Seventeen nations have seen occurrences of actual risk events for companies.

Seventeen Fortune 500 headquarters and 13 Fortune 1000 companies call Georgia home.

Seventeen areas outperformed the national growth rate of 5.2 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters, with the Tibet autonomous region, Hainan province and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region registering 9.8 percent, 9.5 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively.

Seventeen cities have personally spent over 30,000 yuan on average, and most of them are from economically developed coastal regions in the east, according to financial media Yicai.

Seventeen of the world's top 20 solar companies are Chinese and six of the world's top 10 lithium battery enterprises are also from China.

Seventeen cities reported month-on-month drops in resold house prices in January, and the number has remained high for four consecutive months.

Seventeen suppliers in the global Top 100 posted sales revenue of over 1 trillion yuan ($143.7 billion) in 2017, lifting the list's benchmark revenue to 13.13 billion yuan.

Seventeen of the debutants are "little giants" recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Seventeen new agreements were signed in 2017-2018 and 70 bilateral agreements are being negotiated.

Seventeen banks are waiting in line to be listed on China's A-share market, in the hope of raising up to a total of 90 billion yuan ($14 billion).

Seventeen years later, Huzhou has lived up to Xi's words.