9月30日早间英文播报：Key meeting sets stage for further reform

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Photo taken on May 28, 2020 shows a view ofthe Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China. [Photo/Xinhua]

Decisionmade that major moves must continue during upcoming five years

China must step up major moves in deepeningreform and opening-up for the country's economic and social development duringthe period of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), a key Party meeting decided onMonday.

The Political Bureau of the Communist Partyof China Central Committee also decided that the Fifth Plenary Session of the19th CPC Central Committee will be held from Oct 26 to 29, according to astatement released after its meeting.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPCCentral Committee, presided over the meeting.

Participants underscored the importance ofupholding overall Party leadership, improving socialism with Chinesecharacteristics and strengthening the ability to implement new developmentconcepts in order to boost the economy and society during the coming five-yearperiod.

Development should always bepeople-centered by ensuring their principal status and promoting theirwell-being, it was decided at the meeting. Efforts were also urged to build anew development pattern with the domestic market as the mainstay and thedomestic and international markets reinforcing each other, earnestly transformthe economic development mode and work hard for better quality, higherefficiency and more robust drivers of economic growth.

Major reform and opening-up moves shouldimprove resource allocation efficiency and mobilize the initiative of the wholeof society, it said.

The meeting stressed the importance ofsolidifying the foundation, leveraging strengths and tackling areas of weaknessas well as paying attention to fending off and defusing major risks andchallenges.

Participants at the meeting also listenedto a report on consulting public opinion about a CPC document concerning theformulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan and targets for 2035.

The document, after being revised based onopinions discussed at Monday's meeting, will be submitted for deliberation atthe fifth plenary session. Participants said that the document has fullyabsorbed opinions and suggestions from all quarters including governments anddepartments at all levels, public expectations, expert opinions andon-the-ground experience.

It is a vivid example of China's socialist democracy,they said.

Those at the meeting said that faced withthe complex international situation and arduous tasks for domestic development,and especially amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CPC CentralCommittee has assessed and dealt with the situation in a calm way and furtherpromoted the development of all causes of the Party and the country.

With China nearly completing its goals andtasks of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), the country's economic andtechnological strength and the overall national strength will reach a new high,they said.

Meeting participants also reviewed aregulation on the work of the CPC Central Committee, which issued provisions onits leading position, leadership structure and self-building, among others.

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记者：莫竞西

播报：OwenFishwick

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