Resolve to deepen economic reforms

The annual Central Economic Work Conference, held in Beijing between Friday and Monday, has called for all-out efforts to speed up the carrying out of essential economic reforms.

By focusing on supply-side reform, the Chinese authorities have made the conference an opportunity to usher in changes in economic policies to improve public services, environmental protection, the quality of production and further opening-up to the global economic system.

These are essential not only to the success of China's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) but also to the prospects for global growth in the coming years.