BEIJING - Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has played a decisive role in formulating the Party leadership's recommendations for China's 15th Five-Year Plan, an official said Friday.

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Leading the drafting team, Xi set the overall vision and provided guidance throughout the process, said Jiang Jinquan, head of the CPC Central Committee Policy Research Office, at a press conference on the guiding principles from the just-concluded plenum.

Jiang hailed the Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development as the most important outcome of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee held from Monday to Thursday.