China stresses quality of reform for next year

A woman works at a garment factory in Huaibei, Anhui province. File photo provided to China Daily

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 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.

Reform set for GDP calculation

China is accelerating statistical reform to launch a new unified system to calculate gross domestic product in the nation's regions.

The move is aimed at preventing inflated local figures contradicting central government calculations, the nation's top statistician said on Thursday.

The central government will have the sole right to evaluate the GDP and growth rates of every province and municipality, said Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics.

Ma made the comments at the annual National Statistics Work Conference in Beijing.