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Xi's article on unified national market to be published

An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on further building a unified national market will be published on Tuesday.

The article by Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's 18th issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.

According to the article, building a unified national market is essential for creating a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. It notes that advancing the building of a unified national market requires the unification of underlying market institutions, market infrastructure, government conduct, regulatory enforcement, and markets of production factors and resources, as well as the continuous expansion of opening-up.

The article states that to deepen the building of a unified national market, it is important to focus on key and difficult tasks, such as dealing with the problem of disorderly price competition among some enterprises, and standardizing government procurement and tendering procedures.

Senior CPC official to visit Greece, Belarus

Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will lead a Party delegation on official goodwill visits to Greece and Belarus from Sept 17 to 24, Hu Zhaoming, spokesperson for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, announced on Monday.

Li, who is also the secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, will pay the visits at the invitation of the New Democracy Party of Greece and the Belarusian presidential office.

Xinhua