China’s Xinhua News Agency has selected the top 10 news stories in China in 2005. In order of occurrence, the list goes as follows:
— The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee initiated a 1.5-year-long campaign in January to carry out in three batches a massive political and ideological education drive among more than 68 million CPC members to maintain their moral andsocialist ethical superiority, a new, great project to promote Party construction and help materialize the goal of building up a relatively affluent society in an all-round way.
— Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and the Chinese president, set forth a four-point guideline on relations across the Taiwan Straits on March 4 that China would unswervingly adhere to the one-China principle, exert its utmost to seek peaceful reunification and rely on the Taiwanese people but never waver in its fight
against the independence movement on Taiwan.