Hu reaffirmed the nation's goal of completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020, setting new tasks for the whole Party to achieve its targets. He also proposed approaches to address problems arising with China's high-speed economic development and formulated policies on major issues that are of great concern to the people, such as the economic growth model shift, political reforms, building of democracy and social progress.

"Our overall approach is to promote economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress, and our general task is to achieve socialist modernization and the great renewal of the Chinese nation," Hu said.

Hu pledged that China will continue to pursue a peaceful development strategy. He also firmly clarified the Party's resolve to uphold the country's sovereignty, security and development interests and to never yield to any outside pressure.

Hu's report pools the whole Party's wisdom by giving full play to democracy.

"The Party prepared the report by sending tens of investigation teams to every corner of the country to listen to the voice of the people," said Cai Mingzhao, spokesman for the 18th CPC National Congress, at a press conference on November 7. "It also set up special forums on major websites in China to gather the opinions of around 540 million Chinese netizens."

A total of 4.5 million people had participated in the online investigation, coming up with over 190,000 suggestions, Cai said.

During the congress, more than 2,200 delegates will contribute their experiences and ideas in deliberating the objectives and principles raised by the report. Elected to represent the CPC's more than 82 million members, they shoulder the responsibilities of bringing the hopes and expectations of their fellow people to the congress.

"It's my first time attending the Party congress, and so I am excited and also feel pressure because of this responsibility. I will earnestly study and deliberate the report with other delegates and spread the outcome of the congress to the people around me," said Gu Xiang, a delegate from east China's Jiangsu Province.