Committee preparing to deepen reform

The Party's leadership over deepening reform should be enhanced and improved because the tasks have become more complex and difficult, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said on Wednesday.

Xi, also president of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remark at the first meeting of the Central Committee for Deepening Overall Reform.

The committee was set up through the Central Leading Group for Deepening Overall Reform in line with an institutional reform plan unveiled this month. Xi, who previously headed the group, is now director of the newly established committee.