Next five years 'crucial' for good start of China's modernization drive: Xi

BEIJING -- Xi Jinping on Sunday said that the next five years will be crucial for getting the efforts to build a modern socialist country in all respects off to a good start.

Xi made the remarks in a report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The CPC aims to basically realize socialist modernization from 2020 through 2035 and build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful from 2035 through the middle of this century.