In November 2012, the 18th National Congress of the Com- munist Party of China (CPC) made the strategic decision to compre- hensively deepen reform. At its third plenary session a year later, the 18th CPC Central Committee discussed major issues concerning this decision and defined the overall objective, key tasks, major measures, timetable, and roadmap for comprehensively deepening reform. This session ushered in a new stage in China's reform and opening up that had been in place for 35 years. Comprehensively deepening reform will give strong impetus to China's socialist modernization, and will create new development opportunities for the world.
Since the 18th Congress, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of China, has made many ex- positions on comprehensively deepening reform and expanding open- ing up. We have selected extracts from these expositions and com- piled them into this book, which is comprised of 274 excerpts under 12 headings from more than 70 of his writings, including speeches, comments, and directives, dating between November 15, 2012, and April 1, 2014. Some of the excerpts are published here in English for the first time.
The purpose of this book is to help readers to come to better un- derstand the background, objectives, tasks, significance, and impact of China's efforts to comprehensively deepen reform through the eyes of the country's top leader.
Editor
June 2014