The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee made a decision to appoint President Xi Jinping to head a leading group for overall reform, on December 30, 2013.

The leading group will be in charge of "designing reform on an overall basis, arranging and coordinating reform, pushing forward reform as a whole, and supervising the implementation of reform plans," according to a decision adopted at a political bureau meeting.

It will research and decide major guidelines, policies and schemes for systematic reforms in economic, political, cultural, social and environmental sectors as well as the Party system, the document said.