Progress in advancing reforms

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, a series of tangible achievements have been made in China's efforts to comprehensively deepen reforms.

These achievements have been the result of the leadership's focus on improving people's lives over the past five years, as shown by the inclusion of more than 1.3 billion people into the country's basic medical insurance network and the launch of a nationwide government-subsidized housing program that has considerably improved the living conditions for many urban residents.

China has carried out complicated reforms in various fields, and so any scientific and objective evaluation of its reforms is inseparable from scientific methodology. Only with an all-round, dialectical and historical perspective can one come to a responsible conclusion about China's reforms.