In order to fulfil the task of reforming the economic structure put forward at the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and to accelerate reform, opening to the outside world and the socialist modernization drive, the Third Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has discussed some major issues concerning the establishment of a socialist market economic structure, and has adopted the following decision.

Contents

- I. The New Situation and New Tasks In China's Efforts to Reform Its Economic Structure

- II. Changing the Operation Mechanism of State-Owned Enterprises and Establishing a Modern Enterprise System

- III. Cultivating and Expanding the Market System

- IV. Transforming Government Functions, Establishing a Sound Macro-economic Control System

- V. Establishing Rational System of Income Distribution to Individuals and Social Security System

- VI. Deepening Rural Economic Structural Reform

- VII. Deepening the Reform of the System of Foreign Economic Relations, Opening Wider to the Outside World

- VIII. Further Revamping Scientific, Technological and Educational Systems

- IX. Tightening Up the Legal System

- X. Strengthening and Improving Party Leadership and Striving to Initiate a Socialist Market Economic Structure by the End of the 20th Century