BEIJING - The Central Economic Work Conference opened on Tuesday, during which Chinese leaders are expected to review the country's economic work in 2014 and map out plans for 2015 based on the economic "new normal."

The following is a review of the central economic work conferences held in the previous five years.

Dec 10 to 13, 2013

Basic tone: pushing forward reform and innovation.

Major tasks: China vows to push forward reform and innovation in economic and social development; make progress while maintaining stability; continue to implement proactive fiscal and prudent monetary policies; enhance quality and efficiency of economic growth; stimulate the market vitality; accelerate the economic structural adjustment; push forward interest rate liberalization and exchange rate reforms; keep a reasonable growth of money supply and social financing; ensure national food security; resolve industrial overcapacity and advance innovation-driven development; contain risks of local government debt; promote regional coordinated development; improve people's livelihood; enhance the opening-up and create sound, transparent and fair environment to protect investors' interests; strengthen connectivity of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

Dec 15 to 16, 2012

Basic tone: enhancing quality and efficiency of economic growth.

Major tasks: China vows to take enhancing quality and efficiency of economic growth as a central task; fully deepen reforms in its economy system and firmly promote opening up; take expanding domestic demand as a strategic basis for the country's development; continue to implement the proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy; continue its control policies on the property market; actively and steadily push forward urbanization; continue to protect foreign investors' rights and interests and their intellectual property rights; avoid pomp and circumstance and take concrete actions to serve the people wholeheartedly; encourage and increase both private and public investment.

Dec 12 to 14, 2011

Basic tone: making progress while maintaining stability.

Major tasks: China vows to enhance and improve macroeconomic regulations to maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth; boost farm produce supplies through the development of agriculture; accelerate economic restructuring to make economic development more self-initiated and coordinated; deepen reforms in key areas and open up to the world; improve people's living standards and innovate the social management mechanism.

Dec 10 to 12, 2010

Basic tone: ensuring stable and relatively fast economic development while maintaining social stability.

Major tasks: China plans to enhance and improve macroeconomic regulations to maintain steady and healthy economic growth; boost farm produce supplies through the development of modern agriculture; accelerate strategic transformation to make economic growth more coordinated and competitive; improve basic public services and innovate the social management mechanism; intensify reforms to promote a shift in the economic growth mode and maintain a mutually beneficial opening-up strategy to broaden international economic cooperation.

Dec 5 to 7, 2009

Basic tone: promoting the transformation of economic development pattern while maintaining stable and comparatively fast economic growth.

Major tasks: China vows to improve macroeconomic regulations in 2010 to ensure stable and relatively fast economic growth and advance structural economic adjustments; lift the quality and efficiency of economic growth; boost rural development; deepen reform and opening up; enhance the momentum and vigor of economic growth; promote a stable increase in exports; improve people's living standards and maintain social stability.