Xinhua

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday afternoon that his government is still expected to see two aspects through in its term. They are stabilizing economic growth and pushing forward reforms targeting income distribution and compensation regulations for the seizing of rural collective land.

People's Daily Online

Li Jinhua, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said Thursday that only pushing forward with political system reform can curb corruption at the root.

Phoenix TV

Hu Chunhua, the Party chief of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said Friday that when dealing with mass incidents, the tactics should be adjusted between tough and soft methods. Less severe group incidents can be dealt with through softer measures, instead of tough policing.

BBC

The core challenge for China and the rest of the world will be managing the country's rise while maintaining and strengthening the current international rules-based order that has underpinned global strategic stability and economic growth since World War II.

Los Angeles Times

Some of China's developmental challenges would continue to exist even if it had the best political system in the world. China has gone through the biggest, fastest industrial revolution ever. Its urban population has grown by 480 million in 30 years, so that more than half its people now live in cities. Its supply of cheap labor may be close to drying up. It must attend to its own domestic demand, for it cannot rely on the US being forever the consumer of last resort.