New leadership urged to set reform agenda that secures growth, stability

China's top economist has taken the management skills that have enabled the country to avoid an economic or financial crisis amid intensive global interdependence as the biggest legacy of the government with Wen Jiabao as premier.

Fan Gang, director of the National Economic Research Institute of the China Reform Foundation, said the nation's new leadership should set a "reform agenda" to maintain stable economic growth and social stability for the coming decade.