Top ten domestic news events of 2009, in chronological order, are:

Premier Wen's on-line chat with netizens 

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao(L) holds an online chat with netizens jointly hosted by the central government website (www.gov.cn) and the Xinhua News Agency website (www.xinhuanet.com) in Beijing, China, Feb. 28, 2009.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had an online chat with netizens on Feb. 28 at www.gov.cn., the central government website. More than 3.4 million netizens in and outside China were online during the chat, the first between a Chinese Premier and netizens. Wen answered 29 questions from netizens in the two-hour interview. 

Launch of a new medical reform plan

China's State Council, or Cabinet, passed a long awaited medical reform plan which promised to spend 850 billion yuan (123 billion U.S. dollars) by 2011 to provide universal medical service to the country's 1.3 billion population.