April 22, 2023

A key meeting held Friday by the top decision-making body for China's reform approved a series of policy documents, putting innovation in focus as a crucial step to achieving sci-tech self-reliance and strength, pledging support to boost the country's private economy while affirming the need to uphold the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s leadership, as the country forged ahead steadfastly to deepen reform on the new journey.

Held in an important year - the first year for fully implementing the guiding principles of the 20th CPC National Congress, the 45th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up and the 10th anniversary of the third plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, Friday's meeting is of far-reaching importance, as it laid out the direction, key tasks and detailed requirements for China's reforms and opening-up in the next phase, experts said.

Presiding over the first meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform under the 20th CPC Central Committee, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who also heads the commission, said that deepening overall reform should be taken as the "fundamental" driving force for advancing Chinese modernization, as well as an important form of leverage to stabilize the overall situation, deal with changes and make new advances, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

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