Central leading team coordinates reform

The central government established a central leading team for reform late last year. The team is led by State leaders and made up of heads of ministries, commissions and departments. The team is expected to propose action plans to implement some 60 reforms in various fields prescribed in the overall reform plan made by the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November 2013.

To some extent, the team is an important and powerful coordinator of the different ministries. The action plans passed by the team will be reviewed and approved by the State Council, China's Cabinet, to become a guideline or policy for the government system to execute.

The State Council and the central leading team for reform have issued important plans, guidelines and policies collectively since late last year as follows, mostly concerning people's livelihood and the restriction of powers. These documents are crucial to translating reform from words into deeds: