Xi: Progress must come with stability

Reforms go hand in hand with risk controls, president says

China will stick to the basic economic theme of "seeking progress while maintaining stability" this year to achieve healthy development, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday.

The nation will strive to improve the quality and efficiency of the economy, deepen supply-side structural reform, and make major headway in economic restructuring, Xi said at a meeting of the Central Leading Group on Finance and Economic Affairs.