China stresses quality of reform for next year   

习近平：明年是全面深化改革的关键之年

China's central leadership demanded continued efforts and new achievements in comprehensively deepening reform in 2015, while underscoring the quality of reform.

"Continued efforts are needed to beef up the good momentum of reform," said Chinese President and General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping at Tuesday's eighth meeting of the central leading group for comprehensively deepening reform.

"Strike the iron while it's hot," said Xi, who leads the group.

Li Keqiang, Liu Yunshan and Zhang Gaoli also attended the meeting, presided over by Xi.

"Speed must follow quality. Detailed implementation plans must be issued as soon as possible after crucial reform measures are unveiled to ensure their implementation do not face obstacles," said a statement released Tuesday after meeting.

Underscoring the need for meticulous research, the statement said the implementation of major plans must be supervised and problems identified as early as possible.

According to the statement, 80 key tasks identified for 2014 had been "basically finished" in addition to the completion of 108 missions assigned to various central departments.

"Some of these tasks concerned top-level master reform plans to guide a specific field or reform plans that involve multiple organs and fields. Some had been in the pipeline for years, others were trail-blazing pilot programs," it said.

The statement noted that 2015 is a crucial year for comprehensively deepening reform, and called for enhancing the sense of responsibility and resolution.

"Morale must be raised, not weakened," it said.

The statement said that reform must be better coordinated, with more emphasis on measures which have symbolic and correlative functions. Efforts should be made on coordination of major tasks across regions or departments.

The whole of society should be mobilized, with authorities identifying their most important tasks as soon as possible and assigning clear deadlines.

Various local governments and departments were praised in the statement for planning, coordination and supervision of progress in 2014 and solving problems "one by one."

"This is the first year for comprehensively deepening reform... and major achievements have already been made in some key fields... which made contributions to maintaining growth, adjusting economic structure, benefiting the people and preventing risks," the statement said.

The meeting approved a summary of progress in comprehensively deepening reform in 2014, set key tasks for the leading group in 2015 and and set key tasks for implementing the decision of the fourth plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee, which is about promoting the rule of law.