Xi urges leading group to push reforms

At the first meeting of the central leading group for overall reform on Wednesday, President Xi Jinping urged officials make resolute and timely efforts to implement new policies.

Reforms will deeply touch many relationships and interests, and officials need to make preparations to deal with the repercussions, Xi said, adding that governments should work out timelines and move forward with concrete steps to achieve complex systemic reforms, he said.

"Officials of the government should speed up their work and at the same time move forward with steady steps," Xi said.