General Xu Qiliang, CMC Vice Chairman and Executive Deputy Head of the CMC Leading Group for Deepening Reform on National Defense and the Armed Forces, presided over the fourth meeting of the leading group on December 18. The meeting made a few arrangements on the leadership, institutional setting, task assignment, and operational mechanism of the work to reform the institution. It also emphasized that “effectively implementing the policy and institutional reform should be treated as a political requirement.”

 CMC Vice Chairman and the leading group’s deputy head General Zhang Youxia and members of CMC and the leading group Li Zuocheng and Miao Hua attended the meeting.