Economic priorities set for next year

Resolving risks, targeting poverty and controlling pollution top agenda

China will make efforts to forestall and resolve major risks as well as push targeted poverty alleviation and pollution control next year, China's top leadership agreed at a major meeting on Friday.

An overall plan should be made to prevent major risks, carry out targeted poverty reduction and control pollution, said a Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee meeting, presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.