BEIJING, Feb. 27 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping told a meeting of the top reform planning committee on Friday that concrete reform measures are needed so the people "feel" the progress.

Xi, speaking during the tenth meeting of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Continuing Reform, pledged to organize all the reform efforts adopted by the third and fourth plenary sessions of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Central Committee.

The measures must target important issues and the public must feel the benefits, he said.

As the CPC Central Committee has entrusted the coordination of reform plans to the leading group, local Party organs and governments must play their part and implement the central leadership's decisions, a statement issued after the meeting read.

The leading group will better supervise implementation, it continued.

At Friday's meeting, the leading group adopted four reform plans on soccer management, judicial independence, external supervision on procuratorates and a pilot project to supervise the business activities of relatives of officials in Shanghai.

SOCCER DEVELOPMENT

The soccer reform plan will overcome the country's "defective system", which has impeded the development of national soccer, and provide better "institutional guarantees" for its development.

China has only ever qualified for the World Cup once, in 2002, despite its overwhelming performance at the Olympic Games and other world sporting events.

Soccer departments will be encouraged to take bold steps and restructure their hierarchy.

The statement proposed earlier identification of talent and the integration of professional clubs, school teams and amateur organizations.