Positive impact of reform highlighted

The past decade has witnessed more than 2,000 reform programs introduced in multiple areas that cover people's basic living standards, education, health and eldercare, a spokesman for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China said on Saturday.

Sun Yeli, the spokesman, told a news conference attended by both Chinese and foreign journalists in Beijing that breakthroughs have also been made in key areas such as the reform of Party and State institutions, judicial reform and reform of the system for developing an ecological civilization.

Through all the reform efforts in the new era, basic institutional frameworks have been set up in all areas, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is more mature and further developed, and the country's governance system and capabilities have been further modernized, Sun said.

"We will keep to the course of deepening reform, stay resolute and advance reform with greater political courage and wisdom," Sun said.