BEIJING - China is committed to maintaining lasting prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and Macao as well as advancing the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations and national reunification, according to a communique released Thursday after the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The communique was passed at the session held in Beijing from Oct 26 to 29.

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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made an important speech at the session, according to the communique.