A year of success since Xi's Davos speech

One year ago, President Xi Jinping delivered a landmark speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, outlining his views on the major trends and challenges affecting the world, from slow growth and climate change to rapid advances in technology, inequality and inadequate and unrepresentative global governance. In the year that followed, China has doubled down on a number of core areas outlined in the speech, including increasing its innovation base, stepping up its environmental commitments, ramping up the Belt and Road Initiative, unveiling a new framework for its engagement on the world stage.

But how exactly does the year mark up against Xi's speech?

In his January 2017 speech, Xi stressed innovation thus: "First, we should develop a dynamic, innovation-driven growth model ... Unlike the previous industrial revolutions, the fourth industrial revolution is unfolding at an exponential rather than linear pace."