Top 10 Stories Of The Year

It proved to be another year in which world peace was elusive, but amid the gloom there were a few positive glimmers. Here China Daily lists its top world news stories of 2017.

Grand idea with mankind at its center is enshrined

"A community of shared future for mankind" was enshrined by the United Nations Security Council, the Human Rights Council and the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, transforming the Chinese concept into an international consensus. After President Xi Jinping put the idea to the international community in a keynote speech at the UN Office in Geneva on Jan 18, the concept was incorporated into a resolution in the 55th UN Commission for Social Development on Feb 10.