Meanwhile, China keeps promoting the Belt and Road Initiative by enhancing cooperation with countries and regions along the route, and participate in global industrial and equipment manufacturing cooperation, according to the CPC.
Hong Kong and Macao will see their role enhanced in promoting the nation's economic development and opening up. Economic cooperation across the Taiwan Strait will also be promoted so as to benefit more common people, youths as well as small and medium enterprises.
END OF ONE-CHILD POLICY
China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy. The change of policy is intended to balance population development and address the challenge of an ageing population, according to the communique.
The country's family planning policy was first introduced in the late 1970s to rein in the surging population by limiting most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to two children, if the first child born was a girl. The policy was later relaxed to say that any parents could have a second child if they were both only children.
The one-child policy was further loosened in November 2013 after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, with its current form stipulating that couples are allowed to have two children if one of them is an only child.
Easing restrictions of family planning is part of China's efforts to achieve "development for the people, by the people and shared by the entire population."
More effective institutional arrangements shall be made to provide all Chinese "an elevated sense of being well off," according to the communique.
China will extend old-age insurance to its full population and implement the critical illness insurance system in full scale.
The nation will also strive to improve the quality of education, pledging to remove high school education tuition for the poor students and provide subsidies for them.
The wide-range five-year plan also includes measures to improve the country's soft power and a more exacting environmental protection system.
ANTI-CORRUPTION
The meeting also endorsed prior decisions to revoke the membership of 10 former officials, including Ling Jihua.
A former vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, Ling was found to have seriously violated political codes of conduct and CPC rules, taking advantage of his posts to seek profits for others and accepting huge bribes.
All the former senior officials were felled after graft-busters announced investigations into them amid China's sweeping anti-corruption campaign.
The communique noted that continued efforts must be made to fight corruption and strictly govern the Party so that officials "don't want to be corrupt, don't dare to be corrupt, and couldn't be corrupt even if they did."
The Party leadership also recently released new disciplinary regulations that help the anti-graft drive by listing playing golf and gluttony as violations for the first time.
