The Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (), formerly known as the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms () is a policy formulation and implementation body set up under the
Politburo
A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states.
Names
The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...
of the
Chinese Communist Party
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(CCP) in charge of "Comprehensively Deepening Reforms". These reforms are intended to be even more far-reaching than the previous round of comprehensive
Chinese economic reform
The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up (), known in the West as the opening of China, is the program of economic reforms termed " Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of C ...
s initiated by
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CC ...
.
The decision to establish the group was announced at the 3rd Plenary Session of the
18th Central Committee in November 2013, which also approved a ''Decision of the CCP Central Committee on Comprehensively Deepening Reforms''. On 30 December 2013, the Politburo announced that the group had been formed with
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...
, the CCP's
General Secretary
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and China's president, as its leader (''zuzhang''), and
Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...
,
Liu Yunshan
Liu Yunshan (; ; born July 1947) is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the top decision-making body of the CCP, between 2012 and 2017; he was broadly tasked with the wo ...
, and
Zhang Gaoli
Zhang Gaoli or Chang Kao-li ( zh, 张高丽; ; born 1 November 1946) is a retired Chinese politician. He served as the senior Vice Premier of the State Council between 2013 and 2018 and as a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo ...
as deputy leaders (''fuzuzhang'').
[习近平任中央全面深化改革领导小组组长, Xinhua News Agency, 30 December 2013.] Its membership ranks are composed of broad stakeholders overseeing various aspects of the party and the state.
The Leading Group's main task is to determine policy guidelines for reforming the economic, political, cultural, social, ethical and party-building systems in order to address long-term reform issues, as well as to guide reform-related bodies of the CCP at central and local level, and supervise the implementation of reform plans.
According to observers, the group will have the ability to push policies past the bureaucracy and help General Secretary Xi Jinping consolidate his power over China's vast government apparatus, the State Council, usually the domain of the Premier.
[''Xi Jinping to head leading group for overall reform in China'', "Asia Today", 31 December 2013.][Cary Huang, ]
Xi Jinping to head reform panel, taking another role from premier
', "South China Morning Post", 31 December 2013.
The group consists entirely of officials of at least "deputy national leader" rank in the official hierarchy. Most of the group's members are also members of the Politburo of the CCP, a 25-member central decision-making body. Four of the seven members of the
Politburo Standing Committee
The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), officially the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is a committee consisting of the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Histori ...
are also part of the group.
In March 2018, the leading group is transformed to be the committee, which called the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission.
Organization
The implementation of the Leading Group's policy goals is delegated to six "special groups".
*Economic system and ecological civilization reform group
*Democracy and legal system reform special group
*Cultural Reform Commission
*Social system reform special group
*Special Committee for the Reform of the Party Building System
*Discipline inspection system reform special group
Membership
19th Committee
*Leader
**
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...
(Politburo Standing Committee, Party General Secretary, State President)
*Deputy Leaders
**
Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...
(Politburo Standing Committee,
Premier of the State Council
The premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, commonly called the premier of China and sometimes also referred to as the prime minister, is the head of government of China and leader of the State Council. The premier is ...
)
**
Wang Huning
Wang Huning (; born 6 October 1955) is a Chinese politician and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He has been a leading political theorist and ideologist in the country since the 1990s. He has been a member of the CCP' ...
(Politburo Standing Committee, First secretary of the
Secretariat
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* Secretariat (administrative office)
* Secretariat (horse)
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)
**
Han Zheng
Han Zheng (; born 22 April 1954) is a Chinese politician serving as the Senior Vice Premier of the State Council. He has also been leader of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs since April 2018. From 2017 to 2022, he serve ...
(Politburo Standing Committee,
Vice Premier)
*Membership
**''Not yet released publicly''
*Office of Deepening Reform
**Wang Huning, director
**
Mu Hong
Mu Hong (; born December 1956) is a Chinese economist and official, serving since 2014 as the executive deputy director of the Office of Deepening Reform (minister-level), and since 2007 as a deputy director of the National Development and Refor ...
, executive deputy chief of the General Office (deputy director of the
National Development and Reform Commission
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, minister-level)
References
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Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
Government agencies of China
Government agencies established in 2013
2013 establishments in China