Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms

Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms
中央全面深化改革领导小组

Abbreviation	Zhongyang Shen'gai Zu (中央深改组)
Formation	2013
Purpose	Supra-ministerial policy coordination and consultation body on wide-ranging reforms
Location	Beijing
Leader	Xi Jinping
Deputy Leaders	Li Keqiang Liu Yunshan Zhang Gaoli
Secretary-General	Wang Huning
Parent organization	Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Subsidiaries	Office of Deepening Reforms

The Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms (Chinese: 中央全面深化改革领导小组; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Quánmiàn Shēnhuà Gǎigé Lǐngdǎo Xiǎozǔ) is a policy formulation and implementation body set up under the Politburo of the Communist Party of China in charge of "Comprehensively Deepening Reforms". These reforms are intended to be even more far-reaching than the previous round of comprehensive Chinese economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping.

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 CPC Central Committee on Comprehensively Deepening Reforms. On 30 December 2013, the Politburo announced that the group had been formed with Xi Jinping, the Communist Party's General Secretary and China's President, as its leader (zuzhang), and Li Keqiang, Liu Yunshan, and Zhang Gaoli as deputy leaders (fuzuzhang).^[1] 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 CPC 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.^[2][3]

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 Communist Party of China, a 25-member central decision making body. Four of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee are also part of the group.

Membership

• Leader
  • Xi Jinping (Politburo Standing Committee, Party General Secretary, State President)
• Deputy Leaders
  • Li Keqiang (Politburo Standing Committee, Premier of the State Council)
  • Liu Yunshan (Politburo Standing Committee, First secretary of the Secretariat)
  • Zhang Gaoli (Politburo Standing Committee, Vice Premier)
• Members
  • Ma Kai (Politburo, Vice Premier)
  • Wang Huning (Politburo, head of Policy Research Office)
  • Liu Yandong (Politburo, Vice Premier)
  • Liu Qibao (Politburo, head of the Propaganda Department)
  • Xu Qiliang (Politburo, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission)
  • Li Jianguo (Politburo, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, head of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions)
  • Wang Yang (Politburo, Vice Premier)
  • Meng Jianzhu (Politburo, head of the Politics and Law Commission)
  • Zhao Leji (Politburo, head of the Organization Department)
  • Li Zhanshu (Politburo, head of the CPC General Office)
  • Du Qinglin (Secretariat, vice-chairman of the CPPCC)
  • Zhao Hongzhu (Secretariat, deputy-secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection)
  • Wang Chen (vice-chairman and secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee)
  • Guo Shengkun (Minister of Public Security)
  • Zhou Qiang (president of the Supreme People's Court)
  • Cao Jianming (procurator-general)
  • Zhang Qingli (vice-chairman and secretary-general of the CPPCC)
  • Zhou Xiaochuan (governor of the People's Bank of China)
  • Wang Zhengwei (vice-chairman of the CPPCC, head of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission)
• Office of Deepening Reform
  • Wang Huning, Chief of the Office of Deepening Reform, Secretary-General of the Leading Group (Politburo, head of Policy Research Office)
  • Mu Hong, executive deputy chief of the General Office (deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, minister-level)
  • Pan Shengzhou, deputy chief of the Office of Deepening Reform (deputy director of the Central Policy Research Office)
  • Chen Yixin, deputy chief of the Office of Deepening Reform (holds this position specifically)

References

1. 习近平任中央全面深化改革领导小组组长, Xinhua News Agency, 30 December 2013.
2. Xi Jinping to head leading group for overall reform in China, "Asia Today", 31 December 2013.
3. Cary Huang, Xi Jinping to head reform panel, taking another role from premier, "South China Morning Post", 31 December 2013.