President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of senior officials on deepening reform on Wednesday. At the meeting he called for decisive results to be achieved in reform over key areas by 2020 and said China will continue to fight tough battles and take on the "hardest tasks".
The following are 10 major tasks to be fulfilled by 2020. Let's take a look.
1. Launching a science and technology innovation board at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and piloting a registration-based IPO system.
The move is a significant measure to implement an innovation-driven development strategy and deepen the capital market reform.
2. Innovating the management system of natural reserves in accordance with the philosophy of taking the mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands as an ecosystem.
The management system should be formed with the national parks as the mainstay, supported by natural reserves and complemented by various natural parks.
3. Deepening educational and teaching reform, and improving the quality of mandatory education.
The country will foster virtue through education, reinforce the basic roles of teachers, and enhance the well-rounded development of students.
4. Improving the mechanism to encourage talents to work in remote areas with harsh conditions, in local communities and on the front line.
5. Deepening reform in legal and political fields by implementing judicial responsibility mechanisms across the board and deepening litigation reform.
6. Pushing forward reform in the property system for natural resources.
The meeting demanded efforts to clarify the ownership of property rights and conduct uniform investigation and surveillance to promote intensive development of national resources, ecological protection and restoration.
7. Building a national planning system for territorial space.
The country will carry out unified planning for national territorial space, integrating the plans for major functional areas, land use, and urban and rural development.
8. Building a green technology innovation system in which enterprises are the major players and the efforts of enterprises, universities and research institutions are integrated with an eye to solving prominent problems in resources, environment and ecology.
9. Protecting and restoring natural forests to build a "beautiful China" and promote sustainable development.
10. Building Hainan province into a national ecological civilization pilot zone and piloting the national park mechanism in tropical forests in Hainan based on the philosophy that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets".