Xi stresses pivotal role of infrastructure

They also underlined the need to make plans for advancing major scientific and technological infrastructure, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the broadband network.

Urban infrastructure should be strengthened to create an environment for people to live a higher-quality life, the meeting's participants said, adding that disaster prevention and relief facilities should be strengthened.

They called for improving public health emergency facilities, strengthening intelligent transportation infrastructure and bolstering rural infrastructure construction.

The meeting's participants also called for intensifying the construction of infrastructure facilities in the field of national security to raise the capacity for dealing with extreme situations.

While stressing the importance of improving the efficiency of implementing the decisions and policies of meetings of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, the meeting's participants also called for efforts to guide market expectations and stabilize market confidence.