Over the past 35 years， Chinas socio-economic development has relied on reform and opening-up. Now， the country is confronting conundrums， risks and challenges in its course of development. The only way to ensure sustained and healthy socio-economic development is to deepen reform and opening-up. 2014 marks a new era of comprehensively deepening reforms at several levels： Political reform will establish restrictions and stricter monitoring of the political power structure and expand peoples right to challenge policy-makers and participate in political decisions； judicial reform will enhance judicial fairness； and economic reform will intensify efforts to promote industrial restructuring， transformation and upgrading.endprint