File photo: Xi Jinping

The deepened reform that China is implementing must be "people-centric" and just, President Xi Jinping said at a meeting of the Leading Group for Overall Reform on Monday. The meeting approved a document regulating business operations by relatives of officials, including spouses, sons, and daughters, as well as sons and daughters’ spouses.

A trial of this regulation will be conducted in Shanghai, and the trial would then be extended to Beijing, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Xinjiang.

The meeting has agreed that details and criteria of such regulations should be specified, and, once so, sternly reinforced. “When the regulation work is basically done, it will be normalized.”

The president, also head of the leading group, was joined at the meeting by deputy heads Li Keqiang, Liu Yunshan and Zhang Gaoli, as well as other senior officials.