigation.
In August, Bogu Kailai was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional homicide by the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court in Anhui Province.
In September, Wang Lijun was sentenced to 15 years in prison for bending the law to selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking by the Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court.
- Relief reaches isolated village
- Rainfall poses new threats to quake-hit region
- Funerals begin for Boston bombing victims
- Quake takeaway from China's Air Force
- Obama celebrates young inventors at science fair
- Earth Day marked around the world
- Volunteer team helping students find sense of normalcy
- Ethnic groups quick to join rescue efforts
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