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BEIJING, July 6-- Since China's latest reform of Party and state institutions started in early 2018, the country has seen a systematic improvement of the Party's leadership, the government's administrative capacity, the armed forces' combat capability and mass organizations' vitality. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday attended a meeting reviewing the reform of Party and state institutions. Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for consolidating the achievements in the reform and modernizing China's system and capacity for governance at the meeting. In the reform at the central level and on state organs, more than 80 departments underwent adjustment of their management, frameworks, duties and personnel, with more than 1.8 million people affected, according to official figures. The CPC Central Committee had four coordinating organs removed while the State Council, China's cabinet, had two removed. A total of 21 ministerial departments were dissolved. STREAMLINING GOVERNANCE The functions and structures of the institutions were profoundly streamlined. The CPC Central Committee, the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference optimized their layouts of internal and subordinate departments. The State Council enhanced its role in economic adjustment, market regulation, social management, public service and environmental protection, with long-standing problems of power overlap and segmentation solved. | 
