Xi: More effort needed in SOEs, investment reforms

President Xi Jinping called on Monday for more coordinated efforts to implement the reform agenda in key areas such as the restructuring of State-owned enterprises and improving the supervision of outbound investment.

Mixed-ownership reform, a major part of the overall reform of State-owned enterprises, should be accomplished by the end of this year, according to a statement released after the 36th meeting of the Central Leading Group for Deepening Overall Reform, presided over by Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The meeting called for "more coordinated efforts to push the reform forward", referring to more coordination of government entities at different levels.