Editor's note: After the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee concluded on Tuesday, many ministries and local governments will produce blueprints or plans to implement the meeting's roadmap on reforms. The following comments are excerpts of remarks made by ministers and local government heads.

"We must spare no effort to promote equity in the education sector and accelerate the reform on student recruitment. We shall seek a consensus from teachers, students and the public to facilitate the overall reform of the education system."

Yuan Guiren, minister of education

"The reforms in our countryside have entered a crucial phase that requires determination and persistence. We shall further advance agricultural reform through stronger measures, inject momentum to the rural areas and share with the rural population the benefits generated by reforms. We must speed up the integration of rural and urban development and enable farmers to take part in the modernization drive in an equal position. We will overcome the institutional obstacles that restrain rural andagricultural development."

Han Changfu, minister of agriculture"In order to implement the plenum's requirement that makes the market have the final say in resource allocation, we will check and rectify all practices that contradict market rules or interfere with competition. We will continue reviewing the ministry's administrative approval procedures and make sure that at least 30 percent of such procedures will be reduced by the end of 2015."

Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology

"We shall uphold the spirit of innovation to boost the building of a basic public sport service system. We will strive to improve our performance in international sports events like soccer, basketball and volleyball, which are of major interest to the public."

Liu Peng, director of the General Administration of Sport

"We will steadily carry out the reform of commerce registration. The revision of relevant laws and regulations will begin soon. We have enhanced the training and informatization work to prepare a solid foundation for the reform. Registering a business will become much more convenient in the near future."

Zhang Mao, head of State Administration for Industry and Commerce

"The reform of the medicine and healthcare sectors will stick to the principles emphasized by the plenum that the reform must serve the public's interests. We will establish a reasonable subsidy mechanism for hospitals, improve the capabilities of grassroots hospitals and clinics, and accelerate the reform of publicly funded hospitals."

National Health and Family Planning Commission

"The Beijing government will establish a leading group of deepening reforms to guide and coordinate major reforms in the capital city."

Guo Jinlong, Party chief of Beijing

"We will treat the development of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone as our top priority and mobilize all of the city's resources to develop the zone. This is a mission given by the central government as well as a responsibility we should volunteer to take."

Han Zheng, Party chief of Shanghai

(China Daily USA 11/15/2013 page3)