Xi-led reforms picking up speed in new era
BEIJING (China Daily) — About 40 years after China set sail on its voyage of reform and opening-up, the journey is still going full speed and heading toward ever greater goals.
At the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress in October, Chinese President Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president, and chairman of Central Military Commission, outlined new moves to deepen reform in all areas.
In his report to the Party congress, Xi listed “continuing to comprehensively deepen reform” in the basic policy to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
The report proposed 158 reform measures and clarified important reform areas and key sections, including supply-side structural reform, which prioritizes improving the quality of the supply system.
During his first inspection tour after the Party congress, to Jiangsu province, Xi issued instructions on the reform of State-owned enterprises, economic restructuring in regions running out of natural resources and rural vitalization.
In the following months, as Xi traveled from Hainan to Hubei to Shandong province, he took the lead in guiding the deepening of reform in all areas to produce new advances.
In mid-November 2017, at its first meeting, the leading group for deepening overall reform of the 19th CPC Central Committee, headed by Xi, set the principles of carrying out reforms and underscored systematic, unified and coordinated action in pushing forward those tasks.