Historic move to streamline departments

Editor's note: The deepening of Party and State institutions' reform is a big move initiated at the Third Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee. Six scholars share their views with China Daily on the State Council's proposal to reshuffle the institutions. Excerpts follow:

Reform responds to call of the new era

Ding Yuanzhu, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance. This is an excerpt from his interview with China Daily's Wang Yiqing.